Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-12-05


"A dramatic company has been organized
for the purpose of giving the band benefit
The Hidden Hand" is to be the piece, and
the time early in January. The parts are
nearly all assigned
The new German brewer, employed by
Walker, Dewey, Blake & Co., recently bought
fine carriage robe of Cook & Eddy and left
it in his carriage outside while he was paying
for it, which transaction completed, he re-
turned to his carriage and found that some
thief had stolen the robe outright No trace
of it has been found.
The dredging machine has finished work
for this season, and its engine is now being
used in drawing out logs, in addition to the
one in use two or three weeks for that pur-
pose. The canal has been deepened TO a I'M
form depth of about 10 feet, but has not yet
been widened much In the spring work up
on it is to be resumed and it is to be largely
widened, an undertaking which will probably
take all summer, at least.
Geo. E. Fay, one of our substantial far
mers, who has lived on the farm of d. X
Barry few miles north of here, for num-
Der of years, is soon to remove to Keene, n.
H., and an auction sale was held on the prem
ises one day last week, at which quite a large
amount Of personal property was successfully
| disposed of.
Last Sunday morning Rev. A. b. Das-
comb, pastor of the Congregational church,
took his audience by surprise at sermon time
| by descending to the floor and saying he
'was not going to pecach the sermon which
he,had prepared for that day unless his con-
gregation drove him back into the pulpit. "
He was going to make bold strike for free
dom from debt of $500 which had hung
over the society for some years. and which
was at first over $1,000, but had been grad
ually reduced to this amount. He succeeded
in convincing the people of the wisdom OF
| the effort, and before the meeting broke up
enough to pay the debt was raised and $l7
over making a handsome result of his unex-
pected movement. The ladies had worked
hard for the past years in trying to reduce
the debt, and every penny which could be
raised in any way had been applied to this
purpose, principally by getting up suppers.
As one member of the society had said,
They had eaten up about $1,000 of it, and
if their stomachs held out they thought they
should oOrry the rest DOZEN :" but Mr.. Das-
comb suggested that both moral and spirit
ual dyspepsia would be unpleasant for them
all, and they had better take another meth.
3D." The society," especially the ladies', feel
that large weight has been raised from their
shoulders, and Mr.. Dascomb is more popular
than ever with his congregation
Last week Wednesday, a young man
about twenty years old, named James O'Neil
| f---- H. - - ---ri---@d by aIA Fol
Mountain Paper Co. in their mill No. 4, WA
shifting belt, and in so doing his hand was
caught and he was thrown violently down,
cutting his head and giving injuries which he
survived only about twenty -four hours. Hi
body was taken to Keene for interment OF
Friday.
Monday forenoon a carpenter, named
Rufus Cass, employed upon the four-story
/ mill being built by the Canal Co., fell through
a hatchway from the top of the building "a
the basement, nearly 30 feet, injuring him SC
he survived but few hours, and was wholly
unconscious during the time. He was about
60 years old, and came here with gang OF
men from Lowell, Mass. He had formerly
lived at Meredith, N. H., to which place his
remains were taken by friends on Wednes
day.
The auction sale at the late o. H. Black
farm last Saturday was well attended and the
personal property was all well sold, but ow
ing to heavy incumbranco upon the farm
that could hardly raise bid and was not sold
"A brakeman for the Central Vernon
road, named McCarty, was caught between
the freight depot platform and a moving
train and quite seriously bruised, but proba
ably not permanently injured. He lived a
White River junction.
Work is progressing finely on the two
new paper mills, the Vermont Farm Machin,
Co. 3 large building and the Vermont Vale!
round house, all now in process of erection
This unusually warm and pleasant weathe
has been worth a large amount to them all
The logs have nearly all been raised out o
the river and with good weather all will b.
out the last of this week or first of next
F. Arnold, formerly of the firm of Davi
q Arnold, is engaged by Babbitt q Hayes t.
assist them during this months holiday trade
His many friends here welcome his return
aud he is justly popular among all classes.
Our community were panied on Tues1a!
morning to learn of the death of the wife OF
Hon. Geo. Slate, which occurred during thu
previous night.