Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-04-18
Local Intelligence.


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the 22d inst. .,,
Twice a week the Agawam yeast will be
carried for sale throughout Brattleboro and
West Brattleboro.
The several Masonic bodies of this place
will unite in holding public installation cere-
monies at Masonic hall on Tuesday evening
next.
Pomona Grange will hold a meeting in
Grand Army hall in this place on Thursday OF
next week. oath inst. at 10 o'clock A. ~ All
Patrons are cordially invited to attend.
One Of the prominent candidates Of the
Iowa Greenbackors for Governor Is Mr. NJ.
II. Moore Of Dubuque formerly Of this town.
and son Of the late Martin Moore.
Attention is called to the announce
ment in another column Of Mrs. Ives, who
has leased the property famiiiarly known as
the Tyler School" and will open private
school there for boys and girls May LIST.
1t is expected that on Saturday morning
Col. Fitzgerald. the coachman Of the Lihpu-
tian company. will drive his span Of Shetland
ponies through the principal streets Of the
village. The troupe will remain at the Brooks
House over SuluAgi anu a. Il. my i"i WIN
entertain the ponies.
j Carl Cheney of st. Johnsbury. who
has for some time been engaged in the tenn
perance work in Canada and Western New
York. spoke at the reading room of the Ia
dies Temperance Union, Tuesday afternoon,
and at the town hall on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, to good audiences.
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the market considering the small quantity
made up to this time-a average lots selling for
10 cents, and prime or fancy grades bringing
y or ID cents. Shipments by express from
this point are very small as compared with
previous years. Monday Of this week was
the best day thus far, about three tons hav-
ing been then sent of
The Right Reverend Bishop Bissell will
visit st. Michaels (Episcopal) church next
Sunday first Sunday after Easter and preach
morning and evening. The hours of service
will be rs follows at $3.50 A. NJ, children's
service; 1890 A. NJ. sermon aud Holy Com
munion at 1870 ?. NJ, sermon and confrma-
ton. On the same day the Bishop will visit
the church at East Guilford at 2:3O P. NJ.
The Wantastiquet and Fort Dummer ri
fie clubs, accompanied by several members Of
the Battery rifle club, met for practice at
their new range in Vernon. on Fast day,
some 30 or 10 persons being present. A
match took place between three members Of
the Fort Dummer club and three Of the Bat
terry club, in which the latter beat by one
point. The new range is located on grounds
Of 7. L. johnson, short distance west Of
the depot, convenient of access. and well
adapted for rifle practice.
Tie Brattleboro cornet baud under the
leadership Of Mr.. Fred Leightsing-r, has
maintained it, organization through tine win
ter, and has added to its ranks some expert
enced players, who will give it additional
strength. Were there a suitable stand erect
ed on Main street for their accommodation.
our citizens would doubtless be treated to al
abundance Of excellent music during the COM
ing summer evenings. 1t is to be hoped that
some of our citizens interested in the matter
will see TO it that the band receive suitable
encouragement in this direction.
A lively interest is manifested in the APP
preaching visit of the Liliputians, and large
number Of tickets have already been sold for
both the matinee and the evening perform
ance on Saturday. During the past week the
troupe have played to crowded houses in
Athol and Shelburue Falls, Mas, Benning-
ton, Vt, and Cambridge, y. Y. On their re-
cent visit to Marblehead, Mass. the eager
ness TO see them was 10 great that more than
a thousand tickets were sold before the arri-
val Of the company. We learn that since the
engagement Of the little people to appear in
Brattleboro young gentleman has been ad-
ded to the troupe whose height is only some
twenty inches.
There is a certain satisfaction in making
q bad mistake now and then because We find
out by that means that people d. read The
PHd-NIx. Our first page paragraph last week
about the Pixies Peak signal station WAS a
very good one, but it would have been better
had there been Il" before the 400, making
the height of the mountain l 1 900 feet, which
It really Is, or very nearly that. Tourists
usually feel that they have accomplished a
notable feat of getting up in the world when
they have assembled 10 the top of Mt. Wash
ington, but here is this Colorado peak more
than two and quarter times high Us our
New England mountain, on which, it seems,
the government now maintains a signal Sta
ton the year around.
Rev. A. J. Walker of Wlliamsyille has
received official papers from Washington,
stating that his application for patent on
water elevators was allowed March 18th with
six full claims covering his different modes of
operating the machines aud, rs he was the
discoverer and original inventor, giving him
the whole ground in that way of raising wa
ter, for seventeen years from the issue Of let
tiers patent Messrs. Miner 4 Barrett of
Brattleboro are manufacturers of the elevator,
and as soon as the frost is out of the ground
it will be put in practical operation.
small 4-inch elevator can be seen in opera
ton at the shop of Miner Il Barrett Sizes
will be made to suit all purposes, from I to
60 inches in diameter and to take water any
height desired.
The size of the house which greeted the
Boston English opera company at their pre-
sentation of PiRat0re on Tuesday evening,
owing to the bad weather, was not at all equal
to the merits Of the performance The Cap
tain was in the worst possible voice, from the
effects, doubtless. of a severe cold and the
Admiral, for some reason, failed to rise to
the sublime height of dignity and severe pro-
priety on which the TX. c. b." of the
Queens Navee' is supposed to dwell, but in
spite of these drawbacks the other leading
parts were SO admirably taken that the opera
as a whole was a decided success. The cho-
rus and tableau at the close of the first act,
and the chorus For he is an Englishnan,"
etc, awakened a veritable enthusiasm in the
audience, and were entirely worthy the hearty
applause which they received.
The following is the list of letters remain
ing at the post office in this village April II.