Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-03-26
Local Intelligence,


The ceiling of Pratt, Wright 4 Co.'s
store has been handsomely decorated by Ro-
loGf q Co.
The services in the Uniyersalist church
next Sunday will be appropriate to Easter
In the evening there will be Sabbath school
concert
The primary and intermediate depart
ments Of the Baptist Sunday school are to
have a sugar festival at the church on Satur-
day afternoon.
The Brattleboro post office has been des.
ignated by the Postmaster General as
French International money order Office, be-
ginning April LIST, 1880.
The New London Northern stockholders
held meeting on Monday evening, when the
recent lease Of the Brattleboro a Whitehall
road was unanimously ratified.
March asserted its rightful sway on
Wednesday afternoon, with strong cold
wind, and temperature of 10 above zero
on Thursday morning.
John Austin, I'd, a railroad trackman,
suffered fracture of both bones Of the leg
below the knee, while engaged in n friendly
scuffie with another workman last Saturday
afternoon.
At the Unitarian church next Sunday
morning, Mr.. Green will preach an Easter
sermon, and in the afternoon, at three o'clock,
the Sunday school will hold an Easter service.
There will be no evening service.
Easter Day services in St. Michael's
(EpiscopaD church I A. NJ. morning pray
err; 1880 A. NJ, TIE Deum, holy commun-
ion and sermon P. NJ, childrens service
with Easter carols =. NJ, evening prayer.
1t will be seen by advertisement in an
other column that Messrs. Sherman & JENNIE
have scored another point in obtaining the
agency of the Phoenix Assurance Company
of London, one of the oldest and wealthiest
fire insurance companies in existence.
The special attention of farmers who
ship produce direct to city markets, is called
to the card of Mr.. Harrison Aldrich which
appears to-day in our advertising columns.
Mr.. Aldrich is well-known windham coun-
| ty boy, and every way reliable.
Only TO think of having the great Re
menyi, the most accomplished yiolinist who
| has ever visited America, on our Brattleboro
platform, with accomplished soprano and
tenor soloists, and a pianist, to vary the en-
tertainment. And this is precisely what is.
| going to happen on Friday evening, April 80
The Murray club had q very suspicious
opening for their public entertainments in
their presentation Of "Our Mutual Friend"
at Crosby hall on Thursday evening of last
week. An audience numbering 800 people
was in attendance, the play was well render
| ed and everything passed of in a most sue
cessful manner
o. J. Pratt has a very full and complete
assortment Of goods in every department.,
now ready for the spring trade, and to which
he calls the attention Of the public in our I'D
yertising columns to-day. Few stores in the
state can show so wide q range Of substantial
and desirable goods as kept constantly in
stock by Mr.. Pratt.
A meeting of Connecticut River and
Vermont Valley railroad officials was held |
here on Tuesday night and Wednesday morn. |
ing when, it is understood, it was decided TO |
Immediately make locating survey for the |
six miles Of railroad, so often talked about |
between Brattleboro and Hinsdale The sur
vey will be made by Dir. Randall, the engin-
Ger of the Brattleboro and Whitehall road
A Brattleboro man, who recently visited
southwestern Missouri with the idea of set
thing upon some Of the railroad land whose
richness and desirabilty he had seen extolled
in circulars, etc, reports himself more than
satisfied with what he saw,-in fact, so much
more that he couldn't be hired to exchange
his Vermont farm for one in that region.
The statements of the land agents he de-
nounces as mass of falsehood gotten up
with intent to deceive the unwary.
We have had.a good many excellent pre-
sensations Of Uncle Toms Cabin in Brattle-
boro, but the very best one is in store for us
on Tuesday evening, April L, when the Hyers
Sisters Combination, with the well known
Sam Lucas as Uncle Tom" will appear at
the town hall. Both Lucas and the famous
Flyers Sisters quartette are already favorites
in Brattleboro, and in this great drama. which
never loses anything of its popular interest
for either old or young, they are sure to
prove one of the greatest attractions of the
season.
On Friday evening, April I'd, Prof VIM
l. Marshall will present his illustrated lee
ture, An Evening in Wonderland - in Cros-
by hall. This lecture, or entertainment, con-
ssts of views from the wonderful Yellow
stone National Park thrown upon a screen
by the aid of calcium light, and accompan-
led by description by Prof. Marshall, who |
spent upward of nine years in and near this
remarkable region and is probably as famil-
lar with it as any man living. We believe
this entertainment will prove TO be in the
highest degree entertaining and instructive
Full particulars will be given in descriptive
circulars.
artt lima fir, Of I..kr,, 4
ley trackman was lying drunk and asleep on
the track above East Putney on Wednesday
evening, and was run over and his left arm crush
ed by the 'woodchuck' train The train
was stopped and the man taken on board and I
brought to Brattleboro and carried to the
Brattleboro House. DR.. Gale, who was call q
ed found it necessary to amputate the arm @
just above the elbow. So deep was the mans c
drunken stupor that he did not recover from
it for more than an hour after the operation a
was over. Two bottles full of liquor and an t
empty one were found in his pockets a
We are glad to know that our new board l
of selectmen are promptly taking steps toward 2
the renovation and proper repair of the town t
hall building. thorough reconstruction of s
the roof has already been decided upon, and L
Mr. A. P. Wentworth, competent Boston
architect, has been employed to look the
building carefully over with a view to ascer-
tanning its possibilities in the way of an i'm /
provement of the audience room proper. Mr.. \
Wentworth willperfect his plans for such i'm s
provements and present them to the board at r
an early day. No one thing would more
surely please and crafty all our people than b
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rental of which every taxpayer is interested