Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-09

the music, and marshaled by Dr. Phelps, os-
corted squad of veterans to the grand
stand" which had boen erected in another part
of the grounds for the occasion. These
veterans" several of whom were apparent
ly) minus an arm or a leg, were given promi-
nept seats in front of the platform, and, then,
in true military style the regulars escorted
the orator Of the day and invited guests to
their seats on the stand. Patriotic music
was discoursed by choir of voices with in
strumental accompaniment, and the Declara-
ton of Independence was read by DIR. Clark,
after which came the 'oration' by DIR. ORA
per his effort closing with an impassioned
address to the "veterans" Rev. j. b. Green
supplemented the doctors address with n
few remarks, and more music by the choir
and orchestra closed the platform exercises.
A general raid on the suffers tent followed,
and Mt the end of an hour thus pleasantly
spent the assembly, which comprised all
those patients in condition to be out of the
wards dispersed, amid universal realiza-
ton of the fact that "a little nonsense now
and then" is relished by the unfortunate in
sane no less than by 'the wisest men,"
About $50 adult persons, exclusive of the
band, were present at the Democratic ratifca-
ton meeting held on Monday evening. G.. b.
Kirwan, as chairman of n preliminary com
mittee on organization called the meeting TO
order, and John j. Flahive, Us secretary, pre-
scented a report nominating the following per-
sons as officers of Hancock and English
club
President-Chns. N. Davenport.
Vice Presidents-W. II. Alexander, Chas.
X. Field, Fred w. Childs DIR. A. i. Pettee,
j. w. Burnap, S. +. Foster, John Retting, p
Goodrich, Lyman G.. Bliss, II. A. Pratt, GA.
Boyden, A. A. Stearns Il. f. Brooks, Willis
Bems, Thomas Judge, A. N. Wyatt, ID. p.
Cobb L. d. Thayer, Thatcher Perry, w. Cha
pin.
Secretaries-H. II. Hackley, John J. Fla
hive, L. T. Shields.
Treasurer-Azor Marshall.
Executive Committee-H. c. Willard, +.
w. Childs, G.. b. Kirwnn, Porter G. Spencer,
w. d. Perry, job Long.
The report was accepted and adopted On
taking the chair as president of the club, Mr..
Chas. N Davenport spoke for about half an
hour, and he was followed in n speech some
what longer by Col. Asa NJ. Dickey of st.
Johnsbury. An outline of the remarks of
both gentlemen is given elsewhere Music
was furnished by the military band.
The following is the list of letters remain
ing at the post Office in this village, July
9th:
Miss Eliza Baker, Miss Lille Davenport, Mrs. Mira
Greeley, Mrs. Frank Hildreth. Mrs Nelson NJ. Cher
d. Sabin.
Gents-A. J. Blanchard, Henry Barrett, Albert L.
Douglas, Henry Duncan, Jimmy J. DoOlin, Frank
Glazer o. A. Knight VIM. Loavitt, C. Mennier, M
ID. Merriam, Charley G. Perry II. G. Plummer, W. s.
stearns, Winfield T.. Thomas, L. II. willard
THE GRANDMoTHER's LETTER TO THE DEFAMER
BOY.
:,
well aware that it has always been source of
qualification to your father, as it has also to
some of your other friends that you are
smart" She therefore regrets to be obliged
to remind you thus publicly that some things
which appear to be smart are simply mean
and contemplate. OF this class was the trick
which you played last week when you sent a
boy to our office as soon as our press started
to buy a copy of THE PHOENIX, from which
you stole our local items and published them
in the edition of the Detdmer which you
printed for circulation in Brattleboro. The
fact that the items which you thus deliberate
ly stole were almost the only ones which you
had of any freshness or interest, does not les
sen the dirtiness of the trick For some four
years. up to the first of last May, it was your
regular practice to steal your local news
week by week, from your GRANDMOTHER col
uhu thch SoNSl up 0pui thtlh ny biuB
ging of your meanness, which you mis-named
enterprise, and by berating your neghbors
for their slowness and old-fogyism. In your
trick of last week, however, you went step
too far, and you mustn't do it again. You
must, in short, stop that sort of thing and
when Your Grandmother says stop, she means
it, If you don't stop it, we SHALL if we have
TO hire two policemen to stand in the door
with clubs, or if We delay publication till
dark, or till the next morning or the next
week
We treat You very gently in this little note,
because We know that your father thinks q
great deal of you, and because we know that
your early training was under very unfortu-
nate circumstances so that you have grown
up without any well.defued idea of the differ
ence between right and wrong, and so that, in
acting as your parents agent in running So
called newspaper, you seem to be quite desti-
tute of any sense of what belongs to journal
istic and professional decency. BE admonished
by this, however, and hereafter do as well as
you know how, and you will retain the same
place in your Grandmother's affections that
you have always held
Yours truly, and in sincere kindness,
GRANDMOTHER PHOENIX.