Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

Warren Moore of this place has purchas-
ed the paper mill property at Alstead, and
has already taken possession. He has been
for years employed in the mill of w. Russell
& Co. of this village, and has many friends
who will rejoice in the prosperity of his new
venture.
Henry Greenwood of Saxtons River re-
turned from his trip to England, Wednesday
of this week, in good health and greatly
pleased with his trip, having been gone about
two months He went by the White Star
line of steamers, tickets for which are sold
by Babbitt & Hayes, and says the accommo-
dations of this company are unsurpassed by
any crossing the ocean.
AT our election, Tuesday a town vote of
about 40 only was polled, which was larger
than ever before, although there about
800 names on the checklist. On the State
vote SOC votes were cast, with about the usual
Republican majority of 100. Upon the town
vote the Republicans were unfortunate in
having division among themselves and two
candidates in the field for representative,
Geo A. Brown and S. S. Coolidge, both of
whose friends worked hard and persistently
for their man and would not give up even
when they saw that, without doubt, their per-
sstency would give us n Democratic represen-
tative. Mr. Brown, the principal of our high
school, was the nominee of the caucus, but II
formidable bolt was inaugurated 10y some cit
liens who disliked much to lose his services
in the school, thinking it would injuro its
usefulness and another faction who thought
that his nomination was due TO certain ring
influence which has become decidedly unpop-
ular here during the past few months, head
ed by certain lawyers. Taking these two rea-
sons, the Coolidge men got quite an impor-
tant number, and no election was had on first
or second ballot. Upon the third ballot the
feeling upon the part of a number of Repub
licans was so strong that they voted for the
Democratic nominee, and at little after 9
O'Clock he was declared elected upon the
third ballot by small majority; and so We
lost our representative, not by Democratic
strength but by dissentions among ourselves.
As whole, the meeting was very quiet for so
large n one, and passed off with but compare
lively few personal alterations.
Probably the largest number of people
| that ever were gathered in Bellows Falls to
meeting of any kind was brought together
last Monday evening upon the occasion of the
last grand rally of both parties, and it was a
| decidedly successful and pleasant affair.
| Special trains were run over some of the
roads, and more people were gathered in and
| about the Square than the 'oldest inhabitant'
could remember of seeing before The whole
| village was nicely illuminated, with but few
exceptions, and both torchlight professions
were large and snowy. The Bellows Falls
band furnished music for the Democrats and
| the I'd Regt band of Keeue and the West
minister band furnished for the Republicans.
! About 100 horsemen were in the Republican
ranks and about % in the other. As whole,
| it was a splendidly arranged and well eXecut
ed affair, highly credtable to both parties.
Geo. E. Pelton, for year or two in the
printing office of A. N Swain as foreman,
leaves his position this week to go into an of
| fee at Rutland.
The water above the dam has been raised
about 30 inches by making the dam that
amount higher during the past week. Some
parties owning land ON each side of the river
claim to have been damaged byit, and got an
injunction TO stop its being finished, but ow
ing to some irregularity in it, it was neces-
sary to return it to Concord, and while it was
gone the company put on large amount of
help and finished it up before its return, so it
was of no avail. The work has been done by
the Bellows Falls Canal Co., who own the
whole power here.
e. s. Sabin, Jr., and others, had the con-
tents of their carriages taken by thieves dur
ing the rally Monday evening.
In a recount of votes of the State ticket
late Tuesday evening" a package of broken
ballots numbering 20 Democratic votes was
counted twice. making their number of votes
90 too many. This caused considerable ex.
element when known Wednesday morning,
and the board of Justices were called upon to
ecide which was the correct number, and
upon the Sd count the error was shown and
the result declared the same Us first stated in
the meeting.