Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-18
Local Intelligence.


The services at the Universalist church
next Sunday will be devoted to the children
Mr.. w. f. wilkins has the Job of build
ing Crowolls two new houses on Forest
square.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Holbrook return
to-day from two weeks vacation at Isle La
Motto.
Coils. Fuller and Hooker are at Burling-
ton this week to attend the Army of the Po-
tomac reunion.
The Moosehead Lake party report un-
usually poor sport this year. They will start
for home next Monday.
Owing to a continued increase of bust
ness DIR. j. +. Prescott, optcian, will extend
his visit in Brattleboro another week.
"A. j. Simonds has settled with his cred
itors at 30 cents on the dollar, payable July
LIST, and resumed business
The contract for building the remaining
depots on the line of the West river railroad
has been awarded to Patrick Flemming of this
town.
The Brattleboro post-ofiice has been des-
ignated by the Postmaster General MS Cana
dian international money order Office, from
July list, next
1t ought not to be necessary for us to
urge the Republicans of the village and town
to come out in full numbers to attend the
caucus to be held ON Saturday evening.
Fifty four freight horses from the region
of West river valley were in Brattleboro on
Tuesday as counted by an individual having
an eye to the prospective business Of the new
railroad
The White Mountain express train will
go upon the road for the season a week from
next Monday 2Sth inst Its running time
will be substantially the same as last year
C. w. Wilcox, at the post Office, will fur
nish the New York Weekly Tribune 20 weeks
| for 40 CENTS or the Semi-Weekly same time
for 80 cents, commencing any time during
the campaign.
We are requested to announce that per-
sons attending the Republican State conven-
ton, to be held at Burlington next week,
will receive free return checks over the Yer
mont Valley railroad, on application TO the
| conductors.
Our thanks are due, as are those, also, of
all the Republicans of the town, to Mr.. Z. p.
White, the stenographic secretary of the
Garfield and Arthur club, for the very complete
and satisfactory reports of the speeches made
at the ratification meeting last Saturday even
ing
C. L. Allen is harvesting an immense
strawberry crop, and is shipping the fruit all
over the State, and to Canada. box of
ShRrpless berries, which came to us from his
| beds on Wednesday, were of uniformly large
size, very fine, and of exceptionally fine fla
yor, fully confirming all that has been said in
favor Of this famous new variety.
Three bicyclists from Amherst, Mass,
students at the college, visited Brattleboro on
Tuesday, having ridden from Greenfield in
the morning The Brattleboro club turned
out for a run about town with them in the
afternoon, and the young men returned
toward night. Their run for the day could
not have been much less than 80 miles
The primary school exam inatiens are be-
ing held this week by Supe rntendent D. E.
Miller, and Mr.. Bingham, with such assist
ance as DIR. Holton can find time to give
them. All friends of the schools should re-
member that they have cordial invitation to
the Grammar and High school examinations
to be held next week.
The Vermont Valley railroad company of
1871 held its annual meeting here on Wednes-
day and elected the following board of di-
rectors Gouverneur Morris of New York
Henry c. Robinton of Hartford, CT, John
b. Page of Rutland, Frederick Billings of
Woodstock w. II. Rockwell of Brattleboro,
j. H. Williams of Bellows Falls and A. b.
Harris of Springfield, Mass.
COL Hooker returned from Chicago last
Friday evening at 1890 and was welcomed
by gathering of friends who rendered him
n serenade by the military band. In acknowl-
edging the compliment in a speech from the
Brooks House balcony, the colonel raid he
did not accop pit i: as personal to himself but as
IN Of la f..lt nv H..
people of the State with the course taken by
the Vermont delegation in the National con-
vcntion.
MIR. Fisks band returned to Brattleboro
on Sunday having been gone something less
than a fortnight, They report that Mr.. Fisk
gave one street parade and one tent show in
Detroit, to the latter Of which only rs or 80
tickets were sold. 1t became evident that the
show could not be q success, Mr.. Fisk at once
paid the band off, dismissed them and paid
their fare home. He also packed away his
tent, and when tho band left was intending
to give open air exhibitions.
Morris Bowler who has been doing
blasting on the railroad, the other day took
from his pocket cartridge which he thought
he had carried about long enough, and placed
it on a bureau at home, wrapped in paper
His daughter Maggie found it, and supposing
it to be nothing more than a toy affair, took
it up, and, holding it in her left hand, pro-
ceeded to apply a match to it, when it ex-
ploded with force of $50 pounds. Singu-
larly enough, the girl still lives, with only
the loss of a thumb and two fingers from a
badly mutilated hand, and a sorry looking
face, which, however, will not be perma-
nently disfgured.
The following extract from a criticism Of
the Paris Salon pictures for $780, published
in the Moniteur des Arts will be interesting
to the many friends of r. G. Hardie, jr, who
has a Ladys Portrait on exhibition there.
81 notice. en- pdssdnt, and with regret at
not having sufficiently studied it, a Lddy's
Portrait by Mr.. Hardie, sketched with rare
grace, and touched by the artists crayon as
tenderly MS one would caress with the hand "a
much-loVed child, the portrait of woman
who must have beamed with pleasure on be-
holding her own image in all its perfection of
outline and depth of expression. Mr.. Hardie
reflects credit upon the foreign art for, if AS
pupil of Gcr0me and representative of
that school of painting we may claim him, it
is still to the United States that he belongs by
birth"
The new village steamer arrived Monday
night. On Tuesday it was brought up to the
engine house, rubbed up and put in order,
and in the evening was fired up and given a
trial on Frost's meadow. 1t is a machine of
the same class, and from the same manufac-
turers, Clapp 4 Jones, Hudson, N. Y, as the
mo. 3" originally purchased, but contains
some improvements which experience has
dictated. The boiler has copper hues in place
of iron ones, and is thought that steam can be
made in it quicker than in the other machine.
The machines were weighed on Tuesday with
their loads of water and fuel, ready for use
the mo. 3" showing n weight of 1859 lbs,
and the new or NO. t." showing APO lbs.
Mr.. A. g. White will act as engineer of the
machine for the balance of the year, and II
,,,o,,,1 l,,t ba old No 4 oOmOaOV