Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-27
Local Intelligence,
HrattlelorO.

day.
Rev. Mr.. Green's next Sunday evening
lecture will be on "Scepticism, what it is, it
cause and cure"
A collection in aid Of the sufferers by thu
famine in Ireland was taken up at the Catho
lie church last Sunday.
Rev. E. w. Whitney will deliver a lee
ture to young people next Sunday evening
Subject, How to Succeed"
The regular annual meeting Of the Wind
ham County Pet Stock Association will be
held at the hall of No Engine Co., on Tues
day evening of next week
A large audience listened to the temper
ance lecture by Rev. Mr.. Vbbert at the town
hall, Sunday afternoon. He is to speak again
at the same place next Sunday afternoon at
O'Clock.
-Apropos Of the lecture on Mary Queen Of
Scots, to be given in Crosby hall on Thurs
day evening Of next week, we publish in an
other column an historical extract, which will
well repay perusal.
The second term Of the school taught by
Miss Della NJ. Sherman in district No. 10,
closed Friday, the 2Oth, with an exhibition
in the evening at which the scholars did
much credit to themselves
In our advertising columns to-day Messrs
Sherman a Jenne make formal announcement
Of their removal to their handsome and COM
modious quarters in the new block, where
they will be glad to see all their friends
Mr.. Joseph Piggott, the accomplished
scenic artist, who executed the Crosby hall
stage DECORATIONS, has just completed the
scenery for the elegant new opera house at
! Toronto, Ontario which is spoken Of in the
highest terms by the press of that city
Those persons, and their name is legion,
who are deyotng their energies to the solu-
ton Of the "crack brain" puzzle, and haven't
yet got it out can take courage for somebody
has computed that the possible number of
combinations is only some ,3O7, GA, 3Gs, 600
Our venerable and widely known towns
man, Mr.. Chas. c. Frost, who is now "a
years Of age, was seized with bilious attack
last Saturday, which afterwards assumed
the form of jaundice. Last Sunday was the
first Sunday he has been absent from church
for thirty-ive years.
A high school class numbering some -
or Il members passed very satisfactory ex-
animation in geometery on Monday after
noon, showing most gratifying readiness in
both definitions and demonstrations. The
class is now ready to pass on to the study of
plane trigonometry.
An item for Brattleboro taxpayers A
st. Adams despatch says that 1.-THE suits of
the First national bank of st. Adams against
the towns of Highgate and Swanton TO recoy-
er on coupon bonds issued by those towns in
aid of the Lamoille Valley railroad have been
decided against the towns by the supreme
court"
We learn that Mr.. Green's lecture next
week, on the unfortunate Mary Queen Of
Scots, is simple and graphic recital of the
leading events in the career of that sad -fated
lady-e story Of fascinating interest to young
aud old. Mr.. Green does ot take the view
of Mary common to the average Protestant
Scotchman, that Mary being a Catholic,
must be bad SO that without fear of offence
both Catholic as well as Protestant might en-
JOY the lecture.
The town hall book sale attracts many
buyers, who find an excellent class of books
to select FROM the stock comprising. very
largely, standard works of history, poetry
and fiction Money spent there is well |
spent and We imagine that a good many of |
the sums paid out at the nightly auctions |
might otherwise go for less worthy purposes
WHICHEVER is carried home in the way of good |
books will at least do no harm to husband, wife |
or children.
MIR. L. w. Frink, in announcing that he
has taken the Brattleboro agency of the 'ar-
row brand spectacles, vouches for these
goods as being among the very best of their
class made IN this country, and as taking high
rank with distinguished opticians Mr. Frink
is also agent for the celluloid eye glass frames.
goods which are very attractive in appear.
ance, and which claim several points of adj.
vantage over those made of any other mate.
rial
The Reeves Park Garden Opera COM
pany have been obliged to change their Brat.
tleboro date, and will appear here on Satur
day of next week when they will give Pin
afore matinee in the afternoon, and in the
evening the charming opera The Bells of
Normandy" which has Just been taken up by
HE company. Rutland Burlington, and 9th
er towns where the company has Just now
appeared are enthusiastic in their praise of
his last named delicious and sparkling bit of
musical composition.
There was good degree Of interest mani
'ested in the village meeting, Tuesday even.
ng, when it was expected that action would
De taken relative to the purchase of new
steamer for the use of the fire department
md the sale of the present hand engines but |
IS every body appeared to be somewhat in !
he fog as to the cost and results of the pro-
POSED change and what on the whole. was
he wisest thing to be done, a committee was
lnally chosen, consisting of DR.. Geo. F. Gale,
}. NJ. Waite and L. X. Fuller, to give the
ubject thorough investigation and report
t an adjourned meeting to be held March
eth.
Miss Mary L. Tenney, teacher of French
nd History at Smith College, Northampton
lied at the residence of her father Rev. Err
Tx Tenney, in Westboro', Mass, on the 18th j
INST. Miss Ienney was a native of Lyme, {
I. where her father was long time pas. {
Or of the Congregational church, educated
the Ladies Seminary, West Brattleboro.
here she was afterward the principal, was
he first, and for six years the principal of
Institute, Newbury, VT, closing
nc engagement there last June to accept the
osition at the college, on the opening of the '.
all term. Her health and strength, never
cry robust, and much impaired by twelve !
ears of constant teaching, proved INSULT
tent for her new work and place, but with a
ssolute will and against the advice of fr;a,5s l
ne continued her labors until the Thanks
living vacation, when she went to visit her {
5ed parents at Westboro', There she was e
ken seriously i'll, gradually failed, and died K
ON nervous prostration. D
AT the Republican caucus held last Sat
rdAN eYaning VIM S NawLn,, ..-nn 49, | s.