The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-10-29

Local Notes and Gossip.

Local Notes and Gossip.
~ post-office adopts Its usual win
stable next Monday. opening at Z
: -, and closing Mt the customary nc
vesper service will be held in
uaiversalist church next Sunday eve
'ng ~ Z p. m.
\. AZ the Universalist General Convt
Hon. held last week in Hudson, N.
~, E. W. Whitney and several me-
IN Of the Brattleboro church we
present.. The meetings were largely I
ended and Of great interest.
Messrs. Dunton & Campbell, the pc
MAR and efficient landlords of the Bra
ueboro House, have already had nun
oeF Of offers to engage in the hotel bus
ness elsewhere.
Trade opens very encouragingly |
TIE store of A. B Clapp & Co. on Ellie
q. They have as fine and neat stoc
Of watches and jewelry, gold and silve
ware, as is often shown in the country
and being wholesale dealers who Away
deal ION the square," are able to Civ
TO very best of prices. See their adver
usement in another column.
Mr.. E W. Haskins Is to be succeeded
y the local agent OF the Singer sewing
machine company. by G. E. Winch Of
Catskill. N. Y.
Report says that Col. Haskins has al.
tsady received his appointment as United
Mates District attorney, to succeed B. F.
Fifeld resigned. Probably, however, it
y only an appointment as especial" to
prosecute Waite.
The latest and worst yet is the sug-
gestion that if Hancock should hap
pen to be elected the editor of the Re-
FORMER wants to be post-master-a
position for which he is about as much
lifted as for tight rope walker. A
Imam, who with the most incessant ap-
plication, is unab'e to half attend to his
pwn extensive business must be fool'to
rant to become an fice-holder. Oar
wn idea is that Mr.. Mansur is a---afodel
1ss.naster, and if we csodld have our
" 6e would be retained through all the
mutations of parties. But if he must
walk the plank we could name half
dozen Democrats who would fill his
place very acceptably; if there be. any in
town who would do it more poorly than
the aforesaid editor, we don't happen to
be acquainted with them.
DR.. A. L. Pettee was voted a member
of the Connecticut River dental associa-
ton at the annual meeting at Springfield,
last week.
A current item states that Col. Hooker
will be obliged to remain in New York
until after the presidential election. This
will cut off his attendance about half of
the session of the Legislature.
The REFoRMER has sent an interview
or round among the business men to
learn the effect upon business of closing
the bars. OF the whole two say il makes
no difference IN their trade; two think it
improves it, because if men don't spend
money for rum they can pay their honest
debts. All the rest think their trade is
seriously interfered with, and one of
them that it is cut down by half. All
agree thot the closing of the hotels last
year was domaging.
Senator Fuller has resumed his duties
at Montpelier, recovering from his recent
painful rheumatic attack.
Boys out chestnuting in Bernardston,
the other day, discovered considerable
silver plated ware, bearing the initial
al" 1t has since been identified, we
understand, as The property of B. D. Har-
ris, burglarized from his house year or
two since.
Dan Ryan got his hand into the "break"
at the bakery Tuesday, and the flesh was
cleaned from it by thesrollers. He threw
the other hand over and pushed the belt
of, or his entire arm would have been
sucked in and broken all to pieces.
Receiver Price. of the First National.
expects to pay 10 per cent dividend to
the creditors of the bank next week,
making 80 per cent in all.
Austin Russell, now clerk at A.. c.
Davenport's grocery store, goes to Boston
to attend term at Bryant d Stratton's
business. college, the first of Decent er.s7-
Jas. Morgan, believed to be the same
man who passed a forged check on turnl-
ture dealer Brown last summer, and victim
lied Keene parties in the same way, has
been arrested in Manchester, n. H., for
playing his tricks there. He is held for
trial in that city.
The laying of rails on the narrow gauge
is completed, as announced by the REFORM
RR last week. The ballasting and other
work is being rapidly pushed. 1t is hoped
that trains may be running early next week.
The north room of Moses Howe's pres
ent billiard quarters is to be finished off
for Miss Mary E. Bliss select school.
The meanest wretch alive is the one
who continues to send items to the city
papers, reporting that Mrs. Woodbridge,
wife of the New London manager of the
Western Union Telegraph company, has
eloped with Brattleboro man. The
New York Sun Monday contained a
long and detailing account of the affair,
picturing the husbands abiect grief, etc.
There is not word of truth in the whole
story. Mrs. Woodbridge has spent the
whole of the summer at Putney, her hus-
band with her, as the REFoRMER stated
last week, on the very day that the first
item appeared, and again visited her
Saturday, two days before the Suns arti-
Gle appeared. On the last visit she re-
turned home with him. He expresses
the most violent indignation at the pub
lication of these stories, and every de-
cent man must feel that the old fashion,
ed public foggihg would be too good for
the author if he or she can be discov-
cred.
Disaster at Hinsdale.
ONE MAN KILLED,
An explosion occurred in the "blesch
room" of the paper mill of Geo. Robert
son & Son at Hinsdals this morning.
The main building of their extensive
works was blown to pieces, though the
machine building, is repol ted to be stand
ing. A workman by the name of Black
mer was killed by the explosion.
8. M Waite Dangerously SICK.
Silas NJ. Waite lies in a critical condi-
ton at the county Jail at Newfane. with
something like an attack of pleurisy.
He has n terrible cough, his lungs APP
pear to be raw, and be has been moved
from his cell to the main room OF the
iail. Mr.. Bowles, the jailor, said yes
terday that he thought if he was not
moved from his present quai tiers he
would not live to meet his friends.
There seems to be no doub: that he Is a
very sick man, and his wife was sent for
Wednesday. He has always been in the
habit of walking 8 or 10 miles day,
and his present confinement Is terribly
destructiye to the health of such an un-
a,,irif