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

Orchard.
Mr.. W. II. Bigelow and family have ar
rived from New Haven for the summer
Mr. Geo. f. Crowell, editor Of the House
hold. is recuperating his health ut the White
Mountains.
The Garfield and Arthur club flung their
first banner across Main street on Tuesday
evening
S. A. Miller leaves town to-day for Colo
RADIO, with view TO possible location there
as sheep farmer.
Mr. and Mrs II. Hadley and Mrs Geo.
Z. Selleck have just returned from trip to
Maine via the White Mountains.
Rev W. w. Hayward of Keene, N. H.,
will preach in the Universalist church next
Sunday, in exchange with the pastor.
STAR azers will find some exceedingly in
teresting facts and hints in nm article copied
from the Providence Journal on our first page
to-day.
Mr.. Geo. s. Dowley, cashier of the Yer.
mont National bank sails for Europe on Sat
urdny of next week, for a vacation tour OF
some six or eight weeks.
MIR. Israel Wood of West Brattloboro re-
ports the amount of rain which fell during
Friday night and Saturday at y inches The
total rainfall for June was only y inches.
Our Westminster correspondent writes us
that b. f. Sleeper, chairman Of the WindhAm
| County Democratic committee, will call the
county convention TO be held on the 27th inst
The ladies of the Baptist society will hold
their lawn party one night only, Tuesday
July 18th. II will be on Col. Estey s grounds,
as in former years, and a cordial invitation is
extended to all.
| Col. Hooker was summoned to New York
by Chairman Jewell on Thursday afternoon,
to take charge Of Republican National Com
mittee matters in the necessary absence of
both the chairman and secretary.
The Universalists will have an entertain
ment at their church tomorrow evening
when Miss Kinds, of Brooklyn, N. Y, will
give a half-hour Of readings, followed by mu-
steal selections by young people of tho soce-
ty. Refreshments will be served at the
close.
MIR @. A. Durfee is engaged in the man
ufacture of an article of his own invention
for polishing silver, brass, zinc, tinware, etc,
which he puts up at his residence on High
street 1t appears to be all that is claimed
for it, and is having an extensive sale wherever
introduced.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage of. Brooklyn.
| n. Y, came TO town last night on n visit 10
his young children who are at Mrs. Ives's
school. He returns home to-day, holds his
regular Friday evening meeting tonight,
breaches on Sunday, and on Monday starts
for San Francisco ON q lecturng tour of some
weeks.
Col. Haskins, by reason of his increasing
law practice, has taken into partnership with
him Milton A. Goodnow of Wilmington Mr..
| Goodnow is young man of more than ordi-
nary ability WINS educated at Amherst college,
read law with o. +. Butterfeld, Esq, Of VIII
mington, aud was admitted to the bar of this
county at the September term, 1879.
We recently had the pleasure of exanin-
! ing Mr.. c. A. Durfee's collection of minerals
and curiosities. Though ne has spent only
two or three years in making the collection,
1t already embraces several thousand speci
mems, from all parts of the world, and Is one
of the finest private collections we have ever
| seen.
1t was Mundells team, of Wiliamsville,
and not Wares of Townshend, which broke
that First National Bank lamp-post last week
BY the way, the broken post having been re-
| placed by new one, who would be response
BILE for damages should any serious accident
happen to man or beast from contact with
post standing so decidedly in the street as does
that one ?
The Springfield Republicans Brattleboro
| correspondence contained some remarkable
news" about Waite and the First National
Bank. on Thursday, which is undoubtedly %
authentic, but which we have been unable
to verify. In our own lack OF enterprise" we
are obliged to confess that we know of no
new or interesting developments in regard to
the ruined bank this week
There seems to have been quite a stable
row in Esteyville on Friday evening, grow
| ing out of the trouble between VIM. Spelman
and his wife ard "wife's relations" during
which poor SpeHman became either desperate
or fearful for his life, and used a revolver
somewhat promiscuously. One bullet struck
a boy named Witt in the leg, but its force was
50 far spent that no serious injury was infct-
ed. The fault in the affair probably Law very
largely with those who instigated the horn
ing on the occasion
AT the Unitarian church Sunday. the
Fourth, was observed as Children's Sunday.
After the usual opening exercises at the
morning service, the rite of baptism was adj
ministered, aud the Sunday school, taking up
the service at this point completed it with
scripture and other Rotations, and singing
the service closing with pleasing little floral
exercise, The Ladder of Life which was
very ereditably performed by class of the
older girls. The organ music on the occa-
sion was supplemented by cornet accompani-
ment by Messrs Burnett and Holden.
The returns to the County Clerk of the
Windhsm County census are still incomplete,
though enough are in to show that there has
the County So far as heard from the follow
ing towns show gains in population since
1870, as follows Brattleboro, $40; Athens
and Brookline, Corning one district 81;
Stratton, s Westminster, 80 Rockingham,
745;-total, 1882. The towns showing losses
are, Dover, 10 ; Guilford, $50; Halifax, l2j
Jamaica, l5i Londonderry, IS; Marlboro,
Ill ! Newfane, 90; Putney, ~; Townshend
70; Whitngham, %; Wilmington, l76;
Windham, 9;-total, 9G2. Gain so far, SO.
The great London Circus, with its baby
elephant, electric light, aud grand ''aggrega-
ton OF wonders and attractions which ex-
hlblts here next week. promises TO be one of
the best shows which has ever visited Brat
tle6oro. The proprietors, Messrs. Cooper,
Bailey d Co., have evidently mastered the
science of advertising in connection with
their enterprise. The whole show travels by
rail, and at regular intervals of week three
successive advertising cars have visited the
town, the last of which came on Wednesday
bringing magic lantern exhibition, which
was shown on the street in the evening illus
rrating the animals, clown and ring perform
anees, ETC., and drawing a street full of peo-
pie to see the fun.
The best and every way most satisfactory
Fourth of July celebration hereabouts was
that provided by Dame Nature herself in the
shape of steady, pouring rain which fell
from midnight Friday night till s O'Clock Sat
urday morning, breaking the long drouth and
reyiying every living thing, both animate ana
inanimate There were showers at intervals
during the day and evening which interfered
with numberless plans for outdoor enjoy
ment, but nobody had the heart to grumble
under the circumstances. With all the 9th
er blessings brought by the rain, it put a
stopper on the operations of the horrible tim
horn brigade, and for the first time in years
people about town got good nights sleep,
| both on the nipht hefnrn md the nj c,hi aftnr