Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-05-27

church on sunday evening the pastor mhue
the revision the subject Of his address.
The sale Of seats indicates the best house
Of the season for Denman Thompson as "Un-
Gle Josh Whitcomb," next Tuesday evening.
A special train will be run from South Lon
donderry, and 100 seats have been reserved
for the West River valley people. The story
Of great success comes from every place
where the company has appeared, and our
people may rest fully assured that they are TO
SEQ one Of the very best things which has ever
been put upon our local stage.
The stakes for the new railroad station
were driven on Thursday, Mr.. Hobart, the
general superintendent Of the Central YER
mont, and Mr.. SWEET, the architect, being in
town for that purpose. The main building
will be 90 by GO feet with q projection Of
four or five feet in the centre, fronting the
track, for ticket Office and similar wing
or projection on the opposite side for la
dies dressing-room. On the northeast corner
there will be an ell about 1G by 81 feet, for
baggage room and telegraph Office. The con-
tract for the excavation and foundation has
been lot 10 ]. ID. Plummer Of this village, who
will begin work at once. Brick for the walls
will be bought at Montague, Mass
We find that we were wrong last week in
estimating the amount Of public school money
TO be received by this district this year at so
nlRn q inquire as TEfOO. lut hNuouub W bt
received, we are informed, cannot exceed
S14OO, and, moreover, the committee state
that the aotunl expenses Of the district last
year we're about $1,000, or some 800 more
than the figures shown by the published
statement. The tax must therefore be con-
siderably increased over our estimate, and II,
as many people think, a thousand dollars Of
the debt should be paid, tax Of 30 or 40
cents will be necessary. All voters should
remember that the adjourned school meeting
occurs next Tuesday evening.
Until our neighbor of the Detduer is
able 10 raise some issue other than the con-
temptible school-boyish one of calling names
and making faces, necessity will compel us to
give him a clear field. Not having been
raised in that kind of school we have never
learned the use Of such weapons. To all his
bad-tempered attempts at personal abuse our
last weeks paragraph on mud-throwing from
the ditch stands as q complete and sufficient
answer. In a somewhat extended experience
we have found a moderately weak infusion
OF annise seed or saffron blows TO be the sur
est and safest remedy in cases of infantle
gripes such as the unfortunate Defdmer youth
seems to be afflicted with.
"A mistake in our last weeks item
regarding the Rev E. w. Whitney's in
tended absence from home was evident
on the face Of it-next Sunday being the
ono 10 which we intended to refer. In
stead of the week OF rest and relaxation
which he expected TO enjoy, Mr.. Whitney
was summoned on Monday to the bedside Of
his elder brother, Rev. @. w. Whitney, who
had been seized with renewed attack of hem
orrhage of the lungsat his fathers residence in
Waltham, Mass. On Wednesday Mr.. Whit
ney returned home TO attend the funeral of
Mrs. G. N. Davenport, going Immediately back
N Walthaua Nvharo HE hrntbar IiaI an ha
following morning. The deceased had been
a successful member Of his profession, having
filed pastorates at Beverly and Quincy, Mass,
and Augusta, Me- Last summer he visited
his brother here, finding his health greatly
improved by the change, and was afterwards
able, for q short time, to take up his pastoral
work.
The grand list of Brattleboro is SS3, 7G5,
or only Sl,5l4.95 ahead of Rockingham,
though Brattleboro had last year population
OF 20S3 more than Rockingham. The real
estate valuation of Brattleboro is 81 ,S34.S5.
The real estate valuation Of Rockingham is
81, 25G, 545, or 1923, OGO ahead of Brattleboro,
Thus it will be seen we have already passed
Brattleboro, leaving her as an interesting and
valuable suburb of this "city," with Rutland
and Burlington as our only rivals in the state
--BelIOios Falls Times
This will do for youthful growing, but time
alone will tell, neighbor, whether your "mu-
nicipality" has gone into the real estate bust
ness on a basis which can be maintained from
year to year.
The twelfth annual meeting of the Yer
mont Baptist Sunday school convention,
which is to be held with the Baptist church
in this village on Wednesday and Thursday
of next week, promises to be an occasion of
unusual interest On Tuesday evening an
Introductory service will be held, when Rev.
G. b. Cow will give an address of welcome
and there will be responses by Rev. G. Hib-
bard Of Middlebury and G. b. Stout of New
Brunswick, N. j., the conductor of the con-
vention. In the exercises on the two follow
ing days Rev. G. E. Richardson of Rutland,
Rev. j. A. Johnston of Ludlow, Rev. E. G.
Taylor, ID. D., of Providence, r. l., with 9TH
or clergymen, and several laymen of note,
will take part. 1t is expected that Mr.. San
key will arrive on Wednesday afternoon 10
be present and take part in the proceedings
during the remainder of the session. On
Thursday afternoon d. L. Moody will be
present and deliver an address. The annual
meeting of the WindhAm County Baptist
Sunday school convention will be held in
conjunction with this state meeting. 1t is
earnestly hoped by the friends OF the cause
that all our people will embrace this oppor-
tunity to hear and learn concerning Sunday
school work
MISS sLAsoS's GLASS EXERCISE IN FRACTIONS.
1t has come TO be an open secret among
many of the friends of the Brattleboro schools
that some OF the visiting teachers, who lis
tened TO Miss Slason's class exercise in frac-
tons in the teachers convention last Saturday
afternoon, expressed an opinion that that ex-
ercise was ''put-up job" or something
liked up for the occasion"-in short, that a
set and pre-arranged list of questions was
given out to which the children had been
taught the answers. II is unfortunate that
any person, whether a visitor or otherwise,
should have been so ready to impute dishon.
esty and collision, not only to a faithful
teacher but to class of children who are at
an age when sincerity and disingenuousness
ought to be their prevailing traits To speak
in plain English, whatever else Brattleboro
school children are taught they are not
taught to be dishonest, and, even were their
teachers disposed to instruct them in that d.
rectlon their parents would not permit it to
be done. Miss Slasons exercise was indeed
remarkable for the instantaneous readiness
which her class displayed, but we speak from
personal knowledge when We say that moth
ing was shown in the convention but may be
seen in the Grammar school room on any day
when the school is in session. Miss Slason's
exercise was intended to show how perfectly
children may be made to understand oil the
principles in fractions and how quickly they
may be made TO perform operations involv-
ing those principles. II is true that in a year
of constant practice the class has been taught
many short cuts, and many OF the examples
given out on Saturday afternoon permitted
the use of such abridged operations IT, for
Instance, they are asked 10 multiply 81 by 81
they know, almost as readily as they know.
the simple multiplication table, that the
product is ~ 30, and so with any other num-
bers involving similar combinations. The
essential fact in the matter is, however, that
the class understand the principle involved
in the multiplication of fractions or mixed
numbers and can correctly multiply any such
number which may be given them. The
number may be such that the operation can.