Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-18
Local Intelligence.


BROOKS a. IaylOf NuVerube DHlou nhy ior
sale this week.
Van Doom & Son are ready for the
spring trade See their advertisement.
Romans lecture at the Congregational
church next Sunday evening at o'clock.
The rehearsals OF the Choral Union have
been put over until September POD.
AT the Unitarian church next Sunday
evening the lecture will be on "'rho Edicts
and Character Of Constantine"
THE narrow gaugo carried 90 passengers
on its regular passenger train last Monday
the best days travel yet.
"A Willamsville correspondent mentions
the receipt of apricot, peach and almond
blossoms, picked in San Bernandino, CAL,
Feb. 27th.
Next Sunday evening Rev. E. W. Whit
ney will give the fifth of the series Of lectures
upon the Bible Subject GLOW to Study
the Bible"
The next lecture in the citizens course
will be delivered by Rev. E. W. Whitney on
Wednesday evening, March Esd. Subject
"a plea for the study of Nature"
My claim for FIVE weeks disability re-
suting from accident, has been satisfactorily
adjusted and paid by Cudworth & Childs as
agents of the Travellers Insurance Company.
L. A. WooD.
On Thursday evening of next week, the
Murray club will present "The Comrades" at
Crosby hall. The play is an attractive one,
is sure to be well rendered and will deserve
good house
The "Jollities' were better than ever on
Wednesday evening with their new scenery,
excellent singing, perfect acting and whole
some, rollicking fun. There was a good
house and the Grand Army boys realized
about $50.
"A special communication Of Brattleboro
Lodge, ~. d." will be held at Masonic hall
next Monday evening, March 2lst, at q
O'Clock. "work, 'F. c." degree. All Masons
in good standing are cordially invited. by
order Of the w. NJ. J. L. SIMoNDs, Sec'y.
j. j. Ray announces some specialties
this week His store is now, as always,
popular place in the hat, cap and furnishing
goods trade. We learn, by the way, that Mr..
Ray has dissolved partnership with G. w.
Smith in Boston and taken the whole bust
ness himself.
The 'lecture" given by Mr.. Geo. A.
Bliss on Tuesday evening, at the vestry of
the Baptist church, was quite a success Mr..
Bliss account of his recent visit to Wash
ington was decidedly amusing, and the audi
ence were treated to some very fine duets and
solos by Messrs. Maxham Taylor and Ran
kin.
Rev. Mr.. Cow will give a series of three
Sunday evening lectures at the Baptist church
80, H.. - - l.. MI a
on "Christ and the Canon of the Old Tesla
ment;" the second on "Christ and the Canon
or the New Testament !" the third on MAN
uscripts of the New Testament" The first
lecture will be given next Sunday evening at
o'clock.
Hon. b. d. Harris paid a flying visit to
town on Wednesday after an absence of sew
eral weeks, considerable portion Of which
was spent in travel in the West. Harris
Bros. Co. have taken contract to build 20
miles Of railroad in Illinois, work on which
will begin as soon as the season opens, aud
the whole of which is to be completed early
in the fall.
Several unknown correspondents are re-
minded this week that il their communica
tons, items of news, ETC., had been accom-
panied by n responsible name they would
have been published. II is probably very
wrong, but it is nevertheless true that the ay-
erage newspaper man cannot resist the pious
mental ejaculation, on opening an anonymous
communication, The Fools are not all dead
yet"
1t was welcome sound which the first
blueb;rds of the season made on their ap-
pearance last Saturday. On Thursday morn
ing the pioneer robin arrived and made be-
lieye that he wasn't bit dismayed by the
wintry landscape which he surveyed from the
topmoSt twig Of a lofty tree. The English
sparrows have come through the winter un-
harmed by the severe weather, and are as
noisy and sturdily belligerent as ever.
In Brattleboro good sleighing began the
first day of last December and continued,
without interruption, till the end of last week.
Some single seighs have been in the street
this week. but since Saturday and Monday ali
heavy teams have been on wheels. In the
hill towns good sleighing began with a six
inch fall of snow ON November 20, and in
most OF them runners are still the order of
the day.
Mr.. Augustus Wilder, who lives on Clark
street, was riding home from Main street on
passing team, last Saturday noon, and as
he jumped of at the South Main street cor
ner the horse sprang forward, giving his left
leg twist which broke both bones Just above
the ankle. Having been confined to his
house nearly all winter from sickness, this ac
cident comes with peculiar severity to Mr..
Wilder, but We learn that the prospect for
his recovery is now favorable.
Our enterprising machinist, Mr.. G. E.
Barrett, has just completed a Sc. OF paper
making machinery for large Now York man
ufacturer, which was made from entirely new
patterns, embodying increased weight and
strength. He is now at work on an order
from Michigan for l5-dryer paper mill,
which Will be the largest he has ever under
taken to build. He last season built three
mills which went to Holyoke, Mass, and one
which went to Canada. At the present time
orders are unusually brisk.
Mr.. Charles s. Frost of Wooster. Ohio.
who has just been on three weeks visit TO
his early home, remarked to us. on paving
his annual subscription, that the first money
he ever earned was $40 which he received
in lS47 as carrier boy for The PHRN1x.
This $40 he deposited in the Vermont Saw
lngs bank, 1t being the twelfth deposit made
IN that now time-hOnored institution. The
money has remained there undisturbed TO the
present time, amounting now to SS1. Pc
land, said Mr.. Frost, ~ wouldn't touch IL
for anything in the world"
j. L. Ray returned from Boston on
Thursday in excellent spirits and well ad-
vanced in his recovery from the severe surRi-
cal operations to which he has submitted at the
Massachusetts, general hospital, where he has
been for six weeks past. At the second of
these operations a piece of bone some two
inches in length was removed from the head
OF the uretha, and the mystery of a painful
difficulty from which he has long suffered
was thus solved. Mr.. Rays complete and
permanent recovery now seems assured-a
fact which many friends will be glad 10
know.
1t is reliably stated that on Tuesday of
this week the boy Tibbetts, who is in Fay
etteville jail charged with forging an order on