Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-01

There will be no service at the Unitarian
church next Sunday.
Rev. W. II. Collins and family will spend
a month at Wexford, II. 1.
Hon. Geo W. Hendee, bank examiner,
is in town this week on an official visit.
The Vermont National bank pays a semi
annual dividend Of per cent. and the Peo-
pies one Of ..
Mr.. and Mrs. @. W. wymau attended
the national temperance convention at Sara
toga last week.
Another of Miss Wilkins's illustrated
Mother Goose poems appears in the July
number of the st. Nicholas.
The publications of the American Book
Exchange will hereafter be furnished at New
York prices by Cheney Clapp.
We hear complaints that the bugs
are again making havoc with the grapes and
other small fruits, as was the case last year.
The Brattleboro nine are going TO Keene
on the Fourth to have a game of base ball
with the Keone nine for n purse of S25.
Some tantalizing evidences of DIR. Gales
skill in casting in fly and landing four-pound
trout have been received from him from
Moosehead this week
William Carney and John Mcclure of
this town have taken the contract of putting
up the telephone limo to Wilmington, and
they began the work yesterday.
DIR. j. L. Prescott, optician, is detained
at home by illness, but hopes to be in Brat
tleboro in two weeks, when he will be happy
to see all his friends and patrons.
The strawberry crop hereabouts, when
fully gathered, bids fair to be immense. Two
boxes for quarter, (in some cases three) the
current price, is the lowest ever reached in
Brattleboro.
-Childrens Sunday will be observed at the
Unversnlst church next Sunday. The morn
ing service will be devoted to the children,
and there will be Sunday school concert in
the evening.
Mr.. W. A. Bemis, who is painting the
Congregational church, has been engaged for
the past few days upon the steeple, and has
taken measurement of the same He re-
ports the height from the concrete walk TO
the top OF the wood work 15l feet, and the
total height 1863 feet.
Under an arrangement which began on
| Thursday morning a passenger train now
leaves Brattleboro at 6 o'clock A. NJ, and con-
| meets at Milers Falls with the Fitchburg &C
commodation from Greenfield which arrives
in Boston at 1915. This train will be great
convenience to Boston passengers from this
place.
-Brattleboro people are not behind the
/
comet, but up TO this time since its presence
| became known the heavens have been unpro-
| pitious and it has only been in some fortunate
| hour of clear sky, mostly in the "wee sma'
hours" of the morning. that a glimpse of it
has been obtained.
The Burlington Free Press, speaking of
Col j. j. Estey's recent promotion, truthfully
says: Lieutenant Colonel Estey has made
a most active aud efficient company officer,
always taking great interest in the National
Guard, and will faithfully aud cspsbly per-
form the duties incumbent upon him in his
promotion"
The degree of Doctor of Divinity has Just
been conferred on Rev. Geo b. Gov of this
place by Colby University, Waterville, Me.
Coming. as it does, from Mr.. Cows Alma
| Mater, in the town where he was born and
| where his childhood, youth and early man
hood were spent this honor has much more
than the usual value and significance.
Teachers who attended the recent meet
ing Of the Windham county teachers associ-
alton will be interested in this item from the
Observer of Keene, N H.. prof Bailey is
soon to spring new arithmetic upon the pub
lie, we are informed. 1t is said to be nearly
ready for the press, and a large number of
copies have already been sold in advance of
publication.
| j. ID. Plummer has the contract for the
construction Of the new passenger station en-
tire, and under him F. ii. Harris and o. H.
Butterfeld have the contract for the carpen-
ter work. The bricks have begun to arrive
from the Adams yards at Montague City,
Mass, and the work of laying the walls will
begin early this week. The contract contem-
plates the completion of the station during
the month of October.
-Four of our local bicyclists, Messrs. A.
u n A o,,A
Frank Bracket, rode to Greenfield last Sat
urday to attend Barnums show. They left
here at p. NJ. and reached Greenfield at Z,
making the trip of PC miles in three hours, or
one hour less than was made by the party
which went over the same ground last year.
Two of the party Messrs. Bracket and May,
returned by bicycle Sunday, the others pre-
ferring to come by rail. Mr.. Bracket. We
understand declares his ability to make the
distance to Greenfield on his rubber-shod
s!eed in two hours.
Mr. Geo f. Crowell is about to lay an
aqueduct to bring water from Pratt's hill for
the supply of his houses on Forest square,
and offers, with the assistance and coOpera-
ton of the bailifs, to lay a pipe around the
square with the necessary water supply and
hydrants for the protection of that portion OF
the village in case of fire. We understand
that the bailiffs are about to examine into the
feasibility of the project, which promises to
afford both an efficient and cheap solution Of
problem which, in view of the present lac /
of protection for that rapidly growing neigh
borhood, will soon have to be solved in on G
way or another
"A press despatch from White River june
ton indicates that the crops in the central
and northern part of the state, east of the
mountains, have been badly injured by cold
and dry weather. The despatch says that
''the rainfall has been so small that the water
in the Connecticut river has become very
low leaving thousands of the first drive
started by the Connecticut river lumber com
pany lodged on bars, islands and the banks
FOR more than fifty miles" With the abun
dant rains which have fallen in this section
throughout the season it seems strange tC
read of suffering from drouth less than hun
bred miles farther north. The river is get
ting very low at this point, but not for any
lack of rain in this vicinity.
Mr.. Joseph Steen, after a continuous
business career of fifty-on years in the bool
and stationery business, has sold out to Mr.
W. II. Geddis, who for the last seven year
has been in the bookstore of Cheney & Clapp
We understand that Mr.. Geddis intends t
associate with him Mr.. w. W. Neweomb
who is at present with A. B. Clapp a Co.
under the firm name of Goddis d Newcomb
Mr.. Stems retirement is oocasioned by tn,
growing infrmities of age, being now 81
The members of the new firm are young mel
of high standing in the community, and viii
have the best wishes of all in their new ven
= ture. The store will be closed for the pres
: emit for the purpose of making repairs aud i'm
provements.
5 The Burlington Free Press has the follow
r ing;
Col. George W. Hooker wanted the president to Sc
how Brattleboro kept the Sabbath. The telegram
explain themselves:
. | BRATTLEBoRo, W., June IS, 1881.
Col. 4. w. Rockwell Long Branch, n. D.!
shall meet the president at Wiliamstown and go
| ST. Adams with him. Then wish very much
have the president and party pass Sunday at Brattl'