Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-04-29


tainments on Wednesday, afternoon aud
evening. Their performances were all that
they are represented in point of genuneness,
novelty and interest
The trustees Of the Cemetery Associa-
ton desire to say to all persons who have not
deeds of their lots that deeds can now be pro-
cured Of VIM. S. Newton, and they request
all PARTIES to obtain them without delay.
The sad news has been received of the
death at her home in Bennington, early this
morning, of Mrs. Rebecca Crosby Pierce,
lady well known aud universally respected
and loved in this place. Mrs. Pierce was the
mother of little girl born on the 18th inst.
The Wilkinsons fully sustained their old.
time reputation in their presentation of East
Lynne" at Crosby hall on Thursday evening.
The cast is a strong one, and the company Ia
all respects, is one of the best which has Wis.
tied Bratlleboro during the season.
Rev. d. Z. Miller was in town on
Wednesday and Thursday, gathering up his
personal effects preparatory TO his removal to
Montpelier. Mr.. Millers Brattleboro friends
rejoice in the fact that his valuable services
are appreciated by the conference and that
he has been assigned to one Of the strongest
societies and most important posts in the
state.
AT the Grand Army camp fire held on
AhhAeaag NNNuluB VI AhaN Wtth, IttOueCttOnB
of the early part of the war were wildly
brought to mind by Major Wales, who read
extracts from the diary which he kept during
tue whole period. Another campfire is to
be held next Thursday evening, to which ev-
erybody is invited.
The Rev. Father Michaud of Burlington
oiiciaied at the Roman Catholic church last
Sunday and announced to the people that the
new priest, Rev. Father Cunningham, would
arrive here to begin his labors during the
present week. He will hold services at the
church next Sunday.
AT the installation Of officers Of Column
bian Lodge, +. a. A. NJ, on Tuesday even
ing, an able address was delivered by L. N.
Read, Esq, of Bellows Falls, Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of Vermont Messrs.
Markham and Taylor, Mrs. Davis and Mrs.
JENNIE furnished vocal music, and spread
was served by Cooper. The occasion was in
every way a most agreeable one.
Rev. A. b. Truax, who has been appoint
ed to the Methodist church in this place.
comes here from Bradford, where he has
done excellent service for the Methodist So
ciety, having secured extensive church re-
pairs and improvements. He will not be
here next Sunday, and il is uncertain wheth-
or preaching services will be held in the
Methodist church.
~ Il. luOupbOu q 20. nave taken the
sale of the Concentrated Food for stock nd
vertised in our columns This food is steadi-
ly increasing in public favor and bids fair to
become a staple article for farmers use. All
who have used il speak highly of it and come
for more. 1t Ii highly recommended and
Is Vouched 10 us as "a genuinely good thing
We hope all our farmers will give it trial.
Mr.. L. F. Wells, who is now located at
Glendive, Montana, with the engineer de-
partment of the Northern Pacific railroad,
Yellowstone Division, writes under date Of
April II Weather superb snow all gone,
. thermometer yesterday so. doubt il b.
could do as well" We think Brattleboro
could have just about matched those condi-
lions, temperature and all, last Sunday, lust
seven days later than the date which Mr..
Wells mentions.
The Colorado sheep raising firm Of which
Mr.. Sidney A. Miller, formerly of this viii
lage, is now u member, have discovered a
quarry Of excellent tagging stone on their
ranch and have taken up a claim covering
the deposit under the style of the Fort Col
Inns Flagstone Co. The Office of the compa.
ny is at 2733 10Th ST., Denver, Col. Mr..
Millers wife and son will join him in Colo
RADIO for permanent residence during the
summer or early fall.
"A hearing before commissioners on the
bank, F. A. Nash and A. J. Gleason, against
S. M. Waite's estate, was appointed for yes
terday at Fayetteville, bat neither side was
ready, and Waite's health having lately taken
a more unfavorable turn O postponement was
consented to. The regular May term of the
United States court begins at Windsor May
18th, when it is expected that Waite will ap-
pear for trial. His counsel, q. b. Eddy,
Esq, visited him for consultation on Thurs
day.
Last Saturday afternoon one of the tran
SONS on the narrow-gauge bridge at the mouth
of West river--the second one, we believe,
from the western abutment-cracked or split
when the down mixed train came over it, caus-
ing that end of the bridge to settle three or
four inches. Before the passenger train went
up, large, strong timbers were laid lengthwise
from the abutment across the weak place,
rendering the bridge entirely secure until per-
manent repairs can be made. 1t il proposed
to bolt stout oak timbers, one on each side of
each transom, the whole length of the bridge.
This bridge is said by experts to be the strong
est and best on the line and when thus
strengthened its security and permanence
will be doubly assured. On Monday and
Tuesday mornings of this week the train was
delayed by earth and rock slides at a place
which the train men call 'the dumplinRs,"
a mile or more beyond Jamaica, and was about
half an hour late into Brattleboro. Mr.. Sew
eranee, the regular passenger conductor, is
kept from duty by weak eyes, and is away for
few days TO recuperate. His place is sup
piled by Mr.. StOekWell, from st. Adams
Travel over the road continues good. The
needed work Of graveling is being pushed as
fast as possible
Mr.. Cows lecture, last Sunday evening,
on the manuscripts of the New Testament,
discussed chiefly the way in which the print
ed Greek text of the New Testament has been
formed. Three questions were asked: Have
we the original autograph manuscripts of the
writer's Of the New Testament? If not what
have We and How did we get it2 In an
swer to the first question ii was stated that
the sacred autographs" were all worn out
and lost during the first hundred years after
they were written, but that they were dill
gently and carefully copied and so scattered
through the Christian churches of the old
world. What we have, therefore, is thous-
ands of copied manuscripts and a printed
Greek Testament made up by carefully COM
pairing the manuscripts with one another,
with ancient versions and with the quota
tons from the early Christian Fathers. The
lecturer illustrated this general statement by
a rapid survey of the history of the manu-
scripts and the way in which scholars, espe-
cially during the last three hundred years.
have labored to reproduce, as perfectly as
possible from all sources, the original New
Testament scriptures. In conclusion he
pointed out that the method by which, in the
providence of God, the New Testament has