Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-02-04


statue representing the Mississippi river, and
a relieve Of the Washington monument OF
'The Surrender Of CORVALLIS. Among 9TH
or beautiful things is n marble copy-much
reduced-of the Snow Angel which appear
ed 10 the startled inhabitants OF Brattleboro,
VI. one New Years morning more than
twenty years ago, and awakened them TO
recognition of the genius they had unsus-
pectingly hnrbored."
There was a large attendance at the
special village meeting held on Monday aft
ernoon. Immediately after the reading OF
the warrant, W. II. Alexander moved the ad-
iournment Of the meeting sine die. This mo-
ton the chairman, r. W. Clarke, declared to
be not debaiable, ruling 10 which Gen. w.
w. Lynde took exception on the ground that
while an ordinary motion to adjourn Is not
debatable the one under consideration mus
be debatable. because, If carried. II would
dispose Of the whole matter for which the
meeting was called and, still further, be
cause, in a Legislative body, motion to ad-
journ does not prejudice the matter under
consideration, but simply carries 1t over TO
another day The chairman adhered TO his
ruling, however, and put the motion to vote
The vote was by ballot, and resulted, nays
1876. yeas 1856, and the motion was lost b.
D. Harris then moved the adoption OF the
village charter amendments with the proviso
that the vote be by ballot aud the polls re-
main open for one hour. This vote resulted,
nays 500, yeas 223, and the adoption Of the
amendments was therefore defeated.
The past week bears of the palm, thus
far, for intense cold and delay to railroad and
other travel. During almost the whole week
the wind has blown steadily, piling up the
/ Al. nrI fha TINA hHipu
entirely stopping travel, while on the low
| lands also the roads have been blocked and
railroad trains have been seriously delayed.
Last Friday, for the first time this year, the
Wilmington stage was unable TO get beyond
Marlboro, and this week the Jacksonville
stage has been compelled 10 miss one trip.
So severe and trying q time for railroading
| has rarely been known. and the delay Of the
| mails for an hour or two upward has come to
be expected as a regular thing. On Tuesday
night the owl train was blocked three times
| bv snow drifts between Millers Falls and
Brattleboro and the train men were each time
compelled to shovel out before the train could
proceed. On the same night this train was
from midnight to O'Clock A. NJ, getting
| from this place TO Bellows Falls. On Thurs
day night Mr.. Brooks, the Brattleboro sta
| ton agent, received word from New London
that all Sound navigation was closed for the
present and that all of the boat lines had is
| sued orders forbidding the reception Of any
freight for transportation.
in the second lecture Of his series on the
English Bible, given last Sunday evening,
Rev. Mr. Martin began with the COverdhle
version of the Scriptures, that being the next
to follow John TyndRle's celebrated version,
and from that point the several translRtions
| were traced down 10 that of King James the
| one now in general use-the discourse clear
ly and admirably illustrating the fact that the
| King James version is a revision Of a reyis-
| ion, or, to speak in more general terms, it is
a correction, revision and gathering up OF all
that is good in all former versions. The lee
ture next Sunday evening, which, in reality,
| will be the essential one OF the series, viii be
entirely critical, and will aim 10 show the ne
cessity for and the Rdvisability of q revision
of our present version, for the main reason
that the progress Of 800 years in scholarship
| demands il. Some salient texts which are
wrong in the present version will be instanoed
| as showing the line Of corrections to be fol
lowed, and the discourse will also show that
the men and the means are ready now for a
revision as they have never been before. A
suggestion is made with regard to the posi-
BILE publication of this series of lectures which
we think Mr.. Martins society would do well
to act favorably upon.
The Chicago Times of Jan. rs contains
the following notice of the late George Z.
Salisbury, son of George II. Salisbury OF
this village
George 4. Salisbury, q member of the
| theatrical profession, died on the 9th inst
in this city, at the age of -, after an illness
of few days of brain fever. The deceased
was of and on the stage for over twenty
/ years, commencing professionally under the
management of the late Mr.. Z. L. Daven-
| port, when he Yves manager in Savannah, as
sociating with his merry nRmesake, Old
Salisbury and Dolly Davenport In 1870
he was stage manager for W. H. Smith of
/ the AlhambrR, San Francisco. Subsequent
| ly be AlternRted as manager and advance
agent Of different combinations. At one
time he was manager of the Olympic, in
Brooklyn, and afterward of BaDvard's Broad.
way theatre, New York, previous to it, trans
formation into Days. He was an active aud
enterprising man, and as an expert in book
keeping he was in the service of several of
the leading business houses in the country
| He leaves a father, mother and sister in Brat
tleboro VT, TO mourn his loss"
The following is the list of letters remain
ing in the Brattleboro post Office, Feb. A:
LAdies-Mrs. Louisa Armstrong, Sarah A. brooks
Miss Enc Chapman, Mrs. c. P. Dewitt, Mary DeYine
Mrs.. Adaune S. Eatsrbrooks Miss Hannah Fustaee
Mrs Julia FArr, Clarie L. Gibson Miss Cora Haskips
Kate c. Hall Miss Lueretia Kinsley, Miss Hattie Lew
/ ls, Mrs. Welie IAng-2 Mrs. Emeline Miner, Rhoda
Pike, Miss Aiona Sanford, Miss l. H. streeter.
| Gents-LeNis Atwood, John +. Butterneld, Wilder
/ s. Buhum, A. ChAbot, Chas NJ. ComstOck, Chas. p.
Cooke Thos J. Colby, DR.. ". L. Dunton, G. A. Green
leaf G. n. Goodenough, John Grimm. Walter Goode
Fred Howe, Herbert Hastings obed Haildsy' r,
i Howard, saml o. Haskell, VIM. G. Horton VIM Har.
RS, Thos Lewis, T. K. Miller, James MeIinder, Jas.
Monroe, Srm1 Mcclure, N. Maurice, W. d. Monroe
i H. A. Parker, N. n. Pierce, Adam Roder, Pat Ryan,
Alpheus Stewart, Arad stoekvell. c. II. shAttnck
C. H. Smith, G. Z. Smith, j. W. shAttuck, Peter Sui.
van, W, d. stearns, W. l. Stewart Fred A. Thrower
samuel - Thomas, A. A. whitman, ChAs. Worden,
| Wayiand W. whitney, W. Z. Winch.
| Held for Postage-D. Stone, No. Dana, Mass.
JUDGE BARRErr's OPINION ON THE QUESTION OF
THE VILLAGE CHARTER ANIENDMENTs
We last week referred to the opinion,
given by an eminent jurist, on the question
of the adoption of the village charter amend
ments, after they had once been voted on.
The gentleman referred to was Judge Barrett
and his opinion was given in answer to the
following questions propounded to him by
Il. w. Clarke, chairman of the board Of
bailifIs;
ls'. Can these amendments come up legal
| ly for further action thereon
I'd. If yes, how would acceptance now af-
feet the board of officers lately elected
Would they hold Office for the year for which
they were chosen, or would acceptance of the
act OF itself displRce the new board and re-
yive the board chosen in 1879, and continue
them in office till March I'd, 1872
In the letter accompanying these questions
1t was not stated that there was any delay in
holding the recent annual meeting, and
Judge Barrett writes under the impression
that the meeting was held at the time spsei-
ned in the charter. This fact, however, does
not affect the bearing of his letter in reply,
which was as follows:
JUDGE BARRErTs LETTER.
WOODSTOCK, Jan. p, 1881.
Dear Sir II answer: The act is not law
TIL accepted. 1t was not and had not been
accepted on the first Monday of Dec, 1880 .
so the law as it had been WINS moi chen.oa5 h.,