The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-01-28

Local Notes and Goss,n.

The telegraph wire along the narrow
gauge is now all strung t. Londonderry.
Thlt mild spell' which Vennor pre-.
dicted about these days doesn't seem to
put III AN appearance. Yankee guessing
could beat him.
Rev. NJ III. Harris spent several DAYS
in town this week.
Rtv, f. W. Whitney lecturtd at Lud-
low Tuesdaj evening.
An inqnlsitive fellow counted Just 800
| thank you marms" in the roal between
here and Marlboro Tuesday
Mrs +. q. Howe will be the contralto
sJloist at the fur days musical conven-
lion at South Royaltun next week. The
other soloists come from Boston.
"The Work of Life" is the subject of
Rev. Il. W. Whiney's lecture to young
people next Sunday night,
The RRFORMER office did once have an
owl. But II took wing atd few away"
just one week before the Ph9nir an
nounced its arrival However the old
gal did remarkably well this time. She
is generally anywhere from one TO three
IN nlhs, instead of Il week. behind time
with her news.
The lectures of the citizens course
have thus far avera. Ell to be more in
structive and thoughtful than those of
any bureau COURSE" which cost 500 or
$500 night There have been only one
or two TINS winter or last, to which any
man however we'll read might not profit
ably listen. Why will not the people
turn out?
Last week a IVA ch-chain" swindler
played it on merchant at Wnooski,
and on Saturday the SwiHdler, who gave
his name as james Mead, was arrested
i'll Rutland and brought tn Burlington
and lodged in Jail under 5000 bonds. Is
he the same one who victimized the
Bellows Falls jeweller?
AT the annual meeting of the Connec-
ticut River railroad corporation, held last
week, the old board of officers was chos-
en-, with the exception of Silas NJ Waite.
whose place was filled By The election of
Hon. Frederick Billings of Woodstock.
Miss A,ldie Reed sailed this week to
take position for three years in Young
ladies' seminary at Grafreine, South
Africa. She will make brief stops at
London AMI Edinburgh on her way
]. N. Choynski, the antiquarian book
seller OF San Francisco, Cal, has ordered
1000 copies of the school reader, "Good
Behaviour, pub ished by Cheney & Clapp
of this village. Mrs. Elizabeth Thamp-
son, the New York phi 'lanthropist, like
wise orders some 200 copies for the
South.
ga meeting of the creditors of L. H.
Wilcox, bankrupt, is being held in Judge
Tyler's office to-day. There seems to be
a controversy over the validity of chat
tel mortgage executed by the debtor a
short time before he was petitioned mo
in olvrncy, to Jedediah Stark
The rumor current that Mrs. E. N.
Johnson, VINO was taken to the asylum re.
Gently, had been released, the authorities
her entirely sane, is untrue
She is still there, and Dr. Draper says she
is unquestionably crazy, whether the jea-
busy that drove her so is justified or not
One matter the new board of BALL ifs
should not NEGLECT. Maj. Wales last
summer loaned the narrow gauge people
4nite quantity Of hose from the fire de-
Dartmsnt. Instead of returning it Gin
'ew days." as agreed, it WIS kept outdoors
or several weeks aud then not properly
cared for when returned. There is no
question that it is somewhat damaged,
hough how much it is impossible to de-
ermine in the present ug y state of feel
ny. Whatever is fair and right the riil
Dad folks should be compelled to pay,
md no more delay nor trifling should be
allowed.
The receipts of the BrattIeboro post
,ffice during 1880 were SHOP, Of which
1888 was for 226,36 stamps, $22S3 for
5000 envelopes, and 1920 or $4,000 pos
al cards. Paid out on 54O3 money or
lers 500, 79S, 81 and received 800, 153, 80 on
94l orders issued. Registered letters
handled 1928 Ito 6142 in 1879 IF which
lumber 3437 were delivered here, 5Sl
more than the previous year Taking
he m Ill count of the week ending Dec.
tn, as basis, 942,S6i letters and cards
,assed tn rough The office during the year,
f which 3l4,1S4 originated here. This
) the distributing point for the mail of
4 offices in this and adjoining counties,
4 pouches and from to u paper sacks
eng dispatched, aud % pouches and s
acks received daily.
The following csores were made Satur-
law by members of the Short Range
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