Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-04-22

evening Of next week.
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The listers are making excellent progress
with their work and will be ready to lodge
ther list with the town clerk next Monday,
according to the provision of the statute.
The regular quarterly meeting Of Wind
ham County Pomona Grange will be held in
Grand Army hall in this village on Thursday,
2Sth inst, beginning at 10 o'clock A. N.
Columbian Lodge No, Sc, F. & A. NJ,
viii hold q public installation of officers at
their hall on Tuesday evening, April 20, at
1880. All master Masons are invited with Ia
dies.
MIR. Cow will give the third lecture OF
his course on the authority of the Bible, next
Sunday evening, at the Baptist church at 3
o'clock. Subject. ''The Manuscripts of the
New Testament"
The installation of officers of Beauseapt
Commandery and Fort Drummer Chapter will
take place at their hall on Thursday evening
of next week. All master Masons in good
and regular standing are invited.
Isaac Cutters horse was SO badly fright
ened by the cars, last Friday, while near the
depot, that it ran into passing freight train
and was so badly injured that it had TO be
killed. His loss has since been mostly made
up to him by subscription.
The last in the series of meetings of the
Murray club was held Wednesday evening
at the house Of Hon. Farley Starr With
vocal and instrumental music, Rotations.
charades, plays and general sociability the
evening was rendered one of the most enjoy
able of the season.
--Afre was started on the mountain opposite
this village, Sunday afternoon, which spread
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alarm for the safety for the house Of Andrew
Thomas, located on the Hinsdale road but
fortunately it burned itself out by evening
without other damage than the destruction of
the young growth.
The many friends Of Rev. John Hol-
brook will be pleased to know that he will
preach next Sunday morning at the Congre-
gational church, on a theme which by extern
sive personal knowledge and habits of long
and close observation, he is well fitted to
treat, viz, the extent and progress Of the
United States, together with the need of sus.
tanning home missions as a most important
factor in making our national progress q
healthy one.
A McIndoes despatch announces that the
Connecticut river lumber company's gang of
men begun operations on Tuesday at 15-mile
falls on the seasons log drive. The company
will drive S0,O0O,OO0 feet Of logs down the
river this year, quantity larger by 20, OO0,-
900 feet than ever before. One thousand
men are employed, all told, and the compa-
ny's daily expenditure is said TO exceed 50, COO.
With good pitch Of water it will take from
80 to 100 days to put the lumber into the
booms at Holyoke, Mass, and Hartford,
Conn, where it is to be delivered
The ever popular wilkinsons will appear
at Crosby opera hall on Thursday evening,
April 2sth, presenting the great society play
of East Lynne, in which they have achieved
success second only to their Uncle Toms
Cabin. The Whitehall Times, speaking of
their performance in that place, says: "We
can recommend the company as one Of the
best that ever visited this place. The char
acterization by Miss Wiki nson was the best
piece OF pathetic acting we ever witnessed in
our village. 1t only needed a look around
the audience TO see the power of the actress.
She was well sustained by every lady and
gentleman on the stage" Tickets at Green's
drug store.
The new uniforms for the Brattleboro
military band have been ordered and, with
full ranks, the organization is settling down
to regular rehearsals for the season. II. NJ
Wheelock an excellent musician, formerly of
Gardner, Mass, where he was a member of
the brass band and Burt's orchestra has been
persuaded to come here, and plays a b-fat
bass horn. A new alto horn has also been
bought, a double b-fat (helicon) bass will
soon be substituted for one of the b-fats, and
an effort will be made to secure an e-hat
cornet player from Coleraine as permanent
member. The band will number 20 or 81
pieces this season, and was never in better
condition than at present
The new Methodist church was crowded
to its utmost capacity last Monday evening,
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trance, on the occasion Of the preaching SER
vice by Bishop Andrews of Washington, d.
@. The Presiding Elder was present and as
sisted in the services. Before the sermon
Mr. Spencer briefly congratulated the society
on the completion of its new house OF wor-
ship and submitted financial statement
showing the total cost of the church TO have
been $15, 25s. Sc. The total Indebtedness is
$2173-a sum which is fully covered by valid
subscriptions not yet due. The sermon by
the Bishop was from the text "God is q
spirit" and was an able and eloquent effort,
closely listened to during the full hour which
its delivery occupied.
The entertainments to be given by CON-
pany of native Palestine Arabs at Crosby op-
era hall, on Wednesday afternoon and even
ing next, promise to combine novelty and in
struction in an unusual degree. The compa-
ny includes Bedouin chief, Christian Arabs
from Jerusalem, a Jewess, and veritable
whirling Dervish from Bagdad, whose per-
formances, the Ohristion Union tells us, are
OF the most remarkable character. The Rev.
Edward E. Hale of Boston speaks of the ex-
hibition as very instructive and entertaining,
and illustrating so many of the customs of
the East that it has a special claim on all stu
dents Of the history of the Bible. All the
children ought to attend the matinee and
the price of tickets is so low that few need
be kept away on account of the expense.
Geo. b. Smith, brother of j. w. Smith
of this village, and locomotive engineer on
the California and Oregon division of the
Central Pacific railroad was instantly killed
by an accident on that road on Saturday
night, 10th inst. Mr.. Smiths train ran upon
a long trestle-work near Redding, CAL, which
had been undermined-by a cloud-burst, and,
the trestle-work giving way, the engine and
three cars were thrown TO the bottom of the
gulch, killing both Mr.. Smith and his fire.
man. Mr. Smith was aged about 40 and was
unmarried. He was a native of Putney and
in his boyhood and youth lived in Brattle.
boro. Another brother, Benjamin Smith, is
travelling foreman of locomotives for the Cen
trail Pacific company.
The new liquor agency established by
the selectmen is to be located In room No. 8,
town hall building, formerly occupied by the
Northeastern Life Association, and will be in
charge of Mr.. Aurelius Pettee. This we re-
gard as good move on the part of
the selectmen, There is strong demand for
an agency Of the right stamp, aud Mr. Pettee
is just the man to have charge of it. The
agency will be opened as soon as the appoint
ment reaches him, which will probably be
to-day, The liquors. already procured, are
of the best grade, and Mr. Pettee may be
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