Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28

about It's attack on Dea. Ware.
There will be no service at the Unitarian
church next Sunday evening.
-"Hhe Work of Life" is the subject of
Rev. L. W. Whitney's lecture to young PEG.
pie next Sunday night
Tho sale Of seats for the Wilhelm con-
cert this evening has been almost unprece-
IDENTIFY large. The hall will be filed with an
appreciative audience from this and adioin.
ing towns.
The Valley engine Westminster lost
drive wheel on Tuesday afternoon, while pull
ing a freight train of siding under the
bank, and has been sent to the repair shops
at Springfield,
The dissolution of the well-known cloth
ing firm of Pratt, Wright a Co. is announced
in our advertising columns to-day. The
business is to be continued by o. D. Ester
brook aud f. Il. Pratt.
-THE PHOENIX Sin one day last week"
took 4O7 new subscribers in one small school
dstrict-411 of them from the Deflmer.
These figures have been ''rcnd by copy" and
are warranted correct.
George Salisbury has received the sad
intellige nee of the death Of his son, George
II. Salisbury, who died at Chicago Thursday
morning of brain fever. His body is to be
brought here for interment.
The annual encampment of the Grand
Army, Department of Vermont, will be held in
Brattleboro, beginning Thursday, Feb. -.
The Department Commanders general order,
giving full information, is published else
where.
We notice that Mr. Crowell of the House
hold renews his novel offer of years sub
cription to his excellent paper free to every
newly married couple whose address and 10
cents to pay for postage, is sent to him with
in one year from the date of their marriage.
All Master Masons in good standing are
cordially invited to attend the regular COM
munication of ''Brattleboro Lodge, U. D. :"
at Masonic hall next Monday evening, Jan.
3lst, at y o'clock sharp. By order W. NJ.
J. L. SMoNDs, Secretary.
The Greenfield Gazette Of this week
says at is asserted that the New Haven
and Northampton company will push ahead
with their northern extension of the Turner's
Falls branch, crossing the Connecticut near
the Keith mill. and follow up Fall river TO
Bernardston and thence to Brattleboro."
I. N. Choynski the antiquarian book.
seller Of San Francisco, Cal, has ordered
1000 copies of the school reader Good Be
hAvior," published by Cheney & Clapp of
this village. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson the
great philanthropist of New York, has like
wise ordered some 1900 copies for the South
j. A Church has recently put a run of
the most approved pattern of French burr
mill stones into his shop on Flat street, with
which he is grinding from $50 TO $50 bush
els of corn and feed per day. In the present
low state Of water i'll the streams customers
from a wide circuit are finding the mill a
great convenience.
A case of Edward Edwards of this place
vs.. Charles Hale OF Marlboro, was heard be.
fore Judge Tyler on Wednesday afternoon,
the action being to recover payment for re-
pairs on a wagon two years or more ago The
plaintiff recovered in the sum Of SIS. 12 and
costs.
The mixed train over the Brattleboro &
Whitehall railroad will be discontinued this
afternoon, and in its place special passenger
train, for the accommodation of persons wish
ing to attend tho Wilhelm concert, will leave
Brattleboro at j:45. Returning, it will leave
Brattleboro at 1890. A company Of ~ to
100 people are expected by this train.
The business of the Brattleboro g. White
hall road holds steadily up to the average
heretofore reported. Fifteen car loads of
freight have been brought down thus far this
week, and were it not for the low state Of the
water in the streams the freight traffic would
be largely increased. Bondville (WinhalD
manufacturers say that in an experience of 80
years, the present is the first winter when
there has not been sufficient water to run their
mills on full time.
A very wide circle of friends have found
it pleasant thing to see Rev. NJ. II. Harris
of Worcester, Mass, in town for two or three
days Of the present week Mr. Harris is in
excellent health and spirits, and reports his
large parish in Worcester in a prosperous
condition, and that both he and Mrs. Harris
find cordial and united support in their work
from all the people of their charge.
1t is with sincere regret that the com
munity have learned that Mr. Otis Atwa-
ter is suffering from a sudden attack of
mental mRlady which necessitated his return
home last Friday. Although his case at pres
ent assumes very acute and severe form,
the Asylum physicians hope for his recovery
in due time. OF late years Mr.. Atwater has
made the science Of chemistry his special
and chosen branch OF study, and within
few months past had taken & position in a
private laboratory in Cambridge, Mass.
What virtue it was in Charles, to be
sure, to leave his full report of the Brattle-
boro village meeting out of the greater part
of his papers, fortnight ago, because, in his
usual laundering, slip-shod way, he failed to
get it ready in season TO run it through his
whole edition 1t costs a few cents extra, "
and takes good many more brains, to do
everything promptly and squarely on time,
but that is what The PHGNIx generally con-
trives to do, all the same.
Mr.. j. H. Dunklee, for ten years past
head clerk and salesman at o. j. Pratt's,
closes his engagement with Mr.. Pratt at the
end of the present month, and will go to st.
Louis to attend to certain matters OF private
business, with possibility Of remaining there
permanently. His family will remain at West
Brattleboro for the present Mr. Dunklee is
fayorably known to the whole community for
his business ability and courteous and gentle
manly manner, and is one of the young men
whom we regret to lose.
We are glad to know that our pity for
that Guilford Republicans wife and children,
on account of his Defdnler-owl trade was I'M
called for. 1t seems that this man, with
wise regard for the morals of his family,
would not have the Detamer in his house,
and therefore sold his subscription for dol
lar and then gave away the dollar, after the
fashion of a certain other sensible man, who
snapped his balky horse for a ''yaller" dog
and then killed the dog. What is still worse
for Charles the owl couldn't endure his COM
pany, and took the earliest opportunity to
dive through pane of glass and seek some
secluded place in which to recover his moral
tone. The loss TO the editorial staff of the
DJdmer is irreparable.
1t is with pleasure that we learn of the
present favorable condition of Postmaster
Mansur's health At no time during his ILL
ness has there been better promise of his ulti-
mate recovery, and his physicians encourage
him to hope that, with the coming OF mode
rate weather, he may safely venture out
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