Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-29

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BrattlebOrO.
A tame-bear show was one Of the street
attractions on Sunday evening.
Compliant is made of the roughness OF
Main street, especially since Mondays show
ers.
The village bailiTs advertise for propos-
| ais for the building Of sewer on Green
street.
The bicycle club are to have a inject
on Cemetery hill at $3.50 Saturday afternoon,
! TO contest for the club medals.
Capt Bond has appointed W. s. Under
wood sergeant and f. II. Brazor corporal to
! Gil vacancies in the Estey Guard.
DIR. and Mrs. Draper have taken passage
home on the steamer Circdssidn, which sails
on or about the first day of September.
A COW in Chesterfield belonging to W.
| +. Richardson Of this place, was killed by
lightning during one of the recent thunder
showers.
"A boy is reported to have died in Hins-
dale last Sunday from lockjaw, caused by
| running silver into one of his cheeks, with
subsequent neglect Of the injury.
"A hen belonging to Chas. Wood Of Cen
treville laid one of those curious double eggs
the other day, consisting of an ordinary sized
egg inside the white and shell Of n very large
| egg.
Every tenement in p. B. Franois's build
| ings is now rented-a thing which has never
| before happened and which indicates the
| brisk demand for tenements which now ex-
ists.
The Rev. L. W. Whitney spends the
first week Of his vacation at Londonderry,
where his father was born, and the remainder
at his fathers present home in Waltham
Mass.
On Wednesday of next week, Aug. 3,
the Odd Fellows of Brattleboro Keene and
Hinsdale will Join in basket picnic at Ches-
terrified lake. The BrattleborO military and
string bands will furnish music.
N. l. Hawley has bought in West DUN
merston the farm, crops and tools Of the Ash
ley w. Morse estate for $500, and has sold to
John G. Morse two building lots on Mcknight
street, Springfield, Mass, for 5000.
A rattlesnake was killed yesterday after
noon while crossing the highway at the foot
OF Chesterfield mountain, by party return
ing from the lake. He measured four feet in
length and sported twelve rattles.
Frank Moore and Everett Leach, late en-
gineers on the New London Northern rail-
road. started yesterday afternoon for Louis
Nevada. whittier they go in the employ Of
Prof W. s. Clark Of Amherst, Mass, to take
charge Of mining machinery.
An examination as to the cause of one or
two holes aud depressons appearing in the
Crosby block pavement. one day this week,
revealed several decaye1 posts or timbers
which had been set there ondwise as part of
the old Brattleboro House pavement.
A lady who ordered box Of bluing,
can Of Lima beans and a cake of compressed
81 loo, H. all 10
and got a box of blueberries, a can Of baked
beans and some green pease to fill the order
thought somebody lowed her ONE
-Bnttleboro Lodge No. 1902, F. and A. NJ,
was regularly instituted by past grand master
L. NJ. Reed Of Bellows Falls on wednesday
evening when the officers previously chosen
were regularly installed. The exercises were
supplemented by collation. furnished by
Cooper.
Tuesday evening, Aug. ., is the date
named for the annual fair aud festival of the
ladies of the Unitarian society. In addition
TO the supper and sale of fancy articles post
Office aud gypsy encampment will be among
the attractions, and the public will not be
disappointed in their usual expectation of a
pleasant occasion.
A large crowd was attracted TO Chester
field lake last Saturday. Three boats entered
for the three-mile race, Ed. Barrows and
Chas. Harris winning in 80 min. % sec. The
Apollo club had supper. sang in the pavilion
to the delight of the crowd, aud enjoyed their
excursion exceedingly.
The arguments in the Hinsdale bridge
hearing took place at Keene last Friday and
Saturday. Under the New Hampshire law
the commissioners will make up and file their
report for presentation at the October term Of
court for Cheshire county. Until the court
meets the decision will not be made known.
We learn that Harris Bros. q Co. have
Just taken a contract to build 50 miles of rail
road in Pennsylvania, running from Pitts
burgh southeast along the Youghiogheny riv-
err to Connellsville The contract is an i'm
portant one and calls for 4 large amount of
heavy work. Operations will begin at once.
Vermont is represented at the national
conference of charities and correction, now
in session at Boston, by Col. J. J. Estey of Brat.
tleboro, Warden Rice of the state prison and
Superintendent Fairbank of the state reform
school, who were appointed official delegates
by Governor Farnham. Col Estey went to
Boston yesterday afternoon to attend the con-
ference.
The toy pistols which are proving so dan
gerous in the hands of boys in various parts
of the country have been on sale in Brattle-
boro for some time, though, fortunately, with
out resulting in any serious mischief. Their
peculiar fatality is thought to be owing to
some ingredient in the powder of which the
blank cartridge" fired from them is compos-
ed This boy killer should not be confound-
ed with the harmless little mock pistol
which only explodes paper cap.
w. II. Alexander had green corn in the
market on the Goth, just nine days later than
last year, and concludes that that is about the
difference in the two seasons. Home grown
new potatoes are abundant and Of good quail
ity, retailing at 80 cents per peck. One gro
ceryman bought 40 bushels of u Dummerston
farmer at 81 per bushel Blueberries are
not over plenty and retail at 10 cents a quart
A pet canary belonging to Mrs Kittredge
Haskins managed to slip out of the house
Tuesday morning, and on Wednesday morn
ing knocked for admission at Mrs. Keith
Whites on High street, terribly sleepy, but
none the worse for days liberty, including
smart shower on the evening previous.
Later in the day he told his mistress that he
had seen enough Of the world and was glad
to get home.
We don't know that our Congregational
friends are any more Quakerish in their
tastes and instincts than other Christians, but
it is true, nevertheless, that the tidy new suit
of Quaker drab in which their church
edfice appears is eminently becoming to the
laulllaf sttucture ana wins universal approx
al as decided public improvement AS for
the town clock, its approval of the new order
of things fairly shines forth from its newly
gilded face.
The Montpelier papers announce that
Henry X. Field Of that place, son of the late
Chas. X. Field of Brattleboro, has accepted
the general agency of the New England Life
Insurance company for the Pacific slope.
His headquarters will be at San Francisco, to
which place he will remove about October
list. A large number of Brattleboro friends,
while regretting to have him leave New Eng