Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-02-03

ed for. A note received from the physician
in charge says the patient is doing well and
will be out in few days. Vaccination a
working in his wife aud two children, and the
doctor hopes they may escape the infection.
For the benefit OF abnormaly nervous peops
il may be well TO say that Mr. Kimbal dd
not visit or see his son while in Greenfield
finding that the authorities had done all that
was necessary.
A recent letter from Mr.. Arthur p. Starr
cashier Of the First National bank Of Tans
City, Ia, TO his father, Hon. Farley Starr Of
this place, mentions the interesting and some
what curious fact that the Tama City bank
not long ago received S22, 900, oil in silver
dollars, of government funds to pay the AL
lowances of a tribe of Indians who have res
ervation near Tama City. The silver was
shipped in stout kegs, and drawn to the bank
on a dray and rolled in. Three days were &C.
cupied in paying it out and Of the whole
amount only $500 was left on deposit Tbe
stove-ld dollars are the favorito money with
the Indians, and, in fact are the only kind
which they are willing to take.
On Friday evening of next week theR
H. Stoughton Grand Army post of Bellows
Falls will give the entertaining war drama
Enlisted for the War" at the town hall
The company who are to make the prcsenta
ton have given the play three times in Bel.
lows Falls and each time with hattering sue
cess. farce, 1.-The Saturday Night Shave
will conclude the entertainment. The Brat.
tleboro post will pay the expenses of the pre-
sentation and the net proceeds will be dyi.
ded between the two organizations and ap.
piled TO their respective charity funds. Our
Sedgwick post have made no call on the pub.
lie for aid this year, aud we trust that on this
occasion they aud their Bellows Falls breth.
xyiil the inf vvbf
they well deserve.
Tuesday nights snow storm completely
blockaded the Connecticut River and New
London Northern railroads. The night e1.
press on the River road due in Bfattleboro at
1910, was stalled at Smiths Ferry and did not
reach here until 7:30 Wednesday morning.
On the New London road the freight due
here at 10 P. NJ. was blocked in below Belch.
ertown and the passenger train was stalled
behind it. All night was spent in getting the
trains out, and the passenger train due here
at 1910, with the River train, was discontin-
ued at Amherst At A. NJ Wednesday
morning, Mr.. Brooks sent snow pillow down
to Amherst, mseting the pillow and trains
from below at that place. Wednesday morn
ing's mail train was some two hours late
Brattleboro was nearly on the upper edge Of
the storm, the snowfall here being not more
than six inches. At Bellows Falls it was less
and at Windsor and Rutland it was nothing.
We learn that yesterday the papers were
executed aud the funds passed over, complet-
ing the sale of Black Mountain granite quarry
in Dummerston to Geo. f Lyon Of Mortified.
II. 4. Bodwell, representing Bodwell, Allen Il
Bodwell. the late owners of the quarry met
Mr.. Lyon at the Brooks House in tue morn
ing to complete the sale, and in the afternoon
both gentlemen went to Greenfield, where the
final transactions were to be completed. 1t is
understood that the price paid by Mr.. Lyon
was not far from $4,000. 1t is his intention
TO begin working the quarry as soon as the
season will permit-probably about April lst
1t will be qualification to all Brattleboro peo-
pie to see operations begun there and the very
unusual facilities afforded by the narrow-gauge
road utilized
1t does seem little funny that schools
should have been broken up in Dover because
there were two or three mild cases of small
pox in Guilford, and a teacher in the Algiers
school was vaccinated, went home, and was
made i'll by it for a few days. But it is no
more ridiculous, when you think of it, than
that certain Brattleboro people should be
afraid of a man who was called to Greenfield
to look after the welfare of son who was
taken with small-pox in a mild form, but
whom he did not go within a mile Of Be
about your business like men and women.
And remember while you are about it, that
it would look vastly better for you to die de-
Gently with small pox than to be consumed
with q silly and morbid fright about danger
that does not exist.
Our attention has been called this week
TO the following announcement, which sp-
peared in the Michigan press dispatches a
month ago.
DETROIT, Dec. 27.-w. s. George, editor of the
lansing Republican and the head Of the state printing
firm for the last Is years. died this morning Heeame
To this state some 20 years ago. from Massachusetts
aud was Identified with the Detroit Tribune until his
removal to lansing. He of the best news
paper men in the West. His age S. and he was
worn out with ineessant devotion to bustn
Twenty-Five years or more ago Mr.. George
was printer in Brattleboro, and was foreman
in The PHGSIx Office at the time the paper
was owned and managed by VIM. E. Ryther
From Brattleboro he went to North Adams
Mass, to take charge of newspaper, and
from there, if we mistake not, he went West
to become, as above stated, one of the lead
ing newspaper mon in that section.
The narrow gauge freight business is
looking up in way which begins to test the
rolling-stock of the road to its full capacity.
In the past three days 30 cars of freight have
been brought down, and last nights freight
train was the heaviest yet brought in, con-
ssting of IL cars loaded with chair stock,
lumber, poplar logs, etc, while three cars of
chair stock were left at Jamaica for another
day on account of the unusual weight of the
train. The amount of narrow. gauge freight
received at the Drattleboro station in Janua-
ry was $50 tons, an increase of more than $50
tons over the month of January, 1881, and
the prospect is that still greater amount will
be received this month, aud that business will
continue good during the whole of the sea-
son. At all the mills up the line large amounts
of logs are being drawn in to be sawed and
shipped as chair stock, lumber, etc. The
shipments from the mill at Pratt's bridge,
above Jamaica, are expected to amount to at
least ., 600, 600 feet
Some excitement has been caused on
Walnut street, this morning, by the announce
ment of an attempted burglary and shooting
which took place last night at the house near
the edge of the bank, where VIM. Guild
formerly lived and now occupied by Mrs.
Mendon and her son and daughter. 1t APP
pears that for two or three nights there had
been evidence that some one had been at
work on the lock of the back door with q
wire, and last night a window in range of the
door was left partly raised and watch was
kept by the boy Henry, aged 10. Almost
midnight the would be burglar made his APP
pearance and resumed his work on the door.
The boy pulled the trigger of pistol on him,
but by mistake the weapon was only half
cooked and was not discharged The noise
of cooking the pistol alarmed the man and he
ran and disappeared over the hedge and
down the bank. The boy fred just as he
leaped the hedge, and from the way he
threw up one arm, thinks he hit him. Tracks
in the snow down the bank this morning in
dictate that man has been down there in a
hurry.
While our merchants are counting up the
results of last years business and making
ready for the trade of another season, per-
haps they may like to know what sort of
goods Brattleboro dealers of so years ago
were offering their customers. An advertise
ment in VIM. Fessenden's Reporter of Aug.
%, 1903, tells the story, and here it is gerbd-