Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-13

1t is pleasant to see Admiral Greene on
the street once more.
The Brooks House balcony is being fresh
ened and improved with a coat of paint
--Chas Van Doom has bought the Miles
place, on Main street, Greenfield, for Sj2lS.
Mr. and Mrs John L. Hall and Mr. G.
M. O. Richardson returned from Colorado on
Thursday.
Ray the clothier, announces a larger and
better stock of gents underwear than ever
before offered.
Geo w. Clark has bought the remainder
of the Wlliston property ON Spring street,
including the blacksmith shop, for $3.50.
Lovers Of art will be interested in the
collection of steel engravings and etchings
now on exhibition at Cheney q Clapp's.
The members of Sedgwick Post, G.. A. Il.
will hold a campfire at their hall on Tuesday
evening next, to which they invite all old
soldiers and their families.
MIR. Geo. L. Selleck and daughter arrived
home from the West last evening. Ticket
agent Eddy and his wife have also returned
from their western trip.
The business of the telegraph Office now
requires the services Of two day operators.
Mr.. Bardwell is assisted by young man
from Boston named Barrett.
Mr. H. NJ Burt, formerly proprietor of
tie Vermont Record has bought the Newton
Mass Republican, which, under the name
of the Newton Graphic, he is now conducting
with his son, Frank H. Burt.
H. w. Walker, for several years in the
freight office, has resigned his place and will
presently go, with his wife, on visit to
Kearney, Neb., to try the effect of the climate
on his health, and with a view to permanent
residence. Mr. Walker is succeeded by Chas
W. Lyman as way bill clerk.
Mrs. Henry Van Kleeck of Poncha
Springs Col, is now in town on her annual
visit to her parents, Col. and Mrs. f. Good
hue. We are glad to know that Colorado
ranch life is proving bonanza" of health
(and of wealth, we hope) to both Mr.. and
Mrs. Van Kleeck.
Another lot of machinery for the Highly
sewing machine company arrived yesterday,
and more is expected soon. The work OF
tool making is in a satisfactory state of prog
ress, and it is the intention Of the company
to have some OF the machines on the market
before the first of January.
Next Wednesday evening, 18th inst,
Rev, S. NJ. Crothers will be formally installed
as minister of the Unitarian church. Prof
F. G. Peabody Of Cambridge, Mass, will
give the sermon, and other clergymen from
abroad will have part in the exercises. The
services will begin at 1880. The invitation to
attend is general.
A finer product of woman's handicraft
than is often seen at the fairs, is an afghan
crotcheted in worsted by Miss Jennie Fisher
for an uncle in Boston. The design is a cen
trail stripe made up OF roses in natural shades
of red with alternate stripes of coral and
Greek patterns on either side. The colors
being bright and artistically arranged the
whole effect is very beautiful.
The lecture delivered Monday evening at
the town hall, by Mrs NJ. H. Hunt of Boston,
was a valuable and Instructive exposition of
the scientific aspects of the temperance ques-
ton, and was listened to by an audience of
respectable size, largely composed of young
people-for whose instruction aud benefit it
was particularly calculated.
Last Friday evening as Mrs. F. S. Brack-
EFT was coming home from the Methodist
church, owing to the darkness she fell into
the open cellar of Leonards new block. The
cellar is some II feet deep, and her fall would
probably have been fatal had she not struck
upon heap Of sand. As it was, her spine
was somewhat affected, but she was otherwise
unhurt.
Fred Simpson, formerly OF Brattleboro,
and recently of Windsor, has taken the place
Of Fred Taylor, expressman, and Edward
Braney, baggage master, on the narrow gauge
road and will attempt to do the business of
both positions. Taylor will soon go away to
complete his studies and Braney succeeds
Dan Sullivan as the brakeman and spare
hand on the mixed train. The latter goes in
to the freight office.
i. X. Allen & Co. have bought 1875 acres
of timber land at the foot of Glebe mountain
in Londonderry and they now have a steam
com y,t1l Lii - L.. -
awaiting shipment up the narrow-gauge line
to be at once set up and put at work on the
lot. Allen * Co. have already contracted for
500, 900 feet of spruce lumber from the lot to
be shipped to the New Home sewing machine
company of Orange, Mass
Allen, the florist, has Just completed two
additional greenhouses each 80 feet long,
has enlarged his outhower house by an ex-
tension of 10 feet, and has put in a new
steam boiler and piping, with a new boiler
house. One house is devoted exclusively to
propagating and one is used rs a forcing pit
With these additions and improvements
which make a range of 10 houses each 80 feet
long, Mr.. Allen will no doubt be able to sup.
ply the demands of his trade His annual
fall catalogue of dutch bulbs, winter flower
ing plants and small fruits is now published
and ready for distribution.
The lecture course for the benefit of the
free library will open on Thursday evening,
Nov. 9, with a lecture by Rev. DIR. Cow, en-
titled "The perils of the Republic" The
following gentlemen will also lecture during
the winter Rev. G. L. Martin, Rev E. W.
Whitney, Rev. S. NJ. Crothers and Dr. Joseph
Draper. Two others are to be announced
hereafter, and the course will conclude with
concert, to take place either in February or
March, 1888. 1t is for the interest and profit
Of every citizen of Brattleboro thatthis course
should be literally patronized. We call at
tention to the appeal of a member of the lee
ture committee elsewhere published, and we
sincerely hope that the response to this appeal
will be the ready sale of sufficient number
of tickets to insure full houses throughout
the course.
"A good many Brattleboro people will be
glad to know that Dea A. H. Wright has not
only found renewed health on his Natick
Mass, farm, but that he seems to be meeting
with substantial success as tiller of the soil.
According to the premium list of the Natick
Farmers and Mechanics association the Dea-
con went to the head as a grower of the tooth
some turban squash and in the poultry de-
partment took premiums in silver.spangled
and black Hamburgs in a very ''promiscu-
Gus" manner. In domestic manufactures
and fancy work Mrs. Wright, as well as Mrs.
e. NJ. Jones and Mrs. N. w. Goddard, both
formerly of Brattleboro took a liberal share
of premiums, and in the fine arts department
Harry Wright took first and second premiums
on pencil drawings. AS matter of special
interest to old Brattleboro friends we men
ton the fact that Dea. Wrights name does
not appear in any way as connected with the
grand baby show" which was held as an ad-
lunct of this strictly agricultural exhibition.
1t may also be of interest if we mention the
fact that the Deacon is now filling, for the
third year, 100-ton silo. The newspaper
item which gives this information says "a
large force of men are engaged in gathering
and storing away the ensilage, which attracts
many curiosity seekers, and would annoy
most farmers not blessed with the Deacon's