Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-02-24

James A. Pullen, clerk at the American
| House. who claims TO be the owner Of the
| liquors seized at that house last Friday. The
! liquors were appraised as the law provides
and wero placed in the hands Of Deputy
! Sheriff Starkey, the officer who served the
replevin. Mr.. Starkey stored them in Mr..
Herrick's cellar and they will there await the
decision of the county court. The appraised
value Of the goods was 1928.
The warrant for town meeting was post
ed last evening. In addition to the usual
routine business, Article is "To see what
action the town will take in relation to the
| liduor agency" Article "To see il the
town will vote to pay James Fisk 500 for
! lightning rods placed on the town hall, Ar
ticle II ITO see if the town will subscribe for
| five volumes of Miss Hemenway's Gazetteer"
and Articles -, 10, II, 10 and 10 relate to
| the question of the establishment of free
public library It is understood that under
| Article an effort will be made 10 do away
with the town liquor agency. We do not re.
call a time when, on the surface, everything
has been more quiet with regard 10 the choice
| of town officers ut the annual meeting.
A week ago last Saturday l. N. Thorn
| received letter postmarked Hartford, Conn,
aud directed II N Thorn. Druggist, Brat
| tleboro VI" Inside was $50 in bank bills
with slip Of paper saying simply "Oid Debt
outlawed. p" Last Saturday Ranger Il
Thompson received letter with the same
postmark and addressed Thompson q Ran
| ger, Brattleboro, VT" Inside WAS 500 in
money, but not a word or letter Of writing
A comparison Of the handwriting on the two
envelopes shows plainly that both were d.
rected by the same person. The handwriting
is evidently disguised and is seemingly that
of man in middle or advanced life. Neither
Thorn nor Ranger & Thompson have any
idea who their very retiring correspondent is.
It looks very much as though somebody had
sometime taken goods that didn't belong to
him and has at last got tired Of living with
his conscience on such basis.
Col L X Fuller returned from his trip
to the South and West last Saturday evening
his Journey to the South having extended AZ
far as New Orleans. On his way there he
spent some time in Atlanta, and on his way
home took in Chicago, Cincinnati and Pitts
burg. On his way up from New Orleans the
country along the Mississippi was flooded,
although the great freshets had not then set
it. Col. Fuller relates that at Cincinnati he
met young lady at dinner whose father own
ed the plantation on or near which JEFF Davis
was captured after Appomattox. Her father
was in the Southern army aud her mother
was at home with her children aud the slaves.
Her mother secreted Mr.. Davis in the barn
until the Federal forces began to press too
closely aud then this young lady, then a mere
child, with her own hands carried to the fall
len rebel certain articles of her mothers
wearing apparel in which he disguised him
self and in which he was captured. The
young lady thinks he would have got off if he
had taken of his boots
On Monday afternoon o French Canadian
girl, or young woman, was put of the $3.50
train from the North at this place in an tx
cited state from a sudden attack Of insanity
She was on her way from Sherbrooke, p. o.
to New York city or Brooklyn. On reaching
St Johnsbury she began to show excitement
and by the time Conductor Sampson took the
train at Windsor her condition was such that
he telegraphed to Brattleboro to have her
taken care of. On her arrival here she was
examined by Drs. Bruce and ConlAud and
the proper papers made out for her commit
tai to the asylum. Her friends at Sherbrooke
were telegraphed to under information gained
from her, aud on Thursday her sister came
on. From her it is learned that her sister
has been living in Brooklyn, n. Y, where
she has friends and some means of her own.
She Is subject to attacks of insanity and has
been two or three times in an asylum for
treatment. She had been to Sherbrooke on
visit and was not in her right mind when
she started home on Monday, but it was
thought she would go through without trou-
BILE. II is probable that her sister will take
her to New York to morrow The conductor
had no right TO drop the woman here, as it
was practically saddling a pauper on the
town contrary tn law.
The Emerson concert company, which
has been engaged to give series of % con.
certs in Massachusetts,, Vermont, New York
and New Hampshire, in aid Of the Benning-
ton battle monument fund, is made up OF the
following artists: Walter Emerson, cornet-
ist who led Gimore's band in its tour through
Europe, Mrs. Helen E. H. Carter, soprano,
Miss Gertie Edmunds coutralto, Frank Gil.
der, pianist, Alfred De SIEVE, violinist w. H.
Leo, tenor, Van Santvoord hutist. Maggie
l.. Eager contralto and accompanist These
are all artists of the first rank, and the enter.
tainments given by them will be such as are
rarely heard in provincial towns. As already
stated, these concerts are to be given under
the auspices OF the Bennington battle monu.
ment association, with A. p. Childs, Esq, as
authorized manager. The first concert will
be given in Boston, March s, aud the Brattle-
boro date is March 10. In this connection it
Is OF interest TO note that the Illinois associa-
ton of Sons of Vermont has issued circular
soliciting contributions from its members for
the monument fund 10 which it is stated that
Our native state has, through her chief e1
ecutye, earnestly and courteously, addressed
our association, inviting its aid and encour.
agement and our society has responded in
appropriate words and resolutions"
-Harpers Weekly has the following notice
with portrait) of a native of Brattleboro aud
brother of Rev. DIR. Geo. L. Walker, now
Of Hartford, Conn. -
MIR. Stephen A. Walker, recently chosen
President of the Board of Education Of this
city and President of the Board of Trustees
OF the College of the City of New York, was
born in Brattleboro Vermont in 1885. His
father was the Rev. DIR. Charles Walker,
leading Congregational clergyman of New
England. He was the valedictorian of the
class of 1858 at Middlebury College. After
his graduation he taught school in Geauga
County, Ohio. He then studied law in Bine-
hamton, Now York, in the office of Daniel s.
Dickinson, and was admitted to the bar in
1861, He served four years in the war as
paymaster. After the war he became one
OF the firm Of Buckham, Smales, & Walker.
de was appointed a school commissioner in
1879 by Mayor Wiekham, and was reap
pointed successfully by Mayors Ely and Coon
or. He Is member of the Bar Association
and the University Club. Elected President
OF the Board of Education in 1880 aud 1881.
he Is now for the third time dischareinp the
important duties of that high and honorable
ONCE MIR. Walkers career has been through
out conservative. He has always been a
stanch friend of the teachers, and he is uni
versally popular among that large and desery-
ing class of our community.
THE SHOOTING AT OAK GROVE RANGE LAST
SATURDAY.
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