Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-06

| advice in regard to his recent injury from
falling on the ice.
The funniest thing yet is the ''Tableaux
/ Of Erin to be given at Crosby hall tomorrow
afternoon and evening
Cheney &. Clapp are celebrating the end
| Of good Christmas trade by renovation
and Frightening up Of their store.
Miss E. NJ. Brooks found Aiken. S. c.
cold and deserted and has returned To Brattle
boro, preferring to spend the winter here.
! We are glad to learn that ex Gov Hol-
| brook who is confined 10 his house BY a mild
attack Of rheumatism aud erysipelas, is i'm
| proving.
The week Of prayer is being observed BY
the Congregational, Methodist and Baptist
churches with meetings each evening during
| the week.
Master Wilbur washburne saw a robin
in a tree near his home on Elm street on
New Years morning-a good omen for the
year, let us hope.
! Rev. E. W. Whitney has been called to
wsltham, Mass, this week by the illness Of
| his brother. Rev. A. A. Rice of Hinsdale
will occupy his pulpit next Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Chamberlain will
remove 10 Worcester, Mass, next week,
where they will have charge OF the laundry
department in the asylum for the chronic in
sane
Miss Louise Chappel, sister of Mrs.
Ives, at st. Helen's school, is very i'll from
nervous prostration. Her friends will be glad
to learn, however, that her recovery is now
| hoped for.
! o. J. Pratt contemplates making extern
| sive repairs on his store the coming season
and is now closing out his immense stock of
dry goods and carpets, with that object in
view.
The ladies of the Congregational society
will give an oyster supper in the church par
ors next Wednesday evening, Jan. 18th, at
half past. six. Admission, including supper
% cents
DIR. Tucker went to Horthfeld yesterday.
and vaccinated the members of Moody's girls
school, Is in all. In Brsttleboro be vaccinat-
| ed II persons, making % for the dAy-a very
fair days work.
H Z. Taylor attended the annual meet
ing OF the reunion society Of Vermont officers,
held at White River Junction on Thursday.
There was good attendance. The Grafton
was by Col. Albert Clarke.
An alarm was given in this village
Wednesday night on account Of the fire at
West Brattleboro. Steamer No. 3 started out,
but telephone message very soon announced
the extinguishmept of the fire.
Capt. Henry Chase, who accompanied
his daughter aud her husband, Myron Miner.
since deceased, to Florida last September, re-
turned Wednesday evening. He finds the
| sudden change to zero temperature anything
but agreeable.
Everything is looking very favorable for
the fourth annual exhibition of the Windham
County Poultry and Pet Stock Association,
TO be held next week. Entries of choice
stock are coming in finely and everything
promises a complete success.
HI E. Taylor kept strict debit and
credit account with his flock of % Brown
Leghorn hens during the year 1881 and ends
that they paid him net profit Of $50 80.
This sum represents the profit from eggs,
and no eggs were sold at fancy prices.
Miss Annie Stevens is in Boston for a
term of study in vocal music, and her place
in the Congregational church choir is taken
by Mrs. Eugene Adams. During Gov. Hol-
brooks temporary absence from the choir, on
account of illness, Mr.. G. N. Taylor supplies
his place.
The installation of Post Sedgwick G. A.
4. oficers-elect took place on Wednesday eve
ming. A committee was appointed to confer
with Stoughton post of Bellows Falls with re-
gard TO repeating in Brattleboro the dramatic
entertainment which the latter post gave
with so much success at home last week.
Winter took grip in earnest on Mon
day, and the temperature lowered dntil it
touched G. below zero on Thursday morning
This, Friday, morning there is promise Of
snow which may give the long deferred
sleighing. Snow enough for good sleighng
fell in Boston Saturday night, and heavy
snow storms are reported at the West.
Rev. W. H. Collins gave the asylum pa
tients a very pleasant entertainment of hu-
mOrous readings, selected and original last
evening. After reading a German transla-
ton, "How the sea became salt" Mr.. Col
Inns gave two or three selections from Tom
Hood, closing with two admirable original
pieces, the Deaeon's Speech" and The
Dsacon's Soliloquy."
Rev. ]. b. Green is in Montreal this
week, and this evening will deliver lecture
before the Liberal Christian Union of that
city on Narcotics, their Use and Abuse
Next Sunday Mr.. Green will occupy bis old
pulpit in Montreal, and Rev. VIM. S. Barnes,
the resident Unitarian pastor, will preach, in
exchange, in the Unitarian church in this
place, morning and evening.
The Changers gave Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Reed Of South Main street an agreeable sur
prise on Saturday evening, Dec 3lst, which
was participated in by about fifty persons
who, after enjoying a social chat, brought
forward few fitting and useful presents in
GLIDING purse Of money, which were pre-
sented in behalf Of the donors by Rev. A. W.
Clayton. Mr.. Reed responded, after which the
company dispersed. c.
e. d. Hopkins of st. Johnsbury, the in
surance agent who was found guilty of larceny
at the recent term of the Caledonia county
court, and against whom two convictions for
forgery are now standing, has become violent.
ly insane, and was brought to Brattleboro for
treatment yesterday afternoon. The necessa-
ry eommittal papers were lacking, however
aud he is now at the Brattleboro House, in an
excited and exhausted condition, awaiting
their arrival. We learn that during last night
Mr.. Hopkins had an alarming sinking turn
from exhaustion.
Department Commander Hooker an
nounces, through General Order No. 7,
that the annual eneampment of the Depart
ment of Vermont G. A. R.. will be held in
Brattleboro on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 3
and 10 next. The usual business meetings
will be held on Thursday afternoon and Fri
day, and on Thursday evening grand camp
fire will be held, with an address by Rev. ]. +.
Lowering OF Worcester, Mass, Chaplain IN
Chief, after which banquet will be served.
The railroads extend the usual courtesies.
On the 26th of March, last we had on
our desk bunch Of wild flowers plucked 10
the open air the day before by little girl up
on the Brook road the first week in October
we had bush of wild red raspberries as
luscious and fresh and 'gamey" as though in
their proper season in July; last week our
Gulford correspondent reported blackberry
bush in fresh leaf last Sunday a robin was
seen in tree in this village. Not bad item
to copy in your note book when you write OF
the curious and anomalous weather record OF
the past twelve-month!
COL g. Ely Goddard has sent Gar
field spike" to the poultry show managers to
be given as premium for the best exhibit OF
Plymouth Rocks. At the time the temporary
railroad track, which was laid from the main
/ II To-