Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-23


into market yet.
Services will be omitted at the Congrega-
tional church next Sunday on account of the
work on the new organ.
Persons whose sewing machines need re-
pair are referred TO the advertisement of j.
II. Williams in another column.
The Republican caucus to elect delegates
TO the county convention is called TO be held
at the town hall tomorrow evening
Six hundred feet Gin Lengthy Of bill.
board is TO be furnished by l. X. Allen & Co.
for the display OF Barnum's show bills
Rev. +. W. Smith, rector Of st. James,
church, Woodstock, will exchange with the
rector Of st. Michaels church next Sunday.
C. p. Nash and j. E. jacobs have engag-
ed in the manufacture of folding furniture Of
original design, for house and camping pur-
poses.
H. E. Harris Of Bradford, landlord Of
the Revere House at the time ii was burned,
has recently leased the Crystal Lake hotel at
Barton.
o. L. Miner has piece of winter rye
that averages seven feet In height, and a spec
linen bunch brought to our Office measures I
II. in.
New granite curbings are being set on
portions of Main, High and Green streets, pre-
paratory to the laying of now concrete walks
in the fall.
Miss Mary F. Thompson, second daugh-
ter of @. f. Thompson, was graduated at
Smith college, Northampton, on Wednesday.
with high honOrs
Miss Mary Shea will sing Handels Gan.
gels ever bright aud fair, at the opening of
theseryice at ST. Michaels (EpiscopaD church
next Sunday evening.
M. L. Corbett's house on Forest square Is
to be sold at public auction tomorrow, and
j. NJ. Reeds tenement house, on Green street,
a week from tomorrow.
Edward Edwards received bad cut from
circular saw at his wagon shop on Wednes-
day, ths thumb Of his right hand being cut
on the end and joint of the forefnger spoiled.
The June training occurs 10. morrow. The
Estey Guard will celebrate the occasion with
"A dinner at the American House, and they ex-
tend a cordial invitation to all their honorary
members to be their guests on the occasion.
-Jumto is coming Barnum's agent was
in town Wednesday to mako arrangements
for the show, and Tuesday, July 20, Is fixed
as the date. The show will exhibit at Keene
the day previous and at Greenfield the day
after.
Tho friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
Hart gathered at their residence on Elliot
street last Saturday evening to celebrate the
fifth anniversary Of their marriage Music
and sociality abounded, and presents to the
value Of some $50 were left.
The New York and White Mountain ex-
press begins running next Monday. The up
and down trains will meet at Brattleboro at
3:O5. Under change of time on the New
London Northern road the steamboat train will
leave at 4:45 instead of 4:l0 as now.
DIR. Noah Greasy, the well-known veter;-
marian, son in law OF Hon. Farley Starr, has
become veterinary editor of the National Live
Stock Journal Of Chicago, the highest author
ity in its field in the country, succeeding
Prof. James Law.
The services at the UniVersalist church
next Sunday will be devoted to the children.
In the morning there will be a christening SER
vice, an address to the children by the pastor,
aud n collection for the building fund Of the
church. A concert by the members Of the
Sunday school will be given in the evening.
Newport, r. l., has Telephone pole
war q Ia Brattleboro. The wealthy cottage
owners object to the Disagreement of the
streets aud avenues with poles for electric
wires, aud several recently set by the Weston
electric light company were cut down the 9th
or night The company propose to make the
choppers suffer.
-Brattleboro's delegates to the Republi
can state convention were Geo. w. Hooker
Kittredge Haskins, j. j. Estey, Geo. s. Dow
ley, II. w. Clarke, II. F. Brooks, ]. G.. Ed
dy, ]. II. Holden, w. W. Lynde. II. r.
Chase and N l. Hawley-the last named gen
tleman going in place of @. F. Thompson,
who was chosen delegate at the Saturday eve
ming caucus.
The prudential committee of school dis
trict No. 2 have entered into an agreement
with Gen. Phelps, by which the appraisal of
the value OF the property of the latter which
is to be taken by the district Is to be left TO a
board of three commissioners. whose award
is to be final. The gentlemen comprising the
commission are Judge Shea Edward Crosby
and ID. s. Pratt. A decision will doubtless
be reached and the matter closed up during
the coming week.
As the Wilmington stage was coming
down the Hill this side of d. NJ. Whitneys
on Tuesday morning, the jolt oceasioned by
crossing q water bar threw the king. bolt part
ly out and broke ii OF, throwing tho main
part Of the coach TO the ground and breaking
of the top. One of the passengers, VIM.
Haskell Of Wilmington, got q severe cut on
the head, but he nevertheless went TO the Re-
publican convention at Montpelier, to which
he was a delegate. The horses nan with the
front wheels and dragged the driver some
rods before he succeeded in stopping them.
The heavy thunder shower Of Monday.
following rainy Sunday caused a consider
able rise in the streams of this vicinity, par
ticularly in MILESTONE brook Frost's mead
ow was partially oveTAowed and the dyke
above the old site of the Elliot street bridge
was partly washed away. At West Brattle-
boro the bridge near LumRn Olarks mill was
made impossible by the undermining Of one
of the abutments, and Fishers dam was in
jured TO the amount of ahout $40, while the
newly-repaired highways throughout the
west part of the town were damaged 10 the
extent of several hundred dollars.
The death of Walter CLARK, only son of
Edward Clark, the well known music agent.
on Saturday, from consumption, was one of
those events which touch the hearts of an
entire community with sadness. Graduating
from the Brattleboro High school one year
ago, with the esteem of all his acquaintanoes
and excellent prospects for the future, his
thirst for further practical education led
him to seek admission TO the polytechnic in
stitute at Worcester Mass, and il was while
In that city, preparing himself for admission
at the fall term, that the disease began TO de.
velop itself which so soon blighted the prom,
Use of useful and honorable manhood. He
returned home about seven weeks ago. yery
much out of health, but only few DAYS be-
fore his death was hope for his recovery an
tirely abandoned, At length fully realizing
his condition, he was willing and prepared 10
answer the final summons. Tho funeral
which was held at his fathers residence on
Tuesday, was largely attended, ReVs. Cow
and Martin conducting the seryices.