Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-04-21

W. VI OOOllAilb 10 JUST nblAlb lIOIu hlOu-
treal with $500.span of French bay draft
horses for use in his lumber business.
The Brattleboro rifle club will have their
annual spring shoot ut Oak Grove range on
Saturday. May G., at one O'Clock P. NJ.
-Chas. f. Russell of tho Cambridge. Mass,
divinity school, will preach at the Unitarian
church next Sunday, morning and evening.
Mrs. S. A. Wiley of Rockingham, an in-
spiratonal speaker, will speak in the lower
town hall next Sunday at 2 o'clock and o.
clock p. NJ.
Tho Meriden Conn Press of last Satur-
day mentions that 80. W. Bartlett of the or
gan shop formerly of Brattleboro) boasts of
1O4 Id. girl"
The military band are having frequent
rehearsals, with a concert in view for the first
week in May. A very pleasing programme of
entirely new music is promised.
Mr. Crowell has received information
from the publishers Of Woman at Work, the
periodical referred to by us last week, that
they have decided to remove to Brattleboro.
Hon. E. II. Powell, state auditor, will be
at Judge Tyler's Office ON Thursday of next
week to audit county bills. The prompt at
tendance of all persons interested is request
ed.
The small steam engine, with which the
Highly sewing machine company will begin
business, is in place and running, and the
special machinery for the business is nrriv-
ing.
Miss A. NJ. Hall is just homo from New
New York with full aud attractive line of
spring millinery which she will be glad to
show to the ladies. Her advertisement gives
particulars.
Geo. Eels has bought out II. p Frost's
interest in the firm of g. H. Eddy q Co.,
bottlers of ginger ale and small beer, and the
business is soon to be removed to Crowel's
building on Flat street.
"A petition is in circulation to have the
selectmen lay out street leading from West
ern avenue, at a point opposite Cedar street,
to the iron bridge on Elliot street. Such
street would be great convenience to many.
The new advertisement of Pratt, Wright
d Co. is one which our readers will hardly
pass by unnoticed this week These we'll
known clothiers were never in better shape
than now to meet the wants of their patrons.
When foot passenger is knocked down
on a street crossing by fast horse it is an act
of common courtesy and humanity, to put it
mildly, for the driver of the horse to at least
turn about and see whether the man was Sc
riously hurt.
After four days OF remarkably fine wealth
er the first April rain of the season fell on
WSuhcbNog hlbtIuOOu anu evening ana
wrought one of those miracles of freshening
and reviving for which our New England
climate is noted.
-Skif's California MINISTRIES are to play at
Crosby hall next Wednesday evening. The
troupe are entitled to be called old favorites
in Brattleboro, and their entertainment may
be confidently looked forward to as one OF
the best of its kind.
Engineer Fred Perry can boast of having
killed more hogs in one day than any other
man in the state, and he did it all at one
stroke, too, with his little accident. Partic-
ulars elsewhere. Fred now runs the mixed
train between Windsor and Bellows Falls.
-PhGnix engine company had very
pleasant time at their dance on Tuesday even
ing, upward of so couples being in attend
ance. the proceeds of the evening were
$1,000. The company now lack only $40 of
the sum necessary to buy new uniforms
-Ohas. N. Davenport left will which was
executed in 1873 and named his wife as ex-
ecutrix. Mrs. Davenport having since died,
the estate will be settled by an administrator
with the will annexed. The will leaves the
bulk of the property to the two sons, Charles
and Herbert.
"A railroad meeting is to be held at Will
mington next Wednesday afternoon, as is an
nounced in our correspondence from that
town, and we are glad to know that it is in
contemplation for party of prominent cit
liens of Brattleboro to drive up in the morn.
ing and return after the meeting.
The listers have made satisfactory prog
ress in getting in the inventories and the
work is as well advanced as last year at this
time. Some of the larger lists are not yet in,
but so far as can now be judged the grand
list of this year will not vary greatly from
that of last year.
The following officers of Columbian
Lodge, F. q A. NJ, were installed on Tues
day evening for the ensuing year;
K. Haskins, W. NJ. b. F. Bingham, s. W; John
Orton, ]. w; E. +. Brooks, Treas; II. f. Taylor,
Sec'y; E. H. Putnam, s. D.. C. F. Reed, j. D.; A. T.
Mcclure chaplain: q. B. Dickinson, marshal; C. G.
Johnson H. NJ Whittier, stewards; A. II. Davis tier,
Rev. E. D. Hopkins, the St. Johnsbury
| insurance agent, whose troubles have attract
| ed considerable attention throughout the
state, and who war brought to the asylum
some weeks ago in state of extreme eIhaus-
| ton, has so much improved that his wife has
| been allowed to take him on visit to his
children in New Jersey.
The Hinsdale, N. H., correspondent of
the Keene Sentinel says "Mr. L. A. Parks
| has sold his valuable pair of dark brown
horses to DR.. d. P. Dearborn of Brattleboro.
They were probably the best matched pair of
horses here, and in fact it would be difficult
to find another span in this vicinity that can
surpass them in point of style and driving"
An amateur company from the Unitarian
society in Ithaca, N. Y, gave q successful
| presentation of ESmereLfd in that city last
week, and the Ithaca journal says that Miss
Laura Mack, who made many friends in Brat
tleboro during visit here year ago, "acted
and looked the piquAnt Nora in a thorough
| ~ charming manner, and aroused the warm
admiration Of tho audience"
The examination of teachers for Brattle.
boro will be held in the High school building
on Saturday, April Goth. The written exam.
nation will commence at . and close at o.
clock. About one hour will be given TO each
of the four topics, and opportunity will be
afforded any one for rest between the papers
A short oral examination will be held at 9
AN O. H MERRILL. Supt.
DR. Edward French of 'Winchendon.
Mass, has been selected to fill the position
of second assistant physician at the Vermont
Asylum, made vacant by the removal of DR..
Phelps to Bellows Falls, and DIR. Lawton,
who was temporarily employed last summer
during DIR. Diapers absence in Europe. and
also during the winter in the absence Of DIR.
Phelps, has been advanced to the position of
first assistant physician.
The sewing machine business promises
to become an important factor in our Brattle-
boro industries. 'The Brattleboro Sewing
Machine Company" is meeting with excel
lent success under its new management, and
It's machine, which is advertised in our col
umns to-day, possesses all the good qualities
claimed for 1t. We advise our readers to
avail themselves of tbs oompany's invitation
and call at their Centrevlle factory and see
the machine in operation.