Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-16


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w. NJ. Adams has sold bis oyster and tonic
beer saloon in Rythers block to Mr.. @. D.
Ormes, late of Dummerston.
The ladies of the Baptist society will hold
supper and sooiable OF the church vestry
next Tuesday evening.
DO not fail to hear "That Boys Sister"
by DIR. Vincent at town hall on Wednesday
evening, Nov. 2lst.
The six o'clock up mail train was delay
ed nearly two hours last evening by freight
train of the track near Holyoke.
Rev. Mr. Towers sermon at the Baptist
church next Sunday will be addressed to
young men. Subject, Excelsior"
The commissioner hearing on the Char
lier cross. street case has been postponed on
account of the illness of Prof Charlier.
Mrs. Albert Root and daughter, with j.
NJ. Reed and A. g. Loomis and family, start
ed for Florida yesterday. Loomis and family
intend to make that state their permanent
residence.
Prof. Haley, teacher of manly art" was
given tigers eye diamond ring and q gold
scarf pin with diamond in the center by his
Rutland pupils last week when he left that
place for Bennington.
e. L. Parker, who has jobbing shop in
NIOhbll . thoA bullulllB Ou lhl blIttl, mas De-
gun the manufacture of new patent wash
ing machine for which he holds the exclusive
right of manufacture for the state.
George Deyo had two fingers and the
thumb on his right hand crushed while coup
ling an engine TO train at Amherst last Sat.
urdry. The wounded members were ampu-
tated and Deyo was brought home on the
night train He is doing well and is able to
be out on the street
"A worthy mstronly friend of ours, in
mild Tebuke Of our youthful nervousness in
announcing the last" thunder showers of the
season, asks us to note the fact that another
last shower, with thunder and lightning,
put in an appearance last Friday evening.
The widespread wind storm Of last Mon.
day and Monday night made its appearance
here during Monday night in a gale Of very
unusual severity. Residents on the hills say
that it is very rarely that so high a wind Is
known. We do not hear, however, that seri-
GUS damage resulted from it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G.. Willcutts 25th
wedding anniversary was celebrated last Fri
day by large gathering of friends in the
afternoon and evening at their house on
Clark street. Gifts of an appropriate charac.
ter we're presented, and the occasion was one
which the recipients will ever bear in happy
remembrance.
Rev. G. II. Merrill, town superintendent
Of schools, gives notice that the public exam
ination of common school teachers will be
held in the high school building on Saturday,
Nov. "a, at "a. N. The papers for written
examinations will include one on physiology
and hygiene in addition to the subjects given
in the spring. The average per cent is 65,
the minimum 40.
The arguments before the United States
supreme court in the Burdett- Estey organ
case are expected to begin on Monday or
| Tuesday next Lawyers Harding of New
! York and Phelps of Burlington will appear
for the orators and Evarts and Dickerson of
New York for the defendants. The hearing
will probably occupy the greater part of next
week. Col. X. Haskins aud Col. L. X Full.
ley have gone on to Washington to be present
at the hearing.
Mr.. o. A. Marshall has resigned his
clerkship in the Vermont National bank and
has accepted the Office Of assistant cashier in
the Peoples National bank-Rplace for which
his long service az an accountant and his
sterling qualities of character eminently fit
him. He will assume his new duties next
Tuesday. Mr. VIM II. Hall, teller in the
Peoples bank, has resigned that position and
will leave the bank on or before Jan LIST. He
hes several advantageous positions in view,
but has not decided which of them he will &C.
cept.
"A petition for a writ OF mandamus,
brought by the tax payers of Brattleboro
against the Brattleboro commissioners of the
Brattleboro a Bennington railroad company,
and against the company itself, was served
upon the commissioners and company last
Saturday. The petition is for the purpose of
compelling the commissioners to subscribe to
the capital stock of the road as voted by the
town Of Bratteboro. Chief-Justice Royce
ordered the petition to be heard before the
supreme court at Burlington on the first Tues.
day Of January and also ordered the defend
ant commissioners to file an answer within II
days from the date of service. The railroad
company has already filed its answer through
Edward Crosby, president
The adoption of the new standard time
on Sunday and Monday next will be univer-
sal in Brattleboro. The employees of both
railroad companies, the Central Vermont and
Connecticut River, are under orders to take
the new time at the telegraph office at noon
on Sunday. Estey 4 Co., Smith d Hunt,
Crosby d Co. and the Asylum will all set
their clocks and blow their whistles by the
new standard on Monday. The banks, the
schools and the post office will all open and
close on the new time. The jewellers will set
| their clocks by the new time and the town
clock will be set to correspond to it promptly
at noon on Sunday. Evening services at the
several churches will begin Sunday evening
by the new standard. To prevent confusion
all private families and individuals should set
their timepeces back 1G minutes on Sunday
noon.
Conductor George Spafford had narrow
escape from death last Tuesday. He was in
charge of an extra freight train which started
out from the station about 3 O'Clock p. M, for
South Vernon, and the train had Just got I'M
n,o1 haaA ukav, 81 Al,
N. L. N. II. X. Co. s ice house, as he was on
the point of getting of a loaded lumber car
on to a lower one, a lurch of the train threw
| him of headlong. The instant he lost his
balance, by desperate effort he succeeded
in throwing himself outside the rails and thus
prevented the train from running over him.
Striking upon his left side, his head came in
contact with sleeper, cutting cash some
| five inches long through his scalp, and badly
bruising him from head to foot. Though
bleeding profusely he was not rendered un.
conscious, and was Immediately taken to his
residence, where he will be likely to remain
for some weeks before resuming his duties.
"A thoughtful, intelligent audience gath.
cred in the Methodist church on Wednesday
evening to listen to a lecture on Home Pro-
lection" by Mrs. H. NJ. t. Cutler of Illinois,
who has for two months past been holding a
series OF successful meetings in the northern
! part of the state. She is a pleasant speaker
and thoroughly conversant with her subject.
She showed how the design of government
is to protect the homes, and pointed out eI.
listing defects and how they were to be rene
! died. Her reasoning was clear and logical
Vermont laws are considered good because
the men are good if we had bad men as
other states have, the Jaws would appear
and while the homes of Vermont in this gen.
Grafton are well cared for, they might not be
in another. Thus she asked, for the sake of
the daughters and their future homes, that
the laws be so amended as to make them So
cure. 1t is subject which oommends itself
TO the thoughtful men who are laborinR for
the good of their families, since the law
making and enforcing power is in their hands
THE GRAND ARMY FAP-A GRAND SUCCESS.
The fair and festival held by POST Sedg-
wick, G. A. r., for the benefit OF their char
ity fund, last evening, proved in ali respects
a success. Contributions flowed in freely ia
response to the invitation extended TO our
citizens, and the town hall was we'll filled.
An excellent supper was served by attentive
walters, and many fancy articles were sold at