Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-03-02


-Ninety.seven couples attended the Odd
Fellows dance last Friday evening.
Rev. Mr.. Abbott of Hinsdale N. H.,
will preach at tho Baptist church next Sun
day morning.
"A party of 20 or more young people are
to go to Greenfield tonight to attend con.
cert by Prof Schuster.
Conductor Wheeler of the New London
Northern road is on his train again this week,
after two or three weeks illness.
Town meeting next Tuesday. Village
taxpayers should bear in mind the need
which exists for sidewalk improvements.
The Rev. f. n. Goddard Of Windsor
will oiiicate in ST. Michael's church on Sun
day next, at the usual hours Of divine service.
Preaching at o'clock next Sunday even
ing in the Methodist church by Rev A. L.
Cooper, p. E., followed by the sacrament of
the Lords supper.
The new hotel in Hinsdale is to be formally
"opened on the 18th, and Knapp a Bur
netts orchestra has been engaged for the con-
cert aud dance.
-Hawley is in New York this week looking
after bargains for his customers. Next week
he will be ready to show full stock of at
tractiye spring goods.
Next Sunday evening Rev. +. W. Whit.
ney will give the fourth of the series of lee.
lures on Nature aud God. Subject, 1.-The
Marvels of the Sea"
Another telegraph match is to come of
this afternoon between the Brattleboro rifle
club aud the Chautauqua specimens Associa-
ton of jamestown, n. Y.
Willis j. Ray, having sold his farm in
Dummerston to Charles Wilson for S24OO,
has bought the Potter house on Canal street
and gone to work for j. Estey a Co.
-Hosford " Plimpton have abandoned the
idea of re-opening their five and ten cent
store, and Hosford has gone on to the farm
of his father-in-law, Mr. Plimpton, in New
fame.
F. p. Wheeler, formerly Of Brattleboro
and now Of Chicago, has been elected pres
ident of the Northwestern Cornell Associa.
ton. The annual dinner of the society was
eaten at the Palmer House, Chicago last Fri
day evening.
Prof. H. II. Shaw lectures in the citizens
course next Thursday evening, Slh inst. on
" Witchcrait.' This will be the last lecture
Of the course. The course will close with a
concert by home talent under the charge Of
Slr. L. W. Hawley, the date Of which is
not yet announced.
Mrs. George F. Barber formerly Miss
Stevens of our Brattleboro Grammar school
has accepted position in the Grammar
school department Of the public schools Of
Fitchburg, Mass, in which city her husband
is settled in the practice Of his profession of
dentistry.
There is talk of the formation of a Joint
stock company for the manufacture Of a new
plane for carpenters use, patented by Mr.
WIN. Steers Of Sherbrooke, p. O., who has
been in town for the past few days with that
object in view The tool has Il practical
look, and is pronounced by good judges to
be the best thing in its line.
The Homestead Of Springfield Mass,
has tue following item in regard to a we'll
known Brattleboro boy: Mr.. Charles D.
Barrett, formerly with the Springfield Print
ing Company, accepts the position lately oc-
cupied by A. W. Brown in the printing de-
partment Of the Morgan Envelope Company.
The best wishes of his many friends accom-
pany him
Chaplain McCabe's lecture, Wednesday
evening, on The Sunny Side of Libby
Prison, drew a large audience who listened
with much interest to his lively rehearsal of
personal experiences in connection with the
rebel bastile. The Chaplain is a good story
teller, and the audience would willingly have
listened to him another hour or two
The town auditors report is criticized by
tax payers because it does not show the ex.
penditures for each OF the several highway
districts outside of District No =, and does
not show with exactness the expenditures in
this district. Further than this it appears
that the report does not show the amount TAX
EN- from the town treasury for highway pur-
poses over and above the highway tax
w G. Doolittle has this week bought of
Geo. f. Lyons, the owner of the Black
Mountain granite quarry in Dummerston, all
the wood and timber standing on 23O acres of
the quarry property on the side Of the noun
tain. Avery large amount of valuable hard
wood timber is included in the purchase
The terms Of the sale are private. Mr. boo.
little will begin cutting the timber as soon as
the spriDg opens.
At the professional club meeting last eve.
ming DIR. o. r. Post read an interesting and
carefully prepared paper on Cultivated Per
cepuon, showing In a general way to what
extent any one faculty may be developed by
its constant exercise, and showing also, what
benefits have resulted to the world by such
cultivation by specialists in all departments
of human knowledge.
1t is expected that the commissioners
will complete their examination and revision
OF the list OF names confirming the vote to
aid the Brattleboro a Bennington railroad to-
uhgs 1hclI SAumluhtlOu SHOWS lnat an un-
doubted majority of the names, both in mum.
Der and in amount of grand list has been
obtained, and the necessary certificates will
be filed as the law directs.
The winter term of the village schools
clo0es to-day. The High, Grammar, and In
termediate schools will have a vacation of
only one week. resumipg their sessions March
y. The Primaries will have two-weeks'
vacation, beginning again March 10. Miss
Baldwin, third assistant in the Grammar
school, has resigned her position on &C.
count of her health and will not return.
Miss Jennie Ball of Walpole N. H., an e1pe-
rieneed teacher, has been engaged as her sue
cessor.
Some Western papers have the custom of deco
aung their pages with cuts Of distinguished persons.
Not content with the beaming and well-knoWn coun-
enance Of Mrs.. Lydia Plnkham they add the likeness
1i renowned musicians, professors and legislators
most innocent divine has the appearance Of an afro
,lous villain. He is murdered in black and white
no one can have an idea OF newspaper art who has
not seen the portrait gallery Of Western news
paper'-BoSton journal.
Unfortunately for the public this practice
IS not confined exclusively to the Western
papers.
The following is the list of letters remain. |
ng in the Brattleboro post Office, March
Ladtes-Mary Austin (S), Mrs Lizzie Bliss, Mrs Car |
luue CnArter, MISS Eta Uhamberin, Mrs Mary NJ |
JAWS Mrs Augusta Davis, Mrs NJ Edminster Mrs /
r., Box ISL, Nellie Hogan, Mrs G King, Fannie /
overs, Rosa Stevens Mrs 7 A Stevens.
dents-WDlie Adams, Frank l. Dunkee Jos Faar-
neri MOTIFS Fitzgerald Grauhering, G Hibbett |
slahley JARVIS Jeremiah Leach (2) Thos Pendleton
REQ II FerVere, Fred Pellerin, Willard Smouds Iry-
Siner. '' '4"
Col. Haskins has been in Burlington
his week in attendance on the regular term
u the U. s. District and Circuit courts. An
dlournment to the 9th inst was had on
thursday morning. The most interesting
ase heard was that of John O'Neil, the
whitehall liquor dealer, arrested at Rutland
or selling liquor to Vermonters, and who
sked to have his case removed to the United
'tates courts. Judge Wheeler held that he
ad no Jurisdiction and remanded the case to
he state courts.
AT general committee meeting held in
Mass, the 22d of February. sub
were chosen TO make ARRANGEMENT
or the gathering of the Dickinson family on
no 9th OF August next at Amherst. Mass
8 there are many deseendantg of the Dick
lsons on both male and female side in Wind
am aud adjoining counties, it is desirable
nat all should send their name and p. o. ad.
ress 10 f. W, Dickinson, Esq, 144 Safest.
PIlngheld, Mass, who will furnish them
TN notices and program of the meeting.
There was an interesting wedding ocoa.
on at the residence of VIM. j. Portland In