Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-01

The committee of ladies who have under
taken to raise needed funds for the public Ii
brary are meeting with excellent success in
their canvass.
The Taurus club have bills out for their
Costume and Fancy Dress Carnival to be
given at the roller-skating rink on Friday
evening, 10th.
The Philharmonic orchestra are to fur
nish music for a concert and dance to be
given by the Newfane Grand Army post next
Friday evening.
Albert Howe, who went to Hartford,
Conn, last fall to study for a business life,
has taken position with the Hartford Silver
Plate Co. for year.
Miss Florence Morse is showing herself
very competent in charge of the Canal street
Primary in place of Miss Taft, who is con-
fined at home by illness.
Until Easter Day, April 18Th, the second
service on the Lords Day, in St. Michaels
church, will be held at four O'Clock in the af-
ternoon instead of seven in the evening.
"A rarely skillful and intricate piece Of
work, representing peacock upon perch,
and done entirely on a sewing machine, hangs
in Geddiss window W. II. Hayward was
the artist"
-Sedgwick Post, G. A. r. was represent.
tl NJ lut hlhlt tuthul 1lutnl at l)euuluBtOn W
II. O. Leonard o. Prescott, H. f. Taylor,
Frank Bruce, H. A. Scott c. X. Briggs and
Job Long.
A current item says that Hon. Lucius L.
Chittenden sold his valuable collection of
postage stamps at auction last week and that
among the best of the lot was one of the
original Brattleboro (F. n. Palmer stamps
which sold for Sl75.
Among the Florida products recently
sent home by Mr.. J. NJ. Reed, who is spend
ing the winter at his Jacksonville place, is a
lemon picked by himself, the present weight
OF which is Il ounces and which measures
one way II and the other lit inches in cir
conference.
The public library has received these
works from DR.. Conland Lives Of the Pres
idents, by Robert ". Lincoln, published at
Brattleboro in 1852 by Geo. II. Salisbury /;
Signers of the Declaration of Independence,
by Row. Charles A. Goodrich Williams 8
Vermont, in two volumes.
The grain thieves have again been at
work. Larkins gristmill at Centreville was
entered few nights ago and a number of
customers grists and other produce stolen
and Sheriff Starkey and other residents Of
Centreville also report a mysterious shrink
age in their grain bins.
At the request of the judges and by ar
rangement with all parties interested, tn
next February term of the Supreme Court
for Windham county, beginning Monday,
Feb II, will be held in Crosby hall, Brsttle-
boro The judges assigned for the term are
Royce, Powers, Veazey and Taft.
The death of Mrs. H. p. Cox, mother
| in law of Harry Rowe, with whom she was
| living, was very sudden. While eating sup.
per Tuesday evening she was seized with
sudden pain, rose from the table and instant
| ly fell dead. She had been subject to hear
trouble for some time.
In spite Of the bad weather last evening
there was a full house in attendance on John
| b. Coughs lecture on "Bunders,' and tn,
audience found the veteran lecturer no less
happy and entertaining in his effort than oil
many previous occasions. 1t is a fact worth
noticing that Mr. Coughs first appearance il
Brattleboro was & years ago the presen
month Few men have so retained their holC
on the public as has he.
There has been a disgraceful amount o
drunkenness about town on several occasion
of late. Last Tuesday evening hslf-dozei
or more fellows were taken home in an al
most helpless condition, with a promise tina
they shall 60 to the lookup next time. The au
thorities have need to look sharply after thi
business, or an impression will get abroad
tlht prOulDltlOu uOesQ prOllDU.
At the close OF his sermon preached il
the Universalist church last Sunday morning
Rev. Edward Smiley of Putney paid fittin
tribute to the memory of the late Rev. DR.
Fletcher speaking of him as man Of ster
ling worth, and preacher and public speak
err of rare ability. Mr.. Smiley mentione
the fact that DR.. Fletcher's best work in tn
ministry was done after he was fifty year
old, and said, with truth, that he was held i
high esteem by all the older people of Brat
tleboro
AT the professional club meeting o.
Wednesday evening the paper was furnishe
by Mr.. j. n. Baestier. Greatly to the regrt
of the club Mr. Balestier was detained {
home by illness, so that it was necessary fc
his paper to be read by proxy. The subjet
which it discussed was "Some Aspects of Ii
Labor Question, touching chiefly upon tn
injurious effect of strikes and the tyranny {
trade-unions. The paper was one of tn
most vigorous and suggestive with which ii
club has ever been favored, aud the discu
sion which followed was of unusual intere
and spirit
REPAIRS upon the steamers of the villag
fire department have been completed. NJ
4, upon examination, was pronounced
good condition. No. 3, having been in ut
seven years, stood in need of new tubes and
general overhauling. The work was done B
a workman sent on by the manufacturer
Messrs. Clapp Jones of Hudson, n. Y, ar
the steamer was tested Wednesday evenir
: to 100 pounds pressure and pronounced pra
tically as good as new. The department hi
also procured long extension ladder, a
FOOT of which it has long stood in need, ar
we are assured that now our fire deparmel
is in better shape than ever before.
The leap-year German at Crosby hs
. Wednesday evening was highly enjoyed /
l 35 couples. The affair was managed entire
] by the ladies and there were many ludicrol
examples of the force of habit when son
gentleman tried to be oficious but vi
promptly marched to his seat by the ladie
The order of dances were hand painted al
the work Of the young ladies' Seven pla
8 figures were danced, followed by the Ge
man. The favors-also the work of Il
3 young ladies-were exceedingly neat and a
propriate. Refreshments were served durir
the evening and everything reflected muC
credit upon the ladies having the affair
charge.
-Brattleboro people had an opportunity
8 witness some thoroughly good acting last Tue
= day night, when the Boston Theatre compaI
j presented BARLEY CampbelIs melodrams, Il
Q white Slave" before large and appreci
tive audience. The play depends largely u
v | Oh hbOhlS ShGbNh hul uEhuhllC hlluhlOub II
. its popularity, and in a work of this desert
ton it is high praise to say that there was
tendency to over-acting or staginess in its pr
sentation. Even the minor part6-notab
. those of Daphne and Letty-were acted wi
: spirit and fidelity TO minor details, and in j
! and Martha one beheld the true negro chs
acteristics in place of the caricature so oft
given upon the stage. The scenes were WI
. set, and the mechanical effects very clever
: handled.
= The following is the list of letters renal
' ing in the Bratheboro post office, Jan. 81;
a Ladies-Alice E. Ballou, Anna NJ. Ballou, J G Boy
y southame Charter, Mrs. +. Fuller, Mrs. Lucy GC
frey, Bessie b. HAYES, Selma Sanderson.
: dentlemen-G. @. Allen-2, Gerry Belmore NJ
j. Bickford, John II. Crowel. S. T. Coy Arthur g. d.
n forth, VIM. Decker, Edwin Earle, John p. Gaines
: A. E, Halliday, O. M. Loveland, q. W. Lynde, GeoI
. landerhn, Geo. T. ManahRn g. b. Morris, q L. M
Ter, Q; M. Parker H. q, Parsons Fred e. Reed, II,
stockton, Geo. NAnVauken, Morris Wright, G. r. "