Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
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the side-hil cut this side of the salmon-hole
bridge.
e. b. Richardson has Just bought a very
handsome pair of heavy Western horses for
the use Of the Richardson ice company the
coming season.
Col. l.. +. Copeland, of Indiana, known
as the prince of Orators" will give his lee.
ture on "Snobs and Snobbery" in the town
hall on Tuesday evening" March IL.
Mr.. John Hoyt, a Brattleboro boy, for
merly well known here, and now a successful
dealer in musical merchandise at Davenport,
Ia, has been in town this week on a short
visit.
Mrs. John s. Wood who has been with
her parents, Hon. and Mrs. b. d. Harris, for
some months past, suffering from an injured
knee, was able to return to New York last
Monday.
Any persons who contemplate visit to
Chicago or any point in the west, the pres
ent season, will be interested in Mr. L. s.
Hayoss advertisement which appears in this
issue.
The Travellers insurance company, by
their agents, Cudworth & Childs, have paid
Mrs. j. +. Tyler 800 for three weeks dsa-
Element sustained by her husband before his
DEATH
Voters whose names are not already on
requires the list to be completed on Saturday
of next week, and allows no changes after
| that time.
Misses Lille and Alice Brooks, daughters
of F. W. Brooks, who are spending the win
ter in southern Georgia, are to 90 to New Or
leans next week, to remain during the Mardi
Gras carnival.
The ladies Of the Methodist society fur
nished good supper and pleasant enter
tainment for all those who called on them at
their annual fair and festival at the town hall
Wednesday evening. The receipts OF the
evening were upward of 500.
Advance copies of G. E. Aliens annual
spring catalogue are out to-day from Leon
ards press. The work has grown to a man
ual of % pages, is handsomely gotten up
and shows a steady and permanent growth in
Mr.. Aliens business which we are glad to
see.
Mr.. Howes organ recital, announced for
next Monday evening at the Universalist
church, has been postponed on account of
the Estey Guard carnival which occurs on
that evening. Announcement of the date of
the recital, with programme, will be made
next week.
An exhibition and test Of the Harden
hand-grenade fre-extingusher is to be made
in front Of the town hall this afternoon. This
invention consists of a glass globe filled with
a gas-generating and -extinguishing fluid,
and is endorsed by many well-known parties.
Samples of the grenades may be seen at Will
lard's
The children and young folk. who have
enjoyed a series of dancing parties at Crosby
hall during the winter, will close tho series
with planet dance, in costume, tomorrow
evening. The party promises to be hand
some one, and there will be seats for the
friends of the children and all others who
may like to attend. The dancing begins at
1870.
The Estey Guard are to give grand
military fdte and carnival" at the skating rink
next Monday evening The First Regiment
band and orchestra and the Bratteboro drum
corps will furnish music, the Estey Guard
glee club will sing war songs, and there will
be skating and dancing and attractions for
everybody. There will undoubtedly be q
crowd and general good time.
We notice the announcement in New
York music trade paper that E. p Carpenter
has brought libel suit in tho BROOKLYN SUI
preme court against A. II. Hammond for
5000 damages The suit is based on
circular which Mr. Hammond issued last Au-
gust intended to injure Mr.. Carpenter. The
same paper says that Mr.. Carpenter, during
his stay in New York, made arrangements
of goods for it.
W. F. Richardson ~ Co. recently brought
out and weighed a string Of II yokes of oxen
whose aggregate weight was SO, 40 pounds.
The individual weights were 1900, 1850, 1875,
$3.50, 1910, 1855, $500, 3G75, 1905, $3.50, 3475,
340O, 1895 and $500 pounds. Average weight
per yoke 37i3 pounds. The cattle are some
which Richardson IL Co. have been feeding
for several months, and experienced cattle
men say they are the handsomest lot of oxen
ever seen in Brattleboro.
"A meeting of persons interested in the
patent car-coupler invented by section master
d. p. Prescott of Vernon is to be held at
Haskins x Stoddard's Office tomorrow for the
purpose of organizing a company for its in
PRODUCTION and manufacture in case it proves
on thorough trial to be what is claimed The
coupler is especially calculated for FREIGHT
cars, and can be operated either from the
side or top Of the car, avoiding the necessity
OF passing between the cars and thus endan-
gering life.
We call the attention of our readers 10
the wonderful exhibit of the New York life
insurance company. Its thirty-ninth an
nual statement Enthusiastically proves the solid,
progressive character and marvellous growth
of this old and reliable institution. is bust.
ness in this locality has been very large un.
der the efficient management of A. P. Childs
and his sub-agents. The company has Sc
cured larger business in Vermont during
the past four years than auy other while the
results OF its maturing policies are even bet
ter than the company's original estimates
scores OF policy-holders and their depend
ents have shared the benefit of this strong
and reliable institution. The New York Iife's
great strides are partly summarized in an ad
vertisement which appears elsewhere.
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ing last the Brattleboro roller skating RIM
brilliantly lighted and appropriately decorat.
ed, was the theatre Of a novel and fascinating
spectacle, the occasion being the carnival and
dance given under the auspices of the Taurps
club. The galleries were we'll filed. and 10
their occupants the floor below seemed vital
lzed kaleidoscope, as the long procession of
skaters, IN their bright and varied costumes,
gllded swiftly and gracefully by, the music of
Tue panu FORMING pleasant accompaniment
among the characters represented by fancy
costume were knights, harlequins, a Spanish
lady and oourtier, Folly, a frog, and a trio
OF Verdant youths, who, though apparently in
robust health, seemed obliged to sit down and
rect very often, and their easy and graceful
manner Of Going so created much merriment.
Inc entertainment was in all respects an en-
Joyable one, and the Taurus club are TO be
congratulated upon the success of their eff
80 W FURNISH an evening OF pleasure to spec
tators as well as participants.
The warrant for the annual town meet
ing has been posted. In addition 10 the req
ular routine business there are articles 10 see
II the town will vote to place the public bur
ial grounds under the charge OF commission
ers, and, II 30, to elect five to choose libra
~ trustees and appropriate money for the n. |
6rary to see if thetown will abolish the school
district system, and, if so, to elect three or
six directors to see if the town will author
ize the selectmen to heat the town hall nv
steam, and to see If the town will buy |
stone crusher All of these articles, with |