Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-11-27

arrested for being drunk and disOrderly on
Wednesday evening, and Thursday morning
Justice Newton fined them 81 and costs
each for disturbing the peace.
@. H. Towards volume, "Brattleboro ia
Prose and Verso, /" is out this morning from
Housh's press, and proves TO be a dainty bit
Of the bookmRker's art. The books go on
sale tonight.
The First Regiment band orchestra fur.
nished the music for the fremen's ball al
Keene Wednesday evening. They reached
home at 1890 yesterday morning, aud sew.
eral pieces left at once on a 20-mlle drive to
play at Wilmington last evening.
"A complete set of Harper's Magazin,
has been bought for the Free Library at a
cost Of only 500, and will form one Of the
most valuable additions yet made. Two hun.
dred new books have recently been ordered
Geo. b. White Of Rochester, N. Y, for.
merly Of Fayetteville, has bought Henry @.
Atkinss livery and feed barn and livery stock
in the rear OF the Brooks house, paying about
$4,000 for II. Mr.. Atkins will have charge
for the present, or until ME-. White removes
here.
The Argus Of this week says George
Howe, United States district attorney for
Vermont during the first term Of President
Lincoln, has been a special pension examiner
OF the pension department. but he aud sew.
eral hundred others we're dropped the 1 st OF
July last. Now he has been reappointed,
with New Jersey &C bis field for work"
burlington is having a toboggan slide
built 75 feet long and 20 feet high. Brattle-
boro people who want to help the Young
folk to sport and recreation OF the right
sort could not do a better thing than make a
move for the same thing here. No town
possesses greater natural advantages 10 make
the project an easy one. Who will lead of?
"A large number OF the Murray club men,
bers met at the house Of Miss Nsttie Starr on
Western Avenue on Monday evening last
After the transaction Of the usual business MI
Fred Simpson in behalf of the club presented
Miss Starr with six volumes of the red line
edition Of the British poets. The books were
bound in alligator leather with padded sides
and are elegant specimens OF the book
makers art Miss Starr has been very
useful and enthusiastic member Of the club
and this handsome gift was the spontaneous
expression Of the good. will Of the club mem-
bers After the presentation refreshments
we're served and the evening passed in a most
happy manner.
DIR. Bruce leaves early next week, prob
ably on Tuesday, for his contemplated win
ter's visit TO the South where he goes for the
10 years residence in Brattleboro the doctor
has established large practice, which in
cludes many leading families, all OF whom
sincerely regret the necessity which deprives
them Of his services, and who hope for the
best results from winter in the milder eli
mate of the South. His objective point il
Asheville, N. O., where he now contemplates
remaining during the winter, and where be
will engage 10 the practice of his profession.
He will be accompanied by G. b. Harwood
OF West Brattle boro, who goes South to
escape yearly Attack of rheumatism, and
whose services as an experienced carpenter
and mechanic are likely to find ready EN-
ployment during bis stay there.
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Il. Bates we're the re.
cipients Of pleasant surprise at their Canal
street home Monday evening A company OF
friends and neighbors assembled, bringing
with them provisions and money to the amount
Of $40 Is tokens OF their good will and es.
TEEN, and for the purpose of cheering up
Mr.. Bates who has been sick for several
months. Mr.. j. O. Howe, in a speech we'll
adapted to the occasion, presented the gifts,
and Mr.. Bates responded, thanking all as his
feelings would best permit.
The sane folk of Brattleboro did not do
all the Thanksgiving yesterday. The day
was feast-day at the asylum, aud the spread
lacked nothing in abundance or variety In
the evening the amusement course OF 1885 6
was opened with successful presentation OF
the spirited drama Under the Laurels. 4"
which won liberal applause from the audience.
Several new faces appeared in the cast and
the performance promised much for the en-
tertainment which the asylum household
have in store for them during the winter.
Residents along the line OF the narrow
gauge road awoke in the small hours Of last
Wednesday morning to wonder whether it
was the Flying Dutchman or some other per
sonage out OF mystical lore whom they heard
carreering over the rails at q tearing pace.
but on enquiry by daylight they learned that
II was no apparition that they had heard but
bona fde trip Of the ex-speaker of the Yer.
mont House Of Representatives, suddenly
summoned to SO. Londonderry on a domes.
tic mission explained in our weekly record OF
births. The engine made the trip from Brat
tleboro In one hour, 2S minutes-the best
time yet over the road. Everybody extends
congratulations.
Editor Geo. E. Crowell has ~ or 10 men
employed at bis quarry getting out large un-
derpinning stone for his contemp plated big
brick building on Elliot street. The small
stone quarried are used for grading his build.
ing lots located on the new streets laid out
have been built by him, and others are now
being erected. He has also nearly complet.
ed bis plans for new buildings for his own
occupancy on his home lot, the erection of
which will be commenced next season These
buildings will occupy nearly the same site as
the present ones, which i'll be removed TO a
vacant lot near by.
The readings given by Mr. A. P. Bur.
bank on Wednesday evening abundantly con-
hrmed Brattleboro's previous estimate OF him
as master OF his art and the most finished
and accomplished Of delineators. His Sc lee.
ions embraced a wide range, from the light
ly humorous 10 bit from Rip Van Wrinkle
and the grave.diggers scene in Hamlet. One
OF the most effective and artistic things of
the evening was q scene out of Mr. Bur
banks own dramatization of Dick ens's Tale
OF Two Cities" The great charm of Mr..
Burbank's renderings lies in his naturalness
aud freedom from affectation and manner
isms-an excellence which was conspicuous
on this occasion.
For the benefit of local readers il mead
not be said that this years Thanksgiving"
snow storm was entirely phenomenal. Be-
ginning early Sunday morning it lasted al.
most continuously for nearly five DAYS, last
evening bringing the first clear sky of the
week. ln Brattleboro and on the river lands
the accumulation of snow has been small
but 10 miles back sleighs have been 10 gen.
eral use for two or three days, and in the hill
towns the depth Of snow has reached s to 10
inches. In the central and north part of the
state the storm has been generous one and
Montpelier is reported to be in the enjoyment
OF 10 inches Of snow, while Oorinth, in Or
ange county, is reported to have 23 inches.
Fortunately the severe and protraeted east TO
northeast gale, which piled up the waters on
the Atlantic coast with disastrous effect, did
not reach TO this distance inland. Last night
the mercury took its first decided downward
dip of the season, lowering this morning
close in the vicinity of zero.
Ralph, the youngest son of Gov. Moody
OF Oregon, now q student at the Albany law
school, has been on visit this week to Mr.
Malcolm Moody, a family relatve-Mr.
Moody and the governor having been born
under the same roof in Massachusetts, Col.
Estey returned yesterday from his extended
business trip to the South and West in sea.
son to eat Thanksgiving at home -Miss Liz
zie Il. Colburn was called TO Shirley, Mass,
on Thanksgiving morning, by the sudden
death from paralysis Of her aunt, Mrs. @. M.
Holden, with whom she formerly lived. Mrs.
Holden was native Of Chesterfield and one
Of prominent family OF that town in whose
number death has made sad inroads during
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