Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-17
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Mr.. ii. Il. Marshall OF Mortified, Mass,
who now employs some 60 workmen in the
granite quarries at that place and has fur
nished most OF the granite for Moody's school
buildings, has been for the past week or two
making an examination Of the undeveloped
Black mountain quarries on the farm of Lee
roy Wilder in Dummerston, with view to
purchasing and developing them. Should
the conditions be found favorable half or
three. quarter. mile track will be laid from the
narrow gauge railroad for ease of shipment,
and work begun on a large scale
Several Brattleboro persons are in Spring
field this week in attendance upon the annual
bicycle tournament of the Springfield club
Three local wheelmen, Chas. Crosby s. w.
Kirkland aud Ed. Atherton rode down Mon
day.
The agency for the popular Victor cycles,
formerly held by John Drown, has been trans
ferred to Charles Thompson.
"A. b. Stone has the cellar ready for two
story house on Central street
The Brattleboro Odd Fellows cave at 10
O'Clock next Tuesday morning on their pill
grimage to Boston to attend the annual SEES
sion Of the Grand Lodge. The Boston papers
express doubt a. to whether the hotels will
have room for all the strangers who are ex.
pected to be in the city next week.
Smith Il Hunt are putting up store
house As by 20 feet few feet south Of F. d.
Williams's' wagon shop on Frost street, for
the accommodation Of the latter, whose bust.
ness is fast developing.
-Rev. Father Cunningham IL as yet una
BILE to walk in consequence of the severe
sprain in one Of his limbs received in the
accident on the Putney road two or three
weeks ago.
Since many people riding past Fred
Waites have stopped to inquire how many
cords of wood that immense pile Of his by
the roadside contains. doubtless We shall be
doing him service il we state the number
354. 1t forms part of lot of 1000 cords OF
pine wood which he has contracted to furnish
the Vermont asylum.
An application for a pension for Mrs.
Elizabeth Richardson Of Guilford, mother of
Silas w. Richardson OF this town which the
Washington authorities had kept pigeon holed
for nine or ten years, has at length been res
directed and the pension granted, amounting
to Sl2 month and S2lOO back pay OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson's three sons, all
went TO the war, and the only one of them to
return was Silas, who is unable to support
his parents in their declining years because of
the wounds which he himself received No
more deserving case than this was ever pre-
sented to the pension bureau, and yet it prob
newer NOulu nave Dttu granted except
for the persistent efforts of friends, supple
mented by the work of the Brattleboro agents
Messrs Hsskins and Stoddard, and the kind
intervention Of Congressman Grout
There will be a meeting Of the Brattle-
boro Woman's Indian association in the par
lor of the Y. NJ. G. A next Tuesday after
noon at o'clock. All ladies interested in
the cause are cordially invited to be present
The membership fee is only 80 cents.
Services in st. MichaeIs Episcopal
church on Sunday next (l3th after Trinity AS
follows: A. NJ, Holy Communion 1890
A. NJ, morning prayer and sermon ll:45 A.
NJ, Sunday school; p NJ evening prayer
The rector will oticiate at Christ church,
Guilford, at 2.30 +. NJ.
The Sons OF Veterans have arranged to
have Bronson Towards well-known society
play, The Bankers Daughter" brought out
here on Saturday evening of next week by
Crossens original company which has given
the play with great success in all the leading
cities of the country. The young men wish
the public mind to be dsabused Of the very
natural mistake of supposing that this play is
the same which the "lO-oent" theatres have
given here. 1t is not the same, but, rs al
ready stated, is the original play brought out
by the original Crossen company.
The second annual meeting of the Yer.
mont horse breeders association held at Rut.
land last week, called out a large number of
people and an exhibition of over 200 fine
horses, all of which were either owned in
Vermont or were of Vermont origin. Among
these were several notably fine animals and
the parade was pronounced the best exhibit OF
horses ever seen in the state. The Brattle-
boro gentlemen who attended the exhibition
express their surprise at it's size and excel
lence and the revelation which it gave of the
possibilities of Vermont a. a horse. growing
section. 1t is to be hoped that this exhibit
ton will bear good fruit in stimulating Wind
ham county stock growers to take hold and
bear their share in this important industry.
II every wide-awake farmer in the county
would begin next year to raise one good colt
each season, in five years time we should
find the product one of the most valuable in
ready money of any grown on the soil.
The engagement is announced of Mile
Rhea, the celebrated French actress, to ap.
pear in Brsttleboro on Oct 21. The event,
1t need not be said, will be one of the most
notable ones in our amusement annals for
Mile Rhea ranks among the foremost artists
OF her time. The story of her life has a 70.
mantle interest. When a mere girl, pupil
10 French convent, the great actor Feohter
heard her read, and at once discovered in her
the spark divine" Under his direction
hhe MADE such rapid progress that she was on
the stage in six months time, and thence on
her career has been a succession of artistic
triumphs-in Paris in St. Petersburg, in Lon.
don and in other foreign capitals. She has
made three "triumphal tours" of this ooun-
try and this is announced to be positively her
final farewell to the American stage. II is
not yet announced in what character from her
extensive repertoire she will appear in Brat
tleboro.
The surviving members of Company d,
Sixteenth Vermont Regiment will hold a re-
union at Townshend ON the goth of October.
1t is supposed that some so members are liv.
ing, and it is hoped that all OF them will be
present.
This years improvement list at the asy-
lum will include the construction of a car
rage porch at the rear entrance of the main
building the erection of a handsome new
water reservoir in the park above the Marsh
building to give largely increased supply of
water for fire purposes, and the beginning of
work on large new pggery, to stand within
convenient distance of the farmhouse. The
size OF the Piggery will be 200 by "a feet, it