Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-11-12
Wilmington.

Rev. q. +. Arms, who has been housed
for about a week with quinsy sore throat,
is out again and feeling nearly as well as
usual
The extra meetings which are being held
in the Methodist church are very interesting
and profitable. Mr. Daniels is very earn
est and eloquent speaker and is very desir-
Gus of seeing the young people and children
at the meetings Babies not excepted
The first touch of real winter struck us
Sunday, and Monday the ground looked
very much as if the mythical old woman of
the sky had been picking her geese, but the
weather has moderated, and now we have
mud instead of the beautiful snow
Rev L. f. Rockwell, former pastor Of
the NJ E. church here, was appointed To a
pastOrate in Buffalo, n. Y, by the general
conference late in session.
Artist Crosier will be at his rooms here
ON Wednesday and Thursday of each week.
This announcement ought to attract every
one here who is in want of good work.
Mrs. f. j. Titus has returned from her
visit to New York and Boston.
We have heard by the by, that our old
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Will Bassett, don't
find life in Dakota Just what they expected,
having had a crop of 80 bushels of potatoes
instead of $50 as they supposed they would
have, and finding that it costs more this
year 10 harvest the crops than can be real
lied for them. However, we suppose they
feel rich in one sense, rs girls are said to be
worth $500 in any market See births
c. d. Spencer is in Boston this week buy
ing new goods to replenish their already
very large stock o. o. Ware also has IA
large stock of new goods
John Fitch, former resident of this
town, and brother of d. r, Fitch, has re
turned after a sojourn of nineteen years in
Tabor, Ia Mr.. Fitch has had some thrill
ing experiences during his stay in the
west. Three years ago he had fifteen acres
of corn standing six feet high. On the 10th
of July there came one of those terrible
hail storms, accompanied by wind, so pecu-
liar 10 the west, and cut down and carried
away every vestige of il and his growing
potato crop shared the same fate. Five
miles away it was veritable cyclone, de
stroying everything in its track After he
had sold his farm and removed to his village
home, another hail storm broke out every
light of glass on the north and west sides of
his house. The hailstones resembled broken
pieces of ice, some of them six inches in
circumference, and were driven in through
the broken windows with Such force as 10
leave their mark ON the ceiling ON the oppo-
site side of the room. When the storm sub
sided the floor was covered four inches deep
with hailstones These, and like triiing oc
currences, together with the poor health of
himself and wife, induced Mr.. Fitch to sell
out and come east and the way he ut
tered the sentiment "Hurrah for Old New
England when he found himself and fami-
ly once more safely ON her rock bound
shore indicates that he will be quite con
tent to spend the remainder of his life in
Vermont, perhaps in Wilmington, which he
declares emphatically to be, ON the whole
the best farming town he has seen for 10
years The soil of Iowa is all that can be
desired crops and animals can be raised ON
Il large scale but storms and diseases and
calamities Of every kind come ON large
scale also To those who have the western
fever this will be interesting reading.
10. II. Jones, agent for The Phoenix,
win receive new subscriptions and attend
promptly to any business which Whining
ton people may have to transmit with our
Oiiice.-ED