Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-23

Lamp Stoves" will boil water make coffee In
nine minutes. For sale by VAN DooRN MoRRIs.
Picture FRAMES cheap at Clapp 4 Joncs's.
BFAtHebOrO.
We have this week the expression Of two
Brattleboro ministers on the labor question.
Ga our first page il the main part Of the Fast
day sermon preached by Rev. Mr.. Spauldng
of West Brattleboro, and in our local depart
ment we give an abstract of Rev. Mr.. Croth.
ers's sermon OF last Sunday morning, sug-
gested by the labor troubles
Union gospel temperance meeting in the
Y. NJ. O. A. rooms Sunday at b:3O p. NJ.
A. w. Childs, who retains his agency for
the Columbia bicycles, announces his readi.
ness to furnish all information called for and
to sell these standard machines at the lowest
prices. The Columbus have at least one
strong point in their favor-they are thorough
ly well made, aud buyers are sure OF getting
value received for their money.
Public examination Of teachers to morrow
at High School building.
The second volume of Grants Memoirs
will be published May 10Th
e. s. Horton has on exhibition rattle
snake which he caught yesterday at the foot
OF Wantastiquet moVntain, measuring feet
2 inches in length and inches in circumfer-
ence-a remarkably large specimen.
&C. W. Drown will start city cab next
week to run to trains and to answer oallsIo
all parts Of the village at all hours OF the day
or evening. Those attending evening parties
and entertainments will find it an especial
convenience. Headquarters aud order book
will be at Briggs drug store.
In answer to demand which the warm
weather has called out rather earlier than
usual, Mr.. Thurber Of the Brattleboro bak-
cry will begin next Sunday morning to sup
ply bis customers with baked beans aud
brown bread. Mr.. Thurber has taken great
pains to meet all the demands Of his trade
his goods are always up to high standard,
and the business OF his place has steadily
grown under his excellent management. At
tention is called to his advertisement Of
specialties for the summer season.
The Springfield Republican had THU
pleasant mention Of Brattleboro aud one OF
our leading citizens yesterday 1T used t
be said that Brattleboro was noted for its hut
horses and beautiful women, but N. /. Haw
| ley has given it q new fame-the glory o.
producing the largest. pinkest and sweetes
arbutus that blows. Mr.. Hawley is not un
mindful Of old Springfield friends, and hi
| spring proof Of the charms Of Brattleboro il
cheerfully accepted a. conclusive"
/ Harry Walsh's Congress Of Novelties,
including the Bohemian glass blowers Her
man the wizard, etc, will appear at Crosb,
hall four evenings OF next week, beginning oil
/ Tuesday, with matinee Saturday afternoon
This popular ,how comes here under the Au
spices OF Post Sedgwick, G. A Il.
F A. Jones has sold his dining saloon oil
Elliot street to +. l. Batchelder aud +. l.
Shaw, who will continue the business unde
al. 81 4 ~ -
Batchelder will have immediate charge. run
ming his confectionery business in connection
herewith.
A letter lately received here from Huron
Oak, gives good report OF Mr.. and Mrs
W. GoodDer, who emigraled from Brattlebor
some two or three years ago. Mr. Goodne
still retains his position "a court stenogrs
pher for Beadle county, over POO lawyer
having signed q petition for his T. appoint
ment under the present Democratic Judge
They have built a cosy little home here,
says the writer, "and think are prosper
ing
L. F. Adams left Tuesday en- route fo
the Vermont Live Stock company's ranct
Next week Freeman Scott will start with
carload Of young bulls which ID. s. Pratt ha
been collecting during the winter for shiI
ment to the ranch They are mostly hg
grade animals, some Of them from Mr. Pratt
own herd.
The semi annual meeting Of the Connet
tcut Valley Conference will be held with th
Unitarian society on June and O.
Mr.. Gerorge j. Brooks reached Brattl
borO on his return from California Monda
evening, and on Tuesday evening the Fir,
Regiment band rendered him a serenade an
many prominent citizens called TO exprel
their pleasure at seeing him and their appr
citation OF bis prof scted benefaction to Brattl,
boro which has called him home a month earl
er than usual. Mr.. Brooks has received bid
for the construction Of the public lbrar
building from six different bidders Ave
them from out OF town. He will award Il
contract within day or two and expects
have active work begun by the first Of May
The suggestion having been made tha
with the purchase OF few feet of land fro
the point Of the Harris property between N,
Main and Asylum streets, q suitable site cou
be secured there for the soldiers monumen
Mr., Herrick wrote Mrs. Harris asking II Il
land could be bought. She replies that 81
should not be disposed to part with it und
any consideration.
The Rutland Herald, in commenting O
the result of our special town meeting, SAL
that mot only has the town of Brattlebo
.
DRY of its soldiers, but in its action" Apr,
priating the whole of the money, at b
reared a monument to its own Independent
and dignity"
, According 10 Prof. Barnard of the Va
, derbilt university at Nashville, Tenn, a n
, ked- eye comet is now visible in the moTniI
skies in the northeast 1t was first discove
ed at Paris with telescope last Decembe
! 1t will rapidly increase in brilliancy up to Il
29th, when it will be brightest. II will tn
be visible in the evening, setting less than
hour after the sun, and will be moving We
! rapidly toward the southeast.
| The Phoenix r. ceived the following plei
1 ant message by Cdrte POStdLe last Sund
/ morning;
6 "sAHARA, Oasis Of Biskra, March &c. 1885
"a Yankee abroad sends his greetings to his frieI
The Vermont Phoenix, surrounded with 1850 900 pa
9 trees, thermometer at $50 u A. ny, sun too hot
\ walk without parasol."
a As a return message The PL@niI sends VIC
= that on April IS, the day this card arrive
the Yankees at home enjoyed a delightful p
Q monition of the summer which is comm
The mercury climbed TO 800 May. Aowt
/ we're in full bloom, and so we're the elms a
J. soft naples the leaf buds ON the ca
n shrubs we're bursting open, and though
4. the hills a patch of snow was here aud thu
. visible the air was as dry and soft aud |
b suns heat almost as oppressive az in IN
o summer.
/ 1t is the general impression that the O.
u tinuOus. warm, midsummer weather of
n past week is without precedent in rec,
n years The meteorological record, howev
shows that this weather has been almost
o exact duplicate of that Of the correspond
, week last year The mean temperature
# the week last year was 5G.So, aud the m'
n maximum temperature G9.So the mean te
l. perature of the past week has been 60 50, q
" the mean maximum 75.2o-a difference
spectively OF only a and 54o. In our is
4 OF April "a last year we said The 81
10 have been uninterruptedly clear, the air &
10 and dry, aud the temperature little shori
r that OF midsummer" Vegetation has co
10 forward with marvellous rapidity since s
10 day. Early shrubs are already in half
aud the buds of forest trees are burst