Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-03-19

all Of them little counter soiled Also fresh
lot Of set. lace edges from to inches wide We
received to-day case Of remnants Turkey-red
Damast at - cts. per yard among them very
handsome patterns. F.w KuEoH Co.
House to rent-seyen rooms. I. N. THORN.
THoHN's Hor AND BURDocK ToSIc-A safe and
sure remedy Tor sick headache.
PtcruRE FRAMES are cheap at Clapp 4 Jones's.
BrastIebOrO.
--liav. Mr.. Towers subject next Sunday
morning will be Good Hope" Mr. Carl
ton will speak in the evening.
Next Thursday evening the gentlemen Of
the Uniycrsalist church will take a hand in
the series OF vestry entertainments and will
! provide and serve sugar supper.
The Rebekahs opened up the social side
Of the sugar season on Wednesday evening
with sugar supper" at Odd Fellows hall
which was well patronized
Next Tuesday evening the Knights and
Ladies Of Honor are to give Novelty
| dance at Crosby ball. The novelty" will
consist in the fact that numbered boquets
will be furnished aud every gentleman who
attends will be expected to buy one The
one which gets the lucky number will draw
the prize of the evening" handsome terra
line vase.
The Brooks House Office has never pre- b.
scented no handsome an appearance as since
its new decorations OF paper and paint we're
completed. The choice OF the design and Sc
lection of the paper for the ceiling does
much credit to the good taste of Van Doom
Morris, and the way the work has been
done speaks well for Bemis's handiwork.
On Sunday next (second Sunday in Lent
there will be an early celebration OF the Holy
Communion in 81. Michaers (Episcopal)
church at A. NJ Morning prayer and ser
mon at 1880 A. NJ; Sunday school immedj
a,ely afterwards Evening prayer and lecture
at p NJ
The W. c. T. T. supper and social held
at the residence of Q. W. Wyman on Tuesday
evening was very pleasant affair in the opin-
ion OF the 40 or more persons present. A
short but excellent literary program followed
the supper, consisting OF vocal aud instru-
mental music by Mss Wyman and Frank
Crosby, and reading by Mrs. Housh
-Dr. Tucker was elected president Of the
Homo pathic Medical society Of Western
Massachusetts at the annual meeting held al
Springfield on Wednesday
The dissolution Of the firm of O'Neil a.
Love, painters is announced this week MIR
ONeil will continue the business and Mr.
Lowe will remain with him for the present
Two post-office inspectors have been in
Bratteboro during the past week on business
connected with the department. 1t is un
derstood that both of them expressed sur
prise at the kind of place in which they
! found located an Office of the size, import
ance and profit to the government of that
Brattleboro. One of them, Mr.. Dame o
Newport, n. H., whose headquarters are il
Boston, is understood to have done some Wig
orous looking around while he was here, anC
1t wouldn't be strange il the outcome SHOULD
be an early and imperative move on the par
of the department for new office.
Wednesday, was a good day for real es
tate sales. II. +. Smiths house on Higl
, street was sold by auction as advertised am
was bought by w. f. Richardson for $3.50
II Is Understood that it will be occupied by
one OF his sons. On that day the Steen plac
r on North Main street was bought for $40
a by Mr. Dowley for Mrs. Avery Plummer
, who, with her mother Mrs. Knight, will soo
, occupy it. On the same day DIR. o. X. Pos
, sold his place at the Junction of High an
! Green streets to John Rstting on terms whic
are private. The guessing which the Nanke
a IL bound to do on the occasion hits at abou
, $1,000. DR.. Post will remain on the plac
for the present. II is not announced wha
I use Mr. RettiDg will make of tue property
but the erection of one or two new house
q upon 1t Is among the possibilities.
The annual meeting of the Murray clu
J.. was held at the Uniyersalst church vestr
\
Mrs +. W. Whitney for president; W. S
n Hudson, vice president; f. W. Simpson
n secretary ii. NJ. Wood, treasurer; Mimi
Rettng, Nettie Starr, Austin Russell, Lutht
Plummer, directors Jennie GoodenouP
= and Mr.. Powell, property committee; Ami
Olive, Nina Thomas, Alice Farr Bert Ware
Leroy Willis and Fred Reed, social commit
= tee.
r A large company OF friends were delieh
ed at fha 80
Clark on Wednesday evening. Besides
number of classical piano selections rangin
Il IN character from nOcturHe by Chopin
y Schubert's lively Gypsy Dance and sctey7
by BArgiel, interpreted by Miss Clark wit
/ tue insight of a true musician, the Finale
II from Haydn's twelfth symphony was give
e by Misses Clark and Greasy, and by spec
request the former gave Mexican Dances.
j. Miss Brasor and Mr.. l.. X. Willis each gave
charming song, and, the audience refusing
IS be satisfied with this, responded to encor,
n with selections equally well received. Mr.
a A. Abbotts yiolincello solo WAS also accorde
an encore. To music-lovers the enjoymeI
10 of the hour-and a. half was almost ideally pc
feet.
John McQuoid of Cambridgeport, VII
-, has driven team for the Grafton soap-stoI
e quarry for the past dozen years, has take
IT MIR. Bradley's West River farm and wi
? move there April lst.
The Centreville school closes March 2Gtl
N There will be no public exercises at the cloi
= of this term.
J. Clerks of school districts are reminde
d that their registers must be returned to Il
y town superintendent by March 10Th.
g Next Sunday evening Rev. f. W. Viii
d ney will give the fourth of the series of le
n lures upon marriage. Subject, "UnhapI
II Marriages"
The warrant was posted this morniu
+ for the annual meeting of school district N,
n 2 which occurs on Tuesday evening Marc
o Both. The warrant calls for no business GU
n side the regular routine. The treasurers r
Q port will show the running expenses of Il
10 year all paid and $1,000 in hand to apply G
= the Indebtedness.
J; The agents of the Phmaix iusuranc
a company OF New York, in all parts of II
country, have contributed a total of s.. 92l. {
u toward the Grant monument fund Sherma
u a JENNIE of Brattleboro are counted in "a
20 their share.
~ 1t is pleasant to see how rapidly publ
/ sentiment il growing against the practice
wearing the heads and bodies of birds
trimming for women's clothing. Almost e
cry newspaper, in city and country. hi
q some allusion TO it. Oliver Wendell Holm,
W writes that he wishes the birds could be or
:, tected by law, and a correspondent indignan
u ly tells the Boston Transcript of lady at
~ recent symphony concert, whose hat was o
IL namented with the heads of twenty bird
Is The women have the matter in their hand
y and it is one of their rights" which nobod
- will question, to stop the wanton and cru
10 business OF bird destruction this very season