Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-05-04

tine liquor 0f1HhFf, since not many coulu ne
found willing to parade the streets attired
in beer barrel coat The lecture was ap-
parently well enjoyed by all present.
Bailey q Simonds have sold W G.. Doc
Titles farm in Townshend TO +. j. Knapp
for $3.50
Col. Fuller was one Of the speakers at
the banquet given at the Hotel Nendome in
Boston last Friday evening, 10y the Massa-
chusetts club in honor Of the memory of
Gen. Grant
Fred @. Stedman, Of the junior class in
Wesleyan academy at Wilbrahan, Mass,
has been chosen one Of the prize speakers
for commencement week.
Divine Ambition" is Mr. lllman's sub
iect for next Sunday morning.
Repairs ON the Vinton building are near
ly completed. The occupants will he the
same as before the fire.
The ladies Of the Relief corps will serve
a Decent supper in q. A. r. hall on Friday
evening, May I, to be followed by "A socia
BILE. Everybody is invited to attend.
W. G. Coane, an employee Of Gunsmith
Wood. was unloading II 32 calibre revolver
Monday evening, when the weapon was &c
cidentally discharged, the ball passing
through the ileshy part Of his hand.
The trouting season opened this week,
aud local piscatorans have lined the streams
in the hope of securing the speckled beau
ties but only n few good catches have been
made, owing to the high water.
Leightsnger's orchestra furnished music
| for the Odd Fellows celebration at Hins
dale last Friday evening, and for the Uni
tartan May day festivities at Greenfield on
| Tuesday.
A full attendance is hoped for at the reg
ular W. G.. T. L. meeting 10 he held next
| Tuesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock, as business
Of Importance will come up.
Mrs j. G. Howe writes home from Ger
many that she finds Mr. Lucien and Miss
Mary Howe pleasantly situated and in ex-
celent health She thinks there can be no
doubt of Miss Mays complete success in
the operate season for which she is engaged.
The Democrats hold their caucus tonight
TO elect delegates to the state and district
conventions, which will choose delegates to
the national convention at St Louis.
Only about 90 persons awaited themselves
Of the privilege Of the Universalst excur
sion to Bellows Falls Tuesday evening, to
witness the presentation of the operetta,
Golden Hair and the Three Bears, and
the May-poe exercises. A pleasant trip
throughout is reported.
The Boston merchants committee have
made arrangements for trade excursion
to Boston from all parts Of this state, May
II and 10, with tickets at half-fare rates
good for a return trip until May 10. 1t will
be necessary for all who contemplate join
ing the excursion to send their names 10
George Hutchinson, % % Federal street,
Boston, before May ..
The Murray club met with Mrs. w. S.
Moore Wednesday evening. Games and
sociabilitv furnished an evenings entertain
meut The club, at the end Of the year,
puts nearly hundred dollars in the say
ings bank after paying for paperng the
parsonage.
f.. Crosby's x Co 5 annual statement of
their years business, ending May list shows
that they have sold during the past year
49, PCS barrels of flour, their wholesale
feed trade has been over 800 cars. while
their freight bills have amounted to $s3,
ISL 80. As a whole the years trade has
been remarkably good, being considerably
in excess Of the previous year. Chas. r.
Crosby, who for nearly four years has been
bookkeeper Of the company, has been admit
ted "A, IA member Of the firm
The leading feature Of our first page to
day is Mr. Stedmans promised letter, Civ
ing hi, impressions Of Southern California
II tells the things which eastern people
want a. know, and our readers will hope
that this may not hc the last contribution
of the kind which We shall have from Mr.
Stedmans pen
On Sunday next. the fifth after Easter
services will be- held in St Michael's lEpis
copaD church at $50 A. NJ, Sunday school
1880 \. NJ, morning prayer, sermon, holy
communion $50 =. NJ, evening prayer.
1t will be twenty four years tomorrow
since the first day 5 fighting in the terrible
Battle Of the Wilderness took place The
contribution printed ON our first page today
relating a private soldiers experience on
that dreadful day. is therefore Of especially
timely interest The narratives which hav,
been contributed 10y officers who were il
command OF the troops are of lnestimablt
historical value, but there are thousands oil
individual experiences like that here re
corded, which, could they be gathered up
would be of scarcely less value in establish
ing all the facts Of history. Private l. s.
story is graphically told, and we think
good many Brattleboro old soldiers will rec
ognize in it the ready pen of Comrade Peter
S. Chase
Col and Mrs Estey, who reached HON,
last saturday. evidently found great pleas
ure in their California outing Col Esteyi
impressions of the country are substantially
those given by Mr. Stedman in his letter
The valleys in the southern part Of the stat'
are, to he sure, the finest in the world, a
their residents exultingly claim but they
have their drawbacks just like all othei
sections, and the Colonel isn't anxious t,
swap Brattleboro for anything that he saw
there The real estate boom has passed IL
climax, and III many eases the second pay
ments ON land bought Of the specua
tors come slowly, or are not made at all
and the property goes back to the hands o.
its original owners
l.. +. I.awton the well known contractor
aud Miss Cushman, teacher Of the Cana
street primary school, while ENJOYING al
evening walk last saturday, strolled gu
upon the overhanging timbers at the south
ern ahutment of the fallen Elm stree
bridge. The insecure support gave way
and the couple were precipitated a dozeI
feet or more into the canal below, guam
tity of loosened boards falling upon them
Both were rendered inseusible by the fall
but Mr.. Lawton was the first 10 recover
and soon managed to extricate himsel
from the debris and help his companion on
of the two feet Of water. They were bot
hu1lN bruised, hul nave now partially re
covered from the effects of the accident
, More work will he done at Mr.. Lyons
granite quarties this year than ever before
Fifty men have been at work there 70
some time aud at least another fifty will b
. added as soon as lodging and board can b
provided for them. Mr.. Lyons is now o
the ground arranging for the erection o
additional houses, including a boarding.
IL. :.
clude, besides the stone for the Gettvsbur
monument, granite for the masonry of fv
new bridges to he erected by the Connect
cut River railroad company on their mai
line, for the new dam To he built across tn
Chicopee river in that city by the Dwigh
! company, and for the extensive system O
improvements to be made by the New York
{ New Haven x Hartford railroad compan
! on their line through the city Of Hartfor
this season. These improvements includ
the raising Of the company's tracks abOv
l the street crossings and roadways through
out the city. and will involve the expend
/ ture of more than three quarters of mi
lion dollars Al these contracts are of tn
most solid" character, and Mr.. Lyons is t
1 he congratulated on this favorable outloo
, for his business Brattleboro may also con
1 graduate itself, for it means so much adde,
! to the business Of the place A force O
r Carrck Bros. men, from St. Johnsbury,
p now on the ground or will be in a day o
] two, to do the cutting on the granite 70
% the Gettysburg monument,
5 Dixey in Adonis is booked for the town
hall May % The only places in the stat
5 whore he will play are Rutland, Montpelie
aud Brattleboro.
a The man who has forgotten to get his do
Y licensed eau do so with Justice Newton be
, fore May 18th, by paying So instead of 81
o l. MiMer has hnnnht of h h Stock