Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-11-01

Not content with trying to sink out Of
his attack on Mr. Hayes by printing gar
hled parallel column, the editor of the Re.
former attempted last week to put on some
ole else the responsibility for his false state
ment that Mr. Hayes staid at the Brooks
house nearly one whole day waiting in the
parlor for callers who never came. at
was an error due to transformation from
its courteous clerk he whines, like "a
school hoy brought to book. 1t was no such
thing The courteous clerk" who is
Young man with level head on him, told
Mr. Davenport distinctly that Mrs Bigelow
drove Mr.. Hayes down from West Brattle
boro late in the afternoon, and that Mr.
Hayes ordered an early supper ate it As
soon as it was ready and then went to the
station to take the train for Newfane. The
"misinfor nation in the case was the pro
duct of Mr.. Davenport 5 own brain, and this
particular feature Of his attack on Mr.
HAYES looks more aud more like DELHI
crate falsehood concocted to furnish a basis
for his assault on the ex-president.
Mr.. Harry W. 5. Burton will occupy the
Baptist pulpit ON Sunday.
An unusually elegant tea-servce is dis
played in Ranger x Thompson's window
this week.
Inc boys say ludL james NlillDnuN
promises TO rival c. 2. ellison as horse
dealer.
Elder 5. Cook will preach in Grand Army
hall Sunday at 2:3O P. NJ.
Miss Lizzie T. Colburn, for the past nine
years an employG in this office, goes next
week TO Chicago to enter Mr. Moody's
training school for Christian workers, as a
preparation for some department Of mis-
sion work among the poor of the great
cities Miss Colburn has looked forward
for some time past to work of this kind,
and it had been her plan to 20 early in the
winter to begin her preparation under Mrs
Theodore Irving of New York president of
the central ten of Kings Daughters but
this opportunity in Mr. Moody's Chicago
school having presented itself, a somewhat
sudden change in her plans has been made.
In Miss Colburns departure The Phoenix
office will lose one of the most valued and
accomplished members of its corps of work
ers, and the religious, philanthropic and ed
vocational organizations of the village will
miss one of their most Interested and elf
Gent helpers Miss Colburn's mother, Mrs
S. a. Colburn, will go to spend the winter
with her daughter, Mrs. Park, in Boston.
Miss Minnie +. Horton will succeed to Miss
Colburns place in this Office.
There will he supper and sociabe at
the Universalist vestry next Thursday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Harris gave pleas
ant progressive euchre party of five tables
at the home of Mr. Harriss father on Oak
street Tuesday evening.
Henry Akley * Co. have begun "a retail
meal and feed business at their mill on
Frost street
A Hotchkiss shell thrown into Vicksburg
by Gen, Grant during the siege in June,
1868, a miniature bale of cotton from Den
son, and stalk of sugar cane from Shreve
port, La are among the curos brought
home by Capt. Childs last week from his
Southern trip, and shown in Chamberlan's
window
The Brattleboro Savings bank has entered
| into an agreement with Messrs. Starr and
| EsteV, the owners of Bank block, corner of
| Main and Elliot streets, to rent from them
for the use of the bank, the premises now
occupied by Mrs T. Avery for the term of
ten years from and after January LIST 1892
and sooner in case the premises should be
vacated 10y the present occupant upon con
| ditons agreed upon This seems in all re
spects 10 be almost an ideal location for the
bank, and is unquestionably the most de
sirabe likely to be available
The Peoples Five Year Benefit order will
have public entertainment and installation
of officers at the town hall next Tuesday
evening.
Fifteen or twenty Sons of Veterans, with
ladies, drove to Hinsdae last evening to
witness the presentation of the cantata of
Esther
Bailey x Miner have sold f. b. Richard
sons wood yard, near the Elliot street
iron bridge, to Canedy Bros of Halifax
also the Gibbs farm in Dummerston, owned
by VIM. Thomas of Guilford, to Mrs. Adams
of the West village.
D. McGillivray has large collection of
chrysanthemums carnations and other
choice flowers in bloom.
Col Fuller is making careful and extend
ed experiments with electricity as a motive
power for organ bellows which have already
borne practical fruit, a small Edison dynamo
furnishes the mysterious fluid. Several
large organs with this electric motive power
have already been sent to the company;
leading sales houses, and others are in pro
cess of manufacture.
In digging a well for the two smal
houses which have been built ON the river
shore on the Hinsdae road, just beyond tn,
little river bridge, a section of a tree or log
and quantity of butternuts were found al
a depth of 26 feet The wood of the log i,
hard, compact and well preserved, but hai
evidently been long water soaked, so tina
it is not easy to say of exactly what variety
it is. The nuts are perfect in outward APP
pearance, but the meats are shriveled o.
decayed The place where they were found
bedded in fine river sand, is at least II fee
below the present bed Of the river, and tn
only way TO account for their presence Their
seems 10 he ON the superstition that tn
main current of the river once flowed wei