Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-05-16

cess In all the larger cities Of the country
At the start they made a radical new de
parture bv abolishing the traditional first
part The curtain goes up on a scene Of
Welcome home, aud similar novel fen
lures continue throughout the program
The finale is the Princess of Camhodia vs.
a funny burlesque, bright in costume and
full of good music. aud showing George
German, the Irish king, as an unrivalled
character actor
The Boston Record has been using as an
advertising card of late the offer of a hand
some Estey piano 10 be given bv vote TO
the most popular lady teacher in Massa
chusetts The voting closed last week and
the result was announced on Saturday A
total of nearly 600, 900 votes was cast, and
the winner was Miss Fiske Of East Licking
ington, who received los. S24. the other
highest numbers being 81 600, g. 900. So
900 and so on. The Record is shrewdly
working the scheme for all 1t is worth. and
the formal public presentation of the piano
takes place this afternoon. when there will
be a procession out TO East Lexington, the
piano being drawn, w decorated wagon,
from the Estey company's fremont street
store in Boston to its destination Miss
Fiske, who is a young woman with historic
blood in her veins, is TO be congratulated on
this evidence Of her popularity as well as on
the ownership Of piano whose name leads
the world in its field of musical merchan.
disc. She should spend her vacation in
Brattleboro this summer.
Judge Tyler, who left home on Monday,
sits during the present month in the Or.
ange, Caledonia, and Washington county
supreme courts, aud will hold the Jut e
term of the Orange county court
Mr. A. b Hall. the village clerk who
has been filling out certain statistical
blanks for the census office with regard %
the municipal Indebtedness of the country,
finds that the Brattleboro village debt in
1881 was Sl4 .4S9 against only $1,000 at the
present time
The jurors for the May term of the
United States court at Windsor were drawn
under the new method of making up pan
els Formerly the Jurors for the United
States courts were drawn from the state
boxes hut under new rule they are drawn
10y commissioners of jurors the commits
sioners consisting of the clerk of courts
aud man of opposite politics to the clerk
appointed 10y the court In the Vermont
district these commissioners are Clerk John
son and Col. b b. Smaey, who was ap
/ pointed at the February term. They ait
required to keep always at least 300 name,
in the jury box to draw from. the list be
/ ing a lie up by each commissioner alter
/ natey putting IN name, and the drawing,
| being then made as required
The Christian Science association vii
meet next Wednesday evening with Mrs
| F. II Thomas, % Prospect street.
An interesting ball game was played OF
| the island Wednesday between the High
school classes Of % and 80 the former
winning 10y a score Of 20 to / Many %
/ the boys are anxious to hold a field day TIM
/ year and it is to be hoped that the projec
may be carried out The Caremont, Bel
| lows Falls and Springfield High schools hav,
/ formed the Connecticut Valley interscho
lastic association aud are TO hold field da,
/ together. The Brattleboro boys ought &,
/ be admitted to the association and doubles
would If they made ii move in that direc
/ ton
The reunion of Company G.. 2d Vernon
/ regiment, Is being held at q a r. hall To-
/ dav
/ II T. Smith of New York city has bouph
/ l. +. Adams house on oak street for hi
/ daughter. Mrs T. A. Starkcy. who viii o.
| cupy II about June J. Price about $500
| Mr. Adams and family will make thei
! home with Mrs. L. Crosby
Royal L Ward, a well to do farmer. liv
| ing on the river road in South Deerheld
Mass, hanged himself IN his barn Tuesds,
Afternoon Mrs Fred Davis the milhner
was his daughter by adoption
Mrs. Rnxanna Young, who keeps a board
| ing house at No. - Elliot street. had abou
! 500 IN hills stolen from a dress III he
rooms last Monday night The doors wer
locked and 1t Is not known how the rubber
was committed although the thief ma
have entered through a window which wa
found open in the morning
a shooting gallery man is trying to I'm,
quarters
The handsome stallion "Clay Lambert
/ which Is nov standing on the fair ground
| Is being speeded on the track every dnv
and easily shows a mile in 2:4O or les,
though he has had no regular training Tn
young horse evidently has speed as well n
beauty
The electric light company has one q
the latest Thomson Houston incandescen
dynamos bought aud due to be here on til
10Th inst. 1t is of 6j0 light capacity, an
is expected to be in place and ready for MS
hy June The wiring of the Brook
House is being completed ready for imme
dlate connection
At Boston last week Friday, in the cas-
of Eta w Harris, alias DR.. Ludgate
charged with mai practice, the jury return
ed verdict of guilty. The penalty in sucI
cases Is not less than one year ami not NOR
than seven years imprisonment. and I'm
not to exceed 5000 The defence wa
given eight days TO file exceptions Mis-
Harris was herself called as a witness. bu
did not help her own case. She stated tina
she was born in Vernon, and studied med
cine with doctors in Brattleboro Ate
first going 10 Boston she came back to Brat
tleboro, returning 20 Boston 10 or - year
ago.
One of the leading articles in the Bosto
Globe last Sunday was about DR.. John vi
son, supposed to be the notorious Thunder
holt, the hero of a score Of highway rot
berries in Ireland aud Scotland 1t will b
remembered that Wilson practiced medicin
in this place, his death occurring in 1917
The annual log drive Of the Connection
river lumber company is now in the vicir
ity Of Waterford, where big jams have o,
Cured and two bridges have been washe
away. A force of 800 men and 90 horse
are employed.
The grand lodge of the Knights of Homo
will hold its 18th annual session in Rutlan
June %. Reduced rates will be given o
the railroads.
Attention is called to the advertisement
of the stations "Hamhletonian Dom an
Archie owned by j. F. Mcclellan q
Griswoldvlle, Mass, which are TO max
tho saas,p al the sta bl.l If a n XLor.
The Yale class Of ~ beat the Mour
Hermon boys IN two games Of base ball a
Mortified last Saturday Christie Grove
and Z Lane are the battery for the Nom
Hermons, The field day comes next MOI
day and a tub race on the pond will be on
of tine events
The picked nine which recently went I
SaXtons River will play with the Vernon
academy team on the island grounds mex
Monday afternoon at $3.50
During the recent seven DAYS count
number of pieces and weight of mail matte
sent from the post. office, 2S, 4GS piece
weighing SljO pounds were handled, o
which the postage was S34l. This includ
ed $500 letters, l14l postal cards, 400 trar
silent newspapers 1850 pieces of othe
printed matter, 2S2 packages Of seeds an
plants, lb1 of merchandise and of secou
class matter from publishers and new
agents IL, SOC pieces, weighing 745j poundi
of which 69Sl pounds went outside tn
county. This showing is a wonderful on,
although the weeks business was hardly u
20 the average The largest number q
mail letters handled in one day, not in
GLIDING local letters and postals, was 200l
A ball team in Brattleboro this year
now practically assured. Manager Holde
of the Brown university team has write
70 Col Hooker this week, saying that hi
men were preparing To come after the col