Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-03-11
VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, MARCH

The hop at the Brooks House will be
held this evening.
The invitations are out for the Bcbckah's
annual masquerade ball, to be held at the
town hall on the evening of the 24th.
The high prices of Connecticut valley
tobacco last year have stimulated growers,
and much larger acreage will be planted
this year.
Fred Gale and Charles Horton went to
New Hampshire pond on saturday and
caught 81 piclcreL weighing upwards of
30 pounds.
The Christian Leader of Boston, the
leading paper of the Uniyersalist denomin-
alton. prints entire this week the sermon
on Evolution and Christianity which
Rev. f. w. Sprague preached a few weeks
ago i'm his Sunday evening series.
Prof. Newcomb will begin next week
the preparatory work for the entertain
ments which are to be given under his
direction. Mr. Ncwcomb's methods, wheth-
cr in musical or i'm dramatic lines, are
thorough, and the young people to whom
| the several roles will be assigned will have
careful and systematic training.
Judge Hugh Henry of Chester, presi-
dent of the soldiers home, and Col. j. J.
! Estcy, of the executive committee, met at
| Bennington last week Thursday and made a
/ contract with the Eagle Square company
at SALISBURY to build the chapel the com
ing spring. About $500 will bc required
and $500 has already been subscribed. 1t
will be of attractive design and have a
seating capacity OF POO.
Remembering the freedom which this sec
ton of New England has enjoyed from Sc
we're storms during the winter now closing,
it seems strange to read that the storm
which prevailed to the south last week,
was one of the worst for years, surpassed
only by the blizzard of 1883. In Boston
the storm took on almost the proportions
of blizzard and on Cape Cod railroad
trains were blockaded for three or four
days. The damage to shipping interests
all along the coast was very great.
School in district No II closed last Fri
day The success Of the terms work is
shown 10y the fact that the people of the
district voted two extra weeks at the close
of the regular term. The scholars receiv-
! ing diplomas of honor were George Stark,
| Lila Barrett, Lola johnson and Frank
Winchester. The scholars gave their
teacher an elegant rocking chair and work
basket as token of love and esteem.
They were invited to Miss Johnson's home
and spent very pleasant evening.
Those who looked at the northern sky a
little before eight o'clock last Sunday even
ing were treated to a brilliant display OF
the aurora boreals. 1t was a recurrence
of the phenomena which was seen on the
night of Feb. Is, and which attracted st
much attention. The horizon was illumin-
ed with a flood of bright light, forming q
great arch, rays of which extended towart
the zenith. The spectacle was not so re-
markable as that of last month, owing tC
the position of the moon, which. being
near the zenith dimmed the Iustre OF tn,
streaks extending upward, as the noon-dal
sun, by its surprising briliancy, obscure'
the moon and stars.
OF all the melodramaS on the American
play-boards to-day, shenandoah which
is to be given by a strong company at tn,
town hall on Friday evening of next week
Justly takes first rank The intense real
ty of these stirring scenes, so fresh in tn,
minds of half the nation, and the pathetic
story that is entwned through the maze
of battle, camp, march and field manpuvre
are the great powers that have mad,
"Shenandoah' the success it is. Openin.
with a scene near Charleston and the iirinj
of the first gun upon Sumter, the play fol
lows the story of the Rebellion in tn
Shenandoah valley and Washington city t,
the end, with unbroken interest.
Gottlieb IIolc whose death at Ne,
Britain, Conn, was announced last week
had been an employc OF the cutlery firm O
LandeTS Fray ~ Co., in that place, an
the flag on that cOmpany's factory wa
placed at half mast on the day of the fu
neral. Mr.. HOLE had been suffering 70
! some time with the "grnders' consumI
, ton" On Monday he had slight hem
orrhage At one o'clock Thursday morn
, ing he awoke his son Charles, who ,lep
in the same room with him. His son say
that he was suffering from another hem
orrhage, and went at once to his assistance
Mr.. HOLE died in II minutes in the arm
of his son. He was a veteran of the civ
war, having served with the First Massa
chusetts cavalry. His war record was
very credtable one. His age was - year,
c. ID. Carpenter opened the new Brook
House barber shop last Monday morning
The shop has been handsomely fitted II
, with the most modern furnishings. 1t ha
a mirror work case for three chairs, wit
Italian marble slabs and French plate mil
, rors, the latter being 36 by 40 inches i
size each, with deep beyel, There is ais
a cabinet mug case to correspond. Tn
cabinet work of the cases is of quartere
1 oak, and there is a centre wash stand Q
! the same material, with two bowls and no
S and cold water for each. Oak chairs of tn
e latest pattern, made by Kochs of Chicago
, were bought and shipped a month ago, bu
e by some unaccountable delay upon tn
e railroad they have not yet arrived Tn
shop has been neatly decorated and pre-
: sents an unusually attractive appearance
: Its location is central and easy of access
B. opening directly from High street. f.
e pecial attention will be paid to work fo
= ladies and children. Mr. Carpenter Ia
!. shown commendable enterprise in thu
4 fitting up first-class place for his bushes
r and the public will undoubtedly show the
S appreciation by generous patronage. II
B. has as an assistant ii. y. Young of Yves
/ Randolph, who is giving excellent satisfa,
h ton. The cabinet work was made b
g Henry IL Helyar.
The daily papers of the past week hay
d much to say of the strange death of ST,
II phen T. Hopkins an eX-Congressman frol
; New York, whose dead body was foun
> near the West Jersey railroad tracks {
Il Pleasantylle, where it had evidently lai
) for some time before it was discovered
; Hopkins was a man of excellent parts bl
u had been for years victim of the drin
J habit. Six weeks ago he went to a Keele
+ institute and took the bi-chloride of COL
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