Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-05

Col. II. T.. Taylor, special Inspector of
the customs department, seized ten barrels
of dressed poultry Saturday at lIighgate.
The report that ). NJ. Foss was to resign
as general superintendent of the Central
Vermont railroad is pronounced to be with
out foundation.
The ladies of the Unitarian society will
give Il sociable at Wells hall next Thursday
evening. Supper will be be served at half
past six. Dancing at eight o'clock.
Cyrus Ramsdel has a pen of II Wyan-
| dotte pullets which rank near the head of
the list as egg producers. During Deem
her and January they laid 5D4 eggs the rec
ord for the latter month being 34S eggs.
A Boston subscriber in a recent business
letter, writes as follows: "The Phoenix
seems like a dear home friend, coming
every week to tell us about so much we are
interested in. We could not be without it.
The Central Vermont railroad is moving
an unusual amount of freight cars north
and west, says the st. Adams Messenger.
The amount of traffic now being handled
is probably the largest in the history of
the road. The power is in excellent condi-
ton and no delay is experienced
The New York Sun printed on Tuesday
an alleged Bratilcboro letter on "Rudyard
kiping's Bride" the main portion Of
which was made up bodily from various ar
ticles in The Phoenix, dating back to the
sketch of the late Joseph n. Balestier,
Esq. the grandfather of Mrs. Kipling,
who died in 1885
The well-known Chappcll farm on the
main road from Brattleboro about one
mile south of Putney village, has been
sold through Bailey ~ Co.'S agency to
Charles Glidden of Boston, who with his
mother spent the past summer at the
Brooks House. The view up the river
from this place is unusually fine.
The good Dominic joined heartily in the
fun and chatting when he wore off the
Real Estate Mans top-coat from the Brooks
House the other evening and came back
to make confession. 81 didn't take that
into consideration he stoutly protested,
when the Governor suggested that he
| brought the coat back because ii was not
so good as his own.
Notwithstanding the ravages of the grip
the death rate in the village district for
the month of January was not alarmingly
large, eight deaths being recorded. In
January of last year the number was six,
in 1890 six, in 1889 four in 1888 six, in
1887 four in 1856 six. in 1885 only three
and in 1884 eight. In nearly every year
the rate for January is below the average.
A petition has been in circulation this
| week, and has received the signatures of
prominent business and professional men.
asking to have all free delivery post offices
of the second class, like that at Brattlebo-
TO, placed under the civil service rules, the
letter carriers to be included This is recog-
nized as another important step toward tax
ing the postal service ont of politics and
putting it on a purely business basis, where
| it belongs, as that department of the GOV
ernment which is brought into daily init
mate connection with all the people.
The New York Tribune of a recent date
! gives an extended account of remarka-
bic revival conducted by Rev. b. FAY Mills
at Elizabeth, n j., during the preceding
two weeks. All Protestant denominations
united in the meetings and the church
where they were held was crowded "On
last Tuesday nearly all business houses
closed between the hours OF 9:30 and II
O'Clock A. NJ; also from , to ) p. NJ. and
again in the evening at 7o'clock. Most of
the liquor shops in the principal streets
also closed their front doors. 1t was an
unusual spectacle for Elizabeth" Fully
1900 people accompanied the preacher to
the train when he left the city. Mr.. Mills's
work in Brattleboro is well remembered
Conductor Spofford and Engineer Wet
more of the passenger train and Conductor
Rouse of the freight train, who were in
volved in the accident at Vernon last week.
were called to New London last Saturday
for hearing before Superintendent Spauld-
ing and the other local managers of the
New London Northern company. Money!
facts were developed, and no statement
was made, as we understand, definitely
placing the responsibility for the accident.
Conductor Spotford was laid off for three
days, and Conductor Rouse and Engineer
Wetmore for one week each, as sort of
exemplary punishment or censure The
railroad men fail to see where the point of
this action comes in SO far as the passenger
trainmen are concerned
The scheme of forming a state trotting
Gil cult for next season, that was brought up
at the meeting of the executive committee
of the Horse Breeders association Thurs
day evening of last week. strikes some of
the horsemen very favorably, says the Rut-
land Herald. The idea is to take in New
port, st. Johnsbury, White River June
ton, BrattlebOro Barre, Rutland and Bur
lingtOn and let each place control its own
meeting Some could afford to offer larger
purses than others, but it is thought that
every place would offer money enough to
make it an object for men to take their
horses through the circuit. June is thought
to be the best time for beginning the meet
ings, as this would give a week at each
place and give the horses a chance to rest
before the Breeders meeting.
bp;II;ont ,,.o... lin
place tomorrow evening in the conjunction
of the planets Jupiter and Venus. For
several weeks past these two splendid lu-
minaries have been gradually drawing to-
gether adding greatly to the beauty of the
evening sky, Unfortunately we shall not
see the climax of the great event, because
the hemisphere of the earth which we in
habit will be turned away from their place
in the sky at the time, but this evening the
two planets will already have drawn so
near together that their aspect will be that
of most splendid double star. While
Venus appears to be by far the superior
star, this is entirely the effect of distance,
for Jupiter is in reality more than 400
times the larger. The two planets are
more than four hundred millions of miles
apart, their conjunction in the sky arising
from the fact that Venus, in swinging
around its orbit, happens to come almost
exactly into the line of sight from the
earth to Jupiter.
The "World's Columbian Exposition H.
lustrated'' is the title of an illustrated peri
odical publication the purpose of which is
to give complete illustrated history of
the great worlds fair at Chicago, from its
inception to its close. The six numbers
which were printed in 1891, and have now
been bound up in one volume, record the
first steps of the enterprise, give portraits