Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29

/ tuesday, morning between the hours of }
and } o'clock.
1t has been definitely decided to hold
I the military ball on the evening of Wash
ington's birthday anniversary.
The "Around the World in so DAYS"
/ company could not get around to Brattle-
/ horo, and has cancelled all dates for this
section.
George Miller OF Guilford has bought of
! his brother, Austin Miller. the fruit and
| confectionery stand at the corner of Main
and Flat streets, and it will he run by Fred
| Dunklec.
Sumner McQuaidc fell on the ice while
carrying a pail Of water at the Bradley
farm above West river on Tuesday. The
water was thrown upon his face, neck and
arms, burning him badly
The Connecticut River Lumber company
has large stock of lumber on hand and
for this reason, it is stated, the drive of logs
down the river the coming season will be
30 per cent smaller than last year.
There Is general complaint from the
! primary school that the present system of
! furnace heating is inadequate, and that
There has been positive suffering alKOng
the children on the recent cold days.
Morse ~ Simpson have this week com
| pleted arrangements with the master of
the state grange by which they will supply
grange members throughout the state with
their goods.
y good-szed delegation from this section
will attend the annual G.. A. Il. nncamp-
| ment at Montpelier next week. and il is
generally understood that Hon Hugh
Henry of Chester will be supported for the
office of department commander.
The great event of the week at Clare
mont, y. H., is the fair given by the Amer
lean band, of which G. l.. Brigham of
this place is musical director. joel G..
Knapp, the clariOnet sOloist from Brattlebo-
70, appears every evening, and last evening
Miss Nina Miller, the cornet sooist Of
West Bratteboro, was enthusiastically re-
ceivcd.
The Baptist Y. p. 5. c. +. will observe
the llth anniversary of the organization of
the order next Tuesday evening, with
special exercises The societies connected
with the Congregational church and the
church at Guiford have been invited to be
present. There are now Is 600 Christian
EndcaVor societies, with 100000 men,
bers.
The Richardson and Frost ~ White ice
companies are gathering their annual har-
vest this week. The ice is from 10 to II
inches thick, and of excellent quality. The
Swift cOmpany's large house below the
railroad station is being filled from the
paper mill pond, and the asylum teams are
drawing a supply from the Crosby pond on
the Pumey road.
Quonektacat tribe, No. ,. /. o. r.. NJ.
will give great peace dance at the town
hall Friday evening. Feb. ,. All members
and pale faces will appear in costume. A
war dance around the council fire will be
the opening feature, followed by the grand
march. You will be sure to see novelty.
Tickets TO stage and gallery may be secured
Tuesday evening at 7:3O, at Chapin d
Co.'S.
The North Adams and Pittsfeld papers
are publishing articles about proposed
base ball league to include those places.
Brattleboro, Northampton, IIolyoke and
Springfield. There is, however. very little
probability that the Berkshire county towns
Will come into a league with those of the
Connecticut valley. The expectation now
is that the league, to contain the four last
places mentioned. will be carried through.
The meeting at Springfield has been post
poned, owing to the unsettled condition of
affairs at Northampton.
The Springfield Republican printed on
Monday a letter from Rev. DR.. George e.
ON Walker in which he protested strongly
against the Gillian war talk. saving that:
"Io come down with the brutal force of
dO,OOO,OOO people on struggling Young ma
ton of two and one half millions is a
worse spectacle than is tolerated i'm the
prizering. 70 fail to exhaust every re.
source of diplomacy and forbcarance before
doing That is not only unchristian but bar
barous. Whatever may be thought OF the
abstract jUstiliableness Of war when all
other resources have been exhausted. sure
ly we have not yet begun to exhaust those
resources in the CHILEAN case thus far"
Elsewhere in this issue announcement is
made of the call for meeting of the Re .
publicans of Brattleboro to be held at the .
lower town hall tomorrow evening. Satur-
day at 7:3O, for the purpose of hearing the .
report Of the committee appointed to pre-
sent list of officers for the Reorganization
OF the BrattleborO Republican club, TO see
what action will be taken in reference to
the list and for the election of delegates to
the state Republican League convention.
The Brattleboro club is entitled to II dele
gates. Every Republican should consider
it his personal duty to be present. for it is
in the campaign of 1892 will be taken.
1t is amusing sometimes to see an old
news item resuTected by some paper, and
then copied by numerous other newspapers.
A case in point is the item in reference to
the 10 consecutive bull eyes which Capt.
5. E. Howard of West Newton. Mass. for
merly of Bratteboro, made while shooting
with the Sth Vermont regiment rifle team
for the Wellington trophy. The fact is the
took place last summer. and was
recorded in The Phoenix at the time. All
the leading papers in the state copied the
item the following week. Last week the
Montpelier Waterman palmed off the item
as new, ana the very papers which copied
from The Phoenix are now circulating it
again.
The West Randolph Herald and News,
promising that ''the Democrats will nomi-
nate some young man for their governor
this year, quotes rumor as saving that
this candidate twill be the popular repre-
sentative from Brattleboro to the last
The Herald further compli-
ments Mr.. Marshall by saying: BE that
as it may, one thing is certain, O. A. Mar
shall would make a mighty popular candi-
date and would poll big vote. His work
in the legislature marked him as clear.
clean, able, practical business man who
could be trusted in any position" The
only comment which The Phoenix has to
make upon this is that Mr.. Marshall is
quite too good man to be set up to be
knocked down in any such needless way
rs this.
In an article printed in our news columns
-oday there is given general statement of
-he result of the investigation of the affairs
Of the New York Life Insurance company
by the insurance department of New York
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