Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-29
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c. b. Perkins caught iive-pound pike
at West river on Tuesday.
DR.. j. f. Prescott, the optical special
list, may be consulted at the Brooks
House.
The Albany business college have placed
a handsomely illustrated catalogue in the
Y. NJ. C. A. rooms.
The first green corn of the season was
brought into the local market on Saturday,
July %, by Lewis Lynde of Dummerston.
The Rev. DR.. Robbins of Philadelphia,
who has a summer residence at Greenfield,
Mass, will preach at the Centre church
on Sunday.
Eli Taft, who lives south of the fair
ground, has been bitten three times by a
dog owned by man who lives in the same
neighborhood.
Two new windows of cathedral glass are
to be placed in the porch of st. Michaers
Episcopal church this week. They were
given by the children of the parish.
The date for the match between the Es-
tey Guard rife team and the team of
the Greenfield military company is fixed
for August 6, and will be shot at Green
field.
Over 5000 will be given at the Spring
field, Mass, bicycle clubs tournament to
be held Sept. IA and Is. A pair of horses
worth $1,000, a blackboard and harness
will be the first prize in the worlds record
race.
The four-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Gage, who live in the west part of
the town, fell into a boiler of scalding
water which had been placed upon the
floor, on Monday and one side of the body
was so badly burned that death resulted on
Tuesday.
The rear of the log drive is now at
Cheshire bridge, near Charlestown, n. H.
The logs are badly stranded owing to the
sudden falling of the river. There are
hundreds of logs, in some places quite a
distance from the water, all along the
banks in the river towns in this county.
Although the rain fall in Brattleboro
yesterday was not sufficient to lay the dust
the storm in Chesterfield, Hinsdale, part
of GuilfOrd and surrounding towns, was
the heaviest of the season. In some places
lightning wrought havoc with the telegraph
and telephone lines.
The heat in BrattleborO this week has
been the most oppressive ever known, for
so many consecutive days, the condition
being the same as in all other places in the
country. Many cases of prOstratiOn in the
cities are reported, there being so in one
day in Chicago, but in this vicinity nobody
was seriously Frustrated.
VIM. Morse, Bert Burnham and another
man employed by Mr.. Morse hired one of
Liveryman Whites teams on Saturday and
drove to Marlboro for fishing trip. They
hitched the horse to a tree and when they
returned the horse had fallen down an en-
bankment and died from strangulation.
The horse was valued at 5000.
The Democrats have organized a Cleve-
land and Stevenson club with DR.. Conland
as presidents Michael Moran and Frank
Pratt, secretaries; Martin Austin, jr. treas
urer. Fifty "prominent Democrats are
vice presidents and there is an executive
committee of Is members with o. A Marsh
all as chairman. In this organization all
members are evidently high privates.
James McGibbins of New York, one OF
the inmates of the JudsOn summer home
in Highland park, was seized with hemor
rhage of the lungs near the Edward Crosby
place on High street Monday forenoon and
died while being conveyed to the park.
The body was taken to New York for bur.
ial. 1t is understood that he had planned
to return to New York this week.
The first grand rally of the political cam
paign in Brattleboro will take place on
next Wednesday evening, August Sd, at
the town hall, when Hon. Stewart L.
Woodford of New York will speak on the
issues of the day, beginning at o'clock.
Music will be furnished by the First Regi-
ment band. Mr. Woodford is one of the
most brilliant speakers in the country. He
was born in New York and graduated al
Yale and Columbia colleges and began the
practice of law in his native city. He en-
tered the Union army as a volunteer
served three years and attained by breyet
the rank of brigadier general. Since the
war he has been lieutenant governor OF
New York, United States district attorney,
and member of Congress. Everybody is
invited to be present.