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

a. |. Howe has received this week a
large order for pads from the United
States government.
There are fourteen trotting associations
in Vermont that are members of the Ma
tiOnal TrOtting association, including the
Valley Fair association of Brattleboro.
The Burlington Clipper states that it is
probable that the next encampment of the
Vermont National guard will be held at
Montpelier.
The Vermont department of agriculture
have arranged for a series of Is meetings
at different places in the state during the
coming winter. The towns and dates for
Windham county are Westminster JAN
II and Is; and Wilmington, Feb II.
Prizes of copies of the Mirror d Farm
er, the popular weekly paper published at
Manchester, n. H., will be given to every
competitor for premiums at the annual
convention of the state dairymen's associa-
ton, to be held in Brattleboro Jan. 12-l5.
A number of Brattleboro young people
attended the firemen's masquerade ball at
Hinsdale last evening. Leitsinger's or
chestra furnished music and the decora-
tiOns, which were quite extensive, were ar
ranged by j. w, SimOnds
A large company is expected to be in at
tendance at the town hall this evening,
when the Murray club will give its fifth
annual concert and ball, with music by
Leitsinger's orchestra and +. Wales for
prompter.
Rev. Father Brown of Burlington has
been here this week on account of the i'll
ness of Rev. Father Cunningham. Father
Brown conducted the service at the 1890
mass last Sunday. Rev. Father Alban has
been called back to the Canadian monasss
terry.
This is what the st. JohnsbuTy Republi-
can kindly says of the Christmas number
of The Phoenix: "The Brattleboro Phu-
nix deserves a great deal of credit for its
special Christmas issue. To say that it
was the best thing of the kind issued in
Vermont this season is but faint praise: to
the best of our recollection it was the best
Christmas number ever issued in Yer
mont"
Judge Wheeler rendered a decision ad-
verse TO the petitioners in the st. Adams
bank case heard at Rutland last week
The petitioners asked for a compromise
under which the assets of the bank might
be sold and the proceeds turned over to the
petitioners, except enough to pay a divi-
dend of seven per cent, and this the court
refused to allow to be done.
A murder was committed on Christmas
day at the notorious dive of Tom Gould in
New York city, where the scheme was
Matched to steal share of the Loring Rob
ertsOn estate, and where the identity of the
'widow," Cassie Brooks, was first discov-
cred by New York Herald reporter. John
j. WOgan, Gould's nephew and the man
ager of the dive, was shot and killed by a
sporting man named Selling who had
made himself obnoxious in the place and
whom Wogan had tried to eject. When
Wogan's body was examined after his
death his pockets were found full of
Christmas toys for his children. The muir
derer was arrested.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. f. Thurber and Mrs.
AlonZo Hines were called to Acton, Mass,
on Tuesday to attend the funeral Of Mrs.
Charles Robinson, who was the sister of
Mrs. Thurber and the cousin of Mr.. Hines.
The circumstances attending the death of
Mrs. Robinson and her husband were very
unusual. Both were seized with an attack
of grip at about the same time, a little
more than two weeks ago The death of
the husband took place on Tuesday morn
ing, December %, the wife being then
critically ill, and her death followed on
Sunday morning last Mr. Robinson was
a native of Williamsville, but removed to
Acton in early life and lived there until
last spring, when he and his wife removed
to West SOmerville in order to be near
their children, all of whom have occupa-
ton in Boston Both died at West SOM
eryille, but the burial was at Acton, where
so much of their lives had been spent.
Mrs. Robinson was a native of Acton,
where her marriage took place,