Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-02-10

18th.
Business is good at the Estey Organ
works. The men are now at work ten
hours a day.
Watch out for your valentine next Tues
day! The local dealers expect general
observance, Judging from the number of
valentines displayed. 81
The icy roads have given the boys rare
opportunity for coasting One heavily
loaded traverse went from the High street
hill to the toll bridge few evenings ago.
A special meeting of the trustees of the
Vermont Live Stock company will be held
at the Office of +. Crosby d Co. Monday
afternoon, the goth, to determine on the
purchases of the coming season.
f. II. Miller has the agency for the Man
ley express copying machine, a new
invention which is claimed to have merits
superior to all others for letter copying.
One of the machines may be seen at
Young & Knowlton's.
a. Pettee. the secretary, is preparing a
revised roster of Company of the Ninth
Vermont regiment. He has obtained the
addresses of 90 members, who live i'm Is
different states. At the time of enlistment
all of the members came from this vicinity.
Frank Stearns of Hlnsdale is to show
his four-mOnths-old woody calf to the pub
| lie in the vacant store in Emerson n Sons
/ building next Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day. The boy giant, who is the largest
lad of his age in the world, will also be on
exhibition.
George F. Evans. the new general man
| ager of the Connecticut River railroad, and
other Boston d Maine officials, passed
through Brattleboro in a special train Wed
nesday, accompanied by Superintendent
Sampson. The trip was made for the pur-
| pose of introducing Mr.. Evans to the rail
road men between Springfield and Windsor.
Mrs. Jesse Squires of Guilford was
thrown from her sleigh Saturday, in front
of Scott d Jones's store, the horse starting
suddenly while making a turn. Mrs.
Squires was not seriously injured. The
sleigh was tipped over and the front part
of it smashed The horse ran out Canal
street, but was stopped on the Guilford
road.
George Cox, a teamster employed for
several years by +. Z. Stockwell, was ar
rested Saturday by Officer Mcclure charged
with gross lewdness and lascivious bcha-
vior. He was arraigned before Justice
Newton, and ordered to give bail in the
sum of $1,000, for his appearance at the
county court. He secured bail and was
released Cox was undoubtedly under the
influence of liquor at the time the acts
were committed, at his lodging rooms on
Elliot street.
There will evidently be no difficulty in
building an electric railroad to connect
Athol and Orange, Mass. After S. H.
Barrett went there to arouse interest Bos-
ton capitalists appeared and agreed to take
all the stock. This week the business men
of Athol have organized another company,
with a capital stock of $50, 900. The new
company plans TO cover the same route
that has been laid out by the Boston men,
with the exception that their road will ex-
tend its lines to Amherst and Hadley
News comes from Texas that the Deni-
son land and investment company has gone
into the hands OF a receiver This will be
great surprise to many people in this state,
and throughout New England who are in
terested in this company A. p. Childs of
Springfield and others concerned say that
this move will be resisted, as being an eX
partc proceeding and intended to depreciate
the stock. II is regarded as a move on the
part of those who desire to get control of
the company. The company has no ma
tured debt, and il is not easy to see how
the receyership was secured, as il could
not be by foreclosure. As four-ffths of
the stool; j. owned in New. FnclanJ me
move for a recaivarshin win moi h. s,,L-
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