Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-02-03

he lieu men 5 udllCb hJ butlI HAL luVo-
day evening was indefinitely postponed on .
account of the serious illness of l. A. Will |
liams.
Lynn p. Carr infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank p Carr, died at their home on
Clark street Sunday The body was taken
to Christian Hill, Colrain, Mass, for bur
ial.
Mrs. Prescott White gave a progressive
euchre party to a few friends Saturday
evening. Charles Durham and Mrs. Rob
bins took first hOnors, and Mrs Ester
brook and Mr.. Robbins the BOBBY prizes.
Tickets for the prize-speaking contest
between the High schools of Brattleboro,
Keene and Hinsdale will go on sale at
Chaplin IL Co.'S drug store tomorrow.
The contest takes place at the town hall on
the 18th inst
On account of the interest manifested in
the revival services, which for two weeks
have been in progress at Burlington under
the leadership of Rev. A. Macgeorge OF
Brattleboro, it has been decided TO continue
them through this week.
During December the BrattleborO cream
cry made 1851 pounds of butter, the
greatest amount during any month up to
that time The net price returned to the
patrons for the months product was
slightly over % cents per pound.
According to superstition the weather of
Yesterday indicated the character of the
remainder of the winter:
IF Candemas day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight;
But If Candlemas day be clouds and ram,
Winter is gone and will not come again.
A large company of young people will go
to West Chesterfield this evening to attend
the annual Universalst festival and to wit
ness the presentation of "a Box of Mon
keys" by the same cast of Murray club
members who gave it so successfully here
few weeks ago.
C. d. Carpenter has issued leahet in
which his handsomely furnished Brooks
| House barber shop is shown in half-tone
engraving. The leahet is accompanied by
a complimentary ticket "goOd for one
shave" at the shop. Mr.. Carpenter has en-
gagged a new barber and will run three
chairs.
The mixed train on the narrow gauge,
leaving here in the morning, met with an
accident at Jamaica Wednesday. One of
the journals under the tender broke, and it
was necessary to send up another engine
from here. The train was delayed so that
it was nearly four hours late on the return
trip.
j. X. Parker fell from the roof of the
piazza at his house on Oak street Tuesday,
struck upon the ice and fractured two
bones of the left leg near the ankle. The
injury is one which will disable him for a
long time, and his many friends in Brat
tleboro and Putney will regret to learn of
his misfortune.
The supreme court, at its session this
week, affirmed, without hearing, the de-
cision of the county court in the disputed
driveway case of Gregg VS.. Carpenter.
This decision grants a perpetual injunc-
ton restraining Carpenter from obstructing
or interfering with the driveway hereafter
as claimed by Gregg by deed conveyed to
him.
The post-office department began on
Monday to weigh mails all over the coun-
try to determine the amount to be paid to
the railway companies for their transporta-
ton. This work is done every four years,
and requires nearly a month to get the
equalization. The amount paid to the
railways of the United States exceeds S25, ;
100000.
Col. Hooker and II. II. Lawrence attend
ed a meeting of the executive committee OF
the Vermont Association of Road and TrOt
ting Horse Breeders at Rutland last week
Thursday The date of the annual meet
ing was fixed for August 20, 30 and 81
The place of the meeting was left to com
mittee who are understood to be unani
mously in favor of Rutland.
Although the water supply in the Crow
FL ffeFFy9ir pi il n 9I r al rgh many people
from a water famine. The pipe leading
from what is known as the Clark spring /,
frozen this side of the creamery building
thus depriving many residents of Western
avenue,and Forest square of their custom
airy supply. In Esteyvile and on Prospect
hill the condition mentioned last week still
prevails, causing great inconvenience.
The firm of Rogers, Newman Il Tolman
bankers and dealers in commercial paper
was organized at Boston last month, sue
ceeding H. A. Rogers d TOlman. The
members of the new firm are II. A. Rog
ers, A. l.. Newman, late president of the
National bank of the Commonwealth of that
city, and 1. S. Tolman as general partners
and Charles B. Tebbetts of Lynn and
George H. Newman of Boston, as speca
partners, for 100000 each.
A rumor was current at Springfield Mon
day that the directors of the Connection
River road had met and voted to transfer
the road to the Boston and Maine, on the
basis of the original terms offered by the
directors of the latter company. President
Mulligan was asked to affirm or deny the
truth of the rumor, but he refused to talk
for publication. Another meeting of the
directors will be held today, when it Is
thought that a definite decision will be
reached.
w. j. d. Leavitt the organist and mu-
steal composer, who died in Cambridge
Mass, Sunday, is well remembered in
> Brattleboro. When the new organ wa,
placed in the Universalist church he played
at the first recital. For several years Mr.
Leavitt gave the summer noon concerts il
Boston on their big Music Hall organ be
{ fore its removal, and afterward was organ
list at the fremont Temple. He was &
musician of marked ability and many OF
his compositions are well known on the
concert stage.
The sale of the Elliot street bakery
owned by F. Z. Housh, to Lewis & Ken
drick of Greenfield, was completed somt
time ago, as announced, and a first paymen
was made. Owing to representations mad,
by l. w. Hamilton the bakery passed into
his control, although he was only the lessee
His sudden departure from town was re
ported last week. This week the bakery has