Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-28

held this week in Brandon.
Calendars troupe of original Georgia
minstrels, 80 strong, are booked to appear
at the town hall Oct. Is. The company
has met with great success and has made
three foreign tours.
Chas. d. Walker, a Weathersfeld farm
er, aged 80 who was brought to the Re
treat a short time ago, died there Tuesday
and the body was taken to Weatherstield
for burial He was a brother of w. w.
Walker of this village.
A social was given to the members of
the Junior Endeavor society by the older
society at the Baptist chapel last Monday
evening. Games, an informal entertainment
and refreshments gave the little folk
good time for two hours.
Many have been kept from the use of
typewriter because the price of a good
machine seemed so high Such will be
glad to see the new Exchange Ham
mond which Miss Florence Clark adver-
tises, the price of which is only $50.
Milton Miller's Mary II. finished second
IN each of the three heats of the 2:40 class
race at Greenfield Friday, Gypsy Boy being
first A protest was entered against Gypsy
Boy, as it was claimed that he was not
eligible to the class, and the money was
withheld.
When a test of No. steamer was made
Monday night it was found that the coils
in the fire boXiwere burned out. New ones
have been ordered and a representative of
the American Steam Fire Engine company
of Seneca Falls, n. Y, will come here to
put them in.
The first murder case in 20 years in Or
leans county is now being tried at Newport
before Judge j. NJ. Tyler of Brattleboro.
Abner G. Cram and James Bowe of Greens
boro are charged with the murder of Isaac
Miles, who disappeared from that town last
November, and whose body was afterward
found under lumber pile.
A pleasant evening was spent at the
Williston street home of Mr.. and Mrs. A
f. Atwood, Tuesday, when former men,
bers of The Household folding room force
were invited to meet Mr. and Mrs. A. f.
Cutter of Jamaica Plain, Mass, who are
here for a visit with relatives and old
friends. The evening was enjoyably spent
in sociability, recalling old times, etc.
Mai. r. Z. Cross, who died very sudden
" at Washington, d. c., recently, will be
remembered as "Dr." X. Z. Cross, who
had an office in the Cheshire House at
keene several years ago, and often came
to BrattleboTo for a few days as a mag
netic' physician. At the time of his
death he was captain of the guard in the
treasury building. He was native of
Lancaster, y. H., where he was buried.
A longtime resident of Brattleboro
passed away in the death of Calvin j..
Weld. "a. at the home of his daughter.
Mrs. W. Il. Bridges in Green River, last
week Thursday. Mr.. Yields wife died
about six years ago, but he has continued
to live at his house above the Brattleboro
Retreat, where he has carried on a small
machnists business, turning out some
special machinery. On being taken i'll a
short time ago he went to Green River.
where he failed rapidly.
Many Brattleboro people will drive to
Wilmington next Wednesday to attend the
10th annual fair given by the agricultural
society of that town. The occasion will
be enlivened by the music of three brass
bands-the Wilmington, Is pieces, the
Readsboro, p pieces, and the Italian of
Readsboro, "a pieces. The fair will have
all the usual attractions of farmers fes-
tival, and genuine old-fashioned farmers
dinners will be served at the hotel and
churches.
DR.. Frederick S. Stratton died last week
Thursday at the home of his brother in
Greenfield, Mass, aged -. DR.. Stratton
was born in Mortified, Mass, and studied
dentistry with his uncle, DR.. Chas. O.
Stratton, at Keene. DR.. Stratton first
opened an flee in Bratteboro, and for
several years went to Keene every week.
About 1889 he settled in Keene, continu-
ing in practice there until 1879, when he
retired on account of i'll health. DR.. STRAIT
ton was one of the most expert dentists in
New England, and many people from a
distance became his patients, his practice
extending far beyond the limits of his own
town.
Eugene Field, the noted Chicago iourna-
list, whose writings attract much attention
in this vicinity because of his local an
cestry, says that it has long been his opin-
ion that the advocates of woman suffrage
should abandon the rigorous tactics they
have Intellectually used for so long time
and adopt the milder tactics of persuasion.
The woman suffrage cause needs less viz
lily and more fem!ninity, less iaundice and
more sugar. Bright eyes. pretty complex
ions, jaunty figures and stylish costump s
are, always were, lie thinks, and by Gods
grace always will be, more potent intluen-
ces in determining the opinions and actions
of men than the keenest wit and the most
convincing logic.
The trial of James Bow and Abner G.
Cram, who are indicted for the murder of
Isaac Miles, is being held in the Orleans
county court at Newport this week before
Judge j. NJ. Tyler and jury. Miles left
his sisters house in Maiden last November
to 60 TO Hardwick and return next day.
Nothing was seen of him after that until
last April, when his body was found under
a pile of lumber in Greensboro, with marks
of violence upon his head. The state
claims to have evidence that he passed the
night after he left home with Bow and
Cram in an engine room of a mill near
where the body was found, and that the
three men were engaged in drinking till
or O'Clock in the morning. 1t is claimed
that there are many circumstances to con-
meet the defendants with Mles's death.
Mrs. j. j. Estey with her sisters, Mis-.
Cobb and Mrs. Gull, were driving last
Friday afternoon, when, in descending
Wickopee hill, one of the horses slipped.
throwing off a tug. AS the horse wheeled
to one side the pole strap broke letting the
wagon on to the heels of the horses. Geo.
Barrett, who was driving, did not lose
control of the animals and succeeded in
turning them to the side of the road
among the rocks. In doing this the car
riage tipped on to one side throwing Mrs.