Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-05-04


gree Oh four or five candidates this evening
Delegates from st. Michaers Episcopal
church will attend the district meeting of
the woman auXiiaiy at Bellows Falls the
23d.
At the meeting of the woman auxiliary
of the \. NJ. c, A. held Tuesday afternoon,
S117 was voted to the association to help
out with necessary expenses.
John Hurley had the thumb on his left
hand cut off on a circular saw at the Car
penter Organ company factory Tuesday
a timber catching on the saw and drawing
his hand back uponit
MI Whipple now has eight or nine
horses in training at the Valley Fair
grounds. among them being Linden, the
winner of the tree-tor-al race here last
fall, T. K. Weeks mare, and one owned
by d. Wood of Mortified.
A. II. Rice. formerly proprietor of the
Main street harness shop. and an empIOye
of II. NJ. Burke since the latter became its
proprietor. has arranged TO open q similar
store in Hinsdale. y. H.. next Monday.
MI. Bices family will remain here for the
present
Et. Rev. John 5. Michaud of the Catho-
lie diocese of Burlington which comprises
Y ermont has announced his appointments
Tor annual visitauOus to churches. He
will be in Bratteboro sept II. Bellows
Falls Sept Is. Ludlow and Springfield
Sept. 80: and Beadsboro oct. H.
The eiectment case of /. II. Van Doom
VS.. Charles l.. Gale of Dummerston was
heard Monday at Waterman, Martin N
Hits office before Justice 5. II. Sherman
and a jury. The plaintiff secured yer
dict of 81 and possession of the premises
Waterman, Martin a. Hit appeared for
the plaintiff and G.. G.. Fits tor the defend
ant.
The Amherst college glee, banjo. guitar
and mandolin clubs are in the same class
with ale and Harvard. an unusual nteres.
in music being taken at Amherst There
are 30 performers. and the singers include
several good solOists. The clubs will ap-
pear here on Friday night of next week
Tickets will 60 on sale Monday night at
Chaplin and Co. S at 80 This promises
to be the largest and finest organization of
the kind that has ever visited BrattleborO.
The meeting of the Christian Endeavor
society OF the Baptist church Oh Tuesday
evening was somewhat novel in character.
and very pleasant and inspiring Letters
/ bearing on the topic FOR the evening We're
read by members of the society the writers
being Endeavor workers in widely separat-
ed quarters of the United States. Penn
sylvania, California. Kansas, and Florida
as well as several of the New England
states, were represented. and workers with
the life savers and the floating societies.
and General Secretary Baer of Boston. and
Russell II. COnwell of Philadelphia. We're
/ also among those who wrote helpful and
/ cheering letters, full of fraterual spirit A
/ new sense of the onenes, OF the society in
aim and spirit was gained by all present.
The decomposiug body of an infant was
/ found in the manure heap In the rear OF
the Brooks House stables SATURDAY. bv two
/ of the men employed there. Mr.. Boydeu
chairman or the board of seectmen wa,
notified. and as Dr. COnland and DR.. Pratt
were agreed that il must have been the
body OF prematurely born child an in
/ VesugatOn was thought not to bee necessa-
/ ny. there being no known witnesses tC
/ summon save those who made the dscov-
cry. Nj Boyden therefore hal the body
buried in the corner OF a vacant lot in the
cemetery. 1t was the opinion of the doc.
tors that the fwtus was at the age of five
or six months, l. had been placed in a
glass jar or can. and evidently been throw
over the bank from Green street.
Mrs Harriet =. Belknap. widow of tn,
late John 7. Belknap, who died al Clare
mont, y. H.. April 70, at the age OF eighty
one years eight months as announced
last week, was the daughter of Capt Ma.
I thaniel and Sally Walker French. the oldest
and the last of the family of eight chill
dren She was a faithful wife and mother
/ devoted TO her home and its duties. auJ
was OF happy and helpful disposition
| Her crosses in life were borne with Chris
tlan tOrtitude and a hopeful spirit thai
always looked for the bright side OF things
. Through all her weakness she was tenderll
cared for by her daughter She leaves Il
mourn her loss three children, c. p. Belk
nap of ST. Adams, VT. Mrs. j. b. Hos
mer, Mrs, J. W. Smith of BrattleDoro. anC
two grandchildren.
An exciting runaway took place SUNDAY
soon after y o clock, when many peOpl,
were returning from the churches c. d
/ COane and his son We're driving near IN,
common when the horse started suddenly
I at full speed, and turned in toward tn,
| Brooks place. one wheel struck the laml
post and Coane and son went into the all
like two rubber balls. They fell on the hare
earth. and Mr.. COane sustained an in Jury
to his shoulder The horse then DASHED
about in the yard, running at one tim,
upon the piazza. Freeing itself from tn,
carriage the horse went down Asylum anl
Main streets, dragging the whihle-tree
Near L. d. Harris's the horse turned
toward the sidewalk and fell, and wa,
there caught. The horse was not injured
1t is remarkable that such a lively run
away could occur at such time witt
no more serious damage.
The fire department was called out jus
before o'clock Tuesday morning. by
IRE in the house OF Arthur W. Childs OF
Asylum street Painters had been usns
a naphtha touch to burn of the accumula
tiOns OF Old paint and the flame haC
reached some light material insid,
near the root, setting the woodwork OF
FIRE. The fire department made recorC
on the occasion. In Just two and one
half minutes from the first stroke of tn,
alarm No. Steamer passed the 4. =. Car
penter place, and was on the ground il
/ 30 seconds more Inside of five minute,
from the first stroke, No. 3 hose COMPANY
had a stream OF water on the building. 4
hole was cut through the roof to get to the
fire, and but little water was used The
total damage is estimated at $50. 1t hap,
pened that the horses used on the steamer
were Just taking water for the watering
cart at the stand-pipe near the engine
house at the time the alarm was rung in
The wise beasts appreciated the situation
and showed their anxiety to attach TO the