Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-07-27
BRATTLEBORO.

d. l.. Moody breaches at the COngrega-
tional church in Mortified next Sunday.
The Baptist Christian Endeavor society
will serve ice cream and cake on the church
lawn next Wednesday evening during the
band concert. Lemonade will also be sold.
The Artillery band gave very enjoyable
concert on the Esteyville lawn last even
ing at which time the Ladies' Enter
prise served ice cream and cake to the
crowd.
Inquiry has been made from Arkansas
concerning Prof. Chas. A. Taylor, who
claimed to be a vocal music teacher and a
former resident of Brattleboro. The Ar
kansas people believe him to be a train
robber and are looking for him He is not
known here.
There was a session of the United States
circuit court at the Brooks House Tuesday
to hear the motion for a new trial entered
by the defendant, in the case of l.. Baker
d Sons of Richford VS.. the Canadian Pa
cific railway company, The defendant
having waived its motion, judgment on the
verdict was entered for plaintiff. Court
adjourned until Tuesday, the 31st, at 2
p. NJ.
The twelfth general conference of Chris
tian workers opens at Mortified next
Wednesday. The new Mortified audito-
rum is completed and will be occupied by
this conference. DIR. A. j. Gordon is eX-
peCted to conduct the exercises at the open
ing of the building. Reduced rates will be
given on all the railroads and it is hoped
that special trains will be run from here
several times during the conference.
The friends of Rev. j. A. Leavitt of
Ewing, ILL.,, who has preached at the Bap-
fist church the last two Sundays, will be
sorry to hear of the death of his youngest
son, Fred, boy about 6 years old. The
funeral was held at Ewing yesterday. Mr..
Leavitt left early this week for Boston and
Nantucket, and his friends here could not
reach him by telegraph in season for him
TO reach his home before the funeral.
Frederick L. Houghton, secretary of the
Holstein Fresian association of America,
has informed G. W. Pierce, superintendent
of the dairy department. that the above
named association will duplicate all first
and second prizes won by registered Hol-
stems in the milk and butter tests at the
Valley Fair in September. The prizes of
fered by the Valley Fair association amount
TO S15j in both milk and butter tests. This
is a good opportunity for lovers of the
"hack and white to enter their favorlte
cows.
The steamer Miranda, carrying the Cook
Arctic expedition to Greenland, returned
Tuesday morning to St. Johns, n F., in a
disabled condition, having collided with an
iceberg in the Straits of Belle Isle, The
ship was stove three feet above the water
line. There was no damage below the wa
ter line, and the ship made no water. Ii
is expected the damages will be repaired in
ten days, when another attempt will be
made to carry out the objects of the expe-
diton. This is the party which A. j. Pull
len was invited to join.
A horse owned by w. Rouillard of North
Hinsdale caused some excitement Tuesday
morning. 1t was left standing in the real
of he Brooks House while Harry Rouil.
lard was delivering vegetables at the hOte
kitchen. Something startled the horse and
it ran through the archway and headed fol
the rear of the town hall. In making the
turn into the alley the wagon struck An,
gelo Gorborino's stand, smashing vince
of The wagon. The horse being freed
from the wagon, started down the railroad
bank, but Thought better of it, and re-
! 'urned 10 be captured.
eltur Lacnai.,.-
The old man descended ~