Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-07-13

Booker T. Washington the noted color |
ed educator, will speak at the Uniyersalist |
Sunday school service next Sunday.
A party and dance was given at the
Brooks farm Tuesday evening by Miss
Louise Kinson in honor of Miss Julie Fox
of New York.
Mail from California was received at the
post-ollicc on the II o'clock mail this fore
noon for the first time in nearly two weeks.
The letters were postmarked June 2S
Among pensions to Vermonters an
nounced yesterday appear the names of
Oscar f. Knight of Bratteboro, original,
and Chas. S. Huffman of Bellows Falls,
increase.
Young a Knowlton have fitted up their
store with the Welsbach gas burners this
week These lights have also been put
into the Baptist vcstry, the Y. NJ G. \.
rooms and the City bakery.
The Burlington experiment station is
doing good work i'm investigating the potato
bliahts and teaching the farmers how to
save their crop. Its latest bulletin on this
subject is printed in full in this paper and
is admirably simple and explicit in the di-
rections given.
Three subscription papers have been
circulated for the benefit of j. G.. Howard,
whose cows were killed recently on ac-
count of the appearance of tuberculosis
among them. One paper was circulated
among the members OF the local grange
and the other two among the citizens. In
all something over $500 has been sub
scrbed.
A hearing was held before Judge
Wheeler at the Brooks House Thursday in
the case of A. i. Traver of Milvile,
| Y. Y, vs. +. II. Brown of Bennington
The suit is for an alleged infringement of
patent raveihg machine used in knitting
mills. Lange ~ Roberts of Boston are
| attorneys for the orator: Franklin Scott
of Bennington appeared for the defendant.
A telegram received Saturday from DR..
! HOlton and his party stated that they had
made the trip by stage to Helena Mont,
| $50 miles, to strike there the Great North
ern road, which is not included in the gen
eral tie-up, and thus get started for the
East. A despatch received yesterday an
nOunced that they were about leaving Chi
cago, and expect to reach BrattlebOrO this
afternoon.
viii Schuster has signed an engagement
with Charles Pratt. the wel-known opera
manager, for grand opera season of forty
weeks, beginning in Brooklyn Sept. 3. The
company will be composed of distinguish
ed artists like Tivary, Mariana, Payne
Clark and Cell, PATHS tenor, and promises
to be the best opera company ever organ
lied in this country. Mr.. Pratt was for
eleven years Emma Abbott's manager.
Among this weeks guests at the Ameri.
can House are: r. A. Morgan and wife
Springfield, Mass; John W. Day, Win.
chendon, Mass: Geo. +. Worcester.
Washington. d. c.; O. A. Kimball and
daughter; Miss Lena Duggot and Mr. and
Miss Brooks, Boston; r. Flynn and wife
Toronto, Canada: G. H. Emerson and Y
G.. Gibbs, New York; F. +. Ensign
Westfeld, Mass: and Geo. A. Ware, and
c. A. Rich, Boston.
F. /. Simpson craftily eluded his friends
and escaped the wel-merited vengeance
sworn against him by numerous recently
married friends, whose nuptials he has as.
sisted in celebrating, by sudden and com.
plete disappearance with his bride in the
midst of the festivities last evening, and
up to the present time their whereabout,
remains mystery. 1t is also said that
the trunk which he kindly furnished fol-
ms iilOllio W u'NOldtN ltlllhllltu uINdlltN
for at the baggage room.
At the Unitarian church next Sunday
Rev. Mr.. Leavitt will preach on "GoC
manifest in the flesh" After the sermon
Mr. Booker T. Washington, principal o
the Tuskegee institute in Alabama, will
speak about the work of this great schoo
for negroes 1t is hardly necessary tC
state that Mr.. Washington is a coore,
man, who deserves to be ranked not merel,
with the best and truest leaders of his owl
race in this country, but with our mos
skillful and successful educational organ
izers and managers, regardless of race.
The annual school meeting of the vilag
school district will be held next Tuesda,
evening. The treasurer's report, now il
the hands of the printers, shows a detici
of $1,000, which is due to extraordinary ex
penditures which the district authorize,
after the tax was voted last year. Anon.
these were $1,000 for grading and turfn.
the bank and grounds around the Cana
street schoohouse. 500 for a new Higl
school laboratory, 500 to increase the he At
, ing capacity of the High school furnaces
and $500 for the Canal street bell. In tn
deficit is included S240 brought over iron
last year. On account of DR.. Holton'
absence the prudential committee will sub
, nit only verbal report.