Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-12

! 40, and OF his wife, aged %, both occurred
Monday at Chesterfield. Both were old
and well-known residents of that town.
Sheriff Starkey is in charge of L. r.
Plummers store, an attachment having
been made on the stock by j. Gray Estey,
who signed note with Mr.. Plummer
Mr. and Mrs VIM. Metty have the SYM
pathy of many friends in their bereave-
ment, the death of their three year-old
daughter having occurred Saturday from
membraneous Group.
o. NJ. Whitney took cold water bath
| Sunday, when he fell through hole which
had been cut in the ice at West Brattle-
boro where the water was - feet deep.
Albert Smith pulled him out.
G. p. Gilson's big auction sale of horses
will take place at the EllOi street stables
tomorrow forenoon, beginning at 10
o'clock. Twenty-Five or more animals
single and double drivers, draft and gen
eral purpose horses, will be disposed of to
the highest bidders
a London paper gives an account of the
impressive ceremonies in the divinity
/ school of the University of Oxford, Dec.
| Is, when the honorary degree of doctor of
divinity was conferred on Rev. A. c. A.
Hall, bishop-elect of the Episcopal diocese
of Vermont.
c. E. Scribner was driving down the
Main street hill Tuesday with the F. e NJ.
| f. delivery team, and Eugene Knight was
at the same time coming out Flat street
| with the coupe when Scribner was struck
| by the pole of the coupe and knocked into
the. street. Luckily he escaped without
serious injury.
The fourth entertainment in the Y NJ.
{. y. course, which occurs next Thursday
evening promises to be a very satisfactory
one. The "Old Homestead quartet is
well spoken of by several of our towuspeo-
pie who have heard them, and Judge
VIM. b. Green has an enviable reputation
as a reader of refinement and originality,
with a fund of natural humor. He excels
IN dialect and is warm favorite where he
has appeared
Waldo Richardson was badly bruised
while running to the fire Friday night. He
fell on the ice on the hill above the Canal
street schoolhouse and was unconscious
for time; on recovering he came down
street, but was obliged to 90 home in
coupe. Mr.. Richardson has had charge of
Col. Rockers buildings during Mr.. Peake's
absence and the alarm from the engine
house naturally made him anxious to find
out the location of the fire
President Ames, in his address before
the state dairymen, told of Brattleboro
farmer whom he induced to take a pack
age OF butter to one of the association
meetings, and his butter scored only a
shade above the dead line, and he received
only few cents for his trouble. But this
farmer studied his score card. profited nv
the faults recorded, and the next wear his
butter was exhibited, and scored within
three-quarters of point of the highest in
the history of the state, the one which
now holds the associations gold medal.
Charles H. Houghton. at one time
prominent in financial circles, died in New
York Tuesday. Mr.. Houghton was Il
years old and native of Guilford. He
was born in Vermont His father ROYAL
lIoughton, who was well known in bust
ness circles in Massachusetts,, removed
with his family to New York when Charles
was 10 years old. Father and son were
prominently identified with the dry goods
trade, and later We're associated in the
banking business, having Offices at Wall
and William streets.
We have munication from A citizen
who criticises the fire department for not
getting promptly to work at the Crowel
tre Monday night, as well as at other re-
cen tres, and especially because the build |
ings are not saved in which fires originate.
Without arguing the case pro or con, it is
due the fremen to say that Mr. Crowel
himself had no expectation that his stable |
could be saved, on account of the infam.
mable nature of the place in which the fire |
started. The writer of the article rightly |
says that, II needed, new hose and other |
material should be bought.
Mr.. Crowelrs water supply has been
taking care of itself for the past two |
months without any help from the pump |
ing station, and the tendency is on the |
whole for the water to gain in the reser- |
yolr. After the cold weather came on in
December high, strong wall was built on |
the river side of the pumping station as a |
protection against the ice when it breaks |
up. by good fortune it was finished lust
before the warm weather carried the ice |
ont of the river; otherwise the station
must have suffered, as the broken ice
was crowded up TO the top of the wall
and near the station it went over into the
road.
The Phoenix has letter from J. C.. Nc
Connell, written from Manchester Centre.
III which he complains of our item of last
week in reference to his advertisement of
-''''~N'' 10 VA NgN opCNIdllSl from bTaltle-
boro. Mr.. Mcconnell says he is connected
with DR.. Burrows, who ''can furnish tbous-
ands of credentials as to our ability and
good standing. | am also graduate
and do not deem it a necessity to reside in
Bratteboro in order to advertise nv per
manent place of business from there" DIR.
Burrows tells us that Mcconnell is at work
for or in connection with him. and he re-
CARDS him capable man, but he has never
lived here, and DR.. Burrows was not aware
that Mcdonnell was advertising himself as
OF this place until his attention was called
to the fact by the item in The Phoenix.
w. G. Doolttle has bought a timber lot
OF John Hubbard, on the Gulf road in
Chesterfield, which he is to clear this win
ter; also an oak timber lot of Steven Dut-
ton OF Dummerston, in which some of the
trees are nearly five feet in diameter. Be
sides these he is doing a large Job on the
mountain near Indian pond, and on an
other large oak timber lot on his farm in
Halifax. Mr. Dooittle has a force of
about fifty men, and forty horses and
oxen, and is probably doing the largest
numbering business in this section. Fred
Waite is helping him, and among the ex-
perlenced teamsters are John Nichols
Willard Fisher and Uncle Charles Porter
With this efficient force Mr.. Doolittle feels
confident OF prosperous winter. In adj