Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-05-17

tificates from the state board of pharmacy.
F. p. and F, T. Hopkinson will open
their store in the Little 33 building about
June l.
Protective grange will instruct a class in
the third and fourth degrees next Tuesday
evening.
The bailitfs have meeting at the select
mems rooms this evening to consider i'm
portanL business.
The Hedgerow Debating society of North
street school will be given war talk at
their hall this evening by p. S. Chase.
The Fessenden Helping Hand society of
the Congregational church plans to present
IA Midsummer's nights dream" on the
evening of July 3.
On account of constantly increasing bust
ness Hackey e. Moran have found it neces
sary to employ II. A. Elliot of Boston in
their upholstery department.
About 20 Underwriters fire extinguishers,
a simple but ingenious and effective device,
have been placed in different stores this
week by n. f. burlington, the company's
representative.
A new gas main is being laid on North
Main street. 1t is hoped that this will do
away with escaping gas, which has been a
great annoyance to householders in that
section for several months.
John Burns was killed in a stabbing
affray at Boston May T. There is a pos
sibility that the victim is a man of that
name who drove an express team in Brat
tleboro year or more ago, and who was
sporting character.
AT a special meeting of the board of
bailiffs held May s, an order was passed
that the occupants of the buildings on the
east side of Main street must not throw
any rubbish or garbage on the bank in the
rear of said buildings.
Postmaster Childs has received from the
department fac smile of the counterfeit
two cent stamp which is being put in cir
culation. 1t closely resembles the genuine,
the only apparent difference being that the
lines are broken instead of continuous.
Capt. F. II. Buffum lectured before the
John S. Tyler camp of Sons of Veterans
Monday evening, his address being of
special interest to the members of the or
der. Music was furnished by Leitsnger's
orchestra, and vocal solo by Miss Lenna
Thomas and a cornet solo by Sewall Morse
added to the attractiveness of the program.
Proceedings in insolvency have been be-
gun at Boston against Addison r. Baldwin
and Frank E. Baldwin, by creditors of the
defunct brokerage firm of Baldwin Brothers
company, in which spectators all over
New England were interested. 1t is al
legged that the brothers drew out 81 ,000 900
each from the business and that a large
part of it is still in their possession.
Mrs Elizabeth Z. DeLano, wife of DR..
| +. b. Minis, died in northampton, Mass.
! Wednesday evening. She was educated at
Albany, y. y, and lived at Fort Plain, n.
y, in 1867, when her marriage took place
to Dr. Minis, then one of the physicians of
the Brattleboro Retreat. DR.. Minis is now
superintendent of the asylum at North
ampton.
George Ellis, who had his collar bone
broken and three ribs fractured by being
| thrown from a carriage on Elliot street
| Thursday evening of last week. has been
particularly unfortunate. About - months
ago, while employed by the Fitchburg rail-
road company, he was struck by locomo-
tive in the Boston yard of the Boston IL
Maine road, and had an arm and leg cut off.
S. A. Smith has contracted with c. II.
Grant of the Island granite and marble
works for a Target sarcophagus of Barre
granite, to be erected in Weatherhead Hol-
low, Guilford Mr.. Grant also has con-
| E z.
and George Bishop for monuments to be
erected in Prospect Hill cemetery and a
large amount of work to be erected this in
vicinity.
Brattleboro was represented at the Odd
| Fellows meeting at St. Johnsbury by l.. j.
Retting, past grand master and grand
representative, Past Grand Masters John
Retting and George II. Clark, District
nd Il
Past Grands O. J. Willard, j. NJ. Dugan
and w. D. Gibson. The present plan is TO
hold the next session of the grand lodge
and encampment in Rutland and to come
| to Brattleboro the following year.
James f. Field, who died in Jersey City.
| n. j., last week, was son of Richard +.
Field of Greenfield, Mass. His first SER
| vice as a conductor was on the Vermont
d Massachusetts railroad, running from
| Fitchburg to Brattleboro. Mr.. Field then
went West, and was for some time on the
Wabash railroad, and then he went to
| Philadelphia and entered the employ of the
| Pennsylvania railroad, where he was for
| some 2S years in active service as conduct
or.
The boys battalion and the young ladies'
company are to give an exhibition on the
Retreat grounds tomorrow afternoon about
3 o'clock weather permitting. Company A
will not drill in the evening; Co-'""Hy b
mo of tho cornoiI N, 4gs, as the preachers
evening to decide al ito for ltyjnTp.oonld
ings OF tS no pe yoan An important meev
next fall and to rin be held Saturday
matters. The e,,arJout the closing meet
of the battalio dsl term, and the plans LOT
Chief Jnst'o Consult on other presslnS
s,Dra lpn 90 70 Expectations about the WorA
20 for tria. n were never more hopelui'
wick, a lte zee Fuller, of the United states
court in, con has sci m at R"yr vs., Hard
ork' friends case tbo limited States
imported" reserved p I'm ~ uh1 district of New
August Is, into all tE TIN whether goods
act TOOK eIieces afford f. 1904 and before
adjusted shou-' and spiriI-b;ch the tariff
former law OF uh, begin at o.bad not beer
provided that goodanslate the9j under tn,
| l, 1894, should paem to remafaw which
decision in the Untoessence. "tl Auons
rendered by Judge Wheu " Th
A suit was brought We& wa
Charles Bellows, boy of 1oNich Richar,
Guilford, by his father, HolA,writer on
of Marlboro, for 500 damages net of the
his brother, Is years of age, awrowing
home. The case is a novel one.Ny the
facts are understood to be that the sea
Bellows boys have not lived happily =
home with their father, that they were in
very poor circumstances, that Charles Bel
lows left home some time ago and his
younger brother was anxious to leave also
Last winter Charles secured a place ia
Guilford for his brother at $12 a month.
EUh no har to D.