Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-05-31

Mrs. Alice A. Morse of Wiliamsville
has bought j. L. Towards Highland street
house. The sale was made by A. V. May.
Mrs. Emily A. Houghton of Green street.
who has been i'll for three months past
has been in failing condition since Sun
day.
A lumber wagon and a pair of horses
made a particularly close shave this fore
noon on a general smash of wagon, Coupes
and store windows.
knights drum corps furnished music for
Memorial day at Jamaica, and the Valley
drum corps assisted the Halifax veterans
to observe the day.
There was a narrow escape from a seri-
Gus runaway accident Wednesday evening
during the band concert, horse in front
of Geddis's store becoming frightened.
The E. P. Carpenter residence has been
rented for the summer through the A. w.
Childs N Co. agency to Geo. c. Smith of
New York. The family will arrive June IA.
L. w. Hawley, Gen. j. J. Estey, S. H.
Sherman, and Mrs. L. W. Hawley are the
delegates to the Baptist State Sunday
! school convention which meets at Benning-
| ton June As.
Patrick Fox of Morley, n. Y, who ar
| rived al Browns stables yesterday with a
shipment of horses, was kicked in the face
| by one of them this morning, and his nose
was probably broken.
The annual fair given by the ladies' as
ISOLATION of the Congregational church will
| be held in the chapel next Thursday even
! ing. Among numerous attractions will be
the apron table, which it is expected will
contain an apron contributed by each state
in the Union.
Wheelmen have been much interested
this week in trials of j. ~ Il. gear which
Jordon ~ Van Doom have. BY a very
simple and ingenious arrangement the gear
can be changed, without leaving the sad
die, from y to "a thus making hill climb
ing easy and allowing of high speed on a
level. There is also a coastng arrange
ment.
A suit of Chas, F. Brown of Brattleboro
against Geo. d. Hall of Dover was heard
| by Justice S. II. Sherman Monday. The
suit was brought on account of a note on
which the defendant claimed certain pay
ments should have applied. The iudg-
ment was for the plaintiff to recover 1922
20 and costs. The case was appealed to
county court, c. c. Fits for the plaintiff;
S. T. Davenport for the defendant.
Miss Alice Kyle, field secretary of the
Woman's Board of Missions, gave an in
spring talk at the Congregational chapel
| Friday evening upon the encouraging as
poets of foreign mission work. These en-
| couragements were, first, the magnificent
opportunities offered on the foreign field.
and second, the devotion and courage of
the missionaries who are in the work In
stances were given of the brave and self
sacrificing work of young women in China
and Turkey, special mention being made
of the work in China of Miss Abbie Cha
pin, cousin of Rev. Geo. F. Chaplin Of Sax
tons River.
The body of VIM. Burke, who was
drowned at Bellows Falls April IL, during
the great flood, was found about l o. clock
Sunday morning near Gilson's ferry. The
body was lying in the sand on the New
Hampshire side face downward. 1t must
have been there for some time, probably
being covered by water until Sunday when
the shutting down of the mills at Bellows
Falls caused the water to fall so as to I'M
cover it. 1t was thought at first that the
body was that of Fitzgerald and his brother
and brother of Burke came down in the
afternoon. John Burke, the brother, pos
lively identified the body and caused il to
be taken to Hackley IL Moran's undertake
ing rooms where it was prepared for burial
Monday afternoon the body was taken to
Fitchburg Burke's former home.
No one appeared before the bailiffs at
their meeting Tuesday evening, on the
matter OF an appointment of a day police
man. 1t was therefore voted to entertain
a petition for special meeting to act on
the matter. Among other business tran
sacted the bailitfs voted to place an arc
| 1sy.I.4 IL.
and Mechanics Exchange building: an
arc light in the southern part of Esteyville:
and an incandescent light at the corner of
Chaplin and Forest streets. It was voted
to change the name of Asylum street to
Linden street. The assistant engineers
appointed by Chief Engineer Turner
were confirmed. 1t was voted to offer a
reward of 50 for information that would
lead to conviction of any person dump
ing refuse or rubbish within the village
limits except on the public dumping ground
in the rear of the coal sheds near Root s
Island. The sewer on Pine street is to be
extended to point near the Catholic Gene
terry.
Interesting experiments have been made
recently in the Baptist Temple in Phia-
delphia, the result of which would indi-
cate that the telephone is to be made an
important aid in extending the preachers
influence, Rev. Russell II. Conwell, who
on more than one occasion has uplifted
and inspired the people of the Bratteboro
Baptist church, is the pastor of this great
institutional church in the Quaker city. II
has three large auditoriums, the upper
Temple, in which Mr. Conwell breaches,
and whose seating capacity is exceeded by
few of the theatres and opera houses of
the world; the middle Temple beneath it,
room holding thousands, and in the
Temple college adjoining hall known as
the Forum. Recently these rooms have
been used for overflow meetings for those
who could not gain admission to the upper
Temple. In a short time the eloquent
preacher will be able to stand on the plat
form in either of the audience rooms and
speak to the people in both of the others
by system of telephones. Christ church
Of birmingham, England, has already
system of this sort in operation by which
the rector breaches to the hospitals and
jails of the city, and even of late to seven
large cities at distances of even $50 and
200 miles, where the whole service of the
church has been heard.
Well, we are to have the electric rail-
road, and now let us hope that it will be
built in the most substantial and perma-
nent manner possible, that its operation
will be such as to serve and please the
public, that it will be a financial success.
and that at the end of the year we shall
all be glad that ii came The rails look
like good ones though their WEIGHT AZ