The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-19

There will be a dance at Centr,
r"rS, Vernon. tonight.
Human bones, thought 70 be tbos,
OF long buried Indian. were dino nm q,
Ing. f''ay morn
The late John W. Frost had a. mn
ilie insurance-S5,0OO in the n Yiiss
being one of the Oldest policy holders !,
town. and $1,000 in the Connectien,
Mutual. "ne'''cu'
"A. '. NAYS agency has leased J. q
ratterson's place, known as the lanes
howard farm. to j. q. Smith Of ths
home. summer
thompson Cain after leading his
morse out to grass and water Sunday
morning and after letting it roll. the
animal jumped up and kicked him
ith full force on the muscles of the
looking arm. anu 'a''
bailey & Miner have leased II r.
crosoy new hotel at West Brattleburo
10 MAJ. r. {. Beck, who will fur.
nIsn the place with modern con
yeniences to include hotel accommo
uations. Also coffee and refreshment
rooms for patrons Of the electric road
and the public generally. Maj. Beck ex.
poets to open the place about July |.
W II. DERRICK, representing the
New York Tribune fresh air fund. has
peen In town the past few DAYS max
Ing arrangements for the coming sea
son. The pastors of the various
churches have been asked to nominate
some one IN their respective church TO
serve as committee on this most no
bic work The first meeting of the
committee is called for Monday eve
ning at p. IN. at the Centre Consre.
gational church. 4 full attendance is
desired.
J. Burt Sutherland gave the fifth
and last OF his series of lectures in the
Retreat course Tuesday evening on Fa
nous Men and Women Whom I Have
Seen and Heard. Queen Victoria,
Prince and Princess of Wales, Son of
Napoleon Sd, Victor Emmanuel, the
King and Queen of Italy. the Shah of
Persia, the King of Norway and Swed
en-, the Car Of Russia, Abraham Lin
coin, General Grant, Charles Dickens,
D'lsraelI, Mr.. Gladstone, Duke of Arg
yle, Lord Lorne, Lord Dufferin Jenny
Lind, DR.. Guthrie. Norman Mcleod,
Spurgeon, Bishop Brooks, Henry Ward
Beecher, John B. Cough. Wendell
Phillips.
There was pretty bromiscuous
mix up of horses and carriages on
Main street Wednesday in front of
Roberts grocery store. Luke Ferriter.
with his express team on Flat street
had some timber some 30 feet long
on his team which struck the horse.
badly frightening the animal and set
ting it on run up Main street at full
speed. Mr.. Ferriter saw thatlhe was
unable to hold the horse, Just as the
wagon tipped into that deep sewer hole
that has nearly caused so many acct
dents in front ofFenton Brothers shop.
Mr.. Ferriter jumped out and the horse
continued up the street until he col
lided with two teams in front of Rob |
erts. Both horses were thrown on |
the sidewalk and from the team Henry |
Garden, who was loading groceries |
for Merchant Reed of Dummerston
with other goods. Three barrels of -four
we're spilled and the heads knocked |
put of two of them. but aside from
some scratching of horses legs no 9th
er damage was done.
Gen. W. W. Grout stopped over
acre Friday night and until IL Sat
lrday forenoon on his way home from
He/was in pretty con
'tant consultation at the Phoenix
,tfice and with his supporters here
setting up"the fight hat was made in
lis behalf Saturday night, where "a
,ours before it was the general impress
lion that the sentiment voiced by the
Business Mems Address would prevail
md Martin delegation elected with
nut opposition. Those who know Gen.
trout and his ways, however, had no
UGH expectation after he appeared
lere. He may not amount to much in
Washington, but he is whole team
ghen it comes to carrying caucuses in
lis district. This is well illustrated
" the substantial unanimlty with
which he always has the caucuses in
lis own county aad vicinity back of
i'm, even while the general measure
lent of him intellectually there is per
APPS lower than it is here. But what
yer his shortcomings in statesman
hip, as layer-out of cauc uses and
aucus campaigns he is skilful and
droit to remarkable degree.
-Quoth the Montpelier Argus;
Col George " Hooker of Brattleboro, looked
fter the funny business of the convention and
lcceeded in quelling the turbulent spirits
'ho demanded a ballot on the congressional
ominee question. He came up from the cleo ;
lie railway town, primcd with speech TO nom
late J l. MARTA, but was choked OFF by the
ithdrawal of his candidate, and so presumably
owery bit of eloquence was lost to what would ,
ave undoubtedly been an appreciative audi
nee.
Rra koreans and Others.