Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-01-24


street, owned by X, L. Haskins, was sold
Friday through Morse d Edgett to a Brat
teboro woman who made the purchase as
an investment.
The next lecture in Mr.. Leavitt's astron-
omy course will be given Monday evening
at North street hall. Subject, "Meteors,
shooting stars and comets Tickets will
be sold at the door.
The Frost Il White ice company have
been cutting some of the finest ice ever
harvested in Brattleboro-13 to Il inches
thick, and perfectly clear. An excellent
crop has also been cut from T.. b. Richard
sons pond.
consignment of 40 fine horses will be
received Jan. % at the stables of f. E.
Blood d Co. These horses range from
1000 to 1900 pounds in weight, and include
several matched pairs, and good business
blocks and drivers.
The Carpenter Organ company reelected
its old board of officers at its annual meet
ing Tuesday: President, George E. Crow
ell; treasurer, c. H. Davenport; secretary,
Martin Austin, jr.; general manager, Wal
ter G. Carpenter; factory superintendent,
j. H. Morse.
Hackley Il Moran announce in their adj
vertisement this week that they are about
to put in a complete bicycle repair shop,
including facilities for reGnameling 1t is
their purpose to do everything in this Line
Of work which it has been necessary to
send to city shops heretofore.
Leon Wiley of White River Junction
was brought to the BrattlebOro Retreat
Wednesday. He was a member of the
Dartmouth college orchestra, and at the
last commencement won quite reputation
as a cornetist. He was taken suddenly
and violently insane Tuesday.
Morse d Edgett, the real estate dealers,
are having quite large correspondence
with out-of-town people DESTROYS of buying
farm and village property. From one
town in northern Vermont comes the
cheering news that if they can find farms
to suit five or six may locate hereabouts.
An evening of pleasure and instruction
combined is promised at the Methodist
church next Monday evening when Miss
Clara Cushman, recently returned from
China, will present IAN evening in Pc.
king with the aid of the young people,
who will appear in the costumes of the
country, and represent the various phases
of life and work in the ''tlowery kingdom -
Another large and interested audience
gathered on Monday night in North street
hall to listen to the second of Rev Mr.
Leavitt lectures on astronomy. The topic
treated was THE earth, planets and
MOON and like the first, this lecture was
full of entertaining and instructive data, a
brief report of which is impossible. The
discovery of the planet Neptune in recent
years. which was such triumph of math-
ematical skill the discovery of the velocity
of light by means of the moons of Jupiter
the description of Saturn and its rings and
moons, and the wonders of our own stated.
lite, were among the most interesting por.
tions of the lecture Excellent charts and
photographs were again great aid in the
clear comprehension of the facts given.
The following is from the Greenfield
correspondence in the Springfield Repub.
lican of Thursday: "Officer Pea BODY took
charge of wreck on the streets Yesterday
A woman about A years old had been or
the streets for two days begging, represent
ing that she wanted to 90 to Montpelier
She was poorly clad and told a pitiablt
tale. She was given a ticket to BratteborC
by the town authorities and sent north at
noon. She went to Greenfield Monday
night from Hatfield She gave her name
as Mrs. J. Z. Fiske" The woman referred
to spent Wednesday in Brattleboro She
represented that she was the wife of a
printer and that she was trying to make
her way from Philadelphia to Montpelier.
She made the rounds of local printing Of
fees and was given several small sums. In
dress and appearance she was bizarre
character who attracted much attention on
the streets.
The American Annual of Photography
and Photographic Times Almanac con
tains an interesting sketch of j. l.. Lowell,
the veteran photographer of Amherst,
Mass. 1t was written by Prof. David
Peck Todd of Amherst college, whom Mr..
Lowell accompanied in 1882 in a trip to
California, where at the Lick observatory
they viewed the transit of Venus, Mr.. Lo-
veil acting as photographer of the expe-
dition and taking no less than AS views
of the transit of the planet across the sun.
For nearly half century Mr. Lowell has
engaged in profession which may well
share with the printing the title, ''the art
pleservative." He began making da-
guerreotypes at Ware, Mass, in 1S49, and
VI.
He remained here four years, selling his
studio to the late c. L. Howe. Mr.. Lowell
is easily the best-knoWn photographer in
Western Massachusetts. He will accom-
panY Prof. Todd on the Amherst college
eclipse expedition to Japan this year, as
official photographer.
The result of the examination of o. l..
Miners herd of cattle was reported to the
cattle commission and by their orders the
nine animals which responded to the tu-
berculin test were killed Wednesday. Each
of the animals showed the presence of the
disease. Different parts were affected. in
Guiding the lungs, liver, bronchial, retro
pharyngeal, and posterior mediastinal
glands. In one animal, the lower Joint of
one of the forward legs was found to be
diseased. The test last week, as well as
the killing of the cattle, was in charge of
G. W. Pierce, who acted for the cattle
commissioners at their request. DIR. H.
M. Martin applied the tuberculin and
made the post mortem examination. The
cattle were appraised at $500. Mr. Miner
will, under the law, stand the loss of one
half this amount but will receive $3.50 from
the state treasury. Many farmers and
others were present at the examination on
Wednesday. DR.. Gale, who was among
the spectators, expressed himself as per-
fectly satisfied that each of the animals
killed was affected with the disease.
Mrs. Nellie Brown Fisher, aged SO, wife
of Willard R. Fisher, died suddenly Tues
day of typhoid pneumonia at her home on
Myrtle street. She had been Ill less than
a week, having been stricken the Thursday
previous. Her home had been in Brattle-
boro for the past seven years and here, as
in Athens, where she was born and passed
the early years of her life, and in Towns