Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-05-08


to settle with several officials. Officers
and witnesses may now secure their pay
by applying to the magistrates before
whom they gave testimony.
"Madelon," the new novel by Miss Will
kins, has on the page following the title
page these words, which the author wrote
as a sort of motto or text for the book
"Love is the crown and the crucifixion of
life, and proves thereby its own divinity"
The report of the Goth annual meeting
of the Vermont Dairymen's association,
held at Rutland last January, has just
been issued in a pamphlet of 270 pages.
Copies may be had of the secretary, George
w. Pierce, Brattleboro.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
Baptist church gave very enjoyable social
to the Junior society Monday evening.
About 40 of the young folks participated
in the games and music which furnished
the entertainment and partook of the re-
| freshments of oranges and bananas.
The Alfred Waite farm was sold at auc-
ton Saturday to o. Peltier, the wellknown
blacksmith, for $500. Mr.. Peltier stated
that he was to sell the property on the
west side of the road, including the build
ings, to F. NJ. Waite, while he would re-
tain the land east of the road for his own
use. The personal property brought fairly
good prices.
A communication from the bishops
chaplain to the Rev. Mr.. Collins states that
Bishop Hall has been forbidden by his ply
stefan to undertake any visitations and that
all appointments made for the month of
May must be cancelled. The bishop has
somewhat improved in health, but month
or more of entire rest will be necessary
before he can safely resume his work in the
diocese.
Harry Gale, young son of Mrs. Annah
Gale of Elliot street, was rolling a hoop
Wednesday evening, when he collded with
one of Browns livery teams, was struck
on the head by the horse hoof and thrown
down, both wheels passing over him.
What was at first thought to be quite Sc
rious wound proves to be merely a large
cut on the head and aside from having a
lame back the boy is all right.
The old Naquag House in Barre, Mass,
famous in stage times, took fire Tuesday
morning and was completely destroyed to-
gether with the adjacent buildings. The
roof of the Catholic church was also
burned off. The total loss by the fire is
about $4,000. The old Naquag House
was the place where exchanges were made
en- route from Brattleboro and Keene to
Boston during the famous stage times.
W. A. Castle, New York business man
who lives in Springfield Mass, has recent
! ly paid S4400 for ten-cent Baltimore pro-
visional postage stamp There is only one
other Baltimore provisional stamp in eX-
, istence and it is not a perfect specimen.
The provisional stamps, of which the new
Baltimore discovery is an excellent eX-
ample, were issued by the postmasters OF
Baltimore, Brattleboro, Millbury, New Ha.
ven, New York, Providence and st. Louis
c. X. Jones, the junior member of the
firm of Scott IL Jones, has sold his inter.
est in the grocery business to his partner
Freeman Scott, because of his inability, on
account of i'll health, to partake actively
in the duties of the business. Scott &
Jones began in partnership eight years age
and have built up trade which is now one
of the foremost in their line in the village
Mr.. Jones has made no business plans fol
the future further than that he will remain
in Brattleboro for the present.
The New York Dramatic Mirror says
"The tour of the Marie Tavary Grand
Opera company closed May 2 in Toronto
Canada, under the direction of Charles H
Pratt, after a successful season of Sc
weeks, embracing a tour of Old Mexico
British Columbia, and the large cities OF
the United States and Canada, making
one of the longest and most extensive
grand opera seasons ever accomplished in
: America" Will Sichuster, who is a member
of this company, is under engagement tc
| sing at the Castle Square theatre, Boston
during the summer
The Southern Interstate Immigration
and Industrial association of Pinebluffe
N. c., has made proposition to the mana.
> gers of the Valley Fair with view of com
bining its exhibit with the fair. Its dis.
play is a complete representation of the
South in its crops, manufactured articles
minerals, etc., and includes cotton patch
the cotton gin in operation, rice as it grows
the tar kiln as 1t appears in the forest
skins of wild animals, rare birds eggs
relics of the Civil war, woods, precious
metals and other interesting curiosities.
J. S. Farnsworth, the almshouse keeper
at Springfield, Mass, who disappeared
} from that city April %, appeared Monday
evening at the home of his BROTHER DR.
Geo. w. Farnsworth, in West Rutland
, He evidently came to Rutland from New
I, York. He is Frustrated mentally and il
will be a long time before he RECEIVERS.
Farnsworth was formerly employed at the
, Brattleboro Retreat, and he left Spring.
field just at the time that charges were be-
ing investigated of mismanagement and
cruel treatment of patients at the aims
house, involving the death of one Flana,
gan, who had been beaten.
The Bohemian glass blowers have at
tracted fair-sized crowds at grange hall this
week. They leave tomorrow for Bellows
Falls, where they will exhibit next week.
This company is part of the same aggre-
CATION which exhibited in Midway Plais-
ance at the Worlds Columbian exposition,
and many of the articles displayed were
made at that time. The exhibition here
was in charge of Ernest Hammesfahr. whose
father was the originator of the idea OF
spinning ard weaving glass, which was
conceived in Pittsburg, Pa, in 1880 but
was not brought out until the time of the
Worlds Fair. The glass spinning and
weaving was the most wonderful feature OF
the exhibit.
George Hoton of Hinsdale, N. H.,
hitched his horse near the express CON-
, pany's Office Tuesday afternoon and as an
electric car came along the horse gave a
plunge, became entangled in the halter and
was thrown. An instant later the horse
was going up High street hill at a rate OF
speed that greatly exceeded that of the
woman who scrambled up the bank to get
out of the animals way. The horse CON
tinued its course up through Centreville to
the old factory where it turned down to the