Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-03

A. II, IL L. E. Stratton fire loss at S10S0.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
serve ice cream, cake, coffee and lemonade
on the church lawn from o'clock to-
morrow afternoon to in the evening.
Following are the several taxes which
have been assessed this year: town, $780,
662.0G; Town school, S3610.4S; village,
81, 141.03; state school, S2474. 40; high
way, S2477.60.
The Pine Grove Springs resort at Spot
ford Lake is again under the management
of F. b. Alvord for the summer season.
A specially will be made of the entertain
ment of coaching, dinner and bicycle
parties.
f. Kay Robinson, formerly editor of the
"Civil and Military Gazette" of Lahore,
India, contributes to the July number of
McClure's magazine some interesting
"reminiscences of Rudyard Kipling when
the latter was assistant editor of that paper.
The following are the grand list figures
Town, $40, 436. rs; village, S37, 1884; dis
trict No. 2, $37, 1916. 81 town schools, $12,-
041.44. The difference between the vii
lage and district No. lies in the fact that
a small part of Esteyville which is in the
district and which has list of $2669 81 is
not in the village.
Mr.. Poccet of Chicago, in his political
correspondence to a recent issue of the
Musical Courier says: 81 was talking to
some piano men the other day and they
said that it was about time to have a big
piano man put up for some big office. Pr
ano men never get big offices. l believe
the highest ever gotten was by Fuller
when he was made governor of Vermont"
One of the supporting wires of the troll
ley system on which men were at work fell
to the track in front of f. II. Holden & Co. IS
store Tuesday night soon after the bicycle
parade had passed. There was display
of electric lights on the ground for a mo.
ment and the crowd fell back in fear. The
power was soon shut off, and the wire
raised to its former position and made
fast to the pole.
The bass fishing season opened at Spot
ford lake Wednesday morning. II. F. Jor-
dan and Louis Whitney went there Tues
day night and were on the water before
daylight. Whitney captured a three
FOUNDER and Mr.. Jordan a two FOUNDER,
and there were several other fish of smaller
size. The whole string was brought to
Brattleboro before $50 Wednesday morn
ing by Mr.. Whitney.
One of the divorce cases recently exploit
ed in the New York papers was that OF
Mrs. Ray Rockwell, a pretty young wife,
who was granted a divorce from Charles
Farnham Rockwell. The husband did not
support the wife and she became a member
of one of A. NJ. Palmer's theatrical COM
panes. Action was brought for separa-
ton on the ground of her husbands cruel
treatment, but while the suit was progress
ing evidence tending to show adultery was
secured, and this was introduced into court.
Judge Pryor told Mrs. Rockwell that he
hoped she would be more fortunate next
time.
Ground and lofty tumbling has been re,
introduced into the Barnum Il Bailey
Greatest Show on Earth upon a greater
scale than ever before The champions
from all countries meet and contend for
supremacy and their displays of vaultng,
leaping, jumping, somersaulting, and tum-
bling on the ground, in the air, and over
impediments and obstacles, borders on the
miraculous. Some of them jump over
horses Is hands high from standing start,
while Others jump backwards and forwards
over a dozen chairs, and, even upon a
mans face and off again without injuring
the PROSTATE man. They will all be seen
here when the show comes July 10.
George'Vinton, who left the Estey fac
tory seven years ago to go to Burmah with
his mother and brother, arrived here Fri
day to renew old acquaintance. He is
employed in Rangoon, Burmah, as a COM
mission agent for Bullock Il Co., rice deal
els. Mr. Bullock is the American consul
general at Rangoon. Mr.. Vlnton goes into
the jungle and buys rice of native cUltiva-
tors while it is in the hull and has it car
ried by boats to the mills. A kernel of rice
in the hull is called a paddy" Mr.. Vim
ton also owns 26 acres of land which was
given to his grandfather by the Indian gov
eminent. This he has leased to a company
for storing crude oil from upper Burmah.
The oil is used on buildings to protect them
from white ants and to keep them from
rotting and is substitute for paint. Her
bert Vinton is employed in the American
Baptist mission. Before returning in Sep
TENDER Mr.. Vinton will visit his brother
Sumner in Providence and will go to Bos.
ton and Philadelphia.
Several feline pets in Esteyville have
died recently with symptoms of poisoning
Winchester expired Sunday under such
suspicious circumstances that DIR. Martin
made an examination, finding that the cause
of the death was poison which had evident
ly been placed upon cooked chicken. The
poisoning of animals is despicable work in
which no right thinking man or woman
would take part, but several times within
the past few years there has been an out.
hraak Of fbie bind Of
guilty persons may not know that in the
Vermont statutes is a section which reads
as follows: "a person who deposits any
poison or poisonous substance upon lands
belonging to himself or on the lands or in
the buildings of another shall be fined not
more than fifty dollars and not less than
ten dollars, and shall be liable in damages
to person injured by the loss or sickness
OF domesticated animal occasioned by
such deposit" Many people who are high
ly indignant over the poisoning will see
that the law is enforced in case the trans
gressors are discovered.
Chief Engineer Turner received call
for assistance from East Putney Monday
noon and in due time had special engine
chartered and steamer No. 4 and hose
cart No. and about Is men loaded ready
for the start. Then came the first wait for
the White Mountain train; that having
passed the company proceeded to Dunn.
merston where another refreshing rest was
INDUCED in. The next six miles to East
Putney were covered without occurrence
of note but at that place, through the per-
mission of the railroad company, they were
allowed the use of the side track in a po-
sition excellent for seeing the cars go by.
A mile further on they ran out on a
spur track, having covered the entire u
miles in the short space of 90 minutes
The fire having been located, conference
as to the propriety of unloading the steam