Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-28

tribe of Red Men will eXemplity the AdOp-
ton and Chiefs degrees before the Schia-
vase tribe at Wilmington next Tuesday
evening.
There was small attendance at the
auction sale of horses by Cavanaugh
brothers at the Flat street stable this week.
Only five horses were sold and those
brought a low price.
Vermont veterans of the Union army
will read with special pleasure this week
eX-GOv HobrOok's personal tribute TO the
memory Of Gen Grant, elsewhere reprint
ed from the June number Of the Yer
monter
Emma f., the 20-months-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Langille of Elliot street,
died Monday of congestion of the lungs.
The funeral was held at o'clock Wednes-
day afternoon, Rev. c. O. Day officiating
The burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Romance w. Thompson, who lives in
II. +. Bonds house at the corner of South
Main and Pearl streets, was stricken with
paralysis Tuesday while sitting down in
the barn. He fell over on the floor and
was carried to the house by two men. He
is unable to move or speak
DR.. G. II. Gorham, of Bellows Falls
week to attend the meeting of the Ameri-
can Medical association in Philadelphia,
will be absent a fortnight or more, and
will not, therefore, keep his usual Brattle-
boro appointments during that time.
f. Wales has been engaged to teach the
fancy dances for the "Haymakers' opera
at Greenfield, to be given June 3 and A..
The following week Mr.. Wales has an en-
H.. I IL. e.,
dances for a house which is to bring out a
new entertainment similar to the biograph.
The great festival of the Ascension,
which occurred this year on May p, was
suitably observed in St. Michael's Episco-
pal church yesterday by morning prayer fol
lowed by the celebration of the holy com
munion. Divine service was also held in
this church on Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday, these being the "Rogation days"
Mrs. L. d. Wilson entertained from 10
to l. guests Tuesday evening in honor of
Misses Linley and Semaine who have spent
the past year in Brattleboro. Miss Linley
at Mr.. Wilson's and Miss Semaine at Rev.
L. d. Temples. Games, refreshments and
general sociabilty were enjoyed. Misses
Linley and Semaine, return next Monday
to their homes in Lansing, Mich accom-
panied by Mrs. l.. D. Temple, who will
spend the summer months there.
The voting for assignees of the firms of
Van Doom IL Morris and Jordan ~ Van
Doom Friday resulted in the unanimous
election of President George c. Averill OF
the Vermont national bank and Cashier
W H. Bracket of the Peoples national
bank Mr.. Averill and Mr. Bracket will
also act as assignees of Mr.. Van Doorn's
personal estate, as the law provides that
the disposition of the property Of individ-
uals in insolvency shall be made by the as
signees of the firms il insolvency of which
the individuals are members.
The mammoth oxen. Joe and Jerry,
products of the Avery farm at auckland,
Mass, will be found among the curiosites
at Austin ~ Stones museum in Boston
next week. They are pure Holsteins, seven
years old, Il hands high, nine feet seven
inches in girth, l. feet II inches from tip
to tip and weigh over G000 pounds. They
have drawn H. 6l pounds on a drag eight
feet at one pull, the drag being in the
earth on dead level. One Of these oxen
was one OF the mammoth pair on exhibit
ton at the Valley Fair few years ago.
His mate at that time has died.
There is no danger that the Brattleboro
or other Windham county heirs TO the
Carver grant" in Minnesota, which in
cludes the city of ST. Paul, will have "mon-
ey TO burn" on account of such heirship
but their chances OF wealth are bonanza
compared with those of the hundreds (prob-
ably thousands) of dupes who have sent
money to English 'agents" or attorneys"
and then have waited for their ships to
come in laden with their share of one of
those mythical "unclaimed' estates, the
proceeds of which are supposed TO "fester
with wealth in the vaults of the Bank of
England, while they wait through the cent
uries for the American "hersn to claim
their own.
DR.. l.. F. Patten, who has been the sec
ond assistant physician at the Retreat since
last August, has received the appointment
as second assistant to DR.. Edward French
at the new state asylum al Medfeld, Mass
and entered upon his duties there last
Monday. DR.. Patten is a native of Green
witch, Mich, where his father still lives
He received his academic education at
Oberlin college, Ohio, and studied medi-
cine at the medical schools at Bowdoin
college and at Dartmouth, graduating at
the Dartmouth school in 1895. He proved
himself young man of promise in his
profession during his residence at the Re-
treat and carries with him to his new and
advantageous position the esteem and good
wishes of his associates DR.. French, the
superintendent at Medfeld, was for several
years a member of the medical staff at the
Retreat.
1t is said that Mr. Kipling strongly OBJ
jects TO having his verses set to music and
now comes a writer in the Literary World
with the explanation that this is because
"Kipling's songs always come to him first
as music. Then he simply adds words TO
them" 81 spoke of this to a well-known
writer of plantation verses the story goes
on, "who told me that he had the same
experience. Whenever music has been
written to any of my lines he said, 4
have been invariably disappointed. Not
because | think my own music is better,
but because the other music is so different
from what / wanted to express through
the lines ] asked him why, as he was
not skilled musician, he did not sing the
music to some one who could write it for
him, and he said he had often thought of
doing that. Mr.. Kipling's admirers would
be very glad if he could be persuaded to do
it, too"
Some of Mary WIIISins's Work.
The writer of the literary column in the
Boston Sunday journal processes to chap
pen TO know" that Mary wilkins will
spend the summer, or part of it, at work
on drama of modern New England life
in which she will introduce the rustic types
of rural life, which have made her novels
famous. practically the whole work is
being done by Miss Wilkins, although the