Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-03-19
BRATTIEBORO.

Mrs. Helen Temple Brigham will speak
at Mrs. w. II. Adams's next Tuesday
evening, March %.
N N. Wilson has bought the Flat street
blacksmith shop of X. w. Angler and will
take possession at once. Mr.. Angler is un.
decided as to what his next move will be
BrattleborO friends will learn with sor.
row of the death of the infant daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred C.. Stedman of Spring
field, Mass, which took place at :: u this
morning. The little one had suffered from
commissions, due to some unknown cause.
for three days. The funeral will be next
Monday.
The Methodist society held it's quarterly
conference in the church last evening and
elected the following stewards: A. C. Dav-
export, w. X. Geddis, d. p. Webster, f.
A. johnson, f. A. Bagg, f. f. Beeman,
A. V. May, II. p. Matthews, j. c. Howe,
3. A. Daniels, Charles r. Davis of Yer
non and G. w. Weymouth.
Dispatches of Wednesday contained no
tice of the appointment of receiver or
trustee for the Estey e. Camp corporation
of Chicago, with view of closing up the
business there, The death of |. n. Camp
brought about some changes, and last fall
Gen. Estey arranged for division of the
business, so that the Esteys took the St.
Louis house and the Camp estate the Chi
cago house, retaining the Estey q Camp
name. This receivership is for the pur-
pose of settling the estate of Mr.. Camp.
and has no connection whatever with the
Estey Organ company, or any of its inter
ests.
Owing to illness and various other
causes there were not so many ladies as
usual at the Alliance study class Monday
evening. The subject for the evening was
church entertainments. 1t was introduced
by the reading of extracts from some arti-
cles written on that subject by William
Bayard Hale, and few remarks by Mrs,
G. II. Davenport. A lively and informal
discussion of the subject followed, the
ladies finally coming to the conclusion
that reasonable number of church enter
tainments with a due regard for good
taste, time, place, etc, were far from being
Objectionable.
The will of Lousia Dumaresa Hunt.
widow of William Morris Hunt, the paint
er, requests that such paintings of Mr..
Hunt as are in the estate, with others
which can be bought for that purpose. be
placed in the Boston Art museum as the
William Morris Hunt memorial collection.
Among the pictures named in the will are
several of the original sketches for the
mural paintings in the capital at Albany,
N. Y. Work on those paintings overtaxed
the artists strength and doubtless hasten
ed his death; and the work came to naught,
since the ceiling containing them fell, or
had to be taken down on account of the
faulty construction of the building.
The Mutiny of ''The Bounty"
The presence In town this week of r.
II. Folger of Massilion, Ohio, brings to
mind bit of history in connection with
the mutiny of the ship Bounty, which will
be recalled with interest by many of the
older residents. Mr.. Folger's father Cap
tain Folger, was the first person who dis
covered the whereabouts of the mutineers.
The Bounty was a British naval vessel
which was sent out to the Sandwich ISL
ands in 1870 to collect bread-fruit plants
to be transported to the West Indies.
Having secured their cargo they sailed for
their port of designation. A few days out,
on account of the tyrannical conduct of
Lieut.. Bligh, the commander, portion of
the crew mutinied, and, placing Bligh and
others who refused to join in the conspir-
acy in an open boat, set them adrift
Bligh and his companions made probably
the longest open boat voyage on record,
landing on the island of Timor, in the
Malay archipelago, 361S miles distant.
The Bounty sailed back to Otaheite in the
Sandwich Islands, but fearing the ven
geance of the British government, left !
there and landed by accident upon Pit
CAIRNS island in the southern Pacific of
the existence of which no record had ever
been made except in the log-book of the
discoverer Pitcairn. In 1908, 10 years af-
ter these events occurred, Capt. Folger, of |
the American ship Topaz of Boston, land |
ed upon the island, where he found Alex
lnder Smith, the only person remaining of |
the nine who escaped on the Bounty. No
steps were taken in consequence of this
discovery, as the British government was
loo much engaged in matters pertaining to
war.