Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-09-03

ne granite 'front.' OF Freeman OcOlJ
grocery store-the last one of the kind in
town--was removed Monday aud an iron
front with plate glass windows substituted.
The work was I'm Ter the superintendent
of Robbins IL Cowles.
Arrangements are in progress for two
concerts this month by Mrs. f. Il. Pratt.
The first will be at Glens Falls, n. Y,
Sept. 20 and the next at Bellows Falls the
following night. Victor Harris, pianist,
and Mr.. Riedrich, 'cellist, who assisted at
the Pratt concert in Brattleboro last year,
will assist at both concerts and there will
probably be one other vocalist
Edourd Remenyi, the veteran Hungarian
violinist, who has delighted Brattleboro
audiences so many times years agone, was
robbed Tuesday of $4,000 worth of property
contained in trunk and valses in his
house in New York. The property was
carried out of the house in broad daylight.
Suspicion fell on two servants, who were
arrested, and the property was recovered.
The Choral Union will take up Mendels-
sohn's masterpiece, "Elijah," this winter,
and will begin rehearsals next Wednesday
evening at the Congregational chapel al
1870 o'clock. Quite a number of singers
have sgni6ed their intention to join the
Union this season, and it is desirable that
they be present at the first rehearsal. All
old members are requested to bring their
tickets.
A meeting of the directors of the Brat
tleboro Street Railway company, for the
election of a president and director to sue
coed E, G. Crosby, was held in the probate
court Office Tuesday afternoon. G.. A.
Smith, of the firm of S. A. Smith Il Co,
was elected a director, but the office of
president is still vacant Judge E. l..
Waterman, vice president, is acting as
president, which is eminently satisfactory
to the other directors, and it is probable
that he will be induced to accept an cleo
ton to that Office.
Announcement is made of an entertain
ment to be given next Thursday evening.
Sept. 8, at the Brooks House parlors at s
o'clock. Miss Louise Rawson, whose few
| appearances here have proved such enjoya-
BILE events, will give program of readings,
assisted by Miss Marion Minor, who will
contribute the musical numbers. The Oh
| ject TO which the proceeds are to be devOt-
ed (the free kindergarten and the low
| price of the tickets, together with the as
sured excellence of the entertainment,
should bring out a large audience. The
tickets may be procured OF members OF
| the Woman's club.
Prof Simon Newcomb is the guest OF
Robert G. Hardie while giving sttings for
portrait ordered by Johns Hopkins uni
versity of Baltimore. Prof Newcomb is
one of the distinguished astronomers of the
world, having been engaged in this work
since his appointment as professor OF
mathematics in the navy in 1861. He is
the author of many astrono mical and
mathematical works, and has received high
| honOrs from many sources, being an LII.
| ID. of Columbia, Yale, Harvard, and Co.
| lumbia university, a Phi. ID. of Heidelberg
and Leyden, gold medalist of the loya
astronomical society and of Leyden, etc
etc. He has been for many years supern-
tendent of the Nautical Almanac office in
the navy department, and has recently
been placed on the retired list on account
of age. He is and has been professor OF
mathematics and astronomy at Johns Hop
| kins, and is a member or associate OF
nearly every foreign astronomical society
and is also a cogent writer on political
economy.
Mr.. Billings has bought about - acres
of tobacco in Vernon and Hinsdale, on
which to try the artificial spotting expert
ment to produce an imitation of the Suma-
ira wrapper leaf. The spraying to produce
the spots is done by +. II. Sweetland OF
| Northampton, who employs four men in
the work. Spraying began Tuesday. Ii
| will take nearly two weeks to go over
these fields. The tobacco is ready to be
harvested in As hours after spraying. In
two days brown spot appears, and two
days later this changes to a permanent
white spot. The spraying has no effect
either on the strength of the leaf or on the
weight of the crop. The spraying process
was invented four years ago by Rickert Il
| Long of Ohio. Suffer Brothers have tried
| it in the West for three years and are so
| well satisfied with it that they have made
| large purchases of Connecticut valley
crops, about 500 acres in all, to operate on
this year If it works as we'll as expected
it will benefit the growers by causing a re-
turn by the cigar makers to the use of
Connecticut valley wrapper leaf.
1t was only light touch of the whip
that Thomas Fenton gave horse which
he was driving Friday night but he is
nursing bruised head and two fractured
ribs in consequence of it, Fenton and
Blacksmith Arthur O'Leary got horse
and carriage at Fl. NJ. Adams's stable
about 6:30 o'clock and started on business
toward DummeIston. AS they neared
the top of the American House hill a
trolley car came along and both the car
and the horse stopped. Mr.. Fenton drew
his whip with which to PERSUADE the ami
NAL but only touched him once. The
horse was unused TO a whip and gave a
tremendous leap which led O'Leary to be-
lieve that Fenton needed assistance in
holding him. O'Leary grabbed the left rein
and pulled hard upon it, cramping the
wheels so short that the carriage was over
turned and the occupants were thrown TO
the ground. One side of Mr. Fenton's
face was bruised so that it bled consider
ably and two ribs on the right side were
fractured. O'Leary was uninjured
The horse dra eyed the carriage out
Elliot street, where it collided with
Alfred McVeigh's team, breaking the
crossbar of the latter's carriage, and con-
tinued to Elm street, where it was caught.
The livery carriage came out with the axles
sprung, the thills broken and the seat
smashed.
$4,000 at Stake In BrattIebOrO.
A report upon the condition and man
agement of the Bay State Beneficiary asso-
citation of Westfield, Mass, has been
printed this week which shows the affairs
of that company TO be in an unsatisfactory
condition. The examiners of the nsur-
aGce departments of Massachusetts, Maine,
Rhode Island and Missouri, spent the
month of June on the accounts of the
company, and in July tabular statement
of assets, income, disbursements and liza
bilities was printed, but the full text of