Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-02-19

Inc SUI people who hold tickets fol
"The Sunshine of Paradise Alley tonight
should remember that the curtain rise.
promptly at 1880 instead of o'clock as
heretofore.
There has been large sale of tickets
for Denman Thompson's "The Sunshine
of Paradise Alley" at the auditorium to.
night. The company will be welcomed BY
one of the largest crowds of the season.
The w. Y. NJ. U. of Ware, Mass, gives
minstrel show tonight under the direct
ion of p. j. Muvaney, who helped to pre-
pare the Vermont Wheel clubs show. ].
Harry Estey will do the honors of end
man.
About 30 members of the Junior union
of the Universalist church took a sleigh
ride from 7 to 0 o'clock last evening, chap
eroned BY Miss Ruby Hescock. They
drove to Vernon and back, but without
making any stop.
John W. Golden, a conductor on night
freight train between Brattleboro and Pal
mer, and Mrs. Ellen s. HAYNES of 2S South
Main street, were married by VIM. S. New
ton at the latters Office Wednesday. Mr..
and Mrs. Golden will live at 2S South
Main street.
The Musical Courier of this week saws ::
The Rossini Stabat Mater was given at
the Metropolitan Opera house in New
YORK Sunday The soloists were DeVere.
LAWN, Mantelli and Plancon. Mr.. LAWN,
the young American tenor who is winning
laures for himself sang the Cuius Amman
with great purity of style, musical feeling
and fine tonal quality"
j. L. Martin returned Friday night from
Washington, ID. c., where he went three
weeks ago to appear before the Senate
committee on the District of Columbia in
regard to the purchase, by the government,
OF the island of Analostan. The island
which comprises about SO acres, is situated
IN the Potomac river, just opposite the
city OF Washington, and is owned princi-
pally by Mrs. T. G. Dewey of Montpelier.
Mr.. Martins sister-in-law As the citv
mas no hospital for the treatment of conta-
gious diseases it is DESTROYS of buying the
island as suitable place for the erection
OF such hospital, and as a convenient
place for the erection of furnace for the
consumption of the city garbage. The
Senate committee first offered the owners
of the island SIS 900 for the property
which was refused, and the committee have
now recommended the passage of a law dl-
rectlng he purchase of the island by the
government at $112, 800, which the owners
are willing to accept The matter is now
pending before the Senate.
Maj. Sidney Root of Atlanta, Ga, who
died last Saturday morning, was a nephew
of Capt. Samuel Root, one of the leading
men of Brattleboro in the olden time, and |
the maternal grandfather of II. r. Law |
renee. Sidney Root was born in Monta.
que, Mass, but large part of his boyhoOd |
was spent in Craftsbury, this state He
went to Stuart county, Ca, in 1913, where |
he married and entered into business |
which made him a man of |
great wealth. The mercantile firm of |
which he was member did very large |
business in this country, and branch |
house established in Liverpool developed |
an enormous trade. After the outbreak of |
the war Maj. Root made several contracts |
with the COnfederacy for supplies, and this |
caused him to become intimately acquaint- |
ed with many of the leaders. In 1864 he |
ran the blockade and went to Europe on a |
mission for the Confederacy, |
and while there travelled extensively. At |
ter the fall of the Confederacy Mai. Root |
returned 10 Georgia and found that his |
vast fortune was practically wrecked In |
1866 he moved with his family to New
York, but returned to Atlanta in 1878. He |
did not Renter business, but did much in
a philanlhropical way. Maj. Root is said
to have been the closest personal friend of
Jefferson Davis after the close of the war;