Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-08

cry OF W. r. bOuuaIu SATURDAY ana were
given pads, pencils, pens and other small
articles incidental to Mr. Goddard's trade.
j. II. Chamberlain will ship 80 horses
in an express car next week from Indiana
to keene y. H.. where a sale will be held
at the Cheshire House stables Friday. be-
ginning at 10 o clock.
The Estey Guard will hold an exhibition
drill and dance at the armory on the even
ing of April - for the purpose of raising
funds for 1ehtting their uniforms, etc.
The company drill will be followed by a
musical drill which has recently been
adopted by the regular army.
The public schools closed yesterday for
their Easter vaCat ON. The spring term
will begin "a week from next Monday with
TIE same corps of teachers with the eXcep-
tiou of one change which has already been
mentioned The free Kindergarten school
will begin al the same time with Miss Rena
\ Dung teacher
t. l.. Roberts. who recently bought j.
!. Holtou's stock of merchandise in Win
chester, n H., has sold out TO Ernest
Pease of East Longmeadow, Mass. and
will give possession as soon as an lnventO-
nv can be made MI Pease was employed
SIX years In Forbes a. Wallace store at
Springfield. Mass.
T Wales annual reception to his dane
ing classes will begin at o clock next Tues
day evening in Festival hall The floor has
been put in excellent condition this week.
one OF the features Of the pageant will oe
a spectacular piece representing the United
States batlleship Maine Twenty Young
people In costume will take part IN the
I representation and calcium lights will he
used
William p. Devine graduated with hon
ors from the Philadelphia Dental collega
last week He delivered the valedictory
address before class of l4l members.
His address was received with great ap-
piause by the students and audience. and
/ he was publicly comphmented by the
/ faculty. Several valuable gifts were pre-
/ scented to him by Philadelphia friends. DIT.
/ Devine will take his examination before
/ the Pennsylvania state examiners within q
! short time He expects TO begin the
/ practice of his profession in Philadelphia.
/ O. T. Buttertield OF Wilmington, referee,
/ filed his report Friday in the case of the
| Bratteboro Jelly company vs.. the Retormer
/ Publishing company The plaintiff sought
| to recover STA for rent, power, etc. The
/ defendant put in bill in offset OF about
/ $1,000. largely for loss OF product because
| OF poor and insufficient power with which
/ to run the defendants type-setting ma
] chine The referees report reviews the
/ case at length and dwells particularly
/ upon the alleged fact that the machine was
/ ordered and put in without the plaintiff S
/ knowledge or consent Il practically dis
| allows the defendants bill iu offset and
/ finds for the plaintiff TO recover So
/ Six kegs of beer. addressed TO NJ. Leon
/ ard, Brattleboro. arrived at the Boston IS
| Maine freight depot Wednesday afternoon.
/ a complaint was entered by the proper
/ authorities and Policeman Thayer was
/ sent TO the depot 10 seize the goods and a
| team despatched to draw the liquor away.
! The freight agent demanded that the freight
! charges be paid before the LIQUOR was re-
/ moved but the request was not compiled
/ with A hearing Will be held before jus
/ tice j. Il. Merriheid al o'clock this al
/ ternOou. when severa. lega. questions
/ bearing upon the case will probably be-
! brought mp c. c. Fits and c. H. Roob
! will conduct the prosecution and Water
/ man, Martin ~ Hit and Haskius d
/ Schwenk will appear for the defence The
/ prosecution believes that the beer was Iu-
/ tended for illegal distribution
/ AT the Alliance Study class meeting on
I Monday a well written and interesting
paper by Miss Miles was given on The
/ Struggle with slavery in this country IL
embraced the time from 1920 TO 1880.
/ showing how during the colonial period
! the English government forced slavery and
/ the slave trade on the colonies In spite OF
their earnest protests; how az the con
/ federation Of the states the fatal compro-
! 1Ea rrrli .b eli D.
! life and political power: how its increas-
ing profits gradually corrupted consciences
North and South how the laws grew
more cruel: now the threat of dissolving
the union was constantly held out by the
South to keep the North quiet under the
steady encroachments and continually
/ broken faithof the slave power. how
always some hearts and conscieuces
had cried ont against the iniQuties
Of the system: and OF the final rise of t he
abolitionlsts, and all they had to contend
against. The rest of the story is to be
given in a second paper al the next meet
ing.
There was a hearing in Dr. Conland' $
Office Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday
morning before T. j. B. Cudworth and l..
+. Gordon, commissioners, on the claim of
| Elizabeth Foley against the estate of the
late Catherine Foley. The claim was for
S3lS for wages at 81 80 a week. Between
the periods OF work the plaintifi claimed 10
have been employed by the Brattleboro
| Overall company and at the BratilebOro
House and that while employed at those
places she lived at Mrs. Foley's and paid
her board there. On being cross examined
she stated that she never made charges for
her labor and never kept an account of the
days on which she worked there and never
expected payment from Mrs. Foley. The
evidence of the defence tended TO show
that although the plaintiff had done more
or less work for Mrs Foley she had never
been employed to do II and that Mrs. Foley
was able to do and did do the greater part
of the work at the house. The claim was
disallowed. H. O. Barber appeared for
the plaintiff and A. F. Schwenk for the
estate B. j. Foley presented bill for
Sl16I which he claimed 10 have expended
for material in repairing the house. The
estate presented a bill in offset for the
same amount for board and rent, but by
mutual consent neither claim was pressed.
A 25th Wedding Anniversary.
The friends and neighbors to the num-
Der of 80 or more assembled Friday even
ing, April /, at the home of Mr. and Mrs,
Dennis j. Moran, % Green street. TO re-
mind them that the time had come to cele-
hrate the 25lh anniversary OF married life.
The company walked in without invita-
ti0u, There being no other way Mrs.
Moran surrendered. Mr. Moran being
down on the street Tor groceries, and Mrs.