Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-28

A special meeting of Oasis encampment
was held last evening when the Golden
Rule degree was conferred upon several
candidates.
Members of the Vermont Wheel club
were invited to the opening OF the Bay
State clubs new rooms in the Senior build
ing at Holyoke Tuesday evening.
The premium list for the poultry de-
partment of the Valley Fair will probably
be sent out next week There have been
numerous calls for it by poultry fanciers.
Bradley Newell has been the star at
traction at Lake Pleasant the past two
| Sundays. He treated about so people each
day, giving public exhibitions of his
powers.
The Hartford Courant of last Saturday
contained a two column Illustration OF A.
b. Gllette's new residence to be erected
on Pennington avenue in that city. 1t
was designed by Butts & Crosby and is an
example of pure colonial architecture.
A special session of the United States
court was held in the Brooks House Mon
day before Judge Wheeler for the allow
ance of the accounts of United States
Marshal Fred A. Field. Marshal Field
and Commissioner George E. johnson were
present.
| ID. H. l0Bdlls, lOIlHtIly vi DIdtllcDOlOs
who was acquitted by Judge Lyman of the
district court of the charge of evading a
bill for board at the Mansion House in
Greenfield, has now brought suit against
W. E. Wood, proprietor of the hotel, in
the sum of $4,000, for malicious prosecu-
ton.
The regular weekly raid was made on
the brewery Monday by Officers Kinds and
Metcalf of Hinsdale, who found an abund
ance of beer. A sample of the beer was
taken away, but no arrests were made.
Charles Horton, who was in the brewery
when the officers approached, sprinted
across the green and escaped.
Myron |. Mather of Bridgewater, Mass,
and Margaret Dalrymple of Nova Scotia
were married at East Gore, Nova Scotia,
June 81, Rev. William Mckay performing
the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Mather are
living in Bridgewater, Mr.. Mather being
conductor on an electric railroad running
to Providence, r. l. Mr.. Mather is a son
of Cotton Mather of West Brattleboro.
The state railroad commissioners have
notified the Springfield, VT, Electric Rail
road company to equip their passenger
cars with tenders inasmuch as the line
runs for half mile or more in Springfield
village. When the order was made for the
various electric roads in the state to put
tenders on their cars the Springfield road
was in the list of those not included in the
order.
The work of paving Depot street was
completed Saturday, a sufficient number of
paving stones to complete the job having
arrived from West DummerstOn Friday
The stones were not laid in cement as is
done in cities, but they have been covered
with dirt which will be left on them for a
few weeks, or until the crevices between
them becomes packed full, when 1t will be
cleaned off. 1t is the opinion of many that
good job has been done.
II. c. French went to Boston Wednes-
day, returning with his wife who has spent
the past seven weeks there. Mrs. French
has been in private hospital, the Union
General, where DR.. Burt of the hospital
staff, assisted by DR.. Lynch of this place,
performed serious operation for the re-
moval of fibrod tumor. Although con-
fined to her bed for several days after her
: return from exhaustion, she is now i'm
proving again. She speaks in the highest
terms of the skill and kindness of DR..
Burt.
The Boston & Maine Railroad company
= has issued to its employees an order requir-
ing them, in order to maintain accurate
and uniform time, to equip themselves
with watches the minimum grade of which
, shall be of a standard known among Amer
, lean watches as seventeen jewelled
! patent regulator" adjusted to temperature
and not less than three positions, and in
? such state of repair that they will not
vary over 30 seconds week The watches
must be inspected semi-annually by in
: spectors named by the company. The
! order means that large number of the
q employees will have to buy new watches.
3 Charles Deyo pleaded guilty before Jus
tice W. S. Newton Monday morning TO the
charge of intoxication and was fined So and
costs, amounting to S11 SO, which he paid
: He disclosed that on Saturday night he
went to the brewery and bought of Charles
Horton two glasses of lager beer and g
pint of whiskey. He drank the whiskey
during the night, and toward morning he
got into row with his family, turning
them out of the house. He bore on hi:
head cash which he said was inflicted by
e a club in the hands of his wife. Member:
!, of the family summoned Policeman Bailey
soon after o'clock Sunday morning and
= he and policeman Thayer arrested Deyo
and put him in the lookup, where he re
NAMED until he was arraigned.
: James D. WEIGH, an inmate of the Brat
| tlcuOIO ucJIcdL WHO nus DeCOub wei
known to the people of Brattleboro through
, , some of his peculiar characteristics, died
of apoplexy at the Retreat early Monday
: morning. Little is known of his early
life and his age cannot be told exactly, but
it is thought that he was 10 years old
He was born in Scotland and he went tc
4 Canada when young man. His family
were formerly steamship owners and were
among the wealthy people of Canada. Mr.
g WEIGH came to the Retreat from Quebec
+ Al years ago and during his residence here
e he never had an illness or a deluslon. 1t
has come to be generally understood that
: at times he fancied himself horse, but he
9 never had such an idea. He had a habit
of making abrupt stops and of turning
square corners, and he walked from seven
to ten miles every day. He was buried
Wednesday in Prospect Hill cemetery in &C
cordance with his wish and the wish of the
members of his family
ID. M. Barber vs.. Town or DummerstOn
The suit of d. M. Barber against the
town of Dummerston, an action to recover
? for damage done to sheep by dogs, was
! heard in Justice Merrifield's Office Satur-
: day, the hearing beginning at 10 O'Clock
| and cOntir ming To O'clock Eioht witnass.