Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-05-12

Work was begun Tuesday in tearing down
the blacksmith shop which has stood on
the lot many years.
The listers will finish the personal list
| in time to file it tomorrow. They will be
in session May % to hear grievances. The
total list of personal and real estate will
not be finished until next month.
The penetrating power of the Mauser
cartridges used by the Spanards in the late
war is shown in piece of iron in the pos
session of G. II. Bond. The iron is three
eighths of an Inch thick, and it was shot
at at range of 165 feet. Four bullets
pierced the iron, boring smooth holes
An electric cancellng machine for can
ceiling stamps is to be put into the Brat
tleboro post-oflice. A part of the machine
has already arrived. Postmaster Wellman
of Keene, brother of II. p. Wellman of
Brattleboro, has also ordered an electric
cancelling machine for the Keene post
office.
| Seldom, if ever, were two minds more
thoroughly equipped for the production of
great play than those of Mark Twain
and the late Frank Mayo, who gave to the
stage that splendid play "Pudd nhead Will
SON." From Twain it got its comedy and
from Mayo came its dramatic strength and
| the result Is one of the best though
quantity constructed plays of the modern
times.
w. G.. DOolttle is well started on his
summers occupation. Aside from super
intending his large farm in Dummerston
and contemplating the building of two or
three houses on his Pine street lots he is
interested in numbering, with one large job
on his North Hinsdale lot, where he will
soon have a steam mill running. He is
also numbering on the Bliss farm in Gull
! ford, which is now owned by him and over
which has arisen so much controversy
Including few minor numbering jobs he
has employed a force of 40 to 4j men and
several horses.
c. j. Bell of East Hardwick of the state
! board of agriculture, was in Brattleboro
yesterday to investigate reports of viola
tions of the cattle quarantine law. Cattle
were found which had been driven into
this state without first being tested for
tuberculosis The cattle were then tested
by DR.. j. 5. Dutton, but they were not
found to he diseased The parties who
violated the law were discharged fter be-
ing reprimanded by Mr.. Bell Mr.. Bell
gives notice that hereafter any person who
brings cattle into this state without COM
plying with the quarantine law will be Sc
verely dealt with.
Everybody went home from the Audito-
rum yesterday afternoon to the ring and
swing of the Sousa music. The chances
are that nine in ten of the audience went
to bed at night with its rythmic cadences
in brain and body, and fell asleep to dream
of its brilliant periods. No one could have
the wish to crticise the ensemble of the
performance, and ones sense of what is
most fitting and most deserved is best sat
sfed with words of hearty and unquali-
fled appreciation. The wonder and the
magic of the performance are in Mr.. Sousa
himself and in the marvellous way in which
ne handles every piece in his great orches-
ira as one man. And this quality is just
as apparent in the softer reed passages like
those in the earlier measures of Meadow
ellis "!n War Time" as in the grand eff
fects and startling passages in Wagner 5
"Parsifsl." One of the stirring effects
which Mr. Sousa so much loves was skill
fully introduced in the patriotic medley
with which the FIRST part of the program
closed, while the C-and climax of the con-
cert came in the swing of the great direc-
tor and composers own march, his newest
contribution, Hands Across the Sea-"
Cordial recognition must be made, this
year as last, of the sweet, pleasing, and
highly cultivated soprano voice displayed
| by Miss Davise in her solo from 'Traviata. "
Even more than last year did Miss Hoyle,
the violniste, delight her audience and
rouse its enthusiasm by the wonderful
technique and the delicate and apprecia-
tive Interpretation revealed in her render
ing of the souvenir de Haydn
Death of Former Windham County
Man.
Mrs. p. S. Eames has received copy of
the Pony Sentinel, published at Pony,
Montana, announcing the death of her
nephew, Oscar l.. Miller, IS. Mr.. Miller
died April ~ of tetany. He had been in
i'll health for several years. Mr.. Miller
was born in Wilmington, and was a son of
Lyman and Helen Miller and grandson of
Liberty Howe of West Dover. His moth
err is now living with her daughter in Iowa
Mr.. Miller went to Minnesota when a
young man. He entered the employ of
several railroad companies in Minnesota
and the Northwest and he became an ex-
pert telegraph operator. From Minnesota
Mr.. Miller went to Norris, Mont. He was
the agent of the Northern Pacific railroad
for about 10 years until the spring of 1898
when he was transferred to Pony. He
leaves a widow, formerly Miss Mary L.
Thornton, and two boys. The burial was
under the rites of the Knights of Pythias,
and the ceremony was also participated in
by the Odd Fellows. The Sentinel says:
"Since becoming resident here Mr.. Mil
Ter had shown himself public spirited
and enterprising citizen, investing in town
lots and erecting new buildings. The
funeral was the largest but one ever held
here"
Compliments for l.. ii. MILLER.
The Vocal club of Northampton, Mass,
a male chorus, gave its second concert of
this season in the city ball in Northamp-
ton Wednesday evening, presenting the
cantata 1.-The Battle of the Huns" by
Heinrich Joellner. The club had engaged
H. P. Eastwood to sing the leading bari
tone role, but at the last moment Mr..
Eastwood was taken ill and f. II. Miller
was engaged in his stead. The Spring
field Union, in its report of the concert,
said: 1.-THE news that Mr.. Eastwood was
i'll was received with a great deal of disap-
pointment, but the management had been
able to secure the services of E. II. Miller
of Brattleboro, VT, as a substitute, and
Mr.. Miller left very favorable impress
sion. His position was a particularly
difficult one, being obliged to prepare him
self for the parts with but a day or two of
practice and study. His first opportunity
of rehearsing with the club members was
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