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


other days.
The MAY term of the Vermont supreme
court opened Tuesday. The only Wind
ham county court case to be argued is that
of G. A. Boyden, administrator of Edward
Rogue, against the Fitchburg Railroad
company.
Edwin Mayo in "Pudd 'nhead Wilson,
has the support of the original New York
cast. The company is playing at the Ac-
ademy in Montreal this week and will APP
pear at the Court Square theatre in Spring
field Mass, next Friday.
The administrators of the Z. II. Van
Doom estate sold by auction at the Ameri-
can House Saturday % shares of Vermont
Live Stock company stock and one share
of Brattleboro IL Whitehall railroad stock
to w. II. Bracket for about $65.
The Montpelier journal says that it is
rumored that the Central Vermont rail
way company is to run the morning and
evening express trains which now run IRON
Boston to New York via Burlington and
Troy, New York, via Montpelier and
Springfield, Mass.
The Valley Grain company has rented
the building on Flat street formerly occu-
pied as a Chinese laundry to the Stohl
Brewing company of Troy, n. Y, for a
boiling establishment. The building is
Deing re pa re,'. and the brewing company
will occupy It 10 few weeks. -
Rev. Wniam g. Poor of Keene, n. H.,
spoke in Ne /. VI. G. A. last Sunday.
Rev. Il. +. Low the new Methodist pas
tor, will speak ext sunday. The young
er members Il the association will leave
the rooms Al % clock tomorrow morning
for a ramh's on The mountain. They will
be accompanied by the secretary.
Plans were made to have West Dunn
merston oan's wagon raided in search of
liquor Satu.'Ay night. 1t is said that the
man wei. o~~r TO the brewery after some
i.srau ~ GOODS to take home and an
onic4rv D., called to the street to search
the WAGON al ru he came back. The news
of :ls intended seizure reached ears for
which il was not intended and the man
did not relutn 90 this side of the river.
The Estry Organ company recognized
Dewey Day" by decorating their imposing
show wiuduw with picture of the famous
admiral vreatred in American flags. This
was but nal IA, for as both the admiral
and the Estey crA II hail from Vermont,
the Estev alherents emphatically pro.
nounce tham "all right, "a statement by
the way, that no one around here tries tC
c)ntrovert. - Boston letter in Music
Trades.
The Bl&ttleboto East society will meet
in the Congregational chapel next Monday
evening at 100 o'clock to see whether the
society will vote 10 build new parsonage
or repair the old one, to name the amount
of money to be expended in either case, to
see how the money will be raised and to
see whether the society will vote to sci
any part of the parsonage lot. Everybody
interested IN the matter is expected to b(
present,
All Cobb's buildings in Jacksonville wer'
burned to the ground Sunday morning
while Nj Cobb and his family were il
South Londonderry. The origin of the
| fire is not known, but it is thought that il
was incendiary. The fire was first discov
cred by one of Mr.. Cobb's neghbors, who
Immediately sent word to him, but tn,
house, harm and outbuildings were totally
| destroyed before he could reach the spot
| The BUILDINGS were insured for $780, abou
one-half the actual value.
The fiEo seali-annual roll call of tn,
Young Peoples Christian Union was helC
in the vestry Of the Universalist churct
| Wednesday evening from : 80 to 9 o'clock
! The meeting was led by the president anC
vice president, Frank Flagg and Miss
Mabel Aplin. II opened with singing, af
ter which the program consisted of piano
| solo by Miss josie Tyler; guitar solo, Mis-!
Elizabeth White: poem, Miss Mabel Gil
| bert; selections by the girls chorus, and {
paper on the If, Of Tennyson by Franz
Flagg. Tie roll vas then called, 43 of tn,
90 members responding TO their names
| Several letters from absent members wer,
read. Refreshments of ice cream anC
cake were served.
Sir Herbert ScR-isbrck NaylorLeyland
Bart, 81, who has represented the south
ern division of southwest Lancashire il
| the House of Commons in the Liberal in
terests since last August, died Sunday from
| laryngltis at his city home in London, il
the presence OF his wife, who was Jennie
Wilson Chamberlain of Cleveland, Ohio
and OF his mother-n-law, Mrs. William
Selah Chamberlain. His young wife wa
a granddaughter of Sclah Chamberlain
who was born in district No. g. Brattle
| boro. He became a noted contractor il
| building canals and railroads and amasseC
a fortune of several million dollars. Ii
the latter years Of his life he was at tn,
head of banking h0'l,5 in Cleveland anC
| had an interest In IRON manufactures
Lady Naylor-Ltyl@nd was widely know
as an American beauty, and her pictures
have appeared 10 inany publications in the
past ten yeara.
The viii Of Mrs. Anna Powers, wife o.
George A. p RS, real estate broker o.
Brooklyn, \. Y, was filed for probate in
that city last Thursday. Mrs. Powers dice
April 20 and the funeral and burial were
in Bratteboro She leaves an estate val
ued at $1ti 900. Her two daughters, Mar
garet j. Burnett, of scarborough
Mass, and Edna de Jotemps of Paris
| France, ara named as executors. They
are directed 10 pay TO their father $1,000;
to the Unitarian church, BrattleborO, VT
| $1,000; to the town or parish of Doneraile
| Cork, Ireland, $500 aS a memorial to the
dead father of the testatriX, and to Mary
COrkley of Cork, ireland, an annuity oil
| twelve pounds sterling for life, as she was
an old servant OF Mrs. Powers's father
Daniel O'ConnOr, a brother of the tesla
triX. is to have for life the interest of $4,000
and her sister, Eliza O'Connor, the inter
est of $4,000 At their deaths the prin
cipal goes to the two daughters, Mrs, Bur
nett and Mrs de Jotemps, who also get
the remainder of the estate.
Final Victory for the village school
District.
The supreme court of Vermont render.
ed decision Saturday denying the motion
of Waterman & Martin, counsel for the
| RrattlahOrO town sphoOl district for q 70