Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-24

Odd Fellows ball which will be given in
Athol March 10.
The loss on the house of G. w. Puffer
on Frost street, caused by the burning of
S. A. Smith & Co.'s factory, has been adj
justed at $50 through the agency of c. F.
X. JENNIE.
The Brattleboro Jelly company received
this week an order from the department of
agriculture at Washington, d. c., for a
quantity of maple sugar to be sent to Hon.
James Wilson, secretary of agriculture.
Dispositions were taken before J. II.
Mortified Monday in foreclosure case of
Charles G. Abbey of Chicopee, Mass,
formerly proprietor of the American
House.
A full grown buck was seen Monday
morning about mile above Townshend by
persons on the narrow gauge passenger
train. The animal was running at full
speed toward the woods, evidently having
been frightened by the train.
Rev. w. S. Hawkes. of Worcester, Mass,
will preach in the Congregational church
next Sunday. Rev. Mr.. Hawkes. is super
intendent for the states of Utah, Idaho
and Wyoming, of the Congregational
Church Building society, but he is now in
the East temporarily.
The Chester correspondent of the Spring
field Reporter says: CDR. G. w. Ray
has sold The furnishings and good will of
the business at the Fullerton to a Mr..
Knowlton, brother of the proprietor of
the Ludlow House at Ludlow, possession
being given last Wednesday,"
Exercises were held in the Congrega-
tional Sunday school rooms Sunday in OBJ
servance of Lincoln's day, and special
collection was taken, amounting to over
IS. The exercises consisted of musical se-
lections from Elijah and by Gounod, a
reading from sketch of the life of Lin
coin and the reading of Lincoln's favorite
poems.
Rev. II. d. Maxwell, who received a
telegram from NJ ores Mills, n. B., on
Thursday of last week, announcing the
critical illness of his mother, did not reach
home until after his mothers death, which
occurred Thursday. The cause of death
was consumption. Rev. Mr.. Max well will
preach his last sermon in the Uniyersalist
church next Sunday.
John G. Dewitt has been appointed ad-
ministrator and George f. Greene and G..
"a IhlL 10 NOullllSolOutlo Vi the CdTan M.
Horton estate of Brattleboro. G. S,
Goodnow and F. +. Davis have been ap-
pointed appraisers and commissioners of
the George K. Dix estate of Nottingham.
Abbott 5. Edwards has been appointed adj
minstrator of the Almira f. Edwards es-
tate of Brattleboro.
The Baptist Sunday school celebrated
Washington's birthday anniversary Sun
day by giving special exercises. On the
platform were pictures of Washington and
Lincoln surrounded by folds of the Stars
and Stripes. Other flags foated from va
rious parts of the rooms. Patriotic music
was rendered and extracts were read from
Washington's first inaugural address at
New York and from the replies of the Sen
ate and House of Representatives.
William Dunlevy received this week a
letter from Michael j. Sherry, who is now
in company A, 9th Infantry, stationed at
Sacketts Harbor near WATERFOWL, n. Y.
Sherry enlisted from Springfield, Mass.
Dec. ~, and was sent directly to Sacketts
Harbor, where the 9th regiment has been
since the war. He says his regiment has
received orders to start for San Francisco
March 7, and that he expects to 90 from
there to Manila. Dan O'Neil is also in
the same regiment.
The railroad commissioners of Massa-
chusetts have granted charter to the
Northampton and Amherst Street Railroad
company The directors have issued a call
to the incorporators for next Tuesday.
when permanent organization will be
effected. The capital stock will be $50.
900. The company is controlled by 4. G.
Crosby of Brattleboro, +. S. and NJ. A.
Coolidge of Fitchburg, f. f. Blodgett. G.
K. Diamond and A. S. Patton of Leomins
ter, who have subscribed for 1860 shares.
The Lyman II. Howe moving picture
exhibition, under the auspices of the
Woman's club, at the Auditorium Feb. 2S.
promises to be an entertainment of unus-
ual excellence. He is appearing before
packed houses at every performance and is
taxed to the utmost to fill the many return
dates. The famous Chiselhurst Tunnel
scene shown by the animotiscope battles
description. The audience is apparently
on the pilot, or very front of locomotive.
drawing fast-running express train, flying
through the country. In the distance
looms up the mouth of tunnel into which
the train finally plunges. Finally it
emerges into daylight and continues its
flight through beautiful country for many
miles. One of the best and most exciting
views will be the destruction of Admiral
Cervera's fleet, with the United States
fleet in full pursuit and action. Tickets
are now on sale at the news room.
At recent meeting of the board of
trustees of Vermont Academy, gifts
amounting to so, 900, to the endowment
of the school were announced, saws the
Bellows Falls Times. The donors are
Gen. j. j. Estey and Mrs. Levi X. Fuller
of Brattleboro and the Crane brothers of
Burlington. This sum is a part of a larg-
er one to be raised for the school and the
prospect for the future is bright and prom
ising. DR.. Edward Ellery, the principal,
announced at the same meeting, gifts
amounting to about $500 from friends
and alumni to be expended for the school
at the discretion of the executive commit
tee. Increased attendance and enlarged
faculty, together with these outward signs
of renewed interest, indicate the growing
prosperity of the academy. With an in
creased income and the present efficient
corps of instructors the school will soon
be on an equal basis with the leading acad-
emies of New England.
The Songs Had No Charms for KiplIng.
Rudyard Kipling positively declined to
take the slightest interest in a concert i'm
provised for him last week and left the
house after the songs had been given with.
out any expression of opinion as to the eff
feet OF the music as applied to his verse.
Two composers who have set some of his
poems to music were present and so was
one of their most successful interpreters.
But Mr.. Kipling was Indifferent. It was