Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-11

Between 80 and 40 couples attended the
Foresters' dance in Red Mems hall Mon
day evening
Rev. j. H. Babbitt of West Brattleboro
and Rev. II. II. Miles will exchange pull
pits next Sunday.
Kipling's absent Minded Beggar" has
now produced for the war fund 1886, 600,
which is at the rate of $4,000 line.
Chauncey Goodale of Dummerston has
sold his farm to Austin Laughton. Mr..
Goodale will 60 to Massachusetts, to live
with his son.
The rear of the &C, 900, OO0-foot log drive
of the Connecticut Valley Lumber com
pany has passed Beecher Falls and Cole
brook, with about 600 men in charge.
The lecture on "Our Native Birds" by
Mrs. Kate Tryon, will be given tomorrow
evening in Grange hall instead of in the
High school room as announced last week.
Mrs. Tryon is considered very interesting
lecturer on this interesting subject
The Vaughan & Sargent Electrical
company will this week begin stringing a
telephone wire from DR.. Bowen's residence
on High street to his farm in Chesterfield.
The line will run directly over Wantasti-
quet mountain, going as far as the pima
Gle on the poles bearing the signal station
wires.
Interesting letters have been received
from Ernest Longueil of company f, 10th
regiment, United States Volunteers, In the
Philippines. He writes of the dangers
when one gets far from camp, and tells how
he chased native over half mile, but
finally captured his man. Longueil speaks
of the hard marches over the mountains
where there are only trails to follow, but
intimates that he is well and that he en-
joys a soldiers life.
Mrs. Will Carleton, wife of the poet, Is
president of the Father Lights society,
which she established in Brooklyn. Mrs.
Carleton is former resident of Halifax,
and has relatives in Brattleboro. The
purpose of the Farther Lights society is to
interest young women in mission work,
and to that end missionary literature is
circulated throughout the country. Mrs.
Carleton was missionary in Burmah seven
years before her marriage, and is still act
lively interested in the work.
Mrs. Ella Wyart "a, formerly of Brattle-
boro, died Thursday, May 8, at her home
in Turner's Falls, Mass, of apoplexy.
Mrs. Wyart was born in Gill. She con-
Quoted large dressmaking business in
Athol, and afterwards lived in Boston,
her husband being a travelling salesman,
Mr.. Wyart died at the home of Mrs. n. A.
Howe of Brattleboro, who is an aunt OF
Mrs. Wyart For the past four years Mrs
Wyart has lived with her only sister, Mrs.
X. l.. Anterior Of Turner's Falls. The flu.
neral was held Saturday and was attended
by Mrs. Howe and Mrs. T. j. b. Cudworth
of Brattleboro.
Former pupils of the Burnside military
academy will be interested in letter re.
ceived from Lieut.. -Comdr William Winder,
former student, by Col. G. A. Miles, in
which he gives some interesting facts about
the United States ship Michigan, of which
he has command and which he has just
taken to Chicago, having run her 10i
knots through % miles of floating ice and
gale in order to be present at the Dewey
function. The Michigan was built in Pitts
burg, Pa, in 1S41, thence conveyed to Erie
and launched there on the lake two years
later. "She is probably the oldest steam
er and certainly the oldest cruiser in the
world" writes Comdr Winder. Lieut..
Winder served as navigator of the Raleigh
under Capt. Coghlan, and was at the battle
of Manila bay.
a Olack, shaggy spanlel ana surly Dull
dog met in front of Thompson's jewelry
store Monday night. The spaniel hustled
up to the other dog and growled as If to
warn him to get out of the way or take
the consequences. The bull dog frowned
upon the little fellow for an instant and
then proceeded to take some of the conceit
out of him by fastening his jaws upon the
spaniers neck. A few shrieks pierced the
air, and Immediately crowd of several
hundred people closed in upon the com
batants. sympathy was with the shaggy
dog, and this feeling was intensified by
the walls of the woman who owned him as
she attempted to wrest her pet from what
seemed certain death. An electric car
conductor secured a whip and began lash
ing the bull dog over the head; others
contributed kicks in generous numbers,
and a dry-goods merchant tried to see
what virtue there was in yard stick, but
these remedies failed to cure, and finally
some one twisted the dogs collar, choking
him until he was obliged to let GO A
clerk then sternly commanded the vicious
pup to Ego 'ome." The bull dog respond
ed by making another dive at the spaniel,
but the latter was quickly hustled out OF
harms way.