Historic events for Jul 14
Birth of Edwin Branch Frost, astronomer and author.
Cooper & Bailey's Great London Circus and Allied Shows plays town.
P. T. Barnum's Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome plays Brattleboro.
The town considers a railroad from Brattleboro to a "suitable market."
The work of preparing Depot street for granite paving has been in progress this week. Three yoke of oxen and a gang of men were at work Monday plowing up the macadam and teams have been drawing away the cobble stones and carting on sand for the bed for the paving blocks.
A man sitting on the Brooks House steps during the band concert Wednesday evening was heard to remark, “That band is out of sight. It’s the best band I’ve heard in years. These people ought to be more than proud of it.”
It was the privilege of half a dozen persons to assemble in the office of the Brattleboro Retreat Wednesday evening to witness a demonstration of the Ranney Wimhurst Holtz static machine and X-ray attachment, which has recently been bought for use by the Retreat for use in the treatment of muscular, nervous and other affections.
The site for the new Congregational parsonage has been staked out this week, and as soon as specifications and plan are completed the work on the foundation will be begun.
There is a prospect that a camera club will be organized in Brattleboro during the next two months.
The total weight of the Estey monument, which has been placed in the Prospect Hill cemetery by Tayntor & Co., of Barre, is 89,000 pounds.
An interesting express package was received at the express office yesterday, it containing a young wolf weighing about four pounds, and as tame as a kitten. It was shipped to Mrs. Hattie Lord from Indian Territory.
C. P. Dickenson has the earliest tomatoes yet announced, having gathered ripe ones from his vines yesterday.
Miss Florence Clark has one of the latest style Hammond typewriters on exhibition at the express office. The wheel in the Hammond machine has been transformed into an anvil and shuttle, which is the greatest improvement ever made in a typewriter.
When the Baptist church bell rang Tuesday morning to announce the picnic many people thought there was an alarm of fire, and the driver of the steamer horses hastened to the engine house with his span.
The first monthly number of the Woman at Work issued since its change of base from Louisville, Ky., to Brattleboro made its appearance last Saturday. This number begins the sixth volume of the publication.
At a special meeting of the trustees of the public library, Tuesday afternoon, it was voted to expend $300 in the purchase of new books for the library, and a sub-committee consisting of Revs. Gow, Collins and Whitney are now engaged in making up the list. The library will be opened to the public at the earliest possible day — probably by Sept. 1st.
The sale of the Gen. Phelps property to the district has been completed and the papers passed. Next week the work of making the premises ready for the occupancy of the Intermediate school will begin.
The lower town hall is undergoing a thorough renovation in the way of new paint and paper and a whitened ceiling.
Work on Crosby’s new block, on Elliot street, is being pushed forward with energy, the roof being already on and the partitions up. The east room on the first floor is to be fitted up for a saloon; the middle room will be occupied by E. J. Carpenter for a news office, and the west room by W.F. Richardson, for a meat market. The second floor will be used for tenements.
Tuttle, the compiler of the new directory of Brattleboro, absented himself from town rather unceremoniously, one day last week, leaving his board and other bills unpaid.
Counterfeit $5’s on the Windham County Bank of this place are in circulation in various places.
On Thursday morning July 12th at half past seven o’clock, a balloon was discovered by some of the inhabitants of this village, moving toward the east more than a mile above the surface of the earth, and was going very rapidly, altho’ there was not much perceptible wind stirring at the time. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and the brilliant point on the balloon twinkled like a star. From the rate and direction in which it was going it would soon have to descend or else be borne out to sea.
Music! Music! The Brattleboro Cornet Band are prepared to furnish Music on all occasions, of the latest and most popular character. Address J. F. Steen, Clerk, or Chas. C. Ellis, Leader.
The American Party of Brattleboro held a meeting in this place on Friday evening of last week. “Resolved, that Slavery and Popery being so nearly allied, it is our duty to unite in one common cause against both; and that the fires of liberty now burning throughout the Union should continue to burn, till, in the language of the gallant Ford, “Liberty shall be a birthright of every American, until we have a government without a despotism, a religion without a Pope, and an empire without a Slave."
Wool, Wool. 10,000 Lbs. of Wool wanted at the Brattleboro Woolen Factory, in exchange for Cassimeres and Tweeds. A good assortment is constantly on hand. F. A. Wheeler, Agent.
Natural Fireworks. — There was a beautiful display of the Aurora Borealis, on Tuesday night last, extending over nearly the entire firmament.
Wanted to Hire, A Man to assist at the Vermont Asylum. Apply to W. H. Rockwell.