Today In Brattleboro History

Cotillion Band formed

The first patient was admitted to the Vermont Asylum for the Insane

Meatman Barnes displays a handsome new sign this week.

The synchronized clocks have this week been placed in the Brooks House, at C.A. Tripp’s, Ranger & Thompson’s, Ross White’s and the Bliss House. The line to the Estey shops and Col. Fuller’s residence will be put in next week.

If one were to judge by appearances, and we can see no reason why he should not, there is practically no limit to the demand for Estey organs. The factories have been lighted evenings for weeks, and the familiar boxes containing organs have been going down Canal street to the depot with astonishing regularity and celerity.

Mr. McGillivray has received a large quantity of English holly, with abundant red berries, ready for the Christmas decorations.

Two Penobscot Indians from the Moosehead Lake region put in an appearance here Wednesday with a large quantity of articles deftly wrought by themselves in wicker and sweet grass. Their wares have had a lively sale in the town hall room opposite the post office.

Batchelder & Flint, proprietors of the candy store on Elliot street, have added a unique peanut roaster to their list of attractions.

I.R. Prouty, from Putney, has opened a cobbler’s shop in the basement of Mrs. Joy’s house on High street.

It is not probable that the Brattleboro society will hold a poultry show this season.

We are promised a novel and highly artistic entertainment within the next fortnight, which will consist of a recitation of Longfellow’s beautiful historic poem, “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” interspersed with vocal and instrumental music, and illustrated by a powerful stereopticon.

The village authorities have posted the usual seasonable notices requiring sidewalks to be kept clear of snow, and forbidding coasting, the leaving of teams upon street crossings, and the throwing of ashes on the highways. These notices have never amounted to anything heretofore, but we hope this winter to see them enforced; only, for the boys’ sake, we would suggest that one or more of the by-streets be set apart for coasting.

The formation of a musical society in this village is a subject that has been talked up considerably of late, and we are glad to learn that there is a prospect of having something more than talk.

Our merchants are preparing for the holiday trade. Keep watch of our advertising columns about these days if you would know where to purchase to best advantage.

The mild weather has continued for a week, and the sleighing is nearly spoiled.

Just three months from the great fire of September the torch of the incendiary was lighted in our village. About half past eight o’clock, on Saturday evening, the large barn connected with the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, was discovered to be completely on fire. The next morning tracks were discovered in the snow leading from the north end of the barn up the banks, over fences, across roads, through woodlots and into the street where they were lost.