Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-12-17
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Mayor Blake has been reelected at
Worcester Mass, by large majority.
--lIamln II. Harding, the newly elected
mayor Of Cambridge, Mass, is Vermont
cr, born in Lunenburg.
DIR. Shurtleff was reelected mayor Of
Boston on Monday last by majority Of
G5S7 over his three competitors.
Tile New Hampshire State Womans
Suffrage Association will hold convention
at Eagle hall, Concord, on Thursday and
Friday, Dec. 80 and 81.
The treaty with China, negotiated by
Mr.. Buriugaine and his embassy has been
ratified by the government at Pekin and
dispatched in its attested form by messen-
ger to Washington.
An anti-papal congress is in session at
Naples. It numbers 200 delegates from It.
ally and some from other places. Thus at
Rome and Naples the antagonistic forces of
opinion are drawn up in battle array, and
stand as it were face to face, ready and ca
ger for the impending conflict
Work at The Hoosac tunnel is going on
vigorously. L. II. Derby of Boston, who
is good judge in such matters has OK
pressed the belief that it would be COM
pIcted in 1872. During the last month the
progress made on the two faces was 2GJ
feot, and the central shaft was sunk 80 GeeA
The shaft would resch its depth by Angus
next, when with two more faces to work
upon, the work would proceed ut the rate
of mile year.
Twenty boys from the Earl of Shafts
bury's school for destitute children in Lon
don, passed through New York Monday ON
their way to Kansas, where, through the
agency OF Rev. Richard Wake, an English
clergyman experienced in emigration,
homes and farms have been provided for
them. One hundred or more thrifty Eng
lish families had gone before them, and the
colony has been adopted by the noble earl
as a suitable place of training and settle
ment for tho deserving graduates of his
London schools.
The Syracuse Journal says the getters-
mp Of the Onondaga stone giant now con-
ics5 that it is an imposture. Hull, the
prime mover-who got $4,000 as his share
OF tho proceeds Of the sale of the humbug-
confcsses that he, with two other men,
named Jones and Glass, went to Fort
Dodge, Iowa, in June. 1865, got the block
of gypsum and took it to Chicago. It was
cut there, (Glass was the SCULPTOR the stat
ne was boxed and sent to New York and
buried on the farm of Newell, Hulrs rela-
tive. 1t cost them $500.
Judge Grier Of the U. S. Supreme Court
has resigned. This makes two vacancies in
the court, one Of which will undoubtedly
be filled by the appointment Of Judge
Hoar. Judge Grier was notorious for his
servility to the Shareholders. lie was an
pointed by President Polk, in 1916, lie
sat on the trial Of Cashier Hanwav for
constructive treason" and did his best to
have that good Quaker hanged, but the
jury acquitted him. The next year, 1852.
he fined Daniel kaufman s., sOO-more than
his whole prOperty-for allowing fugitive
slaves to pass the night in his barn, and
giving them food in the morning. Soon
after he threatened to send an Indictment
to the grand jury, against everybody en-
gagged in giving out writ of habeas corpus
against slave catchers.
A Now York paper that lately conf
mented upon the immortality Of New Eng
land, can read the following record of
crimes for one week in that city, copied
from one Of its principal journals: "a
man was sitting in the basement of his
house in Thirty fourth street when he
heard the whiz of bullet Just over his
head. Some person unAnown had fired at
him from the street, presumably for amuse-
ment.-Halfa dozen persons set upon by
ruilians, robbed of their purses and watch
cs, and afterward maltreated. - A man
found insensible in Seventh avenue; when
taken TO the station house discovered to be
dead.-Two or three bodies of unknown
men found in the East river, one of them
with tho forehead smashed ina SINH
lar number Of persons taken to the morgue
from tho streets, where tho police picked
them up.-A round dozen or so of shooting
ARRAYS. We might extend the catalogue.
but we have quoted enough to show that
the winter season has opened in very
promising manner"
Gen. Morgan, leading Democratic
member of the Georgia legislature. has
published n rejoinder to Congressman
THIS letter, in which he says: "Nether
tho Senate nor the House intended to sub
NIT the question Of the eligibility ofcolored
members to seats in the legislature to the
supreme court. The provisional legislature
never will roseat negroes, nor will it pass
tho fifteenth amendment, These are settled
facts. For myself l have been submis-
sionist as long as l intend to be, and have
gone as far as | intend TO 80 to crafty the
lnhallowed will and dolnineering spirit of
4 corrupt Congress" The Democratic pa
pers quote the above as manly sentiment !