Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-04-02
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Delaware and Tennessee promise large
peach crops this year.
Miss T.. j. Ketcham, n colored woman
of Philadelphia, has been appointed to a
cterkship in the Treasury Department
Africa IL ahead of ms in some respects.
Consul Amos Perry says that female advo-
Gates are found in Tunis, whose distinct
office is to manage the cases of women
plaintiffs and defendants coming before the
highest tribunal in the land
1t was stated in the Massachusetts, leg
islature few days since that from 1850 TO
1865 inclusive, rs men had been killed and
10 seriously injured by coming in contact
with bridges while upon railway cars.
Sake says that, claws, like sausages
cease to inspire respect in proportion as
we know how they are made"
"A Washington correspondent mentions
as an honorable incident connected with
the late President that "Mr. johnson and
his family left the White House in very
good condition, and did not carry of any
thing belonging to the United States"
The New York Times suggests as
remedy for high rents and limited quarters
or more in height, furnished with all the
convenences, and made capable of accom-
modating three or four thousand people.
"A writer in the Prairie Farmer calls at
tention to improvement in varieties of corn.
He says that If as much attention was paid
to this subject as is paid to improvement in
potatoes and grapes, q hundred million Of
hnO hal iuht ha Al.
area now cultivated within three years.
The great want is early varieties.
The pastors of the churches in Ithaca.
n. V, having accepted an invitation to at
tend reception at Cornell, University,
were surprised to find dancing to have been
inaugurated there. They felt called on to
draw up paper expressing their views on
the subject, and condemning "such amuse-
ments as evil and injurious"
Michigan Is the State for ladies' The
Senate Of that State has passed bill pro-
viding that If any person shall hereafter
willfully insult, or willfully or indecenty
annoy any female by any obscene or indie
cent word or words, act or acts, such per-
son shall be deemed guilty OF misde-
"'S"Nit anu upon CoHNlotlOn tnoTeOl, snail
be punished by Imprisonment in the coun-
ty Jail not more than six months, or by q
fine not exceeding 500.
Secretary Boutwell, is instituting a sys-
tenn Of rigid economy in his department,
and Government clerks with fat salaries
and nothing to do bid fair to become lower
in NUMBER In the Printing Bureau about
20 female and is male employees have been
notified that their services will not be re-
quired after the first of April. This reduc-
ton alone involves saving of about $1,000
a month. A large reduction will also be
made in each of the six Auditors Offices,
the work having largely fallen off.
A Western editor, in response to the
query of lady who wishes to know the
religious faith Of the members of Grants
Cabinet, says, Attorney General Hoar is
a Unitarian, Secretary of the Interior Cox
is Swedenborgian, Secretary of the Navy
Borie il a Catholic, ex-Secretary of State
Washburne il q Universaist, Secretary of
State Fish is Dutch Reiormer, ex-Secre-
tary Stewart lisa Presbyterian and Postmas-
ter General CTesswell eschews churches al
together. The religious faith of Boutwell,
and Rawlins is not yet known to fame.
Grants family are Methodists and that is
the church he usually attends.