Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-05-15
THE NEWS Nv BRIbr.

imposing character. All business was sus-
pended for the day.
Vice President Wilson expects TO bring
out the second volume Of his history CT the
Rise and Fall of the Slave POwcrin Amer
lea within n few weeks.
The court martial which has been try
ing Gen. Howard for malVels;tiOn of funds
Of the rreedman's bureau, adjourned Sat
urday, after verdicl honorably acquitting
him on all the charges.
The Portland Advertiser says that 1.-THE
old party fences are getting altogether too
dilapiduted TO he OF use, and when new
ones are built the herds will be found to
have become considerably mixed SO
many people have been roosting on the
fence lately that it is beconiing dilapdated.
-BOStoH Herdid.
a party Of 100 Roman Catholic pilgrims
will leave New York for Rome by the
French steamer Pereire on Saturday, aud
the Pope j. expected TO be at least $500, 900
richer by their Pecuniary offerings. The
pilgrims will have public reception at
New York this evening, with speeches by
Charles O'Connor and others.
There are ut the present time seven
colored members in the House of Congress;
Raney, Rainser, Elliot and Cain are from
South Carolina; RIpier from Alabama
Walls from Florida; and Lynch from Miss.
issippi. Only two, Cain and Elliot, are
rul-blooded Africans.
congress refuses to extend tue sewing
machine monopoly by granting an extern
sion of the patent feeding device. The plan
of throwing open the manufacture of pat
ented artic es t. ordinary competition,
royalty Of ~ per cent upon all sales being
secured to the inventor, meets with general
approval.
The Car of Russia is TO have another
marriage in his family. His second son,
the Grand Duke Vladimir, the favorle Of
the Emperor, and generally believed to be
the ablest of the Russian princes has been
bctroth he'd 10 Marie, do ughtcr of the Grand
Duke Of Mccklenburg Schwerin.
1t is said that the result Of the surveys
of the proposed canal across the Isthmus
will be a recommendation for the construc-
ton OF a canal from Aspiuwall 10 Panama,
a. the other routes, although in some re
spects quite feasible, would nccessitale the
building ofartiiicial halborS at both ends OF
the route.
Truly this is a period of startling rev =
| Citations. The investigation int the affairs
of the American and National Bank Note
! Companies has brought to light copies OF
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ed AT New Haven. making two months -
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vo,r The or,un, or rain and ,oI,o,
snow for AnriI was aver six iucbo. w,ic,
i, abnut doubIe tho avoro,e f,II and IN,
onoupt or su,,, far, nv. Io., civ ,,o,,h. ha,
been 81 irrlc,-Io inches mora ,I,on IL,
ave,ooo fall at tho, ,l,.o
According to a W,sbinc,,,, i.,,erio, IN,
| 81. Iouis Rcnublir,n Snn.tor Scbu,, do
sires to rciu,n IN Tho Sonota lint doos ma
ask or oxpoc, ~ recollection NJ tbe hands y
either the Republican or the Democrat,
Marty. lie believes tba, tho situo,ion !,
Nissnnri IL rim I'm, tho ;,.,o,,,,,;o,, =,
"an indcpendent. anti. Marty. ami. nonono
ly movement of the people." based upo1
the grand issue. "Shall the people govern
themselves H-and he saws. IT shall max,
a good strono effort TO copvipce the naomi,
of Missouri that it will he to our mp,ua
ADVANTAGE i'll am re elected to the Sanot,
rext Winter. and sent bocL to Wsshiroto,
without instructions and npbomnerod II,
PROMISES"
-Fichburp. Mass. * excited over IN,
elopement of Charles A Nichols and Mr..
Irone q Ware Nichols 10 a n,orriod MN
"a wears old and member of the firm n
mnsic dealers / g. q Ni,ho,s will
the city, wife of +. ID. Ware, well know
grocer, and daughter Of Nehemiah Uptol
of Gardner. The intimacy Of the guilt!
parties is Of some months standing, ant
Mr.. Ware tried to break II up few week