Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-12
MINOR NOTES.

Senator Morrill, says that the Barthold
fountain is worth all the government paid for
| it-SG, 900 even if it is only painted iron
Gen. Grant and wife are visiting their
daughter, Mrs. Sartoris. near southampton.
England. and the southampton town council
improved the occasion Saturday, by giving
the general an official reception.
At last weeks election in Connecticut sew
enty-three towns went democratic. seventy.
one republican and twenty-onc are evenly d.
yidcd, while New Haven and Bridgeport had
no elections. The first constitutional amend.
Inont, prohibiting extra pay to public officers.
was carried by 1881 majority, and the one
| fOrbidding town aid to railroads 10y ~. 23g
majority.
II is related of Two Bears, the Indian who
visited Baltimore prison the other day. that
he said to the warden through an interpreter.
Il suppose you have people in here for all
kinds of crimesi' "Oh. yes answered the
warden, from small larcenies up to murder. -
You have no people here for robbing and
swlndlng Indians, have you Z" asked Two
Bears, getting interested. NO, " answered the
warden. NO, nor in any other prison. as
far rs | can ascertain, remarked Two Bears
with good deal Of pertinency.
In an article on the Rochester convention.
the indianapolis journal, which has been
known rs Senator Morton's organ, says The
people are with the President TO q very much
larger extent than they are with Mr.. Conk-
ling. The New York Senator may dash him
self to pieces against the smiling, immovable
man in the White House without causing him
to swerve from his position so much rs a hair's
breadth. The President is master of the sit
uation and Mr.. Conkling will find ii out"
More than twenty five years ago three young
Cincinnatians resolved to climb the lofty stee
pie of n large Presbyterian church. The rough
scafolding was still standing; and with diff
Guilty rocking and swaying in the air and
frightening exceedingly the crowd beneath.
the three climbed to the very top and grasped
the gigantic hand that surmounted it, Then
they came down in safety. These three were
Mr.. II. b. Hayes, his present secretary. Mr..
Rogers. and the gentleman who relates the
incident in picturesque letter,
The Hall Of the House of Representatives
has been newly carpeted and generally touch
ed up in preparation of the approaching ses-
sion of Congress so that it now looks better
than ever since it was first opened But the
most important improvement is the change in
the appliances for ventilation by which it is
believed that the hail. which has hitherto been
one of the worst ventilated in the country,
will have good supply of air.
Democratic reform in Ohio has received
check by the confession of Lewis Myers.
treasurer of Auglaize county. Some weeks
since, Myers was found bound and gagged,
and with his feet badly roasted, while about
1921, 1000 was missing from the treasury. He
said that four masked ruffians had compelled
him by torture to give the combination of the
safe. Lately, however he has confessed that
the whole affair was put up job, that j. F.
Smith, county auditor, did the tying, gag
ging and roasting, and that they shared the
profits of the enterprise 1t was resolved to
arrest smith. He was absent attending a
Democratic convention at Lima. When the
detectives arrived they found him delivering
a furious reform speech in which the Repub-
lican party was terribly denounced for its cor
ruptions The officials walked up and tapped
him on the shoulder whereupon the eloquent
orator 'came down" like Col. SCOTS coon,
and was carried off to jail, where he found
his late friend and compatriot already incar-
cerated Auglaize is a Democratic county,
and has not had Republican official in 20
years. 1t is ascertained that the system of
stealing from the treasury was commenced
many years ago, and has been steadily kept
up.