Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-07-27
MINOR NOTES.

party.
General Sherman ex poets that before next
winter all of the Sioux Indians will be
"corraled" on large reservation near Fort
Randall, on the Missouri river.
At Atlanta, Ga on Friday, Gen. Toonbs
introduced resolution in the convention
to repeal the prohibition against dueling.
1t was voted down by vote of ll9 TO IS.
President Hayes has accepted an invita-
ton to visit The Louisville Industrial Ex-
position on The l7lh Of September, aud will
be accompanied by as many Of the Cabinet
as the condition Of public business will
permit.
The New Rochelle IN. " school board
have decided TO continue the reading of The
Bible in the public schools, in spite Of the
protests of the Catholics, but no pupil will
be compelled TO attend during such read
ing. The Catholics petition for a teacher
belonging to their denomination.
Narrowgauge railway projects are AS.
Stunning degree of boldness that was prob
ably not originally dreamed Of Missouri
and Kansas have been engaged in move
ments looking toward the construction Of
narrow-gauge lines westward. San Fran
cisco feels the attraction and like two drops
of water there is a tendency towards uuion
between that city aud St. Louis by mar
row gauge bond. This is the proposition
that comes from the Pacific coast and iiuds
favor in the metropolis of the Mississippi
valley, and cheap thoroughfare of trans
portatiou may yet he constructed on that
basis.
Lieutenant Henry Flipper, recently APP
pointed to the Tenth United States Cavalry,
was born the property OF Rev. IL. ii. Leck-
ey, a Methodist minister of Thomasville,
Georgia. His father was the slave of L. q.
Ponder, who alterward bought Henry and
his mother, and moved with them to At
lanta. Mr.. Ponder also owned John f.
Quarles, recently appointed consul to Ma
laga, Spain. Young Quarles bad The rudi-
ments Of an education, and first taught
Flipper. Afietward he was taught by the
wife of an eX Confederate officer, and sub
sequently at Il public school, and the At
lanla University, until appointed TO West
Point. We learn from an officer who has
the best possible means Of knowing, that
Lieutenant Flipper has not only excellent
obAAiAiNSi HNipb5 N'hA A71NAi1Nf " wv
head, and perfect self control, but has that
resolute will and steady persistence that
are sure to win for him still higher honors
than those he has already achieved.
Special cable dispatches report a highly
excited feeling in England. The departure
of a powerful fleet, carrying a large force of
men, 10 a vaguely indicated destination,
an1 othnr worliL n movements ba,,o raviva1
war rumors in that country.
Gen. Sherman's much criticized remark
that without the army the American peo-
pie would he but a mob" seems to be re-
ceiying rather startling confirmation.
The value Of a good militia force and Il
standing army respectable in size will never
be questioned after the events of the past
way the apology for an army which We now
possess would have been wiped out.
In the Georgia constitutional convention
Monday, bill of rights was adopted, pledg-
ing protection in the rights of citizenship
10 all races, and prohibiting imprisonment
for debt and whipping as penalty for
crimes.
A Petersburg correspondent Of the Rich
mond Dispatch says; People who talk of
repudiating the State debt on account of the
emancipation of the negroes will perhaps
be given point TO think over when in
formed that n,7re than 1900 colored people
of this city pay taxes on real estaie.'
The New York World says seusibly and
forclbly: every honest and respectable
laborer in the city of Pittsburg is the poorer
to-day, both actually and in prospect for
the wicked destruction there OF many mil
lions of property, the accumulation of past
labor, and Tor the damage done TO the credit
of that city by the exhibition which has
been made of the feebleness OF its local gov
ernment."
The whole number of United States
troops now stationed in the Southern
States, except in Texas TO operate against
Mexican marauders, does not exceed 1000
or 1900. Gen Augur, in the department OF
the gulf, has but two regiments of infantry,
numbering about 600 men, and Gen. Ru-
ger, in the department of the South, has II
companies Of artillery and one regiment OF
infantry, in all less than 600 men.
William Todd Page, native of Rutland,
died in Philadelphia on the 10Th inst, aged
81 years and months. He was a brother
of ex- Governor John B. Page. Gradual
ing at Middlebury College, he studied law
and was admitted TO the bar in 1881. He
then went 10 Southern Illinois, aferward
engaging in the banking business in Ey-
ansville, ILL.,, and Vicksburg, Miss. For
several years past he resided in Philadel-
Thia. He was much esteemed 10y all who
knew him.
Mr.. Smaley continues his obs ervatious
of political and social development in the
South, and writes interesting accounts of
what he sees for the readers OF the New
York Tribune. The admixture of races
does lot appear to be going on TO as great
an extent as it used 10 in the days of slav-
cry. In the country districts mulatio chill
dren are rare, and the pure African type
predominates. In Louisiana, however, es-
pecially where white mCn of French ex-
traction are found, who do not share the
Anglo-Saxon prejudice against The blacks,
alliances between the men and women are
comparatively common. 1.-The great mass
of the colored race is of unmixcd negro
blood. century of slavery has not
bleached it perceptibly, and 1t is not likely
that any system of race intermarrage, le-
climate or Legitimate, will grow up now"
In regard TO political relations Mr.. Smalley
says: "The negro has proved failure as
politician, and has dropped back into po-
sition of subordination to the whites, where
he is much better of than when attempt
ing TO make laws and govern States" The
Southern whites are demonstrating their
friendship for their colored lellow-citizens
In establishing schools for coored children
and taxing themselves tn suDnort thar,