Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-05
MINOR NOTES.

MINOR NOTES.
Senator Morton improves slowly, but stead
lily he is now able to eat little. His face
shows no traces Of evacuation
Thurlow Weed is out with letter approx
ing the spirit of the Presidents Southern and
civil service policies, but crticising the meth
DDS of the latter
DIR. Samuel A. AIudd who set John Wilkes
Booths leg and was sent to the Dry Torugas,
has been nominated by the Democrats for the
Legislature of Maryland.
The Smith sisters of Glastonbury are again
under the yoke of the tax collector three of
their cows have again gone to the auction
block TO satisfy the demands of the tax col
lector.
Since the fire in the patent Office, President
Hayes has appointed commission toexamine
nll the public buildings of Washington and as
certain if any more Of them are liable TO take
fire or are in any respect insecure or unsafe.
The Union League Club of New York has
issued a call for II mass meeting in Cooper In
sttute on the evening of the 10th inst, to in
dorse President Hayes, and to express their
| opinion in regard to the Rochester conven-
ton
Col Armstrong, the newly-oppontcd Sen
ator from Missouri 10 fill Mr. Bogys unex-
pired term, was n rebel sympathizer during
the war, is a hard money advocate, free
trader, and Jealous champion of the South
ern Pacific Railroad.
Governor Wade Hampton is not the historic
Southener Of the gloomy eye, the melancholy
mouth, the dropping moustache and lean
frame, He has II rosy and genial face pleas
ant blue eyes, iron-gray whskers, a portly
figure, and voice full, agreeable and sonor-
| Gus.
A Saratoga letter-wrlter says: Some of
the most elegant women in manners and tot
let whom have met this summer have been
Jewesscs." II is generally admitted however
that Judge liiton's policy has been successful
and that his house has never been 80 full as it
has been this year
The course of judicial proceedings at Phil
adelpha in the case of the horse-nroad
president Morton's great fraud is both sus-
picous and demomlizing. The government
officers accept him a states evidence against
some Of his confcderates. Maggie, Stokes and
and let him of easily.
At an Indian pow-wow held at the White
House on Monday, Red Cloud among other
things, said he wanted the Indians to have
forty dollars apiece, overcoats, trunks and
short horn cattle. Spotted Tail wanted priests
with black dresses to teach them English
lie wanted five or six stores, so that he could
buy cheaper than at present from their only
store. In short, the red men wanted to ape
the whites in almost everything. The In
dams now on a visit to the Capital will re-
ceiye before they depart overcoats and other
warm raiment, and small sum of money
Gen. Jones, who has just returned to Wash
ingtOn from an extended tour through the
Southern states under the auspices of the de-
partnent of agriculture represents that every
thing South bears the appearance of growing
prosperity. The cities are reviving their
former trade. the country is rich in diversi-
fed crops, the plantations and farms have a
look of thrift. and the people have more heart
and hope than at any previous time since the
war. The colored population are at work
with good wages and are contcnted and hap
by. He thinks that Louisiana, Mississippi,
Georgia and South Carolina will not only fur
nish the country with their great staples but
in short time will supply the markets of the
world.
Hon. Alexander ii. Stephens who has re-
Gently arrived in Washington. speaks of Pres
ident Haycs's reception at the South as quite
As enthusiastic as was ever accorded Presi-
dent in any part of the Union, and a
grand tribute to President whose admins
tntion has been in accordance with the con
stitut.onal principles Of home rule. Mr..
Stephens gives entire support and approba-
ton to the Presidents course, and says he has
done more for pacification of the country than
Tilden could have done. As a further step in
that direction Mr.. Stephens urges the appoint
mont Of a representative southern man to ill
the vacancy in the Supreme Court
New England people are not alone in then
admiration of Mrs. Hayes correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette, in writing of the
recent Southern tour, says: People seem
to find great satisfaction in saying as Mrs
Hayes appears and bows to the great crowds
What a fine woman she is What IA remark
able face That is the kind of woman we
want in the White House When Judge Key
excused himself from making a speech at the
Chattanooga banquet by introducing Mrs
Hayes the vast crowd greeted her with such
applause that the President remarked that he
was growing jealous. Her popularity among
the masses in these crowds is only equalled by
her popularity among the ladies whom she
has met at the receptions. Before her, all op.
position fails and when the gay season opens
in Washington this winter she will find q
larger numbe of women from the South al
the capital than has gathered there for years
There has been some uncertainty Us to what
Postmaster General Key really said in some
one of his earlier speeches during the Presi
dents Southern tour, in explanation of hi,
allusion in Vermont to 'erring brethren" OF
which he was one. But in Lynchburg. Va,
according to DIR, Redfed of the Cincinnati
Commercial, he made the matter entirely
clear He said he went into the war expect
ing to whip the Yankees but instead of that
he was whipped and badly whipped, and wa.
willing TO own it, and TO say that the South
ern people committed great error in under
taking what they did. They fought fou
years, half million of men sacrificed bis
debt rolled mp and not a thing accomplished
except the freedom of the slaves-and that
was precisely what they didn't start out to do
In this way says DIR. Redfeld, Judge Key
talked some thirty minutes, and, more singu
lar still The was applauded to the echo
keeping the audience in a roar of laughter all
the while. One of the Virgnians told the
correspondent that he only regretted that
every man in Virginia could not have heard
that speech.
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