Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-04-20
MINOR NOTES.

Fremont, o., President Hayes's home,
has just elected a republican mayor by a
majority OF 10, n republican gain of $50
since the last election.
About 200 persons are shortly to he dis
missed from the employ of the treasury de-
partment at Washington, partly because the
appropriation for the department is scanty,
aud partly because their services are not
needed.
The controversy as to who first nomin-
ated Hayes for the Presidency is still wax
ing hot. We know. Mr.. Hayess mother
did, as he lay in his wicker cradle, trying
to swallow the butcher-k nile.-B oston Post.
Ben Wade of Ohio, who is subject TO pre-
mature explosions politically, announces
himself as hostile TO President Hayes S
Southern policy, and wants TO join with
other republicans in an open protest against
it,.
The democratic journals at the North
chucklo glee tully over the bare possibility
of the President being opposed by any
members of his own party. The southern
democratic journals, on the other hand,
come forward with promises Of support in
case the L IeSluBnl SnOulu ueeu IL III carry
ing out his policy.
In the immense republican gain Of H.
600 at the late city election in Chicago as
compared With the vote Of last NovenI Der,
it is said to be a significant fact that each OF
the six or seven German wards show re-
publican gain of 1000, indicating, it is
claimed, general satisfaction of the Ger
oil al !,,;.
traton.
President Hayes will resume the old GUS
tom of remaining in Washington during
the summer and attending TO public bust
ness, with an occasional brief vacation.
! The pleasant house at the Soldiers Home
which has been tenanted during the heated
term by Presidents Pierce, buchanan and
Lincoln, is being fitted up for him. 1t was
put in order once for Gen. Grant, but he
preferred Long Branch, and never occu-
pied it.
Gov. Hampton Of South Carolina, we
read, is so; has been married twice and is
a widower. He had three chldren-two
sons and a daughter. His oldest son, Pres
ton Hampton, was killed at Gettysburg,
and the second, Wade, Jr., lives in WASH
ington county, Miss. His daughter, Mar
garet, is the wife Of Col. John Hascall of
South Carolina.
Before President Hayes is badly scared
| by the opposition which is trying to organ.
ize itself against his policy, it must show
more compactness and cohesion, and
contain a smaller percentage of brigadiers.
The recruiting officers are rafting on their
kettle-drums, but the people refuse TO fall
| in. "'Talnt KNOWN kind o. cattle tibet
is ketched with moldy corn.''--N. y 7rib-
une.
The Presidents mail is something sur
prising. Usually the letters for the execu-
| tive mansion are carried from the post-office
| by a messenger on horseback, an orderly
who awaits at the Presidents door to do his
errands, but since the 4th Of March it has
been necessary to send it down in a wagon
| specially detailed from the post office de-
partment for the purpose.
The Chicago Times since the democratic
defeat in that city has taken up its old prac-
tice OF speaking of its party managers as
| follows "A more irreclaimable lot of idiots
and asses than the persons who set up for
managers Of the old graveyard party in this
city, this Stale and this nation, the planet
we occupy does not contain"
The London Times is warm in its praises
of General Grant, aud bespeaks for him a
kind and cordial reception when he shall
have arrived in England. "At the end of
the civil war it says, she stood in posi-
ton similar to that which the Duke OF
Wellington occupied in England after Wa
| terloo = and If he was not so successful as
| President as he was as General that is de-
feet says the Times, which he has shared
with many great soldiers.
Senator David Davis visited both branch
Is of the Legislature of Illinois on Wednes-
day afternoon, 18th inst. In the House he
said: "While the past cannot be recalled,
it is now our paramount duty TO remove all
traces of the struggle which endangered the
| life of the Republic. 1t is now our duty to
| labor 10 restore fraternal feelings, to clothe
all the States with their constitutional pow
ers, and to insure full protection of all
citizens in their rights. For that shall
| labor"
It is clear that President Hayes is shap-
ing his administration so that it may secure
the greatest good of the greatest number.
He is not making it an administration of
the republican party, but OF the whole peo-
pie. He is obliterating those severely
drawn party lines which overrau the plans
of the previous administration, and en-
deavoring to establish government with
out political prejudices. The democrats
may, if they choose, strengthen him in his
efforts, and make him invincble against
the attacks Of the extremists of either par
ty.- Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep)
Gen. Grant has been visiting his Mis-
souri, homestead, which is about five miles
out Of st. Louis. 1t was the home of the
Dent family, and it was there that Lieut.
Grant, when on duty at Jefferson barracks,
not many miles distant, wooed and won
Julia b. Dent, who has made him such a
devoted wife. Afler he resigned his COM
mission old Mr.. Dent gave the young coup
lie so acres of timber land, and the future
conqueror Of the rebellion used to chop
wood, pile it up in cords and haul it to ST.
Louis, where he would drive about the
streets until he could find a customer. He
found it hard, however, to make both ends
meet, and endeavored in 1855 to get ap-
pointed county-surveyor, but the justices
of the supreme court preferred another can
didate.
The burning of The Southern Hotel at
st. Louis, with all its heartrending horrors,