Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-08-30
MINOR NOTES.

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dered and has accepted the position Of United
States Consul to Canton, China.
c. G. Martin, the Gre,nLack candidate for
Governor in this State, admitted in his speech
of acceptance. that he owns $1,000 of bank
stock.
II is said of the chief of the Chinese en-
ba,sy that, when lac was asked how all the
Chinese in America would get back TO China,
hc replied: "Thcy will all 20 to ireland
that is the only country that the Irish do not
rule"
The name of the young lady ut fremont,
Ohio, whom Webb G.. Hayes is to marry, is
said to b, Hannah Boggs whose father is the
owner of taw-mill there, and in comfortable
circumstances Miss Hoggs loved Mr. Hayes
before his father was counted in.
The last Of the Barlow meetings advertised
TO he held in Orleans county occurred last
Friday evening, but. as the county is not
particularly in love with the boiling green
hacker, the gathering like most Of its prede-
cessors proved as much Of IL Grout domon-
simtion as anything.
The rebel archives wGsa very profitable in
vestmrnt for the government Not only
were many Thousands OF dollars of fraudulent
mail claims saved by them last winter but
Secretary Sherman has caused an appropra-
ton for II vessel which the owners declared
was taken by the government to be stopped,
saving another S2S.OOO
\ Florida scientist named lIardec proposes
to kill the yellow fever by atmospheric con-
cussion, 20 he produced by IT succession Of
gunpowdrr explosions. lie says the expert
mout was attended with entire success last
year at Jacksonville, and instances the disap-
poarance OF the plague from places liable to
it in the South during the war and in Mexico
before the American troops.
William II. Vanderbilt expresses great sat
isfaction with the results of the recent rail
way conference at Saratoga. lie says the
pooling system is working well, and will re-
suit in benefit to the general public as well as
to the railway officers. He anticipates re-
viyal Of business this fall, and hc says the
New York Central road has ordered 500 new
cars and the Erie 2o0O to meet the expected
demands
The witness Lctte is said to be native of
| Vermont, and formerly Methodist preacher.
! Ills Irother-in-aw If New Yogl, thinks he
was insane while giving his testimony before
! the Potter committee, rs lis own knowledge
of the circumstances testified to conyinces
! him that Lcotc's evidence would have been
! different had he been in his right mind. The
| doctors consider Lcete's insanity hopeless,
and he has been sent to the Bloomingdalo
/ asylum.
The campaign in Northern Ohio opened
vigorously at Toledo Monday night, where
| Secretary Sherman delivered an address upon
the financial question and kindred topics lie
clearly pointed out the relations between gold
silver and grecnbacks, and their dependence
one upon another, aud defined the financial
needs and methods OF the cosutry.
The Republicans Of Tennessee have nom
mated Emerson Eihrridge for Governor ant
have adopted u manly ana sensible platform
! Mr.. Etheridge was a conservative Republican
during the war, was one Of the signers of The
famous protest against Andrew Johnson,
military rule in Tennessee, and was elected
clerk of the House Of Representatives whei
the Republicans secured control of the Thir
| ty-Sevonth Congress.
Vice President Wheeler does not think III,
Republican party is at all badly of, but still
it would be in better condition if some of tn,
leaders would turn their attention TO party in
terests, instead of standing at a distance an,
shaking their fists at the Administration. II,
didn't think the Custom House changes il
New York had disturbed any one except a few
individuals who were interested in retaining
the old organization for their personal bene
fit, and he understood the changes were no
made in antagonism to those individuals, bu
as an equal recognition of every element il
the party. For this reason he thought the,
would cause more benefit than harm.
The Buffalo Commercial is informed tina
Senator Conkling recently said that he wa
in favor Of any step which sLall harmonic
and consolidate the Republican party in NeN
York, and that neither himself nor any othe
man should be pressed by oyor-zealous friend
for any position to the detriment Of the par
ty."
The New York Nation remarks that dur
ing the eight years of Grant the South was
scene of pillAge and carnage relieved b.
breathing-spells of military government. Sine
his departure, it has been rs peaceful and or
derby as any other part Of the country, and j
presents fewer signs of disturbance to-da
than Pennsylvania or California"
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor of the pho
uogaph and other wonderful contrivance'
was elected a member of the American Asso
citation for the Advancement of Science at 81
Louis last week, President Marsh, in WELDON
ing him, said that the Association had jus
received a telegram from the Exposition q
Paris saying that the grand prize at the EA
position had been awarded to Mr. Edison 70
the most wonderful invention Of the age.
William f. Forster one Of the leading Eng
lish Liberals, is to visit the United State
next month. His record is bright one
When in 1916 and 1917, 1000, eco Irishme
were starving from the failure Of the potat,
and pestlence in the wake of famine was fiji
ing the roads of ireland with III, dying an
the dead this Yorkshire Quaker was anon
the first to cross the channel and take thel
/ food Where the plague was most deadly h
stood nobly among the dying adiuinisterin
relief. Ireland will never forget him.
Ex-Gov. Pease of Texas, now visiting h
former home in Connecticut, gives the Har
ford Times some interesting items of contra.
| and growth in that great State since he wei
there in 1883. He has seen the populatio
grow from 20, 600 to >, OOO, 600; a million hay
been added since the census of 1870. Mo,
Z Of this increase came from the Southcr
States in the six or seven years immediatel
following The war, but for some years no
the bulk of the immigration has been fro
r the Northwestern States, Wisconsin, Mich
gan, Iowa and Minnesota; but few Europea
immigrants have come in. Mr., Peases Al
ticipations of the future of Texas, whose te
t ritory is capable of supporting a populate
. equal to that of the whole United States
r the last census, are Of the most glowing d
e scription
= DIR. Van der IIorck, who lately made II va
5 liable tour through Lapland to the Arct
. Ocean, is at present organizing in Berlin 4
eynedition for the espccial purpose of stud