Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-08-23
MINOR NOTES.

thu citizens of that town voted TO establish
Chain gang and st every tramp who enters
that town at work on the streets.
Senator Jones of Nevada ailiims that six
months before the expiration Of his term
President Grant had come to the conclusion
that the coored voters in the South could not
be protected by United States troops.
A Wcstgrn,r asks Senator Thurman how it
happens that the credit Of the Government
sunk so low under the golden era of Demo
cratic rule that the buchanan administration
found ii difficult to borrow money at l2i per
cent interest, while now, under Republican
rule it can b. lad at per cent.
American agricultural machinery in France
has captured eight out Of the eleven prizes
offered by the Agricultural Society for exccp-
tional merit, while the United States agricul-
tnral display in the Exhibition has been
awarded diploma of honor, and the United
States educational exhibit gold medal
New frauds in the Indian service are con-
have been made, aud Sl5, 900 OF the sum paid
when the supplies were never delivered.
Judge Longworth Of Ohio thinks that 1.-THE
man whose high duty it is to judge the peo-
pie in matters of property, liberty and life,
should never be the servant or candidate 0;
any party or faction;' and he says so in let
ter to President Hayes. who urged him to run
for Congress in the first district
The Boston journal has looked over the
Massachusetts, legislatures for the last ten
years, and finds that OF the 1850 members
only $40 were lawyers, bankers capitalists or
professional politicians the remaining 2j40
having been workngmcn-th class includ-
ing merchants, teachers, physicians, clergy
men, employees in all lines of business, me-
chanics and day laborers, together with man
ufacturcrs, "who are not, as a rule, capital
lists"
The Missouri State finances are i'll a very
bad way by the deposits of the State funds
in private banks which have failed, there has
been loss of from $500. OO0 to 81, 600 OOO
and that will have to be made up by direct
taxation.
Italy proposes to have grand exposition
either at Florence or Rome, in 1SSl
The Buffalo express puts this timely con-
undrum: Can these be very hard tines
can country be very "hard up''-which con-
sumos 20, OOO, 900 gallons of whiskey, 10000
OOO barrels Of beer and 1000, 100000 cigars
in n single year?
Among the young graduates who achieved
distinction ut the Binghampton (N. " Wom-
ans College commencement was Miss Belle
Paterson, granddaughter of the late ex-Prcsi-
dent Andrew johnson. She wrote what is
spoken of as n very original and forcible COM
position ON womans rights.
A scandal in which Secretary Schurzs pri-
waite secretary Mitchell, is involved has just
been uneRrthed in Washington. Most dam
agirg charges are made in writing against
him by his divorced wife, and public opinion
is greatly divided over the matter.
Robert Lincoln, son of Old Abe, stands a
good chance of being nominated for Congress
in the First District of Illinois.
d. w. Bartlett, 'Van," for twenty-five
years the able Washington core spondent OF
the Springfield Republican, has suspended
journalistic work to accept the post of Secre
tary to the Chinese Embassy. Mr.. Yune
Wing, the junior Ambassador with whom the
Embassy is row stopping at Hartford mar
ried niece Of Mr.. Bartlett.
A Tribune letter from Reading, Pa, sayt
that city is the headquarters Of the Knights OF
Labor that the order Is secret, and now
numbers over $4,000 members oath bound
and their object is to secure work for mem
bers, assist them when out of work, organic,
strikes, and make themselves felt in politics
In order to include Catholics, the latter ar,
given to understand the oath is not binding a
the confessional.
Some established theories in regard 10 tn,
yellow fever have been upset 10y the cours
OF the present epidemic in the Southwest
At New Orleans the natives, contrary TO al
precedent, seem TO be as susceptible to tn
disease rs others, and the dogma Of tn,
doctors that no one can have the fever a sec
ond time has been set at total defiance. More
over the negroes, whose constitution has beeI
supposed to be fever proof, have been strick
On in considerable numbers this time, an,
with fatal results, though less so ut New Or
leans than farther north.
John A. Leete of the New Orleans Times
who testified before the Potter committee a
New York last week, created sensation n
the Aston House Sunday night A pistol re
port and loud cries We're heard in lis room
and officers who forced an entrance wer
fired at twice, but no one was injured. Leet
was terribly excited, and said there was a con
spiracy on foot to kill him and he had fired il
self-dcfense at the supposed oouspirators II
states that he had n private memorandum
book containing startling testimony which h
alleges the conspirators desired to possess
Leete is now declared insane.
Cyprus has suddenly become famous, o
rather it has recovered something of its lon
r lost fame The English papers just nov
, abound in historical "reminiscences, which
bit by bit, fill up the record of its varied fol
, tunes from the time of the early Phunicia
settlements. Biblical students arc reminde
that the apostle Paul made tour throug
! Cyprus, and while there converted the Roma
l Governor Sergius Paulus to Christianity
e Barnabas, his companion, was n native of tn
island. Unquestionably Cyprus will be no
, explored by antquarians rs it never Las bee
before.
, Another famine in Ireland is threatened b
( the failure of the potato crop. The Bosto
$ Pilot states that the present season has bee
, almost a repetition of that of ls47, in whic
: and the preceding year there We're half a mi
}. lion deaths from famine in Ireland. The p,
v tatoes of last year were almost dead los
and now, from many sections come repor
> of blight to the haulms and faint in the tuber
If famine comes it cannot be SO fatal MS in Il
previous half dozen visits during the Gel
6 fury, but it will be bad enough.
G The Bangor Wing learns that the amount
+ lumber used in the New England States tn
l. year is very much larger than last. Last ye
very large shipments We're made from
% American lumber markets to foreign port
1t and but little imported from the British pro
II inccs. This year a very small amount is b
70 ing shipped from American ports to forei(
7. markets, and owing TO the low prices of dei
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