Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-05-30
MINOR NOTES.

II is now said that Gen. Grant will leave
Yokohama by next steamer, about the last of
June, aud will reach SAN Francisco in the
neghborhood of July 20.
The Tribune remarks that "the funny man
who used to comment on the supposed CELIA
tinous constitution of Mr. Hayes's backbone
is now silent and deiected,'
Vice President Wheeler will not return to
Washington this summer, lie is ill, suffer
ing from extreme nervousness.
Representative Farr of New Hampshire Of
fored very sensible amendment to the War
ner silver bill last Friday, to the effect that
Congressman should be paid only in stan
dard silver dollars but Mr. Warner and his
followers do not care to take their own medi-
cine in unlimited doses, and they would not
allow the amendment to be considered
The trial of the Chisolm murderers in Mis-
sissippi has been set down for September
next. Mr.. Chisolm's son, who is now a mes
senger in the executive department at Harris
burg. Pa, says he has been advised by friends
in Mississippi not TO appear against the five
persons accused Of the murder of his father
and other relatives, but he is determined to
testify, believing that he will not be molested
during the short time his presence in Mississ-
ippi will be required.
OF the late Asa Packer, who left an estate
of over twenty million dollars, the New York
Tribune says that when he celebrated his
golden wedding last year, among the splen-
did evidences of his recent fortunes two or
three brightly secured copper pots and pans
hung on the wall they were those with which
the newly married couple had cooked their
humble meals when they set up housekeeping
in the cabin of the anal-boat, and were pre-
served in no Bounderby spirit of boastful-
ness but simply as mementoes of pleasant
years when they wandered up and down with
youth, hope, and little money"
Zach Chambers Western admirers are send
ing him letters by the bushel thanking him
for his recent speeches in the Senate. A De-
troit man says 81 see that Washington
paper claims that you were drunk when you
went for the fraud and violence patriots the
other day. If that is the way the old thing
works with you, Michigan wants you to get
drunk every day on the same kind of whis-
key"
Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson repeated his
lecture on "Memory" in Boston last Friday
afternoon, and it is stated that in its delivery
he would frequently lose lis place in the
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his daughter who sat close by him for the
purpose, direct him back to the point at which
he had dropped the thread of his thought.
Burdette of the Burlington Hawkeye says
"Our brethren of the Southern States can't
mend their own levees, nor build their own
railroads, nor take care of their own sick
but they can build more Confederate monu-
ments in "A month than we of the North could
pay for in a year"
Some of the facts about the votes on the
Warner silver bill are of interest. Those who
favored ii were 100 Democrats, 10 Nationals,
and Republicans. Those who opposed it
We're ~ Republicans, II Democrats and
National. OF IA members voting for or pair
ed in favor of the bill, ~ We're from the
South Out of ia votes, the old loyal States
gave a majority of 20 against the bill, and out
of lOl votes given by the solid South, that
section gave "a majority in favor of the bill.