Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-19
MINOR NOTES.

jefferson Davis, in letter to a friend in
Washington, announces that he has no Sena-
torial aspirations.
President Hayes, accompanied by Mrs
Hayes and General Sherman leaves Fremont
O., for Neosho Falls, Kansas, on the morning
of the 22d instant, going first to Chicago
thence to Missouri, thence TO Neosho Falls
through Sedalia and Fort Scott.
There are only five candidates for governor
in New York so far: Cornell, republican ;
Robinson Tilden democrat Kelly Tammany
democrat Lewis, greenbacker, and Mears,
prohibitionist
NJ aine is the twenty fourth State that has
come TO the conclusion that she can get along
without an annual election and gush of legis-
lation.
In the last Congress the Democrats insisted
on reduction of the tax on tobacco and the
result is as was predicted by General Raum,
internal revenue COMMISSIONER decrease
in the revenue for July alone Of nearly $780,
GOO.
kalloch is now said to have received only a
slight flesh wound from De Young's bullet
and his injuries have not prevented his eat
ing three meals day ever since the shooting.
He was shot just enough to elect him mayor
of San Francisco.
The Chinese population of New York. shows
a rapid growth in the past two years. many
escaping from California mobs to come East
There are in New York over 800 Chinese
laundries, 80 groceries, 20 tobacco stores, 10
drug stores, & restaurants and over - per
sons in domestic service
By the failure of a democratic Congress to
appropriate funds for the maintenance of the
executive department of the United States
courts, the loss of revenue is more than the
saving by the lack of the appropriation. The
moonshiners in the Southern mountains flour
ish as never before, and the government has
no power to stop their Illicit stills.
President Hayes. while enjoying n railway
journey into Kentucky the other day, was the
object of many interesting comments by the
country people. One enthusiastic dame, af-
ter shaking hands with His Excellency, retir-
ed few steps and gazing at him admiring-
ly, observed well, this is the first real
President ever seen, and what n handsome,
nice-looking man he is, to be sure :"
Senator Morrill, of Vermont is at the Mar
rAgansett Hotel, on his way home from New
port Senator Morrill, is the champion of the
industrial interests of the country in the Sen
ate, and many of our citizens will regret that
the brevity Of his visit prevents them from
paying their respects to the legitimate sue
cessor of Henry Clay and James +. Simmons.
-Prooidenoe or. ~ JournaI
The personal friends of Gen. Grant at
Washington say that the proposed popular
excursion to San Francisco TO meet him on
his return from his voyage around the world,
was abandoned as a bad enterprise, mainly
because they found out it would be distaste-
full to the General and not in accordance
with his wishes, but primarily because it was
feared by his most prudent supporters that
1t would react and injure his presidential
chances.
The Democrats are Overburdened with fam
lily quarrels In Ohio, Thurman, Ewing and
Pendleton are cutting one another's throats.
In New York, Tilden and Kelley are clinched
for death struggle and in Massachusetts,
Butler is likely to capture bodily larger
portion of the camp, leaving a small minority
powerless to do anything except to make
faces at him. In Pennsylvania, Wallace is
lighting Iilden and Randall and so it goes
There is clearly too much puguacity and too
little wisdom in the party.
President Hayes had a pleasant chat with a
reporter of The Enquirer in Cincinnati a few
days ago. He thinks the prosperity which
resumption has brought is genuine and will be
lasting The financial question is nearly set
tied. The elections in Maine and Ohio will
cause the initiation doctrines to die natural
death very soon. The Democrats will try to
raise the National Bank issue, but the people
are not ready for it. The question of Nation
al supremacy is before them, and though it is
an old issue, it is wholesome in its discussion
and will last as long as the Government As
for his own views in relation to the National
banks, he doesn't believe it will do to get rid
of them. The system is a part of the prog
ress of the age, and to abolish the banks or
curtail their powers will be taking a step
backward