Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-29
MINOR NOTES.

bond, and an examination was waived
The records of the Treasury Department
show n decided increase in the building Of
steam vessels this year over last
OF the % ex-soldiers now upon the rolls of
the Senate and House Of Representatives, %
are Union and f. confederate.
1t is now generally conceded that JEFF Dn-
Wis will be elected to the United States Sen
ate from Mississippi
The Washington Post has an editorial jus
tifying the methods adopted by the conserva-
tive Democracy of Yazoo county in dealing
with Independents.
A Georgia correspondent of lions Herald
says that all school books which contain any
thing pointing toward nationality are being
excluded from schools Of all grades.
The Boston Traveller thinks that shot at
Yazoo will prove the most damaging one for
the southern Democrats since the opening
gun at Fort Sumter.
The Democrats of Washington county,
Miss, have nominated colored man for the
state Legislature.
Secretary Thompson on Dixons murder
There is no hope save in a solid North, and
such acts will consolidate the North more eff
fectively than all the speeches of COMPRESSION
al orators.
1t is estimated that the South will raise this
year more cotton by half n million bales
twice as much sugar, and 10000 900 pounds
more of tobacco, than was ever before raised
in a single year
The most remarkable single itep Of in
crease in the exports of last year was in dis
titled liquors The exports five years ago
were 100000, in the fiscal year ending in
1878 they were $4,000 600, and in the year
just closed they reached S14, OOO, 900.
In Harpers Weekly, Mast depicts the stu
alton in Mississippi as follows: In the fore
ground two native bulldozers are crossing
shot-guns. In the background jubilant AZ
rican links arms with Father Time, bearing
his scythe and hour glass, and soberly con
templating his revenges
As furnishing a solution of the Mormon
difficulty, it is suggested that Congress make
fornicaton and adultery crime under feder-
al law, as they now are under state law i'll
Massachusetts Connecticut, Minnesota Vir-
ginia, Iowa and other states
Cyrus w. Field is down on Tildeu the very
worst way. He alleges that Tilden didn't
play fair in the business of the New York ell
evated railroad, and declares he will never
again have any sort of business or social trans
action with him.
II was an odd and of course an accidental
coincidence that the assassination of Dixon
occurred the day before the date fixed for the
Independent Convention at Yazoo City New
ertheless the Independents went on with their
nominations, and put both white and colored
men on their ticket.
Haruers Weekly on the Yazoo affair IF
exposing and opposing tile fragrant, forciblc
and confessed attempt (of the Southern De
mocracy) at usurpatiOn IL shaking the bloody
shirt, the bloody shirt has become the ban
ner of American liberty. and he who docs not
wave IT is "A contemplate coward
The Okolona States and the Lemars SENT
mel have joined battle. The latter had mildly
remarked that ''the only thing that the war
settled was this that the North can lick the
devil out of the South" This neat and terse
manner of expressing its views has plainly
excited the envy of the States but it rallies
and calls the Sentinel man "a bowling Job
berwock, with tongue of flame"
E. n. Talbot postmaster at Logansport
Ind, has got to make the rather embarrass-
ing decision whether he will be postmaster or
a Presbyterian. The United States post office
| authorities say that Mr.. Talbot shall keep his
post Office open nj least one hour on Sun
day. The church authorities claim that he
cannot do so and, be a good Presbyterian
Hence an emergency in MIR. Talbots life.
The Kentucky kuklux are out again. A
few days ago they made a raid upon the town
of Middleton, and, as a local paper says, zap
piled the rod of correction, well and severely
laid on, to quite a number of our colored citi-
Zens.' The victims were not charged with
any special o1ense, but are described as
lazy, tri1ing ldlers." The paper reports
the event with complacency as the second re-
cent visit of the kind. An exodus from Mid
| dleton has begun.
Proceedings have been begun against the
| persons charged with attempting to bride
members of the Pennsylvania Legislature.
The measure known as the Scott Damages
| bill, to indemnify the Pennsylvania Railroad
| Company for damages sustained during the
Pittsburg riots, furnished an occasion for I'm
huencing" the votes Of the members of the
Legislature The allegations of bribery are
made with great eXplicitness, and with for
midable array of proofs.
Gov Blackburn of Kentucky has been
heard from with regard to the charge that he
| plotted, during the war, TO spread the yellow
fever and small pox through Northern cities
| by distributing infected clothing. He de-
clares that "A physician, by his knowledge of
| disease and medicine, has the same right to
slay an enemy as a general has with his army
and ammunition This is as cold blooded
| defence for an atrocious plot as could well be
annaaiHraA - min fa-
Governor of State.
In the latest Mississippi murder story, a
superintendent of public instruction who had
been drinking at a bar-room is the surviving
ruffian, and the quarrel was about the price
of a drink. Is he the sort of school superin-
| dents they usually employ in Mississippi 7
We wait now to hear of clergyman who
draws his revolver some Sunday and shoots
one of his deacons.
Mr. Judah P. Benjamin, who has been
amassing wealth in London, is called upon by
| the Cincinnati Commercial 10 return and be
elected to the United States Senate at the
same time with JEFF Davis. ''In the transfer
nation of Washington into a camp of ex-
confederate Brigadiers and statesmen" it
says, 1.-THE handsome face and figure of Ju-
dab ought not to be missing"
The Secretary of War says affairs on the
Mexican border are now more peaceful than
at any time for the last fifty years. Since
| the famous order instructing commanders to
! pursue raiders into Mexico there has been
| peace, Senator Maxey in a recent letter
compliments the administration upon the sue
cess of the solution Of the Mexican question,
and says at no time during his long residence
in Texas were the citizens so secure
1t is stated on reliable authority that Stan
ley's present visit to Africa is for the purpose
of opening upthe Congo river from the west
coast. steamer laden with goods has been
dispatched from Antwerp within the last
month under the patronage of the King of
the Belgians. This steamer, which will re-
main at the Congo till Mr. Stanley arrival