Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-22
MINOR NOTES.


to be expended for these pensions turns out
to be quite accurate.
Connecticut newspapers are now discussing
with some vigor the proposed amendment to
the state constitution making sessions of the
legislature biennial. The amendment will be
voted upon next fall. Twenty-six states of
the union already have adopted amendments
or this kind.
George II. Williams of Boston, a colored
man, the first colored graduate of Newton
college, is one of the Republican nominees
for the Ohio legislature. Wi"iams is n bright,
intelligent fellow of about 81 years
President Hayes has accepted the invita-
ton of Gov st. John Of Kansas to attend the
agricultural fair at Neosho, September %.
Every dollar of the S113, 600, 600 collected
by the Internal Revenue Bureau during the
last fiscal year was paid into the treasury
The Government didn't lose cent from de
falcation or any other cause of the amount
thus collected.
The indications from Maine continue to be
of hopeful character. The Republicans are
hard at work and enthusiastic.
Gen. Woodford of New York is going to
escort Mrs Chisolm to Kemper county, Miss,
to attend the trial of her husbands murder
ers.
inquiry among the emigration agents of
the European steamship lines tends to be-
lief that there will be very large increase in
the number of settlers in the western coun-
try, from beyond the Atlantic, during the
coming year
AT the coming election the people of Maine
are to vote upon propositions to amend the
constitution which provide for biennial cleo
tiors and sessions of the legislature.
Gen. Sherman. in recent conversation
with Sir George Campbell, said that the only
war he would like to undertake would be one
against the Mexicans, to make them take
back New Mexico and Arizona.
In New York the Tilden and anti Tilden
factions of the Democracy are { sensing with
bitterness the result of the Niagara Falls CON
ference of their State central committee.
Each claims victory. 1t is unmistakablc,
however, that the Tilden men were in the
majority.
A new tramp law went into fleet in Penn
sylvania on SaturC"y. 1t Furnishes ordinary
vagrancy by imprisonment in the jail or
work-house for not more than ~ months.
The dangerous class of tramps who manifest
a lawless disregard of personal and property
rights are made liable to imprisonment for
three years
Senator Dawes told a reporter in st. Louis
"A few days since that, in his opinion, New
| England would have no candidate in the next
national Republican convention, except pos
sibly Blaine. He said that the political sen
| timent in Massachusetts was strong for
Grant, and that the feeling in his favor bad
| recently been much increased by the outrages
at the South.
In the production of her three leading ag-
ricultural staples, the South has steadily ad-
vanced under the system of free labor The
cotton yield of 1879 is reported at about
5000, 600 bales, which exceeds that of last
year-the largest then on record-by 400, 900
bales. The tobacco crop aggregated 572, OO0,-
| 600 pounds, the heaviest yield the South ev-
er reported. The sugar production was also
unprecedented, reaching 2l2, 600 hogsheads.
The Democrats of Yazoo, Miss, are not
only very much in earnest in supporting md
practicing their now famous policy of intm-
idation, but they don't care who knows it,
Some of them had Il meeting the other day,
attended by what was called the lead ng
business men Of the city" and adopted reso-
lutio rs rectly approving the policy, and de
nouncing Nicksburg paper which opposed
it, as an enemy to the community.
Some of the temperance reform and re.
formed orators might lean / something from
the remark of Capt. Ritter at reformed
mems convention at Indianapo's THE aw-
| ful experience of the past ought to be thought
of privately, and mentioned publicly very
seldom. II had ever been drunk aud abus-
ed my wife and family, would keep that to
myself and beg them never to tell it." md
the sagacious captain also said: "AHow me
to suggest to men who have left off 6'ssipat-
ed habits, that your futr e usefulness and in
fiuence will consist more largely in what you
do than what the most eloquent of you may
say. What you are now and shall be is of
vastly more importance than what you have
| been"
Comptroller Knox said in his recent ad
d-ess before the Saratoga bankers conven-
ton, that there is no general desire, or rath-
er that there are really veiy few men in Con-
gress who would favor the substitution of
treasury notes for national bank circr'aton
What many do desire is to root out the ma
tional banking system. This is the special
desire of the South and those sections of the
|
with which to do that safe ban ling business
which our national law makes imperative
All the enemies of the national banking sys-
tenn would be satisfied if they could insure
the repeal of the law which imposes tax of
ten per cent on the circulation of State banks
This done, and the national bank would sue
cumb for the vel good reason that being re-
quired to do business upon actual capital, it
could not compete with the loose systems
| which have obtained undav Gtafa lauc
A writer of war "reminiscences for the Phil
adelphia Times says that the South sent more
praying generals" than the North into the
field. 1t is related of Longstreet that before
the battle of the Wilder less he kneeled by
the bedside and engaged in the most devout
prayer. While his words were not audible
it could be seen that he was very much af-
fected-was literary wrestling in prayer"
He remained on his knees for flu haze hour
Lee and jackson were men of prayer in the
fullest sense of the word. Bragg was bap-
tized in the presence of his army. Ewel be-
came a deyout Christian. Albert SiC ley
| johnson never went into battle without 60
ing down on his knees to the Lord of hosts
Gordon was devout and prayer-loving man.
Democratic Senator Butler of South Caro-
lima tells a correspondent that in his opinion
the question OF State rights is the al-impor-
tant one before the country. OF next years
canvas he says that the Moth win be the bat
tie ground, and that ''evel Jthing depends on
the pluck and energy of the Northern Democ-
racy. If they do not permit the radicals to
raise false issues and brighten the people by
false alarms, they can win. But they will
have to press home the real danger to liberty
with untiring pei -inacty and tact" The sill
yer question supplies, he thi IS, the only f.
nancial subject on which the Democrats are
divided. He himself favoTs limited coinage
of silver dollars and adds: abolish the ma
tional banks and repeal the ten per centum
tax on the issues of State banks and the f.
nancial problem wi be solved, in my judg-
ment."