Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-10
MINOR NOTES.

President Hayes will not return to Wash
ington till the middle of the month it being
his intention TO cast vote for the Republican
ticket in Ohio Tuesday.
The city han at PHILADELPHIA, all things
considered, is probably the most expensive
architectural folly on the continent. The
outside walls are as yet only halfway up, but
81, 800, 600 have already been expended, and
the building commissioners want - 25O,O eco
appropriated for next year.
Gen. Grant rose TO the first personal expla-
nation of his life in speech at Stockton,
Cal, last week, when he took occasion to eX-
plain that he was not the Capt Grant who,
in 1sia led dissoiute life in that State. His
first visit TO California was in 1852. For
several years the democratic press has repeat
ed this now exploded SANDER concerning the
general.
There were threRteuings of first-class row
among the New York sporting men last week
when it was discovered that the track in Gil
mores Garden. on which the recent contest
for the Ashley belt was walked, lacked 30 feet
of being full mile in eight laps.
In an interview with Mr.. TildGn, published
in the Washington Post, that gentleman is
made to deny that he expressed the opinions
lately attributed to him unfavorable TO the
attitude of the Southern democracy, and also
TO declare that he is not seeking the presiden-
tial nomination.
General Sherman, in a little speech TO some
school children the other day, said, You may
think, children, when you read about us war
men, that we like battles and fighting. 1t is
E 1t st c.. 10. I
concerned, l have been engaged in wars and
with business connected with war for forty
years, and hate it with deep and growing
hatred"
Up to October there had been IS, 3GS ar
rears of pension cases settled at Washington,
the payments averaging S547 each, and ag-
gregating $50, 734, 507. OF these 2ll3 were
from Boston. There are about 1000 more
cases TO settle, and it is hoped the So, OOO,-
600 appropriated will be sufficient to settle all
the bills
The Louisville Courier-Journal has been
making canvass through several important
points in central Kentucky, and finds that the
sentiment of the leading Democratic politi-
clans is strongly in favor of putting Uncle
Samuel again to the front, on the next presi-
Dental ticket.
1t ltAOIu VI Nlt tN4utuNt lhhNL ~ III L.
P. Blackburn's trial at Toronto, Canada, in
1864, for distributing infected clothing
through the North, shows that two witnesses,
both of southern sympathies, testified that
DIR. Blackburn plotted to send President Lin
coin a suit of black clothes, infected with
yellow fever, as "a present from the working
men of Manchester" Evidence accumulates
that this is the same man who is now govern
or of Kentucky.
Gen. Conway, the adyenturer who raised
funds some months ago to send steamer
down the Mississippi river after the colored
people who wanted to 60 to Kansas, says
that the boat will start for Cincinnati on its
mission as soon as the yellow fever quarRn-
tine is raised. Conway puts this seasons eX-
odus at lOO 00O
North Carolina makes the smallest appro-
priation for educational purposes of any State
in the Union, according to its size, expanding
only S1.3j upon each public school pupil
| The Wilmington Star attributes TO this penu-
robustness the fact that there within the State
boundaries more whites, proportionally, who
cannot read than in any of the other States
The Washington Sentinel prints a curious
article on the treatment of steerage passen-
| gers on coming to this country. The editor
has procured bill of fare provided for pris-
oners in the Washington Jail and in Sing Sing
prison, and compares the list of articles fur
nished to criminals with those furnished to
steerage passengers, The comparison is fa-
vorable TO the prisons, The Sentinel esti-
mates that the cost of feeding steerage pas
sengers, according to some of the bills which
| have been obtained is not more than fifteen
cents per day per passenger, OF an average
of 81 Is for the passage.