Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-05-21
MINOR NOTES.

1t is stated, and not disputed, that ex- Gov
Stewart is in the field as Il candidate to sue
ce ed Col. Joyce in Congress from the first
district
The President has selected Horace Maynard
of Tennessee to succeed Mr.. Key in the Post
master G Stewardship. Mr.. Maynard is man
of long and successful experience in public life
and is at present minister TO Constantinope,
having been appointed by President Grant to
that position in 1879.
Secretary Sherman says the daily receipts
of the Government for the present month
have averaged over ~ 600, 600 per day.
The Chicago journal, which seems to speak
nuthoritatively, says of Mr. Washburne's
friends They know that, if nominated
Mr.. Washburne could not refuse to run. and
that, if elected, he would not refuse to serve
and that is enough for them to know
That Secretary Shermans presidential
prospects have improved during the past two
weeks there is not the slightest doubt. Sew
eral Republican papers that have heretofore
been neutral have begun to urge his claims
The man under whose management the pub
lie debt has been reduced Sll3, 33I ,O32 %,
aud the annual interest charge Sl3, Al, 5000.
is certainly entitled to the favorable consider
alton of his party.
Portraits of the late President Lincoln and
Senator Chandler will be suspended in the ex-
position building at Chicago during the SEES
sion of the Republican convention and the
building will be decorated with many other
portraits of prominent men and with flags and
bunting. The headquarters of the Massa-
chusetts delegation will be at the Gardner
house, those of Connecticut and New Hamp-
shire at the Grand Pacific, those of Vermont
and Rhode Island at the Palmer, and that Of
Maine at the Matteson house.
correspondent of the Providence journal
saw Tilden at the New York dog show last
week and regarded him with particular interest
on account of the contradictory stories which
are in circulation in regard to his health. He
says: He (Tilden) has had stroke of
paralysis his left eye was partly closed, his
hands and head shook. 1t was only in the
feeblest manner that he could stretch forth
his hand and pat the great creatures the st.
Bernard dogs, which he so much admires.
Whatever his health may have been, it is no
exaggeration to speak of him now as Il phys
ical wreck. One would not think for a mo
ment, to see him, that he could possibly be
candidate for the Presidency"
Mr. Oliver johnson, Vermonter and an
able journalist, now connected with the New
York Tribune, writes to the Springfield Re
publican "Of the candidates for the Re
publican nomination for President prefer
Edmunds First because he is eminently ca
pable and of an unsullied reputation, and
next because he has not sought and is not
seeking the place. l shall be sincerely sorry
if either Grant or Blaine is nominated at Chi
cage, for hold that neither of them is the
best man for the office. Each Of them rep
resents elements and policies to me objec-
tionable but l shall not seek to prevent
their nomination by threatening to take any
step or join in any movement the effect of
which might be to bring into power the par
ty that not only engineered the rebellion, but
invented, and is still welded to, the ma
chine" which long to overthrow. have
made some sad mistakes in the course of
long life, but have never yet been left to
the folly of looking TO the Democratic party
to lead the way in political reform