Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-16
MINOR SOTRA.


we're ina g-urzt4d MoLdAy
General Garfield "a ELECTED 7. : SerAtor
~ IL Ohio Legislature OF ToesiAy
s=LAioE Lamar a, strick 9Th pAraly -
SzI-dAy hight At JalE-ou. Mis-. Dot ;ks
physicians Are lop=t.i Of L.. re.overy.
Gen. Gran; j. aid 10 have made known.
recently, ,Ls, !; va l., and lot Gen HAllecf
=ho Originated SLern.An's march 70 The "a.
The convention Of the National Green "a OK
Labor party Is to be held At Chicago On June
9Th.
The ladies Of Illinois have scored a victory
for teup~rs-ce By preventing the sale Of Bq-
or at the neIt STATE fair
The proposition TO ODER prayer at the open
ing Of the Greenb4ek conference in VS. shin e
ton ~as received With storm 0. Kisses. the
delegates crying ozt that they came for
b1sinsss, and 70 busiDess they preceded.
Gen. Grant sAys he thinks Washington Is
the hAndsomest city in the world, and he
Likes il batter tlau any other.
Mr. Julia Smith Parker Of Glastonbury.
Conn, holds just As firmly TO the principle Of
no taxation without representation a. Mis-
Julia smith did. One of the famous Aider-
ney cows vas put under the hammer by the
collector the other day, but was bought IN,
and still remains one Of JuliA's pets
Mr.. Moody thinks St Louis, where he has
been laborng for more than a month, a ysry
wicked city, AID declared, IN 8 recent meet
ing, that be va SICK and tired Of this care.
lsssness a. 10 salvation" The Republican Of
that city says the meetings have been crowd
Cd. but emotion has been scarce and CONVEX
siOns few.
The fact is recalled tia, Blue Jeans VII
liAns Of Indiana might have been counted
out by the Republicaa Legislature Of ls77,
a. the returns were Ia. king from siI strong
Democratic counties The SPEAKER Of the
House, John Oyermeyer, Al honest man, pro.
cured duplicate returns, against the advice Of
some technicAlist partissns, and gave the Of
fee 70 the man elected to it.
II the use Of postal cards is any crterion
the business Of the country is increasing fast
The number Of domestic cards sent out from
the agency during last year vas 2iG, OC3, OGO,
an increase OF 30, $40, go over the business Of
ls7s, when the humber Was 200, la, 90. Of
the new international card .J3l. 90 have
already been distributed. It is noted Is
striking fact, shown by Official reports, that
about twice a. many postal cards go abroad
from the United States as are received into it
from foreign countries.
General Garfield Of Ohio will not take his
seat in the Senate till the 9Th of March, Iesl,
when be will have completed his eighth term
Of continuous service in the House He en-
tered the House in December 1868. There
is only one member Of that body who ante
dates him and whose service has also been
Ii n
who began his Congressional career il lsGl.
In age, however, General Garfield does not
rank among the veterans. He was born in
1881.
Secretary Schurz recommends q 500 ap-
preparation to purchase as historical relic
the first patent ever issued in the United
States E. 7. Hall Of Columbus, o., the
present POssessor Of the document, says it
was issued at New York, July 81, 1890, to
Samuel Hopkins Of Philadelphia for an i'm
proyement in making potash and pearl ash
II is written on q sheet Of parchment 20
inches square, in q round old-fAshioned hand,
and il signed by George Washington and cer-
tihed by z. ID. Randolph, attorney general
What Father Sculy or Cambridge Mass,
has been endeavoring 20 accomplish in q
small way, has been attempted on a larger
scale by Bishop MeClOsky Of Kentucky, Who
has issued decree ordering the establish
ment Of parochiAl schools as soon as possible
throughout his diocese. The decree CON-
mAnds that where there is a Catholic school
in the parish parents and guardians in such
places shall send their children or wards
under nine years Of age to such Catholic
school, and threatens recusants with refusal
Of absolution and the saeraments.
Mr.. stoughton, late minister to Russia, in
his speech at the Banks club last Saturday, said
that while lie was minister TO Russia be was
put in the possession Of facts concerning a
diplomatic scheme proposed by England in
1850 81 TO Queen Catherine Of Russia, in
which England agreed TO eede the island of
Minorca, in the Mediterranean sea, to Rus
sia, il she would combine with the German
Empire 10 force France to withdraw her fleets
from our shores. Catherine refused what
she considered a bribe, and in consequence
Of that refusal, said Mr.. Stoughton, the strug-
Cling armies Of the colonies were in the end
victorious, and the United States made an in
dependent nation a century ago.