Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-02-04
MINOR MOTIFS.

Chin Ian Pin, the new Chinese minister at
Washington is bit Of q wag. When poll
tician asked him, the other day, where the
Chinese would go when driven from America,
the Celestial replied: They will go to Ire
land that is the only country not ruled by
the Irish"
Three young fellows of Milwaukee heard
that Gen. Garfield had been compelled to re-
fuse his autograph, and one of them at din
ner offered to bet that he could obtain it. The
bet was taken. The young man wrote to Gar
field, saying that 1900 Norwegian Republicans
congratulated him and the country on his vic
tory. Gen. Garfield wrote a becoming reply
Mr.. Edmunds submitted in the Senate, last
Friday. a resolution, which was adopted with
out dissent, instructing the judiciary TO in
quire and report its opinion touching the con
stitutional legality of the votes of any electo-
raj college given for president and vice-presi-
dent of the United States on a different day
from the one provided for casting the votes
Of the electors in all the states.
The New York Times says that its Grant
fund, without any aid from Philadelphia OF
Boston, has all but reached the contemplated
amount of $3.50, 900, and no subscriber has
expressed the slightest desire to withdraw his
subscription. 1t adds that the majority of
subscriptions to that fund have been given
with the declared purpose of providing an
annuity for eT-President Grant, and that it
will rest with the donors to say whether the
future destination OF the fund shall conform
to the terms originally proposed in its col.
umns.
Since the above was in type it is announced
that the fund has reached $3.50, OOO and Geo.
Jones, of the Times, says that the subscribers
to the fund viii soon have a meeting TO de-
eide whether il shall be made a fund for ex-
presidents in general, or for Gen. Grant in
particular. The subscriptions have ranged
from 800 to $25, 900, Jay Gould and VIM. H.
Vanderbilt having each given $25, 600.
Senator Bruce of Mississippi believes that
under Garfield the political condition of the
negro viii be improved. He has also much
who have become disguised with the solid
south. He has not encouraged any one to
present his name to Gen. Garfield for place
| in the cabinet He does not advocate the
| appointment of cabinet officer on the ground
/ of color, but does not see why any exception
should be made against his race if any one OF
its members is qualified by education and eX'
perienee. The social side of the question, he
thinks, will, if let alone, regulate itself. He
and Mrs. Bruce have not been snubbed oil
sighted.
A correspondent of the Worcester Mass.
Spy, writing from Rome, says: II read in
the Spy that the Hon. George P. Marsh, Unit
ed States minister to Italy, was about to re-
sign his office. He stated TO a friend of mine
this last week that he had never even intimat
ed any such design. He also said that there
were very good reasons why it might be well
for him TO retire first, that it cost him every
/ year TO live $1,000 more than the salary, and
that he was getting old and was not we'll"
At the last election in Nebraska Whine
bago Indian was refused the right to vote.
The Indian has put in a claim for $4,000 dam
ages, and the state courts will now have 10 de-
termine whether under the fourteenth amend
ment Indians have the right to vote or not.
Vice President Wheeler has received a
number of anonymous letters threatening his
life in case he shall attempt to count the
electoral vote. One of the letters says that
he may not hope to leave the Capitol alive il
he does make the attempt The letters are
either disguised or written by illiterate per-
sons. The Vice President viii count the votes
] though ali the same.