Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-19
MINOR NOTES.


The Republicans Of Kentucky have elected
nine members of the state senate. Last year
they had but four.
Gen. Spinner, whose autograph ON United
States notes was the marvel of the world,
thinks that he is too old to be candidate for
Congress-
There is at this time pathetic appropriate
ness in the words Of James A. Garfield moro
than twenty years ago; II regard my life as
given to my country. 1 am only anxious to
make as much of 1t as possible before the mort
gage on il is foreolosed."
The Mississippi Republican, published at
jackson, has been revived for the campaign.
In an editorial article it says 1.-THE Repub-
licans of Mississippi have determined to make
another effort to redeem their state from the
false and humilating position which it now
occupies before the world.
correspondent of the Memphis Avalanche
(Ind. DEM agrees with ex-senator Bruce
that there is hope for Mississippi lie says
1.-THE Republicans and Greenbackers will
nominate Joint ticket, headed by the Hon.
Ben King, well-known lawyer, dnto-belLum
Wing and wealthy citizen of Copiah." One
of Mr.. Kings recommendations is that he
can't be bulldozed.
singular case of the laws injustice is re-
pOTltu lIOIl OulOs n DuIRlhI WIN WIS etu-
fenced in 1861 to twenty years imprison-
ment became insane in 1877 and has since
been an inmate of a lunato asylum. Now,
however, he is restored to sanity, and it is
decided that unless pardoned he must 60
back to the penitentiary and serve the four
years which he has already served, in anoth-
err way, in the insane asylum.
The widow of Senator Solomon Foote,
whose death has been announced, was q
daughter of Hon. Henry Hodges of Claren-
don and sister of the late Hon. Silas Hodges,
former commissioner of patents. She was
first married in 1927 to VIM. Dana, United
States vice-consul to Buenos Ayres, where he
| died in 1881. She then returned to this coun
try, and in 1914 married Mr. Foote, who died
in 1865. Mrs Foote was an accomplished
and courteous Christian woman, who had seen
much of public life. In the later years of her
| life her mind was clouded.
Ohio has had $500 laws since its organiza-
| ton as q state, and all but 1900 of these had
been specifically repealed when the revised
| statutes were codifed in 1880, and of the
| 1900, $50 were temporary or obsolete. The
average life of a law in Ohio is about five
| years.
| Ex-senator Bruce of Mississippi says his
state is Republican by %, 900 majority under
fair count. 1--WE hope he says, "by CO.
alition with the Independent Democrats, who
| number about 5000 to compel the Bourbons
who control the organizations to count our
votes, as each faction of the new party will
be interested in securing justice to the other.
| The Independent Democrats are men of edu-
| cation, ability and information, and they will
be able to check the lawless spirit to a con-
siderable extent. Our platform will be very
short and will advocate a free ballot and a
fair count, a revision Of the criminal laws and
an encouragement of the free school system. "
An Arab manifesto has been issued from
Mecca, and is now being distributed among
Mussulman population. 1t declares that Islam
is now threatened with complete destruction
by the leading European powers, and exhorts
all Mussulmen TO arm themselves and concert
together, to repel Christian domination and
to uphold the ''caliph of the whole Mussul.
| man world"
There will be contests for fifteen seats il
the next House of Representatives, of which
thirteen will be from the South Alabama
alone furnishing four. The Republican ma
jority can do without these seats they car
not afford to take one of them without salts
factory proof that the contesting candidate
received a majority of the votes actually
cast
Matthew Vassar died at Poughkeepsie
Wednesday morning of last week. He was
nephew of the founder of Vassar college.
Last winter Matthew Vassar and his brothe
John Guy Vassar, erected at an expense o
$40, 900 and presented to the city of POUCH
keepsie an old mems home, also giving t.
the city funds sufficient to successfully con
duct the institution for many years. The de
ceased was very charitable and public spirit.
ed and progressive in all matters pertaining
to the improvement of the city of his resi-
dence.
The address of Comptroller of the Currenc,
Knox, before the Bankers convention al
Niagara Falls on Thursday Of last week, upoI
the banking business of this country, wa
full of interesting statistics. The bank cap
ital of the country is $5O5, 4S2, SIG, owned b.
POS, 4S6 shareholders. The average held b.
New England stockholders, is 50, 100. Tn
bank deposits of the country in May wer
81, 80, 600, 900, of which the savings bank
held 1881, S55, sos. The loans of the Nations
banks are now over one billion dollars, an
the total annual discounts of the bank aggre
gate over six billions The comptroller de
voted much time to the currency question
and showed that over % per cent. of all tn
receipts Of the banks was in checks and draft
aud the balance in coin and paper money.
The farming out of convicts by the state @
! Georgia had long been scandal and an out
rage Renewed attention is called to tn
matter, not by an irresponsible newspape
correspondent but by the committee of th
Georgia legislature, which has made an unaI
imous report. The committee found thi
5 some of the convicts did not get enough I
= eat, that they were overworked, aud thu
men and women were frequently whipped
I when stripped, in the most inhuman name
They also found at one of the camps sever
convicts whose terms of imprisonment wei
d out, and who were being retained illegally
y the lessees. At one of the camps it WI
, found that several convicts who were sic
q and should have been in the hospital wei
compelled to remain at work, and had bee
most brutally whipped for complaining
9 being sick Convicts were in some cas-
/ most cruelty overworked. The committt
says these abuses have continued for years.