Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-14
MINOR NOTES.


claims. The commissioner denies that any
such ring has been discovered and says that
no public officer was ever supported by a
'truer, ADLER, or more honest, industrious.
and efficient corps Of clerks" than he is.
General Garfeld's picture is to be placed
upon the 5-cent international postal letter
stamps. A very fine engraving is now being
made by the Bank Note Company.
Placing money in packages of smoking and
chewing tobacco TO induce people to buy
them has been declared illegal by United
States District Attorney Woodford of New
York.
Senator Edmunds, during all the years be
has been in the Senate, has never, it is said
revised a single speech for publication. He
never uses notes, and knows exactly what he
means to say before he rises from his chair
A true bill' against Charles j. Guiteau
| for the murder of James A. Garfield was pre-
scented by the grand jury of the District Of
Columbia last Saturday. The indictment has
| IL counts, upon the fifth and sixth Of which
the prosecution will mainly rely, it is said.
The date of the trial has not yet been fixed.
| Guiteau is said to have been thrown into
fever Of fear and excitement on reading cop
les of Chicago papers, which Geo. NJ SEQ
| vile, his counsel left in his cell last week.
| They we're the first papers which the coward
| ly wretch had seen since the shooting and
from them he for the first time caught some
idea of the public feeling against him.
The oonvicts in the Ohio penitentiary have
sent 800 to the Michigan sufferers. They
raised this sum by denying themselves the
luxury of tobacco and by the sale of trinkets
which they had made. Here is a suggestion
for good sermon.
The trustees of President Garfield's estate
will assume, it is said that the estate is re-
| for Mt ha
illness and death, and ask the doctors to pre-
sent their bills. Whether Congress will take
action in the matter remains to be seen. The
property left by the late President consists
of the Washington home, the Mentor estate,
a half interest in some Virginia land worth
about $500, taken in payment of n counsel
fee, little Chicago real estate of small value,
some mining stocks and the life insurance.
The photograph of President Garfield re-
| quested by Queen Victoria has been forward
ed from Cleveland by Mrs. Garfield.
The movement for establishing Garfield
memorial hospital in Washington gives prom
been chosen to receive subscriptions, not on
ly from the United States, but from the world
| at large. General Sherman is chairman, aud
Mr. Blaine, Mr.. Window, General Swain
and a large number Of prominent citizens Of
Washington are associated with him.
The notion still prevails extensively in
China and Japan that Grant is the emperor
of America. The diplomatic correspondence
received at the state department is said to
have recently shown singular and amusing
traces" of this delusion.
Mr.. Tilden has written a letter in which he
asserts that he will not be a candidate for
Governor next year, and that he is taking no
present interest in politics. He does not say,
| however, that he would not like TO run for
President in 1884.
II is said that Leo Hartmann, the alleged
Russian nihilist, about whom SO much was
said last summer, has gone to London, con-
WINGED that it is Of no use to try TO do any
thing in this country. He threatens TO return
next spring.
Commissioner Loring who last week adj
dressed an agricultural meeting in South Car
olina, spoke at the cattle show at Frederick
Nd, on Wednesday, and at Winchester, Va,
yesterday.
Chicago correspondent looking over a
mercantile directory for 1872, finds on the
black list the entry: "Z-Guiteau, Chas. j.
lawyer" Turning to the definition of the let
ter ~" he finds; "Z-Income uncertain and
often precarious. Defers indefinitely the
payment of debts Lawsuits to collect claims
would be useless. No credit or favors should
be given"
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln will leave Spring
field, ILL.,, in few days for St. GATHERINGS,
Canada, where she will put herself under the
care of prominent medical advisers. This
step is caused by the fact that her health has
shown no sign of material improvement since
her return from France.
The new Michigan state relief commission
announces that they now have an abundance
of clothing for the supply of their wants, and
request that further contributions be made
in money, except such articles rs quilts, COM
forters and Blankets Of which q quantity can
be used to advantage.
The Republican Senators met in caucus on
Wednesday and, after considerable discussion,
decided to attempt the election of Senator
David Davis of Illinois as president pro tenn.
in place of Senator Bayard. The caucus also
determined to support a resolution offered by
Mr.. Edmunds to continue the standing COM
mttees during the present session.
It turns out that the three Arkansas train
robbers are no hardened desperadoes, but
three youthful tramps from Florida. who
were hungry, barefooted and ragged, and
having read how easily railway passengers
and express messengers were plundered in
the West concluded TO try their luck ut the
business In view of the fact that one of the
lads is only seventeen years old, and another
but eighteen, and that all are novices in
crime, the affair assumes IA ludicrous aspect.
Mr.. WINDOWS resignation of the Treasury
portfolio is authoritativey announced. He
will undoubtedly be returned by the Mime
sofa Legislature to the seat in the Senate
which he resigned last March, and which il
now temporarily filed by Mr.. Edgerton un
der an appointment from the Governor Of
the State. No intimation comes from Wash
ington as TO who is likely to be his successor
in the Cabinet
The Cleveland chief of police announces
that any one caught prowling around Gar
fields tomb at night will be shot on sight.
Mr.. Scoville, Guileau's counsel, has no
yet been able to find any one to help him il
the defense, although several distinguished
lawyers have been applied to. He has beer
, advised, he says, by distinguished lawyers al
over the country, including several judges, t
raise every question and make every pOin
that can properly be made in behalf of hi
client-which means that every possible lega
subterfuge will be taken advantage of. Gen
Butler declined TO assist Mr.. Scoville on tn,
, ground Of previous engagements.
: At the request of the citizens residing there
on, Guiteau street in Cleveland, Ohio, ha
/ had its name changed to Abram street.
The recent decision of the court of appeal
of New York State in the case of Rose Var
8 Voorhis is attracting much attention. Mis-
q | Van Voorhis is the daughter of a man whI
= was divorced from his first wife and forbid
Q den by the decree to marry again Soon af
/ ter the divorce, however, he went TO Oonneo
D ticut and married. Rose being the child o
his second wife. Subsequently Roses fathe
3 died, and she applied to be admitted to shsrl
' in her fathers estate equally with tn,
Q children by the first wife. The court of ap
t peals decision grants her application. anC
= thus establishes the doctrine that a marriage
y is valid wherever contracted that is, though
Q the laws of the state of New York may pro
8 hibit the rs-marriage of the guilty part!
: where a divorce is granted, a marriage by sail
= party, if contracted in a state where no sucl
] prohibition exists, is perfectly legal.