Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-01
MINOR NOTES.

DIR. George b. Loring assumes the duties
of the Agricultural Department at Washing
ton to-day.
The President leaves Washington to-day to
attend the commencement exercises at Will
liams college and the teachers institute at St.
Adams.
Vennor says that July will be hot and
stormy, with frequent disastrous storms Of
wind, hail and rain throughout those sections
in which the June storms have been so Sc
verely felt.
disgusting scandal has been started at AL
bany, connecting ex-senator Plat with one
Mrs. Baldwin, who was at the Delevan House
Wednesday night. Plat has a wife and a
family of adult children.
The grand jury have indicted Sessions, who
is alleged to have given Bradley $1,000 for his
vote in the Albany senatorial fight, for bribery.
The last star-route fraud unearthed by the
department is the route from Vinita, Ind.
Ter, to Las Vegas, N. NJ, 724 miles long, on
which two or three letters a trip were carried
at a cost of S64, $50 annually. With the proof
of this before him, Brady raised the pay to
$50, 59l.
President Garfield held a reception at
Long Branch, N. j., Saturday evening, with
Secretary Hunt and Postmaster General
James. At the last moment General Grant
entered the reception room. moment of
whispered conversation ensued between the
President and the general, when General
Grant stepped back, and, walking out to the
platform, entered his carriage. Three min
utes did not elapse from Grants entrance till
his departure.
The U. S. bonds are held by less than 100,
900 persons.
The journal and Review of Aiken, S. c.,
| styles Malone 1.-THE champion skunk of the
Old Dominion" and predicts his political
death in the coming campaign, when ''the
| mourners will bust bottle Of camphor upon
his political grave"
John G. SAKE has within the past year lost
his mother, wife, two daughters and a favo
rite daughter in law, besides good deal Of
money, and his natural tendency to melan
choly has run into hypochondria. Notwith
standing his habit of joking, he never was q
happy man.
The term half-breeds," as applied to ad
ministration Republicans in New York, orig
mated with Mr.. Conkling, who characterized
his Republican opponents as half for re
form and half for party spoils, half Repub'
lcans and half bolters-in short, half-b
The Austin (Texas) Dispatch does not be
lieve jury can be obtained in the South L
convict o man who interferes to prevent a ne
| gro from voting.
In the last 33 years the debt of Europe ha
nearly trebled. and is increasing while our
is diminishing, having been reduced since
1865 to the extent of over 81 900, 000, 900
We now owe about 81 $50, 600, 900, or abou
$35 to each inhRbitant, though in 1865 it wa
1888. Europe owed at the close of 1880 SIG,
794, 800, 600, givingto each inhabitAnt an aver
age of $74, with little hope that much of Il
will ever be paid off.
Japanese law student at Cambridge com
plains in one of the Boston papers of the wan
of discrimination in the United States between
Japan and China. He says that when tn,
japanese see japan and China linked togeth
! er as though news from the one was new
from tho other, they feel very much as al
American would if, in the Old World, h.
should see news from the United States ant
Mexico Jumped together without discriminat
ing between the two countries. The Japa
nese as people are intensely patriotic ant
devoted to their own country, and they d
not like TO be regarded as a dependency o
China.
new and strin gent liquor law goes int
effect in Rhode Island to-day. One Of it
provisions is that no license shall be grante
for any place within 400 feet of public school
and it is probable that this clause will compe
the removal of a number of hotels. Anothe
provision of the law is that the objection @
a majority of the landowners within 100 fee
of place for which license is asked sha
be sufficient to prevent the granting of l
cense.
The temperance element is said to be yer
strong in Texas, and prohibitory liquor lay
was very nearly carried at the last session @
the legislature. A correspondent of the Ne
Orleans Democrat writes "As little as 20
may think, should it ever be squarely place
before the people, whiskey will be voted dow
in Texas. 1t would be easier to carry pre-
hibition law here than in the old States fo
none of them-no other people on earth
have suffered SO many woes from its use. Il
blight is upon almost every household, its viz
Tins in every prison and graveyard"
There are symptoms of another breeze ovC
the anticipated or actually aecomplished II
moval of Joseph s. Smith as collector at Bar
> gor, Me. There are no charges that Smit
} has not faithfully performed his duties, an
he has now served out only about half of b
term but he is an anti Blaine man, appoin
ed by ex-President Hayes against Blaine
wishes, and Senator Hale wants the place fl
a friend of his. This, at least, is the way IL
story goes.