Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-29
MINOR NOTES.

Mr.. Edmunds has not yet gone South
with his family, but is in Washington attend
ing diligently to his duties in the Senate
Oscar Wilde took a sorrowful leave of
America Wednesday and set sail for England.
He confessed before his departure that his
mission to our barbarc shores bad been sub
stantially a failure.
Congressman have a custom of sending
round their albums by pages for signatures
of their fellow members. The other day
Congressman Moore of Tennessee thought
the little fellows who brought him the books
were soliciting for their own collections. So,
in a kind, fatherly way, he put some good ad-
vice, of the copy. book, maxim style, in each
album. In Senator Edmunds's he wrote,
with flourish: ''Be good boy and you
will become a good man, "a sentiment
which the Vermont Senator is said to have
| appreciated immensely.
Gov Barstow has appointed E. j. Phelps
of Burlington, ex.Goy. Proctor of Rutland
and Frederick Billings of Woodstock as for
estry commissioners under the act of the
last Legislature. The commissioners are to
inquire into the extent and condition of for
ests in Vermont and report measures for their
protection at the next Legislature.
Ex-Postmaster- General James believes in
cheaper postage for the letters of the people,
thinks it not wise to continue carrying mer-
chandise in the mails at loss, and favors tn e
further extension of the mail facilities for the
large cities, from which the post-ofice re-
ceipts are mainly drawn.
Way down in Maine they say that the 9TH
er day Gen. Neal Dow, while walking along
the street in Portland, stumbled and fell over
a misplaced plank in the sidewalk A friend
sprang to his side, aided him to rise, and then
remarked in a serio-comic tone: General
wish there was not another drop of liquor
in the world" But they don't say what Gen
Dow's reply was.
The post Office department expects an I'M
precedented demand for stamped envelopes
on the LIST of January, as by instruction from
the department all postmasters have reduced
their stock as far as possible, so that the gov
eminent can have all the advantage from the
new contract, which is per cent. lower than
the one now in force. The consequence is
that probably the greater part of the a., 600
postmasters will write for stamped envelopes
on or near the LIST of January, and the demand
will for some time be far beyond the ability
of the department to satisfy.
Senator Edmunds and family have left
Washington for Aiken, S. c., for the winter.
The Washington Star says; 1.-THE many
persons who cherish a warm attac bment for
Senator Edmunds aud family will be glad to
know that the health of their remaining
daughter and only surviving child, Miss Ma.
ry, is not seriously impaired, except through
depression at the death of her beloved sister
1t is as preventive measure not as an mex
orable alternative, that her physician recon-
mends for the winter a residence in mild
climate"
Mr.. John G. SAKE, the poet still resides in
Albany, at the home of his son, and is an in,
valid. The disease from which he suffers is
neuralgia, affecting the great nerve centres,
and accompanied by chronic dyspepsia. He
has suffered no impairment of mental
strength.
There has been rumor this week that G en-.
Sherman had gone into the Roman Catholic
church, in behalf of which his wife is so
jealous, but the General denies that he has
done so or intends TO do SO.