Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-02-03
MINOR NOTES.

Hon. Paul A. Chadbourne has been made
president of the Amherst Mass Agricutur-
al college, to succeed President Stockbridge.
Liberty and progress, firm but conciliatory,
will be the motto of the new French Minis
try.
The reduction of the pubic debt in Janua-
ry amounted to nearly thirteen millions.
A report says that the Washington Repub-
lican has been sold to become the organ of
the administration. We hope it is not true.
The late E. W. Stoughton of New York is
said to have left among his papers an unpub-
lished letter of Washington, in which he ex-
pressed the fervent hope that slavery would
soon be done away with
The popular pocket piece in St. Louis just
now is bit of hangman's rope, and five re-
cent executions have provided an abundant
supply. 1t is carried to prevent rheumatism,
consumption, heart disease and pretty much
all other ills, as the personal superstition var
les.
1t is rumored that Senator Edmunds has
been offered the succession to Judge Hunts
place. but Senator Morrill, says he has heard
nothing of it and that he does not think SEN
ator Edmunds would accept the place, as he
has already declined one offer of the kind
Postmaster-G eneral Howe has turned Mr..
Gibson, special agent or attorney for the gov
eminent in the star-route business out of his
room in the post-office department. 1t has
been claimed that Gibson was discharged
from government employ because he had
Leaked, but Attorney General Brewster de-
MES this.
The national House of Representatives has
passed bill giving Justice Hunt his full sal
airy for life if he will retire from the supreme
bench and allow a successor to be appointed.
Justice Hunt has been incapacitated for duty
for over year and is too poor to retire.
Chill seems to have modelled her terms of
peace with Peru pretty closely upon those ex-
acted from France by victorious Germany af-
ter the late war. She takes one province out
right and occupies another until war in
demnity of 500, 600, 900 is paid If the in
demnity is not paid, she also appropriates the
Lobos Islands with their guano deposits, the
most valuable piece of property her enemy
possesses. The Germans, it will be remem-
bered, took two provinces and left an army
of occupation in France until the indemnity
was paid.
The collapse of the Tennessee Rugby is
confessed in the latest number of the Rug
beian. The board of aid to land ownership
is ''little more than a land-speculating COM
pany," and the men whose ''moral weight and
influence" were relied on as pledging them
to carry through the scheme they had started
do nothing for the colony. The suspension
of all works have been ordered, and the
Tabard inn has been closed
1t now appears that Mr.. Blaine exercised
his diplomatic talents with unfortunate re-
suits in little difficulty between Guatemala
and Mexico-a boundary dispute fifty years
old Mr. Blaine took the Guatemala side of
the controversy and, according to the Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Herald
gave Mexico to understand that she was hold
ing disputed territory by force, and had been
influenced by policy of conquest and alb
sorption" The Mexican minister of foreign
affairs, in a somewhat acid letter, declined
| American mediation for the treason that due
regard for its honor and sovereignty would
not allow Mexico to submit to arbitration the
ownership of territory which had been Joined
to that republic by the freely expressed choice
of its inhabitants, and had been an integral
part of its possessions for more than fifty
| years" The Mexican minister further init
mated that Mr.. Blaine has been imposed up
on by Guatemala.
zone Of the leading managers of the Tilden
campaign in 1876" speaking of the story that
| Mr.. Tilden expects to be a Presidential can
didate in 1884, tells the Chicago Times Wash
| ington correspondent that "rilden is now SO
disabled that he is unable to feed himself.
| He has nurse and attendants constantly with
him. He is not able to eat solid food and
the little he eats is fed to him with a spoon.
His voice cannot be heard the distance of
four or five feet from him, and it is only with
the greatest difficulty that his friends can
make out his wishes. He is in the very last
extreme Of feebleness, and, in consequence
of physical ills, his mind has become serious
| ly affected No one now in attendance upon
him believes that he will live as long as
| 1884"
The medals which were ordered struck af-
ter the Chicago convention, in honor of the
"Grant phalanx" and their steady voting,
have been completed and forwarded to
Chauncey l. Filley at Washington. The med
al is of bronze and very handsome. 1t weighs
nearly a pound and has a fine medallion
portrait of Grant surrounded by record OF
the SO ballots. OF the $50 medals one will
be sent to each of the 313 delegates who vot.
ed for Grant, and the balance to Gen. Grant
and few stalwart friends.