Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09
MINOR NOTES.

Inc burlington hepuDHcan5 nelu caucus
on Monday evening and elected delegations
for Barstow for Governor and Stewart for
Member of Congress-
1t is understood that Gen. Grant, who has
engaged to attend the soldiers reunion at
Burlington, July 4, will also visit Montpelier
Immediately after, on his way to the White
Mountains and will hold a reception there.
The reunion of Union and Confederate
officers at Gettysburg, for the purpose of To-
eating the positions of the various commands,
began Wednesday.
The Ohio Republican State Convention was
held at Columbus Wednesday, Hon. Charles
Townsend, the present incumbent was re-
nominated for Secretary of State.
The new oil wells recently opened in War
rem county, Pa, are reported to be keeping
up their enormous flow. Two wells opened
previous to last Saturday are flowing at the
rate Of 1000 barrels day. and one opened
since is flowing 2400 barrels day.
Unprecedented activity is reported in the
consumptive demand for hog products as a
result of the scarcity and high cost of fresh
meats. City jobbers say their sales are gem
orally 100 per cent. larger than last year, and
in some specialties the increase is even great
err.
Next Wednesday Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe will complete the SEVENTEEN year of
her age, and in honor of the anniversary,
Messrs. Houghton, Miffiin & Co. will give her
an elegant reception.
Franklin j. Moses, Ex-Governor of South
Carolina, was sentenced to the penitentiary
for six months, on Tuesday, by the New York
court of general sessions. Moses has been a
sorry and degraded character for years.
Commander Terry Of the navy has Just died
of consumption in Colorado. During the re-
bellion he served with great galantry under
Farragut. He was engaged in the passage of
the forts below New Orleans and in the pas
sage of the Port Hudson batteries. He was
the executive officer of the Richmond during
the Mobile bay fight.
Mr.. Blaine publishes letter refusing to be
candidate for election to Congress. The re-
quest to him to be q candidate was signed by
several thousand Maine Republicans.
The Princess Louise arrived at Quebec,
Sunday night, and her lone Lorne husband is
now happy. She ia in good health and en-
dured the sea voyage admirably.
Miss Clara Barton, the well-known hospital
NURSE lectured last week in Orange, N. j., on
her experiences during the Franco-German
war. Miss Barton is president of the Amer
lean Association of the Red Cross.
Another sham charity, known as the "Old
gentlemen's unsectarian home and sanitarium
for children" has been discovered in New
York city through the death, from neglect, of
16 children which had been confided TO its
keeping. One Ramsear was the keeper, and
he has been committed in the sum of $4,000
to await the action of the grand jury.
With the exception of the three long loans,
| the Pacific railroad bonds, the four per cent.
bonds and the four and half per cent. bonds,
every government bond which was bearing
| ipfaracf hna haan raiurOe6 N tho "
during the past year. Not one single coun-
terfeit was received. 1t is positively asserted
at the treasury that there is not to-day in ex-
| istence in the hands of the public single
counterfeit United States bond.
An American who is travelling in Europe
writes as follows to the editor of the Buffalo
| Express: "Let me tell you one thing my
friend. The country and the people that to-
day have the least to complain Of the most to
| be grateful for and the least to fear for many
a year TO come are the United States of Amer
lea. Standing on this side our controversies
at home eontrasted with those which harrass
and menace every great nation in Europe
seem to me but the natural effervesoenoe of a
prosperous democratic people"
Bishop Gilmour of the Roman Catholic
church is involved in womans war at Cleve-
land, Ohio. He pronounces excommunica-
ton against every Catholic woman within his
diocese who shall hereafter attend any meet
ing of the ladies' Land League and every
woman who shall join such league, on the
plea that it is his duty to see that 'female
modesty must be maintained, cost what il
may" Miss Mary Rowland, the president OF
the assailed league, answers the bishops bull
of accommodation with much spirit and
warmth. She not only refuses to obey but
denies the authority of the bishop, under the
canons of the church, to eTcommuncate her
and her associates, and the meetings of the
league go on as usual.
The last of three important contested cleo
ton cases was settled by the House of Rep
resentatiyes last Saturday, when William M.
Lowe was given his seat as representative
from the eighth Alabama district. Bisbee of
Florida was given his seat on Thursday, and
Mackey of South Carolina on Wednesday, as
noted last week.
Out of $50 cases of smallpox in the tow1
of South Bethlehem, Pa, there were 119
deaths. The last patient has now been dis
charged and the trouble is ended In all the
places where the seourge has prevailed dur
ing the past season it has nowhere done more
deadly work.
The labor strikes in the Pennsylvania iroI
region continue unchanged. In all not lesl
than 140, 900 iron workers are idle. Trouble
having been feared at Hewburg, Ohio the ait
of the military was invoked, without, how
ever, having to be utilized. The demands OF
the New York boiler makers having been &C
ceded to, they have returned to work
The President has sent to the Senate thu
following list of nominations for the Tariff
Commission; William A. Wheeler OF New
York (chairman); John l.. Hayes of Massa
chusetts Henry W. Oliver, Jr., of Pennsyl
vania Austin NJ. Garland of Illinois; Jaoot
A. Amber of Ohio John s. Phelps Of Mis-
souri, Robert p. Porter of the District O
Columbia; John W. II. Underwood of Geor
gia; Duncan r. Kenner of Louisiana.