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

The New York Evening Post expresses the
opinion that Mr.. Sargent will make credit
able foreign minister.
A letter from Mrs. Scoville, addressed to
the United States Senate, is printed, protest
ing against the nomination of Conkliug.
Aaron A. Sargent of Nevada City, Califor-
MIA, the newly appointed United States min
lister at Berlin, was born at Newburyport,
Mass, in 1927. He was a printer and editor
in early life and emigrated to California in
1919. He has served three terms as Member
of Congress and one term in the U. S. Sen
ate.
The New York Star (Tammany DEM calls
the attention of the New York Herald to the
fact that Mr. Grace, whom it so cordially in
dorses as Mayor, is the same W. r. Grace
who, as Receiver of the Continental Life In
surance Company for four months, took $47,-
4O484 for his services during that period,
most of tie work being done by clerk who
was paid $1,000.
Eight persons have been Indicted for con-
tributing by negligence to the Ring theatre
disaster at Vienna Among the accused are
Newal, ex-burgomaster of Vienna; tanner,
manager of the Ring theatre, and Landstei-
ner, chief of the commissary of police.
In refusing to commute tue sentence of a
st. Louis murderer, the governor of Missouri
says; II have not one particle of sympathy
for the murderers of women, who, after the
cowardly deed, shrink behind the towards
plea of insanity and plead for mercy. They
should remember that the law was not made
for mercy, but punishment and that, having
had no mercy toward their victims, they have
no right to ask such from the executors of
the law"
The poet Longfellow was IS years old on
Monday. His birthday was celebrated by
several American cities, but not by the poets
family, as the present condition of his health
does not permit any excitement or unnecessa-
ry exertion on his part.
The widow of Daniel Webster died at New
Rochelle, N. Y, Sunday night She was
Mr.. Webster's second wife, his first, Grace
Fletcher Webster, having died in January,
1928.
1t is announced that Senator Bayard will
deliver the address at Dartmouth college next
June at the Daniel Webster centenary
The committee of the national House OF
Representatives to audit the expenses OF
President Garfeld's sickness and burial rec
ommends the following compensation; Drs.
Agnew and Hamilton, $4,000 EACH DIR,
| Bliss, $40, 600; Drs. Reyburn and Boynton,
5000 each Mrs Edison, $4,000; Mr.. Jen.
nings of Boston, for cooling apparatus, So.
OOO and Mr.. Crump, the nurse, $4,000
Drs. Woodward an6 Barnes, being in the
army, have no compensation, but are to be
retired on promoted rank and pay.
! Soon after the funeral of President Gar
| field, his family and friends intrusted to Mr.
| St. Gaudens, the sculptor of Fanagutl
statue, the work of having cast in bronze the
face and left hand of the martyred President
The plaster cast used for the work is the only
one in existence The face casting weight
seven and half pounds and the left hanC
two and half pounds. After the operation
was completed the mold was broken, as thu
work wes done for the family. The cast o
the face represents Gen. Garfelds features
exactly as they were after death, showing
traces of his sufferings. During the making
of the mold and the taking of the cast, pre-
cautions were adopted 80 that no copie
should be taken.