Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-09
LATER. ANOTHER STORM AND MORE DAMAG
PROM FLOODS.
NlINOn NOTEs.

The New York legislature has passed the
bill prohibiting further sales Of the state
lands in the Adirondack region. Gov. Cleye-
land is a firm friend of the forests.
The Louisville Courier-Journ is much
disturbed because II soldiers and Il lieuten-
ant, armed to the teeth, guard the tomb of
President Garfield at cost Of S2Sl a month
to the country.
Bradford Mead, of Union, Franklin coun-
ty, Mo, has Just received back pension mon
ey amounting to 50, OG3, said to be the largest
pension yet paid. He was made totally blind
by wounds received in the war.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania has
Just rendered a decision that debt incurred
IN speculative operations in stocks cannot be
collected by the creditor, as it comes under
the meaning of the statutes prohibiting gam
bling, and is beyond the interference of the
law for its payment.
The marquis of Lorne has poulticed the
bruised hearts of Ottawas courters by an
official announcement that Princess Louise
was exceedingly DESTROYS" of returning to
Canada, but was ordered to Bermuda by her
dread sovereign and mother on the advice of
the royal physician.
The reduction of the public debt of the
United States in the month of January
amounted 10 u lllllo luOIc kLhl 10, bbN, blO,
making the reduction for the first seven
months of the current fiscal year sos 900,
600, or an average monthly reduction of Sl3
jOO,O
There is a loud call from all directions for
Gov. Butler to announce when tho perform
ance is going to begin. The governor jump
ed into the arena with the usual exclamation,
Here we are again. and Immediately retired
to the dressing tent, and the people are
watching the door anxiously, expecting him
to appear in his great bareback reform act
Springfield Union.
On Tuesday evening the New York Union
League club celebrated the twentieth ami
versary of its existence by a reception in its
beautiful house at Thirty ninth-st. and Fifth
ave. The occasion drew together brilliant
assembly of wellknown people. Appropriate
addresses were made by ex.Secretary Eyarts
Mr. Luther Il. Marsh, the Hon. John Jay and
Mr.. William E. Dodge, jr. Mr.. Richard
Henry Stoddard read poem on "The Saw.
tours of the State"
The New York State medical society, by g
vote of lOj to %, has approved the new code
of ethics by which allopathic physicians are
allowed to consult with any legally qualified
practitioner. So far as its practical effect
goes, however, the vote will cause little
change in the professional habits of physi-
clans
Rev. Francis Hornbrooke of Newton, Mass.
has declined the call lately given him by Al
Souls church (the late Rev. DR.. Bellows
parish) New York city,
The car of Russia SAYS in his manifesto
giving notice of his coronation 1--WE deter
mined in our heart not to perform this sacred
rite until the feeling excited by the crime to
which the benefactor of the people fell vic
tim had time to calm" The Russian police
claim that they have destroyed nihilism. The
czar walks the streets of St. Petersburg with
out an armed escort.
Miss Alice Stauwood Blaine eldest daugh,
ter Of James G. Blaine, was married to Col
John J. Coppinger Of the regular army al
Washington on Tuesday The wedding tool
place at Mr. Blaine's residence and was very
elegant affair. The groom being a Roman
Catholic, the ceremony was performed by
Father Chappelle. Col. Coppinger, who il
much the senior of Miss Blaine, was at one
time an officer in the Papal army, and served
with distinction in the Union army during the