Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-10
MINOR NOTES.

Joaquin Millers daughter has become n
Roman Catholic
Senator Anthony of Rhode Island contin-
ues to improve and is almost as well as ever.
Millionaire Floods new house in San Fran
cisco will cost about 81, 900, 600
There are three negroes in the Georgia
House Of Representatives. ID. Il. Proctor, a
white man, was unseated recently by vote
Of the House and Anthony Wilson, coored,
seated in his place.
Ex-senator Blanche X. Bruce, register OF
the treasury, will 60 to Ohio early in Septem-
Der, and, beginning with the 10th, he will
make % speeches in that state for the Re.
publican cause before election.
Rev. Dr. Gilbert L. Do la Matyr, of Iudi-
ana, recently a greenback Congressman, is
back in the ministry and will preach in Den
yer.
The recent tragic death of Captain Mat.
thew Webb will lend a melancholy interest to
an article on Sea Bathing and Floating"
from his pen, which appears in the current
number of Harper's Young People. 1t is a
pleasant and readable paper, full of useful
hints to the young bather. Curious to say,
one of the lessons which the Inflated swim.
mer endeavors to impress upon the readers
of his article is the difference between
pluck" and 'foolhsrdiness.
The Presidential party travelling westward
to the Yellowstone park reached Omaha last
Saturday morning and Cheyenne on the I'm.
ion Pacific railroad Saturday night At the
latter place the train stopped awhile and the
President and Secretary Lincoln and Senator
Vest made few remarks to the multitude.
At Green River the train halted for Sunday,
after which the party were to travel by teams
the remainder of the trip.
An interesting result of the civil.service
examinations for department perkships at
Washington is that many of the highest can
didates are colored men.
Reconstruction reconstructs when it is Civ
en- a fair chance. The Vicksburg Herald
says 1T is no use for Vicksburg to try to
deny it, one of the best aldermen here is q
negro He has done more than any other
man TO have the streets permanently i'm
proved, and he is in favor Of the very best
common schools"
The Columbus (Gs.) Enquirer calls atten-
tion to the marvellous growth of the South
Thirty years ago, in the heydey of the slav-
cry regime, the total value OF Southern crops
of cotton, tobacco, rice hay, hemp and sugar
cane was $l3s, COS, 73s. The census report
of 1880 shows that Southern agricultural
products were that year valued at $3.50, OOO,-
600. Furthermore, the South is becoming a
rival of the North in cotton and other manu-
features.
At Methodist preachers meeting held at
Barre last Monday, Presiding Elder Spencer
read paper opposing any change of the
present rule Of three years limitation, and
the meeting voted unanimously in favor of
such position. This action is significant as
representing the Vermont Methodist senti-
ment on this topic.
The new revenue law abolished the stamp
duty of cent on every box of matches and
at once great reduction in the price of their
goods was made by the manufacturers. What
sold in June for two dollars per gross-this
being the common birthstone match, which
is most commonly used-now sells for but
eighty-hye cents per gross The net tax on
agross amounted to about one dollar and thir-
ty cents, so that the new schedu 10 of rates
which is made for the retail dealers comedies
nearly the full amount of the reduction.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Su.
oan b. Anthony have been received with
marked attention by the leading suTragists
ST England. Receptions have been held in
their honor, and meetings organized for the
express purpose OF hearing these eloquent
speakers. A very influential meeting was
held at Princes Hall, Piooadily, az which
Mrs. Stanton gave an admirable address on
the religious and educational aspect of the
woman suffrage movement. Miss Anthony
followed With an address on the position of
women in America. u is forty three years
since Mrs. Stanton's FIRST visit to London.
On that memorable occasion this lady and
Lucretia Mott both delegates to the worlds
anti slavery convention, organized the first
woman suffrage convention ever held in
AmerieR,