Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-10-19
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II any one wishes to procure an unfater-
ing Democratic "organ" he cannot do better
than to send for a copy of the Greenvle
Is. o. News. That paper recently said of
Ben Butler that he "is type of all that is
mean, false, brutal and despicable in man, "
and that there is not a criminal in any pen
itentiary in the country who does not deserve
public confidence and esteem better than But
Ter" And yet it added ''If by any streak
of insanity Democratic convention should
nominate him for President we would sup
port him because this paper is Democratic
and will always be loyal to its party
In his speech in fremont Hall, Boston, last
week, Butler said "a man who has got to
my time of life, and who has welded as much
power as | have in my life, whose name, for
better or worse, will be remembered in histo.
ry and traditions long after some of the Pres
idents of the United States should have been
dead and buried and forgotten, and the worms
have eaten them, what shall l care about it
Che presidency l am ambitious l admit
it freely. | am very ambitious to 20 to my
Maker with the record that have done the
best could for my state my country and
my kind, and that what did was as equally
done for the poor and the lowly as for any
body else"
Postage reduction is catching, and Canada
will probably come down to two cents this
next session Of Parliament. The postoffice
has a large surplus
Judge Foraker, the defeated Republican
candidate for governor Of Ohio had a super
sttious dread of the 9th day Of October. On
this day, when a child, he fell from a walnut
tree and broke his shoulder. blade on the
9th of October, while in the army he fell of
horse and had to go to the hospital for
month, and on the 9th of October 1876. he
l., 4 u. I
the course of his life ever since
Meriden Conn. gossip says that "Adiron-
dack" Murray failed to fulfil his lecture en-
gagement there because he didn't want to run
the risk of meeting his wife or her wealthy
relatives. Mrs. Murray is at her fathers in
Essex. She has Just returned from Europe
with diploma from the Vienna medical col
lege, both as physician aud surgeon, being
her friends say, the only woman in the coun-
try with the last. She will soon begin the
practice of her profession in New York.
In the Encouragement of army and military
affairs consequent upon the retirement of
Gen. Sherman on the first of November and
the assumption Of the command of the army
by Gen. Sheridan, it has been decided that
Gen. Hancock shall remain in command of
the Division of the Atlantic, with headquar-
tiers at New York that Gen. Schofeld shall
take command of the Division of the Nilsson
ri, with headquarters at Chicago and that
Gen. Pope shall succeed the last named in
command of the Pacific Division at San Fran
cisco Brigadier. General Augur will succeed
MajorG Pope in command of the Nilsson
ri department, with headquarters at Fort
Leavenworth. Brig. Gen. Il. S. Mackenzie
will succeed Gen. Augur in command of the
department of Texas. An order to this effect
has been issued by the Secretary of War.
Secretary Folger has issued call for if
teen millions more Of per cents.