Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-06-22
MINOR NOTES.

The Windsor journal celebrated its Tooth
anniversary last week, appearing with n cen
| tennial edition which gave a very interesting
history of journalism in Windsor county.
This is a curious rumor which comes from
Madrid that the young Queen of Spain, "hav-
ing ascertained the relations of the King with
a lady Of the royal circle, has taken her two
children and fled beyond the borders of the
realm, never to return. As yet there is small
outward basis for the rumor, and one news
paper at the Spanish capital has been sup
pressed for giving it publicity.
The Continental Guards of New Orleans
have been on a visit to Boston this week, and
their stay was made continuous festival by
the various military organizations of the city.
Mary Clemmer, who has been a press cor
respondent at Washington for twenty years,
and Mr.. Edmund Hudson, the Washington
correspondent of the Boston Herald, were
married Tuesday.
Neither Merrick nor Geo. Bliss will figure
as counsel in the remaining star-route trials.
John W. Garrett of Baltimore has pre-
| sented the horse Damascus TO King Humbert
of Italy. Damascus is said to be one of the
most perfectly formed horses of modern
times. w. w. Story, the poet,sculptor, saw
him two years ago. and spoke so admiringly
| of his beauty to King Humbert that the latter
asked Mr.. Story to write to Mr. Garrett and
ascertain his price for the animal. Mr.. Gar
| rett replied that Damascus was not for SALE
| but that he would be pleased to present the
horse to the King of Italy. Forty thousand
dollars was refused for Damascus a year ago.
He was sired by the thoroughbred Hamlet,
his dam being the Arabian mare Eneas He
was cent to Naples on the steamer Birmans,
which sailed from Baltimore on Thursday
The New York grand jury have made pre-
cal, ,,,,k, s,,-NN H.,
! place where repulsive and illegal abuses exist
and where outrages are committed which mo
penal institution would be permitted to per
| petrate upon convicts." 1t seems from the
| grand jury's presentment that the Jail is very
unclean that liquor is freely sold to the pris-
oners and that 1.-THE cardinal principle upon
which the Jail seems to be conducted is to
compel inmates to take board at the keepers
table at the rate of S15 per week"
To a Texan interviewer Gen. Mcclellan re-
Gently said he could not see any good reason
why Southern man should not have place
on the next Democratic presidential ticket,
and he instanced two gentlemen of Texas who
would look very well in the second place
Messrs. Reagan and Hancock Either, he
thought, would be acceptable to the great
| body of the Democratic party throughout the
| United States And for platform of genu-
| inc Democratic doctrine, without verbiage or
cant, he suggested this Tariff for revenue,
abolition of internal revenue except on whs-
key and tobacco, full and adequate proteo-
ton of American citizens in any part of the
world, economy in the public expenditures,
party service no qualification for office, main
tenance of the public faith, judicious appro-
priations for public improvements, and
| generous sustenance of our merchant marine"
Nordenskjold, the Swedish arctic explorer,
has Just sailed on an expedition the object of
which is to prove that Greenland is properly
named after all! and that the permanent ice
along the coast is only belt shutting in a
comparatively green and, in the southern part,
wooded country. The land journey will
start from the head of a ford Just below Dis
co island and the explorer hopes to complete
it and return to his steamer early in Septem-
Der. On his return he will try TO land on the
southeast coast to find traces OF the Morse
colonies which Eric the Red founded there
800 years ago, These were the audacious
| spirits who planted outlying settlements on
this country, and at theiT most prosperous
| period they numbered some 10000 people in
| Greenland