Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-11-27
MINOR NOTES.

An efficient female clerk in the patent Office.
soldiers widow from Illinois, has been sum.
marily removed from Office. Her Offensive
psrtisanship" consisted in exposing photo.
graph of Gen. Logan on her desk.
Elizur Wright, abolitioni4t, free-thinker,
and the most notable insurance actuary in the
country, died at his home in Medford, Mass,
on Saturday afternoon, of paralysis, aged 81
years and nine months.
Canon Farrar prefaced his lecture at Chi
oago with this acknowledgment II am per-
fectly destitute of any powers Of oratory,
and have had absolutely no training in elo.
cution. The American press which Is mar
vel OF perfect frankness, has said that my
voice is monotonous, and that 1 do not know
what to do with my hands, and with equal
traDkness am constrained to admit that
what the press has said is So
1t is not saying much for even Justice in
Edgeheld, s. c., where 81 lynchers are un
der indictment for murder, that Senator But
Ter had no trouble in securing the admission
OF the whole party to bail at nominal amounts.
He obtained an adjournment also, simply for
the asking, and despatch says: at is now
doubtful whether the murder with which
they are charged will be avenged"
Father Dowd, for more than thirty years
the leading pastor Of the Montreal Irish Oath
Rlel quarrel is no affair of theirs that there
are constitutional ways of expressing disap
proval II mistake has been made, and that
1t would be the extreme of folly to Join the
foolish journalists and noisy politicians" now
engaged in agitation.
A Washington letter says that there is an
enormous increase of business at the Wash.
ington post Office, which now stands third In
the number Of letters handled, being exceed.
ed only by New York and Chicago, although
1t is the l4th city in order of population.
During the last fiscal year more than 25. OOO.-
600 letters were received, and the outgoing
mail, although not counted, is estimated to
have been much larger. The average recent
of letters was about 70, 600 day. The post.
office department receives the largest num-
Der, the pension Office second, aud the treas
ury third. The order prohibiting office seek.
ers calling at the White House has caused
an enormous increase in the Presidents mail,
and the number of local letters received by
him is very large.
The expected turn in the inflow and out.
flow OF silver has come even sooner than pre-
dicted by treasury officials The inflow is
already larger than the outflow. Officials
think thatthis state of affairs, taken in connec-
ton with the fact that there axe already about
seventy-fve million dollars of silver in the
treasury vaults, will open the eyes of Con.
gressmen to the silver nuisance.
After long and hard hght prohibition
was carried in Atlanta, Ga, Wednesday by
225 majority out of total vote of over 1000.
The negro vote was about evenly divided.
The circuit court at Cincinnati decided on
Wednesday that certificates of election must
be issued to the four Republican senatorial
candidates in Hamilton county at the late
election.
Gov. Hill has attempted TO assuaRe the
grief and heal the wounded ssnsibilities of
Sterling by appointing him port warden of
New York. Sterling could now be moder.
ately happy, were 1t not that the nomination
has to be acted upon by Republican state
senate and the chances Of his confirmation
are microscopic.
The best thing done by the New York Trib-
une this year was the collection of ''fresh
air fund" of over 500, 900, which suficed 10
give $3.50 poor children Of the city each
fortnights vacation in the country, and to
take 6O73 mothers and children to Coney
Island or Staten Island for a day.
The notorious John H. ("Hipple") Mitch
ell OF Oregon has been elected 10 the United
States Senate after a long contest. His cleo
ton is due to political trade with pledges
on his part to go with the Democrats on GER
tain issues.
PRESIDENT cleveland subscribes for a CODY
OF Grants Personal Memoirs" bound in
morocco Gov. Hoadly Of Ohio didn't want
one at all, because Gen. Grant was s'not a |
literary man !" Mr.. ConklinR raved at the |
canvasser who tried to sell the book to him.
G. W. Gable will publish this winter. in
book form, through Ohas Scribner's Sons
New York, his late essays on THE Silent |
South, with an essay on the convict lease
system included.