Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31
MINOR NOTES.

The Rutland Herald counts two echl>,,
Of the sun and two of the moon in its li-t
of holidays in 1851 We shall bee glad if
we get one day off out of the four
McGettrick Of St Albans. who couldn't
be postmaster at st Adams. because the
Senate wouldn't confirm him. bol- mp Sc
renely with an appointment As special agent
Of the treasury department.
Gen. A. P Martin < Co, the Boston firm
Of boot and shoe dealers and manufacturers
who were failed by the labor troubles. viii
be able to pay 40 cents on dollar.
An item warning the public against two
precious scamps who have been travelling
about the country getting up a pretended
classified directory to be printed in the
local papers, collecting the money in advance
and then skipping out before making the
publication. Is followed by the announce
ment that they are under arrest in Rutland
and likely to spend the rest Of the cold
winter in the workhouse.
President Cleveland and wife spent Christ
mas at their own cottage, Oak View. The
President is still seriously crippled by rheu-
matism.
Hon. Frederick Billings has been improv-
ing his grounds at Woodstock and remodel
ing his house the past season. He now ha,
five miles Of fine graveled road in his own
domain. making most delightful drive
and, what Is better, he allows it, free use
by the public
According 10 the estimate of the United
States treasury department. the population
Of the United States on the Both Of June.
/ 1896 was y. APO, 900 In 1850 our popula-
ton was 80. lj5. 1s3-showing an increase
of over eight millions and a quarter in six
/ years. If the estimate is correct our in
crease in the past six years is equal to the
/ combined population Of Greece, Denmark
Switzerland and Servia.
The poet Whittier passed his 18th birth
/ day at the home Of his relatives. the Misses
johnson. at Oak Knoll. Danvers. Mass He
received many callers and a large number
Of congratulatory letters, the most welcome
of the latter being that Of his neighbor
Mrs. +. NJ. Putnam. who recently arrived
at the age Of lO2. The poet is in excellent
health and spirits He spends most Of hi,
time indoors, and has only been TO Boston
once in the past year, as he SAYS there j.,
little pleasure in visiting the city unless one
can 90 out 10 the evening entertainments.
One of the heroic acts in humble life was
that Of Mrs. Elizabeth Gist of Westminster.
Ind A little son was pouring kerosene on
fire when the can exploded and set his
clothes on fire The mother caught him up.
took him out and rolled him in the snow.
came back and did the same for a Younger
child, then for herself, as her own clothe,
We're ablaze; then she drew water from the
well and put out the fire in the house. AZ
ter this she walked nearly half a mile L.
the nearest neighbor's house to send for a
doctor, Her own burns are likely 10 prove
fatal, but the children were saved
As to the progress Of civil service re-
form, the New York World remarks that
the numerous removals without cause the
appointments obviously made for partisan
er purely personal motives and the shifting
and inconsistent action Of the President
of his action and brought undeserved con
tempt upon the cause of reform
Celebrating Christmas upon English meth
DDS was attended with difficulty in some
cases in New York. One family decorated
a gas stove with holly and called it a hearth
stone. Another family tried to get up a
Christmas carol in the old style. out of
doors, but the police arrested all the sing
ers and the head Of the family had 10 bal
his Christmas waits out of jail.
There is trouble and threatened spill
among the Knights of Labor and it is said
that the leaders of the opponents Of Mr.
Powderly have sent out circulars suggest
ing the formation Of a new order.
The annual winter carnival at Montrea
will begin Feb : and continue through III,
week.