Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-22

Mr.. Stead, editor OF the London Pail Mall
Gazette, who in November was sentenced to
three months imprisonment for his connec-
ton with the Eliza Armstrong abduction
case, was released from prison Monday. In
the evening he addressed a meeting of his
friends and sympathisers, and will take
fortnghts holiday before returning to his
desk.
1t is now asserted that the Secretary of the
Navy will accept the Dolphin without the pro-
posed litigation. 1t is a bitter alternative, but
now that the ship has stood the hurricane
test he wisely chooses to take it rather than
to be forced to do so by the decision of
court. But even this decision places the ad-
ministration in a very unenviable attitude
before the country. An attempt to make
political capital out OF the Republican policy
of letting contracts to the lowest bidder has
failed, but the Roach ship yard has been
crippled and put where it cannot contract for
the building of other ships.
petition by citizens of Canterbury has
been presented to the Connecticut legislature,
now in session at Hartford, praying that rep
aration be granted to Mrs. Prudence Philleo,
formerly Miss Prudence Crandall, for in jures
inflicted upon her in 1888 by citizens OF Can
terbury because of her persistence in teach
ing free school for negro girls. This re.
wives a memory of the early days of the anti
slavery movement, when Miss Crandall was
insulted and finally arrested and put in jail
by prominent citizens of Canterbury. Her
story became a celebrated one, and is told at
length in Henry Wilson's "Rise and Fall OF
the Slave Power" She is now living in ad.
vanced age and poverty.
Gen. Lew Wallace, in an interview with
Cincinnati reporter on Wednesday, spoke of
Halleck's envy OF Grant, and charged that
Haleck was willing Lee should take Washing
ton in order that Grant might be crushed and
Inundated
Miss Cleveland, the Presidents sister, is
said to have improved wonderfully in appear
ance lately by brushing her hair smoothly to
the crown Of her head and fastening it there
instead Of wearing it in the tangle of short
loose curls that she went to Washington with
Our treaty with England regulating the in
ternational fisheries has expired. 1t provided
that we might fish in British waters, and
their fish come in here free. With one loud
voice our fishermen cry for protection, by the
laying of tariff on British fish. For several
years neither American nor British fishermen
have more than made living and much want
has been felt, Secretary BayArd is free
trader, and believes in letting fish in free,
and has taken steps which are regarded by
the fishermen as inimicsl to their interests.
| DIR. Sunderland's church in Washington,
up to last March, was very poor and had diff
Guilty in meeting its expenses. Then Presi-
dent Cleveland began to go there and at a
recent meeting it was reported that the re-
/ ceipts from rents and contributions had so in
creased that an enlargement Of DR.. Sunder-
| lands salary was authorized and the choir
| put under pay. The church is now crowded
every Sunday.
There is reason to believe that Republican
| Senators have come to the conclusion to op-
pose only those nominations OF the President
which were unfit TO be made and where the
nominees have been connected with some in
famous transaction like the counting out
conspiracy In Maine and in the suppression
of suffrage in the South. II this is the poll.
cy which has been adopted, the Republican
Senators will be sustained by every Republi
can in the country, and cannot be opposed
by Democrats unless they take upon them
selves the responsibility Of defending cleo
ton frauds.
A letter from Smyrna, Fla, says: "Tht
trees look black. Every body feels that there
is going to be big hole made in the orange
growers pockets, though just how big no
body will undertake to say People have beer
out in boats picking up frozen fish it takes
only few minutes to gather buoketful."
Florida paper says that several people have
been made sick by eating frozen oranges since
the recent cold snap. The element of poison
contained in the peel, it is said, ia driven into
the orange by freezing
More than 5000 pounds of prepared opium
worth S45, 900, has been seized on Kaasal
bay, Alaska, awaiting a chance to be Snug
Rled to Portland, Or. and San Francisco
Collector Herbert Beecher at Portland, SOL
of Henry Ward Beecher, discovered tn
''swag, and makes $25, 900 in moieties Tn
smuggling has doubtless been going on 70
years