Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-31
MINOR NOTES.

! EA-opeakef heed landed IN New Ork
Wednesday on his return from Europe.
a treaty of reciprocity has been negoti-
ated with the republic of San Domingo
Mr.. Cleveland told Boston Herald re-
porter on Monday that it is not true that
he has been asked to make speeches in
Ohio, and added that he has no intention
of taking part in the campaign in that
state.
Last week Nathaniel Holland of Barre.
| Mass, 0S years of age, took the leading
swath i'm his bayfield,, as he has been doing
every year since he was II years of age.
And the pace he set the other movers
made them fairly tired.
James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor
of the New York Herald, has been indict-
ed by the New York grand jury for pub
fishing an account of the recent executions
by electricity at Sing Sing prison, contrary
to the provisions Of the law.
The people of Johnstown. Pa. who suf-
ferred by the great food, are making ar
rangements to bring suit for damages
against the members of the South Fork
club on the ground that the clubs dam en-
closing the reservoir was notoriously weak
and insufficient.
Gen. and Mrs. w. G. Veazcy reached
Rutland a few days since and will remain
in town until they leave for Detroit Aug 1.
During their stay they are the guests of
Mrs. John L. Baxter. On the evening of
their arrival a little stranger came to the
next house, whose parents named him
Neazey Remission Marstin.
Collector Erharlt of the port of New
y Gork rendered his resignation to the Pres
ident on Wednesday. 1t was accepted and
J. 5. Fassett of Elmira was appointed in
his place. Strained relations. with more
or less friction, have existed for some time
between Mr.. Erhardt and the treasury de-
partment, growing out of the management
OF the collectors office.
The New York Mail ana Express will
lay the corner stone of a fine new building
at Broadway and Fulton street, August 10.
and has issued elegant cards of invitation
to the exercises. The Mail and Express
own in New York evening journalism, and
fills it admirably ami with steadily increas-
ing strength and completeness.
The census shows that the total number
of prisoners in county iails June /. 1890.
was 1898. The number reported in 1880
was II. 69l. an increase in 10 years of tiS47
or at the rate Of 53.95 per cent The in
crease in the total population was "a. SO per
cent. In 1850 the ratio of prisoners in
county iails to the population was 253 to
each million; in 1890 it was 3l2.
\ report comes from San Fran 'sco that
Lewis MUIR, leading shoe manufacturer
of that city, employing $50 hanls an | own
ing plant worth Sl5O,O0O. has closed his
factory there and will move his business to
Burlington, this state The cause for the
change is said to be the trouble which the
shoemakers' white labor league of Cali
fornia has caused to Mr.. Murr's business.
The reports at Victoria show that the
Canadian seal poachers took over $4,000
seals before Lord Salisbury agreed to order
seal catching stopped, except the 300
which this government insisted on allowing
the North American Commercial company
to catch for food for the natives of the
Aleutian islands and to cover the heavy ex-
pense of their Quitting for the season.
The Capadians were evidently posted to
get in early and take all the seals they
could find before the order was issued.
Mr.. William Henry Smith, the manager
of the associated press, has written an ar
ticle for the forthcoming August Century
on ''The press as news gatherer," in
which he describes the origin and growth
of that famous organization, the associated
press. The entire world is covered in its
wonderful system. Its leased wires, oper-
ated under its own direction, exceed TO-
600 miles in length, and it pays nearly two
millions of dollars year for service. "The
work of a single day is the title of one
chapter, and Mr.Smith also discusses "Pub-
lie criticism and "How shall the press be
reformed?n