Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-09
MINOR NOTES.

An eight-pound girl baby was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland at their
home in New York city last Saturday.
The conservation of Rev. Dr. Phillips
Brooks as bishop of the diocese of Massa-
chusetts takes place in Trinity church,
Boston, next Wednesday.
1t is said that Gov. Campbell of Ohio
makes himself solid with the rural Democ-
racy of Ohio by pulling off his coat when
addressing them on hot days and going on
with his speech in his shirt sleeves.
The latest blow for the New York Democ-
! racy is the announcement that Chauncey
! WeatherwaX, chairman of the Niagara
county Democratic committee, repudiates
the New York chieftains, and will throw
his vote and influence for Mr. Fassctt.
4 meeting of the Republican national
committee has been called to oe held in
Washington November 23l, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr..
Quay as chairman, and to fix the time and
place of holding next years national Re
publican convention
Under an arrangement recently made
clubbing rates have been arranged with the
Weekly Burlington Free Press at 30 cents
year in addition to the subscription price
of The Phoenix. The Free Press gives a
very complete state news service. and will
be found an excellent paper for all Yer
monters to have during the coming year.
Jay Gould's health is undoubtedly in a
precarious state. He broke down complete
ly under excitement at a meeting of the
Missouri Pacific directors last week, and
has since remained at his country home.
The reports of the meeting say that he fell
into a state which was almost hysterical.
He and his sons have recently suffered large
losses in some of their railroad deals. and
this has no doubt worried Mr.. Gould
greatly.
food and health exposition, the first of
its kind ever held in New England, opened
in the Mechanics Fair building, Boston.
on Monday. All kinds of food and health
appliances are exhibited. The retail gro
GERS association has brought about this
movement, the object of which is to unite
the manufacturers of food products and the
wholesale and retail sellers, so as to give
the consumers better insight into what
is being done for them.
The Boston Journal appeared Oct in
its promised eight-page form. The policy
of the new management is to make the
Journal more than ever a general newspa-
per, covering the New England field COM
pletely in this respect, while retaining the
general character which has given the
journal its peculiar strength with large
clientage. A mistake was made in not re-
tanning the longtime familiar heading, but
the changes are in line with modern news
paper improvement on the whole.
An evidence of the groundless character
of the recent war scares in Europe is
afforded by the noteworthy fact that En-
perOr William has just rescinded the
stringent passport regulations hitherto in
! force on the Franco-German frontier.
Hitherto no one has been permitted to
cross the boundary line from France into
Germany unless provided with passport
vised by the Imperial Embassy at Paris.
This naturally entailed much bad feeling
in France toward Germany, and the repeal
of the obnoxious regulation is an important
and timely step toward a better and more
! friendly understanding between the two
/ countries.