Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-21
MINOR NOTES.

Gen. Guy V. Henry is to be relieved
from his duties as military governor at
Porto Rico on May 1, at his own request,
on account of his impaired health.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to give
S1,750,000 to cover the cost of the propos-
ed addition to the art, science and library
departments of the Carnegie library at Pitts
burg, Pa.
W. w. Rockhill, United States minister
to Greece, has resigned. Arthur Sher-
burne Hardy, the New Hampshire novel
ist, now United States minister to Persia,
has been named as his successor.
A report to the war department shows
that of the volunteers now in service who
have been offered opportunity to re-enlist,
with the offer of bonus in travel pay of
over $500, only about 7 per cent will ac-
cept.
The Chicago Chronicle claims that plans
are now being perfected for the consolida-
tion of the four combinations which now
control the whiskey business of the coun-
try. The combined capital will aggregate
$15O,OOO,OOO.
Roger Q. Mills, the Texas statesman
who was retired TO private life some time
ago, may become one of the plutocrats who
were so offensive to him in days agone.
Another oil we'll has been struck on his
Corisicana farm, and his present income
is several hundred dollars a day.
In the superior court at Chicago on
Saturday Judge Brentano declared the
antiscalping law, enacted by the Illinois
legislature in 1895, unconstitutional, as it
sought to deprive citizens of means Of
livelihood on account of illegal acts of
some of the persons in the ticket broker
age business.
Clarence Eddy, the noted American
musician who has received the appoint
ment as the official American organist at
the Paris exposition, is native of Green
field, Mass. He was at one time organist
at Bethany Congregational church at
Montpelier, going from there TO Germany.
The people at Brandon are greatly
alarmed over the prospect of an invasion
Of the forest caterpillar the coming season.
A large maple tree cut down near the resi-
dence of ex-Gov. Ormsbee few days ago
was loaded with eggs. Half the twigs were
surrounded with bands of eggs, each band
containing four dozen eggs.
Frederick F. Thompson, who died in
New York recently, gave Williams college
three as fine buildings for scientific study
as can be found in this country-the phys
ical, biological and chemical laboratories.
He.had also remembered the college with
other gifts, the total value of his benefac-
tions between 1882 and 1889 being $685.
900
The testimony before the Mazet investi-
CATION committee at New York Monday
showed that Tammany officials share in
the spoils of crime. Simon Buttner, a
protected dive keeper, told of the demand
of police captain of share in any rob-
berry committed in the dive. For year
Buttper paid 500 month for police pro-
lection. Then he was told that it would
be 800 month and "half of anything that
comes off,"
Eli Thayer, who died at Worcester,
Mass, Saturday, was the originator of the
Kansas crusade. Mr.. Thayer was born in
Mendop, Mass, in 1919 and graduated
from Brown University in 1915. While a
member of the Massachusetts legislature
in 1854 he introduced bill to charter the
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Colony. His
plan was to send ant-savery settlers into
Kansas, and the towns of Lawrence, Tope-
ka, Manhattan and Ossawatomie were
settled under the auspices of this company
By this means he hoped to save Kansas
from becoming a slave state. In 1856 ht
established Ceredo, Virginia, and spent
s11s,000 in developing it, During the
civil war the soldiers took everything NOV
, able in this town to pawn at other places
r Mr.. Thayer was elected to Congress in
. 1856, serving two terms.