The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-10-31

Comuais.lon. presented 10 the senate, makes
volume Of 200 pages and fAyors the payment Of
the debt In gold or silver.
Colonel Polk, the newly appointed dOoFkeeper
Of the House, has had over 1000 Applications
for positions under him.
Ths hin introduced BY senator Edmunds, 10
prevent abuses in the sale Of postage stamps
aud stamped envelopes, provides that no post
master or deputy postmaster, or other person
intrusted BY the United States, the post-oinoe
DEPARTMENT or the postmaster general with
postage stamps or stamped envelopes, shall sell
or dispose Of the same otherwise than IN the
egular course OF oficial business, at their face
value. and for caah on delivery. " also pro
yides that any postmaster or other person who
shall violate the provisions of the preceding
section shall be deemed guilty of embezzle-
ment, and shall, on conviction thereof, be
punished by fine not exceeding u, 600, or by
IMPRISONMENT not exceeding one year, or both
said punishments, in the discretion OF the
court In conclusion, the bill requires the
following affidavit 10 be subscribed and at
tached by postmasters and deputy postmasters
10 each Of their regular quarterly returns II
do s0emnly swear (or AFFIRM that nave
not, since making my last quarterly return,
disposed Of any OF the postage-stamps or
stamped envelopes in my charge for sale, other-
wise than in pursuance of law.
P.B. S. Pinchback has written letter to
senator Grover. chairman of the committee ON
privileges and elections, renewing his claim to
a seat in the United States Senate from
Louisiana.
Accounts received at the national capital
from AL parts of the United States show that
the wheat crop this year is the largest that has
ever been produced in this country.
The United States commission sent out by
the government to find and treat with the
chief. Sitting Bull, met him at Fort Walsh,
and had a conference with unsatisfactory
results.
The managers of the Woodruff scientific
expedition have secured the services of several
naval officers 10 command the vessel in which
they intend to make voyage around the world.
General Sherman has returned to Washing
ton from four months visit to the Indian
country, and will prepare report on the Indian
policy.
The Pennsylvania delegation in Congress,
having been invited to suggest name for the
English mission, presente that of Hon. Simon
Cameron.
Foreign News.
No more danger is apprehended from the
cholera in Japan, and rebellion there has
! been subdued.
Siam refuses to pay further tribute to China,
and war between them is amongthe possibili-
ties
A British vessel picked up tho Egyptian
obelisk, which had been abandoned by the
steamer Olga during gale, and towed it into
the Spanish port of FerrOl
A Spanish force in Cuba surprised a body OF
| thirty insurgents, killing fifteen, among whom
were Machido, president of the Cuban cham
ber5, and Larrua, the Cuban secretary of war.
A fire broke out in q woodshed in Portland
a suburb of st. John, N B., and spread with
great rapidity, leveling everything in its path
on the surrounding streets. Two hundred and
thirty wooden houses we're destroyed and over
| two thousand people were burned out, of whom
seven hundred we're sufferers by the great fire
| in June last. Several dead bodies were found
among the ruins, and distress and suffering
| prevailed to a great extent.
! A new cattle disease has broken out in
Russia and thousands of animals have died.
Kars in Asia Minor has been completely
Invested by the Russians
An explosion Of coal gas took place in a
! colliery at High Blantyre, Scotland, and over
| two hundred miners were shut off from com
muncation with the upper world. large
number of bodies were recovered in fearfully
mangled condition, and il was thought that
! few of the unfortunate men would escape alive
as il would take over week to dig then
! out even if they had not been instantaneous,
/ suffocatgd.