St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-06-24
News Of the Week.
Washington Matters.

1t is expected that auditor of rail
road accounts French will soon be
depOsed, and that General Rusk of
Wisconsin will succeed him.
The office of custodian of the treas
ury has been abolished by Secretary
Window, and the chief clerk of the
treasury will hereafter direct the duties
Ofthe office.
The post Office department has saved
$50, 900 i'll the contracts for Irvine,
wrapping paper and marking stamps
over the prices of last year.
1t is now substantially announced
by Washington paper, i'll relation to
the star route prosecutions, that no
persons will be presented to the grand
Jury for Indictment until the record
evidence against them is of such Il
character as will beyond doubt insure
conviction, and that persons are not
to be permitted to he indicted upon
eX-parte aifidavits before grand .juries,
nor are some members of the ring to
be indicted in the expectation that they
will turn states evidence and furnish
the prosecutors evidence to indict
others. 1t is claimed that the policy
Ol bllC HIS Dccn
changed by reason of the interference
of the President. In short, it is de-
clared that the President, while anX-
ious to see the ends of justice fulfilled,
is not willing that the powers of his
administration shall be used to COM
pass the ends of anything that is not
just, and will not consent to the pro-
programme of using the grand jury
as an indescriminate dragnet with
which to go fishing for states cvi-
dence.
Labor Troubles.
The ship laborers of Montreal are
on IA strike, and have just passed a
resolution declaring they would not
work for less than - cents per hour
day work, and 30 cents per hour for
night work.
The "back boys" in the Pepperell
have struck and are creating an I'M
easiness among the hands there.
Three hundred weavers in the River
side mill, in Olneyville, K. l., have
struck against Il proposed reduction in
wages.
The Dartmouth Matter.
The adjourned meeting of the college
Investigating committee convened at
Hanover on the 18th inst. The COM
mittee of the New York alumni were
present, and also Rev. Henry Fair
banks and Hiram Hitchcock. of the
board of trustees. The charges against
President Bartlett were read. In sub
stance they charge him with insOlent
and discOurteOus and dictatorial man
ner in his intercourse with students ::
that he has imperilled the influence of
the faculty with the students and en-
deavOred to bring certain of the former
into disgrace; that he has exerted his
influence to impair certain departments
of the college; that lie has used dis
graceful language to students and
graduated them as enemies and not
friends of the institution and that the
best interests of the college require his
resignation. The president gave an
emphatic denial to each charge. The
testimony brought out at the hearing
on Friday and Saturday has an ugly
look, particularly i'll the Hewitt matter,
and the presidents lawyers will have
hard work to break its force Half
dozen professors testified that they op-
posed the election of Hewitt, the presi-
dents candidate for the Greek chair,
and most of them named to him other
candidates whom they preferred. Two
trustees then testified that at the April
meeting of the board the president stat
ed that the professors whom he had
consulted, including all the older mem