St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-06-03
News Of the Week.
Washington Matters.

News Of the Week.
Washington Matters.
The cost of the star route postal
service has been reduced S5,0OO,NO0.
Vigorous war is being made on the
Postmaster General and the Attorney
General by star route men, who claim
that the postal laws have been violated
for the purpose of prosecuting men
who are suspected of participation in
the star route frauds.
Clerk Adams of the house is charged
with gambling away $4,000 of the
public money, of which his office
handles considerable, us a large num-
Der of house employees are paid by the
clerk.
Postmaster General James has or
dered that hereafter all contractors for
postal routes must give the full de
tails of their liabilities, as heretofore
professional contractors have been able
to secure many routes by giving ire
spOnsible names as bOndsmcn.
The condition of Mrs. Garfield,
though better, prevented the Presi
dents attending the celebration at Get
tysburg battlefield.
Commander Cooper of the United
States ship Alliance has been ordered
to proceed with all possible despatch
in search of the missing Arctic steamer
Jeanette.
Ex-POstmaster Tyler of Baltimore,
who was convicted of improper prOpO-
sitiOns to his women clerks, wants to be
third auditor of the treasury.
Dartmouth OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in Pro-
| gress.
The College investigating committee
were at work all day Friday last, look
ing into the college troubles. Pro-
ceedings were private. The faculty
presented their side of the case. The
committee declined to listen to any
testimony bearing on matters of per-
sonal nature, confirming itself to that
only which related to the Presidents
policy of administration. The matter
was adjourned till June 3D., at Concord.
1t is limited that the faculty have not
made out a very strong case, and that
the President will be sustained.
Situation at Albany.
The first ballot in the joint cOnven-
ton on Tuesday at Albany, for sue
cessors to COnkling and Platt, gave
the former b votes and the latter %,
with 53 for Herman the Democratic
nominee, and scattering votes all the
way from one to twenty-five, for other
candidates. No choice, since 81 votes
were necessary. The Administration
men are getting welded together into a
compact party and rapidly increasing
i'll strength. In few days they will
be able to successfully resist an at
tempt to send an ally of Mr.. Conkling
to Washington. The Administration
men scattered their votes purpOsely,
but now they will begin to concentrate
upon their actual candidates. These
men, it is now believed, are William A.
Wheeler and Chauncey NJ. Depew.
In General.
At st. GATHERINGS, Ont, on the Goth
ult., a young girl named Sarah Potter
was waylaid by rufiians and outraged.
She died soon after.
A reporter of a Jersey City paper has
been instrumental in securing the ar
rest of man i'll New York who is sus-
pected of numbering young woman.
The grave of Col. Thomas Scott will
be watched for some time by men en-
ployed for that purpose.
Mrs. George Potter of Utica, n. Y,
has been relieved of Il toad five inches
long, which she swallowed some years
ago.
An earthquake gave La Sale, ILL.,,
quite Il shaking up the other night.
New Hampshire's net Indebtedness
to June |, 1881, is $:},H2,770. The
debt was reduced Sl&, 696 during the
year.
t Forty corner loaiing boys were az
rested in Jersey City the other evening
t and fined so each for insulting wo-
| men.
BY the burning of a barn in West
children lost their lives.
An infant child of Union, N. j., was
suffOcated by ii cat, which laid itseli
across the child's mouth while it was
, sleeping.
: George Muller is down with trichina
at HOboken, n. }. A piece of muscle
of his right arm was cut out and found
I swarming with the parasites.
5 Brantford, Ont, had Il $1,000 fire last
- |
ished in the flames.
b. Beaconsiield is to have a statue il
= London.
SkOwhegan, Me-, has had $45,0Ot
fire.
> One man has been killed and severa
9 injured in a railway collision in Colo
: RADIO.
:. Gov. Cornell of New York has signed
4 the bill to prohibit discrimination
= against any persons on account of race
l.. creed or color.
e Commodore Mutt, the famous dwarf
e is dead, aged 81, after a twO-months
e illness from Bright's disease. His rea
s name was George Washington MOrri
e son, and he was a native of Manchester
e n. H.
Il Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, it is said
= cannot recover. Her mind is much in
paired.
-Four men were killed and one NOR
q tally wounded in political row in Vir
Y ginia the other day.
n An open switch on the Pennsylvania
= road, near Trenton, on the Both ult.
threw a train off the track and kille'
several persons.
In a riot between two New YOrl
clubs on Sunday, about fifty person
were injured, including about dOzel
women.
y The British government is to pa.
Z <-5 nn0 ooI6 20 Indemnity tn American