St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-27
News of the Week.
Washington Matters.


Washington Matters.
President Arthur will stick to Grants
rule-that pOstmasters whose salaries
exceed $1,000 cannot be members of
legislatures.
The President declares himself in
favor of protective duties on sugar, and
does not think IA commission of experts
is necessary to make changes i'll the
tariff, since the Congress committees
are capable of doing such things.
The committee on appropriations
have agreed upon Il bill providing
1915 1000 for the reconstruction and re
newal of Notifications.
Senator Sherman's three per cent.
funding bill was the subject of consid-
cradle discussion in the Senate last
week, and narrowly escaped death. 1t
was earnestly opposed as unnecessary
and experimental.
The House committee on census has
about agreed upon the Sherwin APP
pOrtiOnment bill, which fixes the mem
bership of the House at 325 or 3I9.
RumOr has it that ex-Attorney Gen
eral Taft will get the Berlin portfolio.
There are 70,0O0,000 standard silver
dollars in the treasury, and S62 900, 900
i'll silver certificates outstanding.
The House has passed a bill reliev-
ing the bondsmen of TheOphilus =.
Chandler, former assistant treasurer
at Boston, from the payment of $780,
600 stolen by his cashier.
Congress has passed a bill retiring
Justice Hunt of the [. 5. Supreme
court, on il handsome annuity.
The Senate Committee on Pensions
has unanimously agreed to report a
bill granting to Mrs. Lincoln Sl5,OOO
i'll cash to be available Immediately,
and also providing that from on and
after the enactment of this bill her pen
sion shall be at the rate of $1,000 per
annum the remainder of her life in lieu
of her present annual pension of $1,000.
The cash payment of Sl5,OOO is to be
granted as relief and not as arrears of
pension.
Eulogies were pronounced in the
United States Senate Monday on the
late General Burnside.
In General.
Enoch Pratt, public spirited citizen
of Baltimore, offers to give To that city
a free public library costing over one
million of dollars, providing the city
will appropriate S50,OOO annually to
keep it i'll running order.
Rev. Enoch Pond, ID. d., for half Il
century a professor in the Bangor The
illogical Seminary, died on Saturday at
the age of 90 years.
Nathaniel Thayer, Esq, has given
to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear In
Urinary S25,OO0 toward the 800, 900
fund required to continue the efficiency
of the institution.
A member of the Dublin ladies' land
government for bad political behav-
iOr. Parnel's imprisonment has been
extended three months.
Canadian silver is becoming a nui-
sance ut Boston, and many business
firms refuse to accept it.
A prisoner in the Worcester (Mass.)
jail voluntarily confesses that two
years ago he murdered a companion at
Barnstable.
Cyrus w. Field is to erect, for the
New York Mail and Express, build
ing Is stories high on the old Wash
ington estate, facing the Battery. 1t
will cover about half an acre of ground
and will he built in the most approved
style of architecture, and will cost
nearly 81 100000.
The losses Occasioncd by the freshet
at Nashville are estimated at about
$70O,OOO.
Four men were severely injured by
n train being derailed at Phillips, Me,
Monday afternoon.
A Hudson River tug exploded Mon
day at Haverstraw, killing three men
and wOunding others.
Governor Cornell has sent Il special
message to the New York legisla
ture urging it to legislate to secure a
system of signaling on railroads in that
state which will prevent collisions.
New Haven, Conn, has several cases
of small pOX.
Chicago is still afflicted with the
small pOX, and the doctors are advising
everybody to be vaccinated. On the
18th, seven tramps, all broken out and
covered with the filthy disease, came
from other cities and walked into the
health office. Cases have become so
numerous as to give cause for great
alarm. The spread of the disease is
attributed largely to storekeepers, who,
having some member of their family
down with the disease, conceal the fact,
keeping their stores open, and expos
ing their customers to the contagion.
Health officers declare that not one
twentieth of the cases are reported, yet
both the pest houses are filed to over
flowing.