The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-21

lost in the United States service, you
cannot now. The time for making such
applications expired January 5, 1884.
N. L. p, BURLINGToN.-T regular
price for certificates of county clerk,
attached to pension affidavits, showing
the official character of the magistrate,
is twenty-five cents in Vermont and
fifty cents in New Hampshire.
G. s., CHELsEA.--If you wish for
situation in the pension Office as clerk,
address letter of inquiry to the secre-
tary of the interior for the information
you ask. There are over fifteen hun
dred clerks employed in the pension
office.
REV. l.. G. G.. SOUTH PARsoNsFIELD,
MAINE.-The rate of SS a month pension
for partial deafness was fixed by deci-
sion of the secretary of the interior, April
3, 1884. If you are only receiving SO
month, you should apply for an in
crease of pension.
G. H., WEST RANDoLPH.-You are
entitled to one hundred sixty acres of
government land. You can select the
land by an agent, as stated in the cir
cular you enclosed; but if you should
fail to go upon the land in person by
the end of six months you would lose
the land, and could not again locate it.
G. H., WATERBURY.-Your personal
appearance at the pension Office would
not, probably, advance your claim. If
you 60 there, however, you had better
obtain letter from a member of con-
gress to the commissioner of pensions,
and then do your business with the
commissioner himself. The railroad
fare from Montpelier to Washington
is S14.50.
J. D., BERLIN.-You are mistaken.
The papers you sent me did not come
from the pension office. They are from a
Washington claim agent who is looking
for job Senator Morrill, in answer
ing constituent who asked him whom
to employ to prosecute a pension claim,
said: You must apply to some compe-
tent home agent, as l have heretofore
advised you. do not have any faith
in any agent whatever employed here
at Washington"
ANSWERS to several correspondents
are necessarily deferred until next
week.
Stray Shots.
THE house has passed the pension
bill which appropriated $59, 900 OF
S24 900, 900 less than the estimates.
A BILL was introduced in the senate
last week, granting arrears on all APP
plications for pension filed in the pen
sion office since July LIST, 1880, the same
as on those filed prior to that date.
MAJOR c. G. KINsMAN, department
commander of the Vermont Grand
Army of the Republic, has issued ar
order changing the date of the depart
ment encampment to February 4tf
and 9Th.
THE father-in-law of the commits
sioner of pensions, who is over eighty
years of age, and has been totally deaf
recently fell, striking heavily upon hi:
head. When he recovered from the
shock of the fall his hearing was fully
restored.
Mr.. VANDERBILT has discounted
his claim against General Grant tC
$4,000 If he will allow them to dc
so, the generals friends will raise thi,
sum, which will relieve him from his
financial embarrassments and provide
him something upon which to live.
JAMES p. CURRAN, Esq, the specia
examiner of the pension office; who has
been investigating doubtful pension
claims in Washington and Orange coun
ties ever since last May, says he has
not yet found crooked case in Yer
mont. This is compliment to the
honesty of Vermont's old soldiers, one
would think, to hear him recount thu
crooked cases he has found in othel
states.