Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-15
NEWS FIR M WASHINGTON.
A DAYS DOlNGS AT THE CAPITAL.

DAYS DOlN0o Al IT'c OAr' 49,
The National Derense-Tbo President APP
points "a Board on Notifications Soc
rotary Endicott Goes on Tour of
Inspection-Other News.
WASHINGTON, May 13-The following
order has been issued by the President
Under provision of an act of Congress,
entitled IAN act making appropriations
for Notifications and other works of de-
Tense, and for the armament thereof for
the fiscal year ending June 30 1886, and
for other purposes" approved March 3,
1885, a Board to consist of the officers and
civilians hereinafter named il appointed
to examine and report at what ports, forti
fications or other delences are most ur-
gently required the character and kind of
defences best adapted for each, with ref
erenct to armament, and the utilization
of torpedoes, mines or other defensive APP
planes Hon. VIM. G.. Endicott, Secre-
tary of War, president of the board ;
Rrigader General $. N. Benet,
chef of ordnance; Brigadier Gen
e!al John Newton chief of en-
gineers Lieut.. Colonel Henry l.. Abbey
Abbott, corps of engineers Captain
Charles 5. smith, ordnance department !;
commander, VIM L. Sampson, u. 5. n !;
Commodore Cuspar f. Goodrich u. S. n /;
Mr.. Joseph Morgan, Jr., of Pennsylvania,
Mr.. Era,Ju5 Corning of New York"
The Director of the Mint Names the Rate
to be Paid for Mutilated silver Coins.
WAsHINGTON, May 12--The director of
the mint has issued the following circular
in regard to the purchase of mutilated sill
yer coins The superintendent of the
mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco and
New Orleans have been authorized TO pur-
chase mutiated and uncurrent United
States SILVER coin of standard fineness at
the rate of 9S cents per ounce Troy weight
when presented in sums of % and up
wards. Coins can be forwarded to those
mnts by registered mail or by express
Charges prepaid) aud the value will be
returned at the sellers risk and expense
by registered mail, check or draft Per
sons sending full weight United States
subsidiary silver coins would receive at
the rate authorized about rs cents per dol
lar of Their face value, but for mutilated
coins Il less amount proportional to their
deficiency in legal weight.
Plngues of Locusts Predicted.
WASHINGTON, May 12.-The Entomolo-
gist of the agricultural department says
the country will soon be visited 10y two
great brOods of locuSts of the seventeen
and thirteen years varieties. This will be
the first time in 22l Years That they have
appeared in conjunction. They will not
prove greatly destructive, and the injury
they viii nllict will probably bo confined
to fruit trees.
The comptroller of the currency to-day
eXlenied the corporal. existence to May
IL, 1905. of t e First National bank of
WoOdStock.,Nt.
The commissioner of the general land
office ha, selected VIM. Walker Of Odin,
H., as chief clerk of that office to succeed
Dempsey Smith.
The President this afternoon appointed
George l.. Spear collector of internal rev
enue for the district of Vermont.
Secretary Endicott left Washington for
Fort Leavcnworth. Kan, to-day to inspect
the military prison located there He was
accompanied by ms wife aud daughter
his private secretary and Adjutant-Gener.
al Drum and Col L. +. Barr. They will
not return until next week.
is said that the fugitive Captain How
gate vas recently seen at jacksonville
Fla, and narrowly escaped capture at that
place from officers who were on his track
He is now supposed to be somewhere in
the South, waiting until hi. pursuerS have
lost little of their Zeal and withdrawn
from the trail.
point United States minister TO Russia
qualified at the Stale department to-day
The comptroller of the currency has de
clured Il first dividend of l31s per cent il
favor OF the creditors of the First Nationa
hank a. 81 Alb1uS vi