The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06
National CaDitaI.

The President has pardoned w. H. Goodell,
master of the schooner Gov. ROBBIE of Maine,
who was convicted of ill-treatment of his
crew, and sentenced to pay fine Of $500 and
to be imprisoned for four months.
Secretary Manning has definitely notified
the President that he will not go back to the
Treasury Department even if he re
gains, in measure, his, health. Mr..
Cleveland has accepted the resignation
and is now thinking over the succession.
He would like TO promote Assistant Score
tary Fairchild, but that gentleman is rather
Independent politically, and the stalwart
democrats say that the President will select
one Of their number. If Fairhd is put at
the head of the department, they will regard
it as q declaration that they are not wanted.
A bill has recently been introduced into the
Senate, provides that on the first of July next
the signal service bureau shall be abolished
and in its place shall be established a bureau
to be styled the weather bureau, to be under
the direction of the secretary of war
The House committee on foreign affairs
have agreed to report favorably Mr.. Bel
mont's Chinese indemnity bill which appro-
PIRATES Sl46, 900 to indemnify the Chinese for
losses incurred by the Rock Springs riots
Tie House has made favorable report on
the Morrow bill which places further restric-
lions upon the entrance of Chinese into the
United States.
Chan Yen Woon, Chinese minister to the
United States, has delivered his credentials
as minister plenipotentiary to the President.
The agricultural department is now sending
out large quantities of the e,gs of the silk
worm by mail to all parts of the country.
The only creative industry in Washington
worth mentioning is house building And
now the trades unions connected with it have
ordered a strike for eight hou s. work, to be-
gin shortly.
The action of the foreign affairs committee
in the house practically puts an end to any
hostile Chinese legislation this year.
The senate committee on education and la
Dor has reported favorably the joint resolu-
ton to provide that all per diem employees OF
the government shall be allowed Decoration
Day as holiday, and shall receive the same
pay as on other days.
The Presidents veto of the bill devoting
bodies Of certain paupers in the District OF
Columbia to anatomical purposes has been
sustained by the Senate.
| The house committee has agreed to report
favorably bill for public building at Do
ver. n. H., which has already passed the
senate. In the house it is proposed to GU,
down the amount from $780, 900 to SIS, 900.
Major Thomas T. Thurlow, of Massachu
sets, chief clerk of the photographic office,
| navy department, has resigned that Office tC
! go into private business.
| Frank Fowle of Brockton. Mass, Is YEAR
| of age, shot himself in the temple, whether
accidentally or not can never be determined
| Walter Mountain, an year old, who wa
| tried few days ago in Providence, r. l.
! for setting fire to valuable wood land, ha
been caught setting brush fire which burned
over 10 acres of land, consuming woo'
valued at over $1,000
| A great effort is making to have the Bos
ton Navy Yard reopened and work don
there Several delegations have been here Z
| urge it, but the prospects are rather dubious
1t is stated with much positiveness tina
Secretary Manning will not resume the dutie
| of his Office.
| A very slight clue is announced regardin
the disappearance of Frederick RusSel
Noursc. a gentleman answering in all par
ticulars tn Mr.. Nourse recently visited III
ruins Of Kcnilworth.
The exports from a portion OF northern
Germany to America during the first quartz
of 1856 amounted to Sll go, 600 against SS
200 during the sam period in lSS1.
The proposition TO restrict the work OF th
national geological survey is the subject c
| considerable comment
The president has withdrawn the nominn
ton of Mr.. Warren Green rs consul genera
to Japan.