The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-07-05
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

DUNES To-
The postmaster general has appointed
George w. Kelley postmaster at Bancroft,
Me- Mrs Margaret M. Newton at Jackman.
town, Me- Mrs Annie h. Farnsworth ut
South BsddinEton, Me. Mrs. Alice White at
Brooksyille. VT, and William Bishop at
Taftsvillo, VT
1t Ia now pretty generally considered that
number of the Iron mills at Pittsburg will
close down July /. The manufacturers say
that the mills will close unless the iron work
6rs agree to accept reduction, and 1t can be
stated, on good authority, that the iron
workers will not accept
Secretary Fairchild left Washington for a
short visit to Boston. He will attend the
graduating exercises at Harvard University,
and win afterward spend few days at Bev-
erly, Mass, as the guest Of c. G. jackson.
The steamer Noordlsnd, under the COM
mand of Captain Nickels, sailed from Ant
werp for New York June 5. The agents thore
do not feel at all alarmsd about her, and say
that IL the collision had been serious one
the Antwerp oiilc, would have cabled them
immediately.
The president will attenl the exercises OF
the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
He will be accompanied by Secretaries Bay
ard and Villas
The small pleasure steam yacht Enid was
run down near Newburg, N. Y, on Wednes-
day by the steamer James w. Baldwin, and
Miss Annie Miller and Mrs. BENZ amin b.
ODell, Jr,, both well known in society cir
cles, were drowned.
Sloop yacht Amaranth, with party Of
four young men aboard from New York, ran
on ledge near Naushon Wednesday morn
ing and stove a hole in her cardboard. The
splintered plank was patched up and the
yacht set sail for Boston.
4. Al
at Syracuse, N. Y, by the prohibition con-
vention; Governor, w. Martin Jones Of
Rochester; Lieutenant governor, George b,
Powell of Columbia county; judge Of the
court of appeals, Charles w. Stevens Of Hor-
nellsviile
Arrangements have been making very quiz
city for some time by the republican ubs
throughout the country to send delega tions
to meet James G. B aine on hi, arrival at
July, AID it is expected that he will meet
with such reception as 10 other American
ever experienced on his return to his native
land A fleet of steamers will go down tho
bay to meet him and escort him to land.
bill of complaint has been filed at
Pittsburg ty John c. Henry and s. B.
Kennedy against Gen. Supt. Holbrook and
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad COM
pany, to recover SIS, 900 each for damages
and for their discharge from the employ
of the company.
The secretary Of state has officially called
the attention of the British minister at
Washington to the case of the American
ship Bridgewater, unlawfully seized in
Canada. The owners of the Bridgewater
want compensation, as the gross illegality
of the seizure and detention were admitted
by the government of the Dominion.
Lawyer Guerin, who is the counsel of
Pitcher, the Providence absconder, stated
that the $l3, 900 found on him was his own
property, and that if any Of the bank Off
cha S swear that it belongs to the institutions
they will be arrested for perjury.
In view of the determination Of the United
States authorities to carry out the pro-
gramme of 1856 81 in Behring sea, the Do
minion government has sent an order to its
agent in Scotland to purchase steel steam
cutter, which will be at once armed and dis
patched to the Pacific coast, to cooperate
with the feet in protecting British vessels
from seizure Admiral Heneage says he is
determined to protect British vessels at all
hazards, and will shortly commence cruise.
There is no truth in the current report
that Atty-Gen. Garland is about to retire
from the cabinet on account OF his i'll health,
The ATTORNEY, general proposes to remain at
the head of the department of justice until
the 4th of next March. Then he will prob,
ably retire from public life. Just now he is
at Hiney Point on the lower Potomac where
he went to escape the heat last week. The
latter part of July or the first Of August no
will mako his annual visit to Hominy Hill,
from which he will return to his duties here
as soon as the weather gets cool, to remain
until the end of his term.