Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-07-12
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The attorney-general has received pack
age of petitions weighing several pounds for
the pardon of E. L. Harper, the convicted
vice president of the wrecked Fidelity Ma
tional bank in Cincinnati. The signers Of
these petitions are national bank men,
merchants and personal friends of Harper
all over the country. A small number of
protests against Harpers pardon have also
been received. As Harper is believed by the
government officials connected with his pros
ecution to have beyn the instigator and pro-
moter of the broken banks unlucky speccula-
tion, he is not likely to get much symgathy
from the administration.
Capt. Stanhope E. Blunt, ordnance de-
partment, has been relieved from duty at
the headquarters of the army as inspector of
small arms practice and ordered to report I'm
person to the chief of ordnance. The official
order says that Capt. Blunt's services in
connection with the development of an
effective sys EN- of rifle practice in the army
have Teen Of the highest Importance, and his
name will long be honorably connected with
this great advance in tho military service Of
the country. He was a member Of Gen.
Sheridans staff.
The secretary of the treasury has under
consideration the case of the twenty-five
English glass blowers who landed at Boston
April IL, and subsequently secured employ
ment with Chambers Mckee & Co., of jean
nett Westmoreland county, Penn. 1t is
charged that these men were brought over
by the Universal Federation Of Glass
Workers in violation of the alien CONTRACT
labor law. The case will be referred to the
United States district attorney at Pittsburg
for investigation with the special purpose Of
ascertaining the precise circumstances at
tending the immigration of these people.
A statement prepared at the treasury de-
partment shows that there was a net de-
crease of Sl7 1874, 101 in the circulation during
the m nth of June and a net decrease Of
S12, 610, SS7 in money and bullion in the treas
ury during the same period. The decrease
in circulation was principally in gold certi-
ficates and national bank notes, and the de-
crease in treasury holdings was principally
in silver bullion. The circulation July Is
stated at 81, $50, LAG, $50, and the money and
bullion in the treasury at 1852, 081, ,843.
Assistant Secretary Tichener and Mr..
Kimball superintendent of the life saving
service, has left Washington for the purpose
of inspecting life saving stations on the New
England coast. Assistant Secretary Tichpner
will also inspect the customs service of New
York, Boston and Portland. Among the
business to be transacted on the trip is the
location of life saving stati rs on Block
Island, Nantucket Island and at the mouth
of st. George river, Maine. The trip will
take about two weeks time.
Secretary Window has sent letter to
Io6CTebdTy MUSK SeJUlDS lOTJn l03 opinion OF
the treasury officials that imported crude
potash and sulphate of potash cannot enter
this country free under any circums' ances.
The secretary of agriculture had requested
that those products might come in free,
when used for the manufacture of manureS
under the provision of the free list for guano
manures and all substances expressly used
for manure
Hadi Hosseiu Ghooly Khan, the Persian
min to tod Stota will
shortly for Europe. In an interview lately
he told a reporter that he would not come
back, and that he had been driven out of the
country by the unkind and ungenerous
things which had been written about him
and his sovereign in the American newspa-
pers.
Warner P. Sutton, consulgeneral at
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico has been appointed
secre! !ary of the congress of the American
Republics to be held in October next Mr..
Sutton is now engaged in certain work pre-
paratory to the meeting of the congress,
A very numerousIy signed petition for the
pardon Of E. L. Harper, the convicted vice
president of the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati,
has been received at Washington. A small
number of protests have also been received.
He Is not likely to get much sympathy, as
the government officials believe him to be
big ascal. Harp5r was sentenced to ten
years imprisonment. He has served about
two years of this in the Columbus peniten-
tiary, where he is allowed to manage an i'm
mense private factory outside.
One of the express safes that was on the
Norfolk & Western wreck near ThaXtOn,
Va, recently was received at the treasury
department and its contents examined. The
express company made application to be re-
imbursed for the bank and trea~ ury notes
contained nthe safe, amounting to several
thousand dollars, but the cont nts were al
most absolutely destroyed, there being moth
ing LETT but a few charred bits of paper.
There was also some jewelry and watches in
the safe and they were ruined.
Harry Dixon, the young Mississippian re-
Gently appointed to West Point cadetship
| by the president upon the statement of the
boys grandmother that her husband and
son the cadets father had both been assassi-
mated because of politics, failed to pass thS
physical examination required of cadets.
The statement of business transacted in
the pension bureau during the week ending
June 30 shows that 10, 3oS applications of all
kinds were received, 1862 certificates issued
| and 246 claims rejected, leaving 3S6, 662
| claims pending. Dnring the week 727 cases
were referred to special examiners, making
the total number awaiting special examina-
ton II, S13. There were 14S6 officers and
employees on the roll.
Secretary Window has abandoned the
| practice of holding public receptions and
will hereafter receive visitors by card only.
He says that he cannot give proper attention
to the business of the department if heis COM
PEELED to listen constantly to the appeals Of
| office-seekers. He will however, continue
| to see all persons who call on business,
merely reserving to himself the right to de-
termine whether the character of business
is such as to require personal interview.
The secretary of the interior has accepted
the resignation of the Hon. Joseph E. John
ston, commissioner of railways, and he has
been granted 10 days leave of absence Com
mis-, ,iOner Johnston rendered his resignation
early in March, but action upon it has been
deferred up to the present time.
The secretary of the tr asury has appoint
ed James T. Caulk special inspector of GUS
toms at the port of Baltimore and Samuel
G. Davis an immigrant inspector at the port
| of Philadelnhi1