The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-21
WASHINGTON NEWS.

tahette, puplsheu utIortage lily, WIS, NO
served in the army four years and since the
war has been the professor OF mathematics
at the state normal school at Whitewater,
assistant superintendent OF public instruc-
ton of Wisconsin and more recently has
been connected with the state land office at
Madison,
Orders have been given to prepare the
Adams at Mare Island, CAL, for years
cruise, and the Iroquois at the same yard,
for three years cruise Orders have been
given to commandments Of yards TO notify all
suspended per diem, employees to consider
themselves discharged.
Officers of the secret service raided house
in Elbridge street. where counterfeit money
was being made, and arrested Richard
Fisher, his wife and an Italian named Robert
Juegler, whom they found there
Encouraging reports come to the navy de-
partment respecting the torpedo boat now
building at the Herreshoff works in Rhode
Island. The inspectors say that the material
used is Of high quality and the work of goo
character. Before March most OF the steel
skin was in place. oniy one course remaining
to be riveted on the hull. The deck plates are
on as far as practicable The quadruple ex-
pansion engines have been set up in the shop,
and the contractors expect TO complete the
boat by June 1, who is the date fixed in the
contract, The boat is required to make 20
knots an hour, and any deficiency on this
score will subject the contr ctors to penal
ties, while for any excess Of speed above 23
knots they will receive bonus. If the new
craft (the first of Its kind in American ship
building) fulfils the requirements, OF which
boat in tn, United States and fully equal to
any possessed by European navies,
The secretary of the treasury has affirmed
the decision of the collector Of customs in
Boston in assessing duty at the rate of IA
cents per pound on certain serrated manu-
features of iron nported by Joseph Brit
well, Jan. 3, and which is classified as struct-
ure shapes of iron.
A postoffice has been established at Ash
wi lette, New London county, Conn, and
Stiles P. Eggleston appointed postmaster
A paper signed by nearly all the members
of the house AMI senate Of the fiftieth con-
gress, and prominent officials If the govern
ment stating that the intelligence and wealth
Of the United States support Gladstone and
Parnell in their efforts for home rule in Ire
land, will shortly be forwarded to England.
The paper has been in circulation for some
time and its object Is to offset the claims Of
the tory press of England that only the riff
RATS of America are in syml athy with and
lend active support to Parnell and Glad
stone.
The senate has confirmed the nomination
Of James s. Clarkson to be first assistant
postmaster general.
Postmaster General Wanamaker is faml-
iarizing himself as fast as he can, in the in
terludes of political calls, with the work cf
the postoffice department. The heads of the
different divisions who have been in consul
tation with him have been favorably i'm
pressed with his methods and purposes, and
say that he is likely to give the service a
good busine administration.
Superintendent Bancroft of the railway
mail service is about to issue an order ex-
tending the line of the Boston 81 Albany
railway postoffice short run from Spring
field to Albany. The mail car will be take 4
from the $50 p. m. train from Boston
and put on the 8 p m. train, and returning
will leave Albany at $50 a. m. with one of
the largest accommodations of New England
from the west The immediate object of tn
change is to give Plttsfield better mail SER
vice, in accordar ce with request of Sena.
tor Dawes, but the extensi N of the run wi ]
give the clerks more TIM for sorting in both
directions.
The inaugural executive committee has
voted to invest its surplus of S25, 900 in rea
estate securities through the district com
+ missioners, the interest to be expended ir
relieving the poor people in and about the
| capital Guy.
As result of exposure Inauguration day,
over Is congressman are more or less ill and
confined to their rooms.
James G. Maynard, son of the late Post
masterGeneral Maynard, now chief clerk Of
the inspectors division, postoffice depart
ment is an active candidate for chief post
office inspector, now held by Mr.. West. HI
has the support of the republicans Of the
south.
Friends of the Hemenway exploring ex
petition will be gratified to know that tn,
Judge civil act contains the following: Tt
enable the secretary of the interior to repair
and protect the ruin of Casa Grande, stu
ated in Pinal county, near Florence, Ari.
$1,000; and the president is authorized to re
serve from settlement and sale the land OF
which said ruin is situated, and so much O
the public land adjacent thereto as in hi
judgment may be necessary for the protec
ton of said ruin and of the ancient city O
which it is a part
One of the important reforms which Post
master General Wanamaker will have t
carry out will be that Of classifying and fix
ing the salaries of the clerks and employe
ing to the provisions Of the appropriation
bill recently passed by congress. This class
fication does not go into effect until July
but preparations will have to be made for
in advance. It will remedy a great man
faults in the present administration, an
particularly in CAPABILITIES of salary.
The recent administration were lucky a
real estate investors. Mr. Wanamaker pal
Secretary Whitney more for his option o
the Frelinghuysen place than the price q
which the latter held it, plus the SIS, OF
and repairs Senator Hearst has bought til
Fairchild residence for 5000 more than tt
late secretary of the treasury paid for it
the estate of Mr.. John Field
The president has already received abor
a hundred applications for appointment a
cadet-at-large at the Naval academy at Al
napolis, and the letters are still coming il
and are being sent over to the navy depar
ment and filed away. The applicants al
simply wasting their time, for there will
but one vacancy in the list of cadets-at-lare
this year. The law limits the whole numbt
of cadets at-large in the academy at any OF
time to 10, and as this quota is now full
there can be no appointment until the graf
uation of cadet Theodore P. Kane in Jun
1890.
Among the promotions just made by IL
president is that Of Capt. Ohio E. Michael
to be major. Capt. M chaelis is well remen
bered in Boston as the officer who, at Il
time of the great fire in Boston in 1877
u
town arsenal and worked it all night.
Rapid progress is being made in the wol
upon the new gunboat Yorktown at Phil
delphia. The weak bulkhead has bee
stifened and most of the work required
the terms of the contract has been COZ
pleted. The contractors estimate that tn
will be entitled to about 1885, 600 bonus f
horse power development in excess of Il
! contract requirement.
rosi master-GeneraI Wanamaker's hous
hold will be presided over for the present
his daughter-in-law, Mrs Thomas Wanama
er, who will have with her during the spriI
her mother, Mrs John Welsh Of Phi1ade
phia. Mre. Wanamaker and Mrs. Wei,
! will be at home informally on Wednesda
, Mrs. John Wanamaker, with her two daug
ters will not return to this country befo
the autumn, as the present plan is for Il
postmaster general to join her in the sur
, mer and spend month or SO with his fami
! in European travel.
j The order relieving Major John s. Clou
judge advocate, from duty in the judi
advocate-generars Office, and ordering hi
to do duty in the west, has been suspende
and Major Clous will remain in Washingtt
for the present.
naval orders: Lieutenant Commando
George a. Converse and Royal B. Bradfo
!. and Lieutenant Gunior gradel H. Hosel
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