The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-05-23
WASHINGTON NEWS.

~ VIII be remembered that last year New
Bedford bark, tbs Mary Fraser, was seized
at Fayal for a technical violation OF the
Portuguese customs laws and that the own
ers OF the vessel were put to great loss on &C
count OF this detention, which from oil the
evidence presented to the state department
was unwarranted and entirely unjustiiabl,,
Congressman Randall has requested Mr.,
Blaine TO instruct the new minister appoint
ed TO press the claim for an indemnity. This
DR.. Loring viii be instructed to do. The pre-
else nature OF the instructions have not been
determined upon yet.
Atty. Gen. Miller has received a report
from United States Marshal Jones OF Kansas
In regard to the conduct of himself and
deputies upon the opening Of Oklahoma to
settlement, Mr., Jones says that when the
functions Of the military authorities ceased
he attempted, and he thinks successfully, to
organize force of marshals at different
points, where 1t was supposed there would be
a concentration Of people, sufficient to pre-
serve them from lawlessness and bloodshed,
which II was expected would follow the open
ing of the territory.
The secretary of the treasury has APP
pointed Captain Gilbert Il. Borden OF New
Bedford Mass, to be superintendent Of the
house OF refuge at Point Barrow. His salary
will be 800 per month, and authority has
been granted him to employ two assistants
u
at San Francisco, The department has also
ordered by telegraph the purchase OF the
house. fuel and provisions, which, II Is ex-
pected, will be delivered to the Bear In the
course Of two weeks thus enabling her to
take the same aboard and reach Ounalassa
by the middle of June. The house will be
built in sections and so arranged that II will
be ready to set up upon arrival at Point Bar
row. Provisions and fue' TO last 100 men
one year will be taken. The Thetis will be
met at Ounalaska, and subsequent arrange
ments will be made by the commanding Off
GERS for the completion of the enterprise.
Secretary Tracy has designated Pay Di-
rector T. II. LOCKER as general inspector of
tie pay corps This is an office which was
discontinued by Secretary Whitney. The
duties of the incumbent will consist In the
examination of the books and accounts of A.
nancial officers of the navy department on
stations and ships on the Atlantic coast.
The secretary of the treasury has awarded
the contracts for buoy service for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1889 as follows: Taun-
ton river, Mass, to J. W. Rose Of Dwight
for Pawtucket river, r. l., to c. W. Hull Of
Providence.
Major Charles b. Throckmorton of the
Second artillery has been directed to inspect
the encampment of the New Hampshire
National guard at Concord, from June to
June7.
Naval architects in Washington are await
ing with some interest further particulars of
| the performance of remarkable cruiser built
in England by the Armstrong;. She is named
| the Piemonte, and is said to have made 1915
knots under natural draft and over 81 knots
with forced draft The vessel measures $500
tons, and carries engines Of II, 500 horse power,
nearly treble the proportionate horse power
| of the new gunboat Yorktown. Elements of
| ~ nd boya hao,, carriHpaI
for the sake of lightness in the new vessel,
which accounts in large measure for the
| wonderful speed said to have been attained.
Nevertheless, although the ship was built for
| the Italian government the British naval
authorities made strenuous but unsuccessful
efforts to purchase her from the builders.
Thomas H. Sherman, selected as consul at
Liverpool, is cr,di ed to the District of
Columbia, where he has livel for many
| years, although he came originally from
Maine. He was a telegraph operator aud
the latter was speaker in 1869. He retained
the same connection during Mr.. Blaine's
term in the senate and his former admins
tration of the state department. After Mr.
Blaine's retirement from public life, Mr.
Sherman continued in the department, where
he was attached to the consular bureau. He
has acted as private secretary to Secretary
| Didillt SlIlCt 4httICu = VI tlie CutItuu 5edi.
Solomon Hrsch of Oregon, who has been
appointed minister to Turkey, is promi-
nent business man of Portland, of Hebrew
descent. He was leading candidate for the
senate from Oregon at the last election, and
J lacked but one vote of securing an election.
Gen. Banks has had pleasant talk with
i Secretary Tracy about the needs and capa
bilities Of the Boston navy yard He did
not, however, urge any detailed plans upon
the secretary. but pointed out the advan-
tageous position of the yard and suggested
that if the government built ships it might
well build one of them at Boston. 1t wa.
desirable in any event, he urged, to have
some men put to work there Tee secretary
said that little could be done until the be
ginning of the new fiscal year, July ], bu
that he would bear in mind what Gen
Banks told him and see what could be done
Postmaster General Wanamaker seems tt
be impressed with the need of better foreign
mail service for Boston, but Of his intentions
nothing is known beyond the fact that HI
will make some changes. Superintendent,
Hayward of the foreign mail department o.
the Boston p0stof1ice thinks Boston ought t.
have the privilege of sending closed mai
to Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany
Portugal and Sweden. There is enough cor
respondence between these countries h
says, to warrant it.
Applications for pensions are beginning t.
come in at the pension office from the wild
ows and dependent relatives OF the officer:
and men who lost their lives in the recent
naval disaster at Samoa. The widow Of
Captain Schoonmak of the Vandalia flee
her claim few days ago, and it has beer
submitted to the proper division for allow
ance. Her pension will amount to $50 pei
month. A colored woman, whose son wa
employed on ore of the lost vessels appeared
| IoI Lo,. roin fp,
pension. She will be allowed Sl2 pei
month.
Henry W. Severance of California recent
" made consul-ge general 10 Honolulu, has fol
years been identified with the Sandwich
. Islands His father W IS editor and propre
, tor OF the Kennebec Journal when Secretar,
, Blaine made his entrance into public life
He was minister to Hawaii, and his son ha
been consul at San Francisco for tn
Hawaiian government, about whose AFFAIR
, he is we'll informed He is about so year
; old.
The secretary Of the treasury has or
proved the ecision of the collector of Gus
} toms at Boston in assessing duty at the rat
of 100 per cent ad valorem on boxes tcor
tanning matches), imported by Emil Mey er
March 10 The secretary also affirmed tn
collectors decision in assessing duty at tn
rate of three cents per pound on bichromat
OF soda imported MARCH, ~ ny y. ~. " ~
Riker.
t The rumored engagement of ex-Secretar
: Bayard to Mss Clymer daughter OF ID
Clymer, United States navy, is confirmed
The wedding will occur early in the summer
and the welded pair will pass few month
in Europe.
q The little girls attending the third grade |
the Jefferson public school building in tn
I, southern section of the city, were standing
! the a sles of the schoolroom one day recently
! when their teacher, Mi s Sarah E. Allen, wa
q fatally shot in the presence by her wortf
J less husband who Ihon killed himself. ALE
had been supported off the earnings of h
wife as a school teacher until some time agt
: when she left him on account of his diss
i pated habits and frequent abuse and vic
fence.
John R. Lynch, the noted colored e3-col
gresham from Mississippi, has been appointe
fourth auditor of the treasury.
, George Bancroft has recently completed
Life of Martin Van Buren,, to be publishe
soon by Harper Brothers.
The following countries have accepted ii
: invitation of the United States to send del
gates to a congress of American nations
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