Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-22
WASHINGTON News.

of agriculture, vice N1sbit resigned Major
lockwood is the editor of the Daily State
Gazette published at Portag City, Wis. He
served in tn 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-
tion 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 a years
cruise, and the IrOquois, at the same yard
for three years cruise. Orders have been
given to commandants 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 Herreshof works in Rhode
1sla d. The inspectors say that the material
used is of nigh quality and the work Of goo
character Before March I most the steel
skin was in place, only one course remaining
to be riveted on the hull. Tne deck plates are
on as far as practicable The quadrUple ex-
pansion engine have been set up in the shO2,
and the contractors expect to complete the
boat by June !, whic Is tire date fix, d in the
contract. The boat is required to make %
knots an hour, and any deficiency on this
score will subject the contr ct)rs to penal
ties, while for any exc-s OF speed above %
knots they will receive a bonus. If the new
craft the first of its kind in Ameria an shin
building) fulfils the requirements, OF which
there is little doubt it will be the 1ectest
boat in the United States and fully equal to
any possessed by European navies
The secretarXiof the treasury has affirmed
the decision of the collector of customs in
Boston in assessing duty at the rate # IA
cents per pound on certain serrated manu-
factures of iron Imported by Joseph Brit
W H. 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 7. Eggleston appointed postmaster.
A paper signed by nearly all the members
of the house an | senate Of the fifteth con-
gress, and prominent officials # the govern
| ment, stating that the intel igance and wealth
of the United States support Glad tone 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
TIM, and its object is to offset the claims Of
the tory press Of England that only the riff
RATS of America are in sympathy 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 famil-
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 consll-
tation with him have been favorably inn
| pressed with his methods and purposes and
say that he is likely to give the service a
| good busine s administration.
Superintendent Bancroft of the railway
mail service is about to issue an order eX-
tending the line of the Boston & Albany
railway postoffice short run from Spring
field to Albany The mail car will be taken
from the 2.3O p m. train from Boston
and put on the 3 p m. train and returning
will leave Albany at 2.30 a. M with one of
| tha largest accommodations of New England
from the west The immediate object of tn
change is to give Plttsfeld better mail ser
vice, in accordance with q request of Sena-
tor Dawes, but the extensi n of the run wi
! give the clerks more time for sorting in both
directions
The inaugural executive committee has
voted to invest its surplus of S25, 900 in real
estate securities through the district com
missioners, the interest to be expended in
relieving the poor people in and about the
capital city.
AS result Of exposure Inauguration day,
| over Is congressman are more or less i'll and
confined to their rooms.
James G. Maynard, son of the late Post
master-General Maynard, now chief clerk of
the inspectors division, postoffics depart
ment is an active candidate for chief post
office inspector, now held by Mr.. West He
has the support of the republicans of the
south.
Friends Of the Hemenway exploring ex
] lA, 4,1 30,
Judge civil act contains the following: To
enable the secretary of the interio" to repair
and protect the ruin of Casa Grande. situ-
ated in Pinal county, near Florence Ari.
$4,000; and the president is authorized to re-
serve from settlement and sale the land on
which said ruin is situated, and so much cf
the public land adjacent thereto as in his
judgment may be necessary for the protec-
tion of said ruin and Of the ancient city of
which it is part.
One of the important reforms which Post
master General Wanamaker will have to
carry out will be that of classifying and fix
ing the salaries of the clerks and employees
attached to the frst-class postottices accord
ing to the prov sions of the apr" "opriat!on
bill recently passed by congress- This CLASH
tication does not go into effect until July /,
but preparations will have to be made for it
in advance. 1t will RENE ly a great many
faults in the present administration, and
| particularly in equalties of salary.
The recent administration were lucky as
real estate investors. Mr. Wanamaker paid
Secretary Whitney more for his option on
the FreIinghuysen place than the price at
which the latter held it, plus the Sl5, 900
which Mr.. Whitney had put on in extensions
and repairs. Senator Hearst has bought the
Fairchild residence for $4,000 more than the
late secretary of the treasury paid for it to
the estate of Mr.. John Field
The president has already received about
a hundred applications for appointment as
cadet-at-large at the Naval academy at An
napO1s, and the letters are still coming iu
and are being sent over to the navy depart,
ment and filed away. The applicants are
simply wasting their time for there will be
but one vacancy in the list of cadets-at-large
this year The law limits the whole number
of cadets-at-large in the academy at any one
time to 10, and as this quota is now full
there can be no appointment until the grad
uation of cadet Theodore P. Kane in June,
1890.
Among the promotions just made by the
president is that of Capt. Ohio E. Michaelis
to be major. Capt. NJ chaelis is well remem-
bered in Boston as the officer who, at the
time of the great fire in Boston in 1872
brought in hand engine from the Water
town arsenal and worked it all night.
Rapid progress is being made in the work
upon the new gunboat yorktown at Phila.
delphia The weak bulkhead has been
stitfened and most of the work required by
the terms of the contract has been ccm-
pleted Tho contractors e;timate that they
will be entitled to about $780, 900 bonus for
horse power devel pment in excess of the
contract requirement.
Poslmaster-G General Wanamaker's house.
hold will be presided over for the present by
his daughter Mrs Thomas Wanamak.
er, who will have with herdUring the spring
her mother, Mrs. John Welsh Of Philadel-
phia. Nre, Wanamaker and Mrs Welsh