Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-07-19
WASHINGTON NEWS.

teers, for pension on account of rheuma-
tim contracted in the service. The claim
was rejected by the pension Office upon tho
ground that the alleged rheumatism was
not contracted In service and line of duty,
and that any disability claimant may have
! had In service was evidently due to his bad
habits" Mr.. Bussey discusses the evidence
/ in the case, and reverses the action of the
pension office on the grounds that the claim
ant was evidently sound man at the date
of his entrance to the service.
| The secretary of the treasury has appoint
| ed Robert ID. Layton of Pittsburgh and John
Mnholland to be immigrant inspectors under
| the provisions of the alien contract labor
/ law. Mr.. Layton is appointed as a repre-
| sentative of the laboring interests of this
| country. The secretary has also appointed
! John NJ Morton, son of the late Hon. O. ?.
Morton, to be shipping commits sioner for the
| port of San Francisco, and Henry johnson
to be shipping commissioner for the port Of
! Philadelphia.
! The treasury department has affirmed the
! action of the collector of customs a. New
York in assessing an additional duty of 20
! per cent ad valorem on certain silk and cot
ton velours imported in April last.
Congress provided last September that
sample 12-inch castiron mortar might be
| submitted to the ordnance board, and tina
| the test of this mortar range accuracy and
endurance should be determined by a pre-
| vious test of 200 rounds applied to the steel.
| hooped mortar. 1t is now claimed by the
! South Boston Iron works that the ordnance
| board wants to establish another kind of a
test of quite a different character from the
test prescribed in the law; namely, to test
the cast iron mortar with 800 rounds as tha
steel-hooped mortar has been tested, and then
! to place the guns side by side and fire them
till either one bursts. This seems to be di-
rectly contrary to the spirit of the con-
! gressional enactment.
The government engineers have found it
! necessary to close the new free bridge be-
tween Georgetown and the Virginia shore,
which is the chief means of communication
! between the District and national cemetery
! at Arlington. This is due to the fact that
| New York diver has discovered that a large
tree has been forced by the recent food under
the base OF the southern pier of the bridge
and that in consequence that pier is becom.
| ing undermined. 1t already perceptibly
leans 1t is expected that 10 days will be re-
| quired to complete the repairs. 1t IS not
! quite clear whether there is an appropriation
adequate to m Ike the repairs.
The pension office recently granted a claim
for pension filed by George Hindson, but
only allowed the attorney in the case So as
| his fee, notwithstanding that he produced an
agreement betwe n the claimant and himself
by which he was to receive $25. The attor-
ney took an appeal to the assistant secretary
of the interior, and in long opinion made
y
the action of the pension Office and allows
the full amount contained in the agreement
The war department has just sent to the
Fuller light battery at Brattleboro', VT,
four steel 2-10 inch rifles with limbers and
caissons complete. The company has thus
been honored with the first new standard
! pattern breech-loading guns issued to the
national guard.
The president has made the following ap-
| pointments of consus: Emmons Clark Of
! New York at Havre, Archibald j. Sampson
of Colorado at Acapulco Roswell G. Horr
of Michigan at Valparaiso, James Harti.
gan of the District of Columbia for the Port
of Trieste and all other ports in the Austrian
dominions, etc.
A dispatch has been received at the navy
department from Admiral Gherardi at Port
| au-Prince, saying that affairs at Hayti are
quiet and that there is no fighting of mo-
| ment He also reported that there had been
no change in the political situation since his
last report. Legitime holds Port-au- Prince
AMI Hippolyte remains outside of the town
! The following fourth-class postmasters
have been appointed to Main: Joseph W.
| Sheldon, Dresden; Charles w. York Lynch
vile; Josiah Chase, North N W Portland
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
offered the Western Union Telegraph com.
pany one mill per word for all government
messages, regardless of the distance t. be
graph companies are obliged to accept what
| ever the postmaster general may see fit to
offer 1t is claimed that one mill PER word
is less than the actual cost of the paper on
which the message is sent and the envelope
inclosing it.
The extra session of congress will be
opened between the 18th of October and the
first of November.
Secretary Tracy has ordered court mar
tial in the case of Captain Harrington, who
| stranded the practice-ship Constellation
near Norfolk on the 18th ult.
President Harrison is in receipt of COM
munications from officers and professors of
leading American lleges and from stu
dents, urging that steps be taken loo oting
towards the foundation OF national univer-
slty to promote higher education In America.
The photographic office, which was By
| the recent order of Secretary Tracy trans
ferred to the bureau of equipment, has been
restored to the jurisdiction of the bureau Of
navigation, it appearing that the statutes
place it in this bureau.
The officers and employees of the United
States treasurer's Office presented ex-Treas-
| urer James w. Hyatt with gold watch
handsomely engraved, as a token of their
appreciation of his administration.
An order was made by Commissioner
Sparks, March 16, 1885, suspending all land
! entries in Wyoming made within townships
! from 25 to 90 inclusive and elst of range
! 100, on supposition that oil existed. This
| territory involves over two million acres,
and has long remained in this state of sus-
pension. Acting Land Commissioner Stone
| after consultation with Secretary Noble
made an order relieving this suspension, and
| directing th3 examination of all entries with
view to patent
| A soldier in the regular army recently
made inquiry of the land Office whether he
would be allowed to file a homestead entry
! in Oklahoma. In an opinion on the subj ct,
| Acting Land Commissioner Stone held that
| the solder has the right to make such entry
| as an abstract proposition, but that if he did
| he would be required TO observe tho law as
to residence. This law requires the per-
son making the entry to reside ON the land
for period of five years before the patent
! can issue.
A claim for pension, filed by John Quincy
! Adams through Col j. d. Rhodes, On ac-
count of services with the United States
.colored troops, is witnessed by Patrick Henry
and Thomas Jefferson. The question APP
pears at the bottom of the application: Can
any more reputable names appear to this
| CLAMP
The president has granted a respite till
August 0 in the cases of Jack Spaniard,
Joseph Martin and Elsie jayne convict d of
murder in the western district of Arkansas,
of murder in the Indian Territory and SEN
fenced to he banged July II.
News from all branches of fishing is dull
/ The Cena vairg have taken n few barrels of