Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-03-22
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washington correspondence.

WASHINGTON, Mar. ~, loiU.
| do not care to conceal my interest in
all events indicative of the advancement
of the interests of women There are
to be two lady Assistant Examiners in the
Patent Office for the examination OF in
ventions whereof women may be supposed
to be the best judges All applicants for
these two places arc to undergo examlna-
ton, and the best two win. Commission
err DelaLo internal Revcnue) very recent
Iy appointed a person in Michigan an AS
sistant Assessor on the recommendation
/ of the Assessor of that District. The
Assessor acknowledges the receipt OF the
commission, and adds at may be well
to state, by the way, that the Assistant
Assessor is a ac0man! She has been my
chief clerk is very competent person;
and | wanted her to be my assistant. -
The widow of late U. S. Consul Gener-
al, left poor, with three children to look
out for, obtained a clerkship in the Trea-
sury. A gentlemen friend who had known
her in other days found her there. She
was pretty, talented and well educated.
He brought about an ac1uaintanccShip
| between her and millionaire friend who
was wilowc.. They were married, and
the happy bridegroom settled $500, GOO
on the charming and worthy bride! Only
i,- tow &suyg a;sv, ttrar.
There is prospect of the abolition Of
the income tax. 1t is thought that on a
count there would prove to be Il majority
Of Senators and Members in favor Of stri-
king this tax from among the sources Of
revenue.
Apropos Of income tax, a question hay
ing arisen concerning Brigham Young's
return Of his income in the minds OF the
Revenue officers in Utah, his return was
sent on to Washington to Revenue Head.
quarters. 1t is substantially as follows /:
-Rents, 1887; interest on Bonds, $53;
total, $40 Exempt, $1,000. Taxable
income, nil. Amount at per cent, nil.
The immense property he controls he says
is not his, but belongs to the church.
Quite heavy snow storm befcll us
here last Sunday afternoon ard into the
night; but not trace Of the snow, ex-
ccpt the mud into which it melted, had
turned the dust of the streets, remained
to Monday afternoon. A laughable-s, rry
figure, therefore, was cut in one of our
streets that afternoon by farmer with
his wife driving homeward in SLEIGH |!
lie ives native Of Maryland, | take it,
from his gray suit, and the direction he
was driving. His span Of horses looked
half-fcd, and the sleigh was bungling
homemade contriyance. If his forecast
in farming is generally as shrewd and as
well justified by the events as his depend
encc on snow lasting for sleighing on the
9TH day Of March in this climate, it is no
wonder that his appearance indicated no
more thrift.
Spring weather was predetermined on,
more than a week before that. A week
ago last Monday exactly | saw wild ducks
on the Potomac, close by Washington to
be estimated by acres, literally. AID /
guess these birds know when it is Spring !!
But We have had some of the sharpest
weather of the whole winter during the
last ten days, the ducks to the contrary.
Our extra thousands of poor in Wash
lngton; that is, the furplus negroes, freed
people, tugltiyes, &C., who have crowded
hlther during these last upurning years,
have to thank God for the generally mild
weather of this winter to help out the
laundering wisdom olthose to whose charge
the poor creatures have been specially
committed, Gen. o. o. Howard at their
head. Thcmoment the rebellion had sur.
rendered, the policy clearly should have
been to encourage these surplus thousands,
who, here, were doomed to compulsory
ldlcnoss, to leave the city, and to find
farm lands either to work for wages, or
for themselves, where they could procure
their own support and learn the way of
independent life as freemen. To my,