Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-11-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence o. The Sentinel ]
WASHINGTON, D. g. October 20, 1911.

WASHINGTON, D. c. October 90 1871.
Congress has done nothing the past week
but adjourn over and go to the Baltimore races.
We hope this week they'll edo sutan." Those
who bet on Ten Brock came back dead broke,
The old member has chosen his DESK recon-
mended every mothers son of 'em for pages,
paired. his nails and calmly surveys the House
with "Now bring on your orpenning~claim
and opriatiou bill"
Some phool writer has written oil over the
country that the picture of Mr.. Lincoln and
others were removed from the library of the
! A grieullnral Department by female clerk OF
rebel procliYiles. It's derned no They
were taken down to have their faces washed
and the walls cleaned Mr.. Lncoln's picture
was not disturbed. After the faces of Sher
man, Grant and Fish were scrubbed well, they
were replaced, and if their public records
could be IA easily cleaned and their lives as
well purified the country at large would
breathe much free-.
Sitting Bull after sitting down on the COM
mittie, said hat his great father at Washing
ton was great fraud, and he was going to
stick by his mother, the Queen. Take him,
Vic, old gal, we don't want any prodigal son
in our'n.
Doctor Bliss of our city, is waving the
bloody shirt Of encouragement to The Radical
| party. He says Morton is somewhat better -
vest ten cents in another 'beer"
Tweed is becoming SO good in his new home
that he writes 10 a friend here, favoring civil
service reform. There now Mr. Hayes, you
have a stand off for Roscoe Conkling
The gay season is upon us, judging from
the titled people that have come among rs -
| The Ebbit House rotunda is nightly filed
with knots of statesmen wrestling over Mr..
| Hayes policy. The bell-boy scoots around
tt,,l,f. &.
| quarter, whilst the hackman on the outside
bellows TO the exiting member, "Here's your
old driver, Colonel" The tonsorc vigilant,
scented and smiling calls to each unshaven
face that passes, ''Walk right in, Judge, yer
next" The side walk in front of Willard
at 10, A. NJ. is strewh with punches of Gener =
ais, Commodores aud Admirals ringing the
pavement with big sun-hower like faces, the
buds on their noses out-rivaing the car mine
geranium, as the crowd Of Treasury clerks
hasten from their boarding houses TO their
| places Of daily strife. These 90 and more
come whilst the Congressional band plays and
the elephant goes around gathering more big
bugs with which to fill up the vacancy -
| Verify, we are big people
Roberts, the so-called first class writeress
for our Dom Pia.ts Capital" says il the
Senate wants any Information as TO her aleg-
ed corruption and raseally steaings in the
| "Limburger" Department Of Carl Schurz's
she'll just ring her little BeY and inform them.
| All right, Bobbie, but who Il form on her.
Next. Stand up, gentlemen Of the Senate, and
let us have both sides for Beli-ringing by one
department produces growth in the pumpkin
seed bureau OF the Agricultural Depot.
The extreme RAIDS, who now find themselves
counted out by the man they couated in, are
quarreing about Stanley Mathews little hotel
bill of nine hundred dollars, which they had
to pay whilst he was championing their case
before the by tribunal, W Iether it was
nine hundred dollars or nine cents shouldn't
count, MS Mathews was the guest of the Radi-
cal committee and weut to the hotel at their
special invitation as he had kindly refused a
fee in the case, aud the fuss made over it by
the RAIDS shows mean, low penuriousness
that we didu't think old Zach Chandler would
be guilty Of, and he can drink as II ean whis-
! key as any man.
The unregenerated Pennsylvania delegation
highly insuited our several dignties 10 their
several and joint capacilies-the venerable
Brother Jonathan, of the State Department,
the profound financial head of the Treasury,
and the ''top-not' OF the 'Limturget- n
terror Department" by recommending to the
cabinet session Simon Cameron for the English
Mission, but as he is not at all likely to get il
poor Simon goes wiggle-waggle.
! Post Sutler, alias ex-Secaetary Belknap, was
quite gushing in reply to a toast, at the re-
union of the army of Tennessee, wherein he
said, "To some have been given the fullness
of joy TO some the cup of sorrow" but fails
TO tell us to whom he gave the Suitlership.-
just like rad, silence and division be their
motto.
Ben Butler has not as yet swallowed any
one, but from the uneasy glances given him
by Sunset Cox after Sunne gave old Ben
that poke under The ''of eye" about yielding
Ben the floor as he had,not seen the Massachu-
| setls salesman on it for two years, we imagi ne
sold spooney" will dine of of a member
daily when he begins 10 throw "them bricks
around.
The commotion at the White House last
Friday was the result Of a relphonie Concert,
given by quarette Of Treasusy clerks, By
means Of Telephone connected with the
Presidential Mansion. The concert opened
with sacred music which continued for awhile,
dntil the atmosphere became charged with a
heavy oder of stroag drink, when suddenly
the singing switched off from the hymn bust
ness, and i've wont go home till mornin, -
aud Johnny fill up the bowl was blown in
the White House, with the Intoxicating at
mosphere still on the increase. Mrs. H. rushed
to the elphonic tube and cried, ''are you
mad ~ "Give us another hymn p and then
tainted. The next day four yellew envelopes
| were seut 10 ye iour quartette-eFs OF tne
Treasury, notifying them that they were
"bounce-ed" for their drinking contributions
from Faust.
The Mexican bandits, through information
obtained by us from the State Department, are
over on our line again plundering and stealing
horses, as cruel as any lot of Comanches ever
dared do. Mosby with all his boys couldu't
get up as first class a raid, and our Brother
jonathan, of the State Department, will have
to stir up these fellows with that international
rod of ''his NJ DaNooRlTEs.