Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-06-28
CAPITOLINE GOSSIP.

CAPITOLINE GOSSIP.
Incidents in the Busy, Brilliant Life OF
WashingtOn-COulisse Chat of the Capt.
tal-A WOman's Reveries and Remarks
The Gay Life of the Gay City on the Po.
tomac.
Washington Correspondence Cincinnati Com
mercial.
The wives have, most of them, gone
home; the trees are in full leaf, the
clover in bloom; the Marine Band plays
every Saturday in the White House
grounds; the beer bubbles in riotous
life; the 100000 bride has entered the
Cameron mansion on the hill, and Vim
ME Ream has set the day.
This outlook is encouraging to both
gossips and statesmen, and affairs are
intensified by the excitement concern
ing the investigation, and the Shields
row, and the bitter personal encounters
that have followed in disgusting droves
upon the heels of the recent bout of
Kelley and O'Neil.
Altogether, things are pretty lively
The lantern in the dome last night hung
like great red signal in the moonlit
sky far into the night, and discussion
ran high in the Capitol, In the Senate
Davis, of Illinois, maintained distract
ing nonchalance. With hands in his
pockets, he leaned back in his chair in a
graceful attitude, which enabled him to
show the superb width of his waistcoat
His vests alone cost as much as the en-
tire suit of an ordinary sized man
Enough velvet there to make me two
dresses" )" sighed a shabby little woman
in the gallery Rumor has it that the
Senator has so far accustomed himself
to Congressional surroundings as to be
able to give an awkward wink with his
late judicial eye. Blood and Bladens-
burg threatened, but as yet the jolly
Senator lives to shake the earth with
elephantine tread
Senator Ferry sports a new neck-tie
The stately Michigander has made a
small fortune lately in the rise of pine
lumber. Can it be possible that he is
thinking-but no! the best prints are
now worth six cents; there is no hope
of the handsome bachelors surrender
ing until they come down to four, or at
best four and one-sixth; three yards Tor
12a, six for quarter.
Senator Armstrong, who fills the un-
expired term Of Senator Bogy, of Mis-
souri,, is round faced, short-nosed old
gentleman, whose hair is white, thick
and standing on end, with round whis-
kers to match. He is the polar bear of
the Senate. His favorite delicacy is
hogs jowl and green's. AS an unsteady
beverage he takes water; as a steady
one he takes something else. He is
very polite, gallant, and elegant in man
ner, and in conversation girlishly mod
est and refined.
One of the most striking men in the
Senate is Plumb, of Kansas the weird
woodman of the plains" He is young
and gangling, wears gOatee the color
of cornsilk and as far as beauty is con-
cerned, may be considered dead fail
are. Pre-eminently a Western man, he
looks well to the interests of his section
and is rising individual. His political
party did well when they
-''put in a thumb
And pulled out plumb"
as their donation to the Senate of the
United States.
In the House last night there was a
young man thirsty for knowledge. To
every member who tried the floor the
youthful member said with courteous
consideration: "Will the gentleman al
low me to ask a question:" Thereupon
a query, whose answer any one with
common sense need never have been ig-
norant Of, rolled forth with unseemly
rhetorical force. At length Proctor
Knott, incensed at his interruptions
put what was intended as quietus up
on the inquiring youth, but no such ef-
feet did the sarcastic words produce
The youth of the inauiring, empty mind
is very handsome young man. That
is what is the matter with him. He is
handsome and unmarried, Southerner
and member of Congress. His hands
are white and jeweled, his locks of am
brosial fullness, his face yelvety as a
white lily petal, his teeth like grains on
a young corn nubbin. He is one of the
men Of contested-seats fame; came
from Virginia, and is known as Con
gressman Kenna. Congressman Kenna
has yet great deal to learn that can
never be acquired by mere queries on
the floor of the House. The floor is a
good arena, and shows off white teeth
and pretty face to advantage, but it
is also spot where mans smallness
is easily seen, and where more than one
man in the past has sunk mortally
wounded by his own vanity and self Econ
ceit.
Beautiful Hester Clymer, of femi
nine name and poetic nature, sat close
to the Speakers desk, and held, daintily
poised between the thumb and finger, a
twig, on which perched and swayed twin
roses on single stem. They shone out
of the dullness, black coats, and ciga1
smoke of the evening session, like two
quilted red satin rosettes-unnatura
and out of place. They caught the eye
of the Hon. Benjamine Butler. When
ever the Hon. Benjamine sees flower
he starts for it, like a starved rooster
for a grain of corn. He left his seat
and, shutting in a bow-legged manner
made for Clymer, put his hands behinc
his dress-coat tails, bent his bald head
and dipped his dainty nose into the
scented petals. He snuffed, admired
and looked. He held the rich crimson
roses in his own pudgy hands, and lai(
them Ito watch the effect beside thu
pink rosebud that always ornaments his
lapel.
"Roses, Clymers, are very fine, largel
than dwarfs or standards" After this
remark, whose point no one saw unit
the wag had reached his seat, the Hon
orable Butler waddled back to his owl
side of the House, his mask face, witt
it's Sits Of eyes, apparently seeing moth
ing, yet, as he passed along, each desl
was audible with laughter at his low
jokes, and the Hon. Milton Sayler
Speaker pro tena., red-faced and nervous
raped and banged on the dented desk
and at length sung out: "The Chair i!