The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-04-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. O., April, 4, 1878.

WASHINGTON, d. O., April, 4, 1873
The new silver dollars are getting to be
quite thick here. Everybody is putting
one by as a souvenier and sending others
off to friends for keepsakes. Many thou
sands are being sold at the Treasury for
gold. The California Mint is ready to be-
gin coming, with a capacity for turning
out $2,500,00O per month.
DR.. Mary Walker wants pension
Poor thing She is always wanting and
never receiving. Always fighting and
never gaining the battle. People hate her
and insult her because she wears half
manish clothes. Men peer at her and
women turn the cold shoulder TO her. She
is vehement, bold, violent. She holds
regular discharge from the Army where she
served as nurse on fields and in hospitals,
but she would sooner get the pension she
wants if she wore trailing skirts, and plead
and cried instead of fighting and scoding
There is one other woman, of New York,
who has certificate of discharge from a
Rhode Island regiment in which she served
three months. She enlisted in mems
clothes and was in her husbands regiment.
Both were in the Ball Run battle, and she
only left the service when her husband was
wounded, at Newbern.
The weather is delightfully."- spring like,
but the two cold days and nights that we
had last week, it is feared, will do much
damage-especially to the peach crop--for
the trees were in full bud. The parks
show the nipping. The bright, new clover
and tender green willow leaves were cruelty
bitten, and have changed fro m light emer-
aid to rusty black. But peaches are hardy
and some years when the blossoms have
been frosted quite severely the crop has
not been duced. Ie 1876 when the trees
were in full bloom frosty sleet came upon
them, blackening and apparently killing
them but that year there was an unusually
large crop of peaches.
The season for fairs and benefits and the
like has arrived. Washington has numer-
Gus amateur artists and many benevolent
societies, and the last week or two has
seemed to be given up to performances for
the be nefit of the former, and entertain
ments in the interest of the latter. The
Labor Exchange gave a fair last week in
which all were interested, and at which
much useful handiwork was exhibited
Mrs. Hitz, wife of the Swiss Consul. Gen.
eral has superintended the Woman's De-
partment of the Labor Exchange ever
since its organization. One employment
she obtained for them was the making of
paper seeds bags for the Agricultural De-
partment. Several women have been max
ing these for several weeks. At the fair
all sort of fancy work was sold, the pro-
ceeds going to the owners and makers of
the same. One table was devoted to lace
work, which made fine display. The
finest lace-maker in Washington sold her
lace at three dollars per yard, and she puts
three weeks steady work into one yard
This is an instance of under-paid working
woman. Another table was loaded with
painted china. This was, perhaps, the
most attractive portion of the work ex-
hibited, but by no means the best patron
lied. People do not yet appreciate china
decoration. 1t is expensive, for only the
best ware is used, the materials for paint
ing it are high in price, and after the deli
cate work is laid on it has to be fixed and
gilded by professional decorator, whose
furnaces are to be found only in the largest
cities.
Mrs. Hayes is still in Ohio. Her hus-
band is expected to go there this week to
be present at the wedding of family
friend, but his business is so pressing that
he will not leave the city at present.
One of the young ladies who has been a
guest of Mrs. Hayes this winter is to be
married in Kentucky, to recent graduate
from West Point-a SwedO.
OLIVE.