The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1878-01-17
Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL, 1878.


its wonted channels. Receptions do
not commence here until after Christ.
mas and the long pent-up restraint
OF bellies and beaux makes everybody
now on the qui-vive for Germans
Kettle drums, tea parties and balls,
and until lent everything will bo
drawn into tho festive whirlpool of
gayety and fashion. One of the leads
ers in fashionab circles is Mrs. Kate
Chase Sprague, daughter of tho lato
| Chief Justice and wife of Ex-senator
Sprague. She has for years held tho
undisputed title of the most beautiful
woman at the Capital. Hero, where
she is best known, tho romance of her
life is often told. Sho was reckless,
ambitious girl, and the ideal and bold
purpose other life was to have hor
father President. Just before the
nominating in 1860, she--as the ma
tron of her fathers house, although
but eighteen-gavo grand party and
used her most fascinating endeavors
in presenting the claims of her father;
but of course the work was idle. She
has lately returned from Europe, and
this winter will reside at tEdgew ood,
her fathers cid mansion, about two
miles from the city.
Dom Piatt, Of the Sunday Capital,
In
suggestion made on inauguration day
last March, that President Hayes
should be assassinated ifhe attempted
to take his scat. lie was present, as
an invited guest, at the silver wedding
OF the President the other evening
Verify, the lamb and the lion have
laid down togcthcr-coffcc, not pistols,
tor two.
Alonzo Bull, Assistant Secretary of
tho Interior, is to lecture here in a
few days on Human possibilities"
Most everybody asks whether anyone
ever thought before his appointment
that it. was u human possibility Tor
him TO gain SO high position.
Gov. Packard, having failed TO get
satisfaction out Of the Administration.
has accepted tho hospitality Of the
White House. lie is bound to make
the price OF his hotel bill, if nothing
else, out OF the Government.
The Louise Home, named after and
built rs memorial Of an only daught-
CT OF w. w. Corcoran, OF thiS city. for
the reception cf aged and infirm
ladies, was tho scene Of n brilliant rc-
ccption on his sovcnty.ninth birthday.
!hN institution and tho Art Gallery |
arc examples of the wisdom Of men of |
wealth becoming their own executors
in making cffcctual their phianthro-
pic desires.
A new change in the present politi-
cal system is proposed, and the advo-
Gates of the measure assert that tho
President Will embody hearty re
cOmmcndation of it in his forthcomino
message 10 Congress. The plan is
that hereafter the various Cabinet off |
GERS shall be entitled to tho privileges
of the House and Senate TO the extent
OF speaking upon all bills and mcas>
ures relative TO their departments,
that they shall havo the right TO make
suggestions, and offer amendments
and thus be brought into closer rela-
tions with Congress. The opponents
of tho measure say that this, if passed,
will be ruinous, from the fact that it
will lead 10 the formation of an "ap~
pointment pool" which will be death
to the already sickly civil service.
The President will not approve the
silver bill until it limits the legal ten
der capacity of the silver dollar. This
10 cold comfort TO thousands of suffer-
ing people. A dollar so debased as to
be inadequate to pay debts is coun-
tcrfeit, and whether made by the
Government or the rascal makes but
little difference, except that in The lat
ter case the counterfeitor is furnished
with ample opportunity for reflection
in his retirement in the Penitentiarv.
The bondholders are making every
effort 10 protect themselves in any