Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-10-23
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

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The Capisa pretty well clszed< Of
high officials at the present time. The
President and most of the Cabinet are
absent on one pretext or another. Sec
retary Sherman Left yesterday for Ohio,
and viii probably be absent until after
the Sd of November, and it is understood
that he is looking after the interest Of
the Republican party in Ohio secre-
tary Sshnrz is also at the present time in
that State, while Secretary Evarts is in
New York and has been ventilating him.
self at the Cooper Institute in that city.
Secretary Ramsey is somewhere in the
Northwest, while Secretary Thompson of
the Navy is navigating parts unknown.
The amount in bonds and money
which was taken by man named Her
ring from safe in the Second Auditors
Office turns out to be S4,74O and was un-
claimed property of bounty jumpers and
others who either by assumed names
could not be found upon the rolls Of any
regiment or else were without any rela-
tiens to claim the property. This man
Herring died about year ago, and what
ever was done with the missing property
cannot be surmised, as he was apparently
an economical man not living even up to
his salary.
Mrs. Bette Taylor Dundridge and
Miss Ssilie Knox Wood, the daughter
and grand daughter of Ex-President
Zacharey Taylor, have just been paid the
sum OF Sl6 $3.50, which nad been granted
TO them by special act of Congress last
winter as the amount of salary cue Cen
eral Taylor for the unexpired balance of
the year in which he died Mrs. Dun
bridge is now in Dresden and Miss Wood
is residing in Winchester, Virginia.
From the statement issued Sept. 3Oth,
from the Treasury Department it appears
that the decrease of the Public Debt dur.
the month was $s,974,S91 6S. The
amount Of cash in the Treasury same
date amounted to Sl99, ,945, ,260 40 which
speaks pretty well for the prosperity of
the country.
The colossal bronze statue of Admiral
Farragut by Mrs. Winnie Ream Hoxie
has been successfully cast at the Wash
ington Navy Yard, and it has been re.
moved to its intended site ON Farraeut
Square. The statue has been cast from
the propeller of his flagship Hartford.
and will cost when finished about S2O.-
600. 1t is of heroic size and it repre.
sents the old hero with marine glass in
his left hand with his left foot upon a
block and tackle and is an admirable
likeness.
Mrs. Hayes recently ordered a new
sideboard and dinner-table for the state
dining room at the White House. The
pieces are to be of mahogany, massive
and elegant in design, as they should be
for their place. They are to be designed
and executed by the Messrs. Fry, who
rank with the best if not as the best wood
carvers in the United States. The ex-
tension table in process of construction
As five feet broad and twenty feet long
The legs are the bodies of eagles sufic-
isntly eonventionalized to afford a firm
support to the massive leaves above
The companion piece is also to be built
ON princely scale. The national arms.
engraved in ebony, are inlaid at intervals
on the top, and the national bird figures
on the central panel beneath. The sun
port on feet of the sideboard are also the
claws of the bird of freedom embracing a
ball, this last feature intended to be en-
suite with other pieces of furniture at the
White House. Upon the panels are rep
resented the oak and the laurel, struggle
and victory, and other plants. mostly the
natural growth of the State of Ohio.
The demand for fractional silver has
doubled within the past week. The de.
mand is principally for quarters, dimes
and half dimes. Much of the silver is
sent ost in $40 bags, which 60 through
the mails as registered matter. This is
getting to be quite popular way of or
ssring silver, in places where there are
no banks and distant from the centers
where fractional, silver accumulates.
Some SILVER has been sent in this way to
pos'ofkces as far distant as Oregon. It
Is noticed that in sending orders to the
treasury, the term fractional silver coin
is very frequently constructed to include
one, two and three cent pieces and n;ck
els, but it does not These c,,;,s sh,,1
be ordered direct from the mint Tho
cashier of the Treasury is now sb;nn;rs =