The National tribune., 1881-12-24
HOME-NEWS NOTES,

HOME-NEWS NOTES.
Owe of the interesting bills introduced in the
House, is one by Amos Townsend, of Ohio.
providing an appropriation of $50 900 as national
donation to the widow of the late President
Garfield, Or in the event of her death, to be dis
tributed among her legal heirs
Judge J. c. Bancroft Davis, late of the Court of
Claims, has entered upon his duties as First
Assistant Secretary of State.
! Twenty thousand copies of Senator Pendleton's
Civil Service Reform speech have been ordered to
be printed for general distribution.
There is general perturbation in the Interior
Department over the rumOr that when KirkwOOd
retlres there Is to be a general shaking up of
things in that neighhorhood.
| The War Department has published a general
| order, stating that more discrimination should
| be gwen in courts martial, where men are tried
for desertlon that is, to the intention of the men,
whether they were merely absent without leave,
intending to return, or whether they intended to
desert.
The only bills enacted as laws so far are the
one comforting the franking privilege on Mrs.
Lucretia Garfield and that making Monday a
| legal holiday in the District when a legal holi-
day falls on the preceding Sunday.
Mr.. Hawk, of Illinois, has introduced bill
to punish by death an assault with intent to
kill the President of the United States If in
sanity is proven the asSailant is to be confined
IN an insane asylum for life
Secretary Frelinghuysen on Monday took the
oath OF office at the State Department. He was
sworn In by Justice Bradley, of the Supreme
Court, and has entered upon the duties of his
Office.
Mr.. Blair, (rep.) of n. H. introduced a bill to
protect pension money from attachment and levy
Inv nft md he ,tSn of
the same money when invested in homesteads.
Referred to Committee on Pensions.
The Phila. Press, that ought to know, says:
" AttOrney-General Brewster does not wear fxins'
manufactured In this country. His hats clothes
and shoes are made in London. He wears frilled
Shirts and in 1877 was a candidate of the Green
Dack-Labor party for district attorney of Phila-
delphia. AS far back as 1910 his stylish English
costumes gained for him the sOubriquet of Beau"
Brewster He is sixty five years old
1t is learned at the Treasury Departments that
ex-senator Paddock, of Nebraska, will succeed
Assistant Secretary Upton.
The wife of John W. Guiteau is the sister of
ex-Assistant Postmaster General Tyner.
John S. Wise, of Virginia is a nephew by
marriage of General George c. Meade Henry
A. Wise and General Mead married sisters-the
daughters of the great Philadelphia lawyer John
S. Sargent.
General George Crook, commanding the De-
partment of the Platte, has arrived here and
is quartered at the Ebbitt House. He is named
by nearly all the papers west of the Mississippi
Tor promotion to alOr-general in case General
Mcdowell should be retired.
President Arthur will spend Christmas in
New York.
Hon. Frank HattOn, First Assistant Post
master-General, has gone to Iowa to spend the
holidays. He will return January 5.
There are two Congressman now serving who
commenced life as pages in the National House
and Senator whose start in life was as a PAGE
IN the Senate. The Congressman are Townshend.
OF Illinois, and Wise Of Virginia The Senator
is German, of Marylsnd.
The senior Senator from Kansas is a Plumb
good one.
Senator David Davis says that he cannot yery
well marry either of his deceased wife's sisters.
as reported he was going to do, for the good
and sufficient reason that they are both mar
ried and have husbands living. Therefore the
public is still left in the dark as to who the
lucky woman is
Ex-Secretary Blaine has sent to the Joint
House and Senate committee an acceptance of
their invitation to pronounce the eulOgy upon
the late President in the Forthcoming Garfield
services.
Judge Houck, of Tennessee, is the acknowl-
edged leader of the Southern Republicans in
Congress He is active, and knows no such word
as fail, and is good friend of the soldier. He
has recently introduced bill to extend the
provisions OF the arrears Of pension act
In answer to inquiries from postmasters in diff
terent parts OF the country the Postmaster-Gen-
tral has issued an order directing that on Mon
day, the 26th inst, and Monday, the I'd of JAN
nary, the post-offices of the country shall be
closed, as On other holidays.
1t is stated on excellent authority that Secre-
tary Hunt is to remain at the head OF the Navy
Department..
Postmaster General Howe, who is now at his
nome in Wisconsin, is not expected to enter upon
MS duties until after New Years Day.
John Parsons, of Roekport, died last week,
aged eighty eight In the war of 1912 he was in
he privateer Cadet OF Salem, which took num-
Der of prizes and was also d member of the "Sea
Fencibies," being engaged in the battle of Glou-
lester. He leaves four sons.
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