Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-29

ing with dead man name, TO be installed
as Quartermaster-Genera of the army over
the heads of thirty officers of intervening
rank, is sufficient comment on his sense OF
OFFICIAL PROPERTY
Or justice. He will not be successful.
Another college classmate was selected to
conduct weekly Administration organ at
Philadelphia, and his editorials were UNDER
stood to be by authority. When President
Arthur came in, it was apprehenslvely
asked, Glow many graduates had Union
College in his year? ?" And one lively
patriot sternly recommended that the bal
ance of them should be promptly taken out
and sbot-to man. Some comfort Is de-
rived from the recollection that Union Col
lege has been the one and only first-class
college in the country that would
receive the expelled students of
other colleges, and there is hope,
therefore, that its alumni will not all set
up in business as professional christian
statesmen. If there are by chance few
healthy, self.confessed sinners among them
we shall not be compelled to canonize the
entire lot as newly-discovered saints by
virtue of their accidental cotemporaneous-
ness at college with President. OF
course some one must fill these personal
offices around an administration, and the
country would not greatly care who, pro-
vided they are filed with modesty, discre-
ton and propriety, but there is apt TO be a
petty pomp about these suddenly exalted
men, extending to their wives, and their
wives relations, that is half-amusing, half
exasperating.
wIDowERs.
| When Carl Schurz was Secretary of the
Interior, George Alfred Townsend, in the
Cincinnati Enquirer, made a graphic word
picture of him as the most interesting
widower in the United States" The av-
erage female mind has now transferred that
designation to the President, and by court
esy suppose one must place acting Vice.
President Davis next on the list, though
| his charms are solid, rather than seductive.
He is the fourth successive Vice-President
who was widower. Ex-senator Howe
looms up as another "object of In
terest to the susceptible mind, as
he is pretty generally booked for a
Cabinet position. Mrs. Howe, most
worthy lady, died at the residence of a
! daughter in Washington IN August last,
and Mr.. Howe fastened home from the
International Monetary Commission at
Paris before its adjournment to be at her
bedside. He has an intellectual head,
high and narrow, and crowned with abund-
ant gray hair, and in figure is almost as
tall and slender as a telegraph pole. He
is an active member of the Unitarian
Church, and in disposition very positive
Ia his friendships and his enmities. The
new dean of the diplomatic corps, Hon.
Elisha Allen, head of the Hawaiian en-
bassy, is also widower; and the new
British Minister, soon to arrive, is a
bachelor OF the candidates for the
Speakership, Hon. John A. Kasson, who,
next to Mr.. Hiscock, is most prominent,
is divorced man. His former wife is re-
married very happily to a wealthy gentle
man Of st. Louis.
Just at present Yorktown has withdrawn
from Washington its official and Senatorial
BIG GUNS,
And left this city in a state of suspended
animation. The Inequalities of the occa-
sion were extended TO your correspondent
among many others, but simultaneously
came the word that the dust there was six
inches deep. This fact would have had no
terrors, perhaps, to a Californian, but added
to that was the rumor of scarcity OF
victuals, and the two were. straws that
turned the scale with me between 50 to go
or not to 90, and appetite, prudence and
procrastination got the better of patriotism
as I decided. mot this centennial-some
other centennial. EMMA JAMES.