River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-09
WAYS In WASHINGTON.

WAYS In WASHINGTON.
Eve.y one and his neighbor breathes
freely, now that the Senate has adj
iourned and Conkling has departed, at
tended, as was Don Quixote, by his
faithful squire. Jones of Nevada. Al
ready there has been general exodus,
or perhaps / should call it a general
stampede, and were it not for the office
holders who want to be retained, and
the officeseekers who want their places,
the hotels would be deserted. Some
well-informed people are confident that
the political guillotine has not yet be-
gun to work, and that next week the
basket will be often filled with decapi-
tated heads. Consuls, chiefs of bureaus,
and high-salaried clerks are evidently
i'll at ease, and it will not be surprising
should a good many of them be treated
as
COMMISSIONER LIE DUO WAS,
and told that unless they resign on the
spot they viii be dismissed. Unfortu-
nate LIE Duel He had his corn-sugar
influence at the North, his tea influence
at the South, his books and his seeds
scattered everywhere, and the patrons
of Husbandry" all at work for him.
But it was of no avail For every letter
that he filed DIR. Loring would file two,
and the Doctor finally presented as his
trump card letter from Whittier, the
poet, which was the more remarkable
as the Doctor was not an original Boz
litionist, and at one time staunchly sup
ported the Fugitive Slave law. But the
Quaker poet recomm ended the versa
tile Doctor, and that secured his nomi-
nation.
DR.. LORING
really has a practical knowledge of ag-
riculture, as he was raised on the par
sonage farm of his father, clergyman
in the rural town of North Andover,
near where Lawrence. Mass, now
stands. He and his brot er were then
gaunt, growing boys, when their father
sent them one day to an adjacent cat
tie show with some very FIT hogs to ex-
hibit. The boys were rather proud of
the many compliments paid to the
hogs, until farmer came along and
said to an acquaintance: Mighty nice
hogs these of Parson Loring's, but why
don't he give his boys more to eat and
his hogs less ?" The Doctor is now
A TALL, PoRTLY GENTLEMAN,
60 years of age. He has for the past
twenty years carried on a large farm
near Salem, Mass, and he has been
the popular president of the Essex
County and the New England Agri-
cultural Societies No man in that re-
gion owns better horses or purer-
blooded cattle, nor can any one sur
pass him in making telling speeches at
agricultural exhibitions. He will give
the tea-growing and the making sugar
from cOrn-stalks experiments of LIE
Due fair show, but he will not instruct
the chemist at the Department of Ag-
riculture to make reports on them sus-
tanning his declarations, although I'M
supported by facts. He owns house
here, where he resides with Mrs
Loring and an agreeable young
lady, the daughter of his first wife.
GILL" CHANDLER
came to grief in the senate, which he
will feel rather bad over, as he owns a
house here, and his wife, like most
other ladies enjoys residing here. She
is a daughter of John F. Hale, the
humorous New Hampshire Senator,
who was merciless, yet parliamentary
in his comments On the dignified old
cocks who used to represent the south
ern states in the senate, and who had
keen noses for appropriations, while
they talked about "honor, sah!" Wilkes
Booth who boarded at the National
hotel, was very attentive to her, and
he probably spent in paying attentions
to her and other young ladies in the
hotel much of the money sent to him
from Richmond for the abduction of
President Lincoln. When he learned
that the confederate papers had fallen
into the hands of the Union army, he
feared detection, and his inherited in.
sanity conceived the damnable assasina-
ton.
GEN. FITZPATRICK
owes his reappointment as Minister to
Chill to his buxom, black-eyed South |
American wife, whose broken English |
gives an additional charm to her con- |
versation. She has been daily visitor |
to Mrs. Gen. Sherman's during the past |
winter, and as good Roman Catholics |
they have attended mass together |
Mrs. Sherman is cousin of Secretary
Blaine, and her influence has sent the
gallant New Jersey trooper back to his
old diplomatic mission. To do this it
was necessary to provide for the in
cumbent, Gen. Thomas A. Osborne, of
Kansas, or Senator Plumb would have
him as rival candidate in the senator
ial election of next year. so Osburne
was rotated to Brazil, displacing that
clerical weather-cock, Henry w. Hill
lard, of Georgia, who has been in turn
Wing, Democrat, KNOWN Nothing,
Secessionist, and Republican, and who
had large life-share ofoffices at home
and abroad
ADMIRAL PORTER,
who has of late years been kept in the
background, and altogether ignored at
the Navy Department, has been brought
to the front by Judge Hunt, and the
Board of Inspection, of which he is the
chief, has been made a reality. Official
communications from naval command
ers have now to be made through him,
and he makes such Endorsements or
written recommendation as he deems
proper. The Admiral intends during
the summer, to inspect the different
navy yards on the Atlantic coast, be
ginning at the Port Royal, South Caro-
lima station, which is to be kept up al
though Secretary Thompson had de-
termined to suppress it.
MR.. JUSTICE MATTHEW'S
was entertained OF Wednesday at
breakfast party given in honor of his
appointment by his colleague on the
bench, Mr.. Justice Harlan. at his resi-
dence on Vermont avenue. Judge
Matthews will enter at once ON his cir
cult duties, but he will return here in
the autumn, bringing with him his wife
and two daughters. Mrs. Matthews is
a large, stately dame, with white hair,
and very bright She is a Tennesseau.
and the aunt of Henri Watterson, the
witty Louisville editor. The oldest
Miss Matthews, passed several weeks at
the executive mansion in the winter of
1879 80, and participated in the New
Years reception. 1t is rather curl
Gus fact that Chlef-Justice Waite and
Justices Swayne, Miller, Bradley, and
Harlan each, have grown-up daughters.
MR.. REGISTER BRUCE,
if you please The nomination and
prompt confirmation of the swarthy
ex-senator from Mississippi to be regis
ter of the treasury gives general salts
faction. He is q gentlemanly, well-in-