Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-04-16
SATURDAY, APRIL Is, 1881.
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.


" P'St ouiCC III tuc CoTIcTS OF sctifc
some place where they can be fed out of
the government crib. Let me give your
readers a picture Of one eance at the
White House. At ten O'Clock we arc
met at the outside door by the smiling
attendant who bid Us good morning. and
In our Innocence we enter congratulate
ing ourselves that we have the start Of
the hungry horde, but passing through
the hall and up the stairs tt the exccu-
tive waiting room we find ourselves
egregiously sold, for the crowd is there
and has taken possession of every seat,
while numbers are standing. smoking,
filling the room and hall with the reek-
ing fumes Of cheap cigars. One shows
the obliging clerk whose duty it is to
listen to the wants and woes Of this
motley crowd, his papsrs. which bear
the endorsement in strange hieroglvph-
les of the member of the Pat. Murphy
Lie Awakes declaring that he is Just the
man to be Postmaster at Iiardscrabblc.
Another has the signatures OF all the
good men in his town. They really
hope that the President will send him to
one of the Cannibal Isles or any where
else. Utterly useless the community can
spare him and no one will miss him or
mourn his absence when he has gone.
Here is a woman who wants IN extra
session Of congress. She is talking and
waiting. Past girl-hood and well into
the forties. She is not handsome, has
four front teeth that have been dropped
somewhere. She carries a paper box
full Of documents and is able to satisfy
the President III just two minutes that
an extra session is necessary. Here is IA
man who looks strange and haggaId.
He has a patent for saving the nation
and he must sec the President right
away" The good natured attendant as
sures him that it is impossible and sug
gests that he put his wishes on paper
which he proceeded to do and hands in
ten pages of foolscap To be consigned to
the Presidential waste basket. The
SiOSe oDpOIlCIlt vi AlNI StINtIt
will be satisfied in an hours visit to the
Executive Mansion or to the Offices of
members of the Cabinet, that a check
must be put upon this greed for office
by a tiXity of it, tenure, based on com
potency and good behaviour. The coun-
try can never stand this strain when its
population shall have reached 0O,OOO,0 900
and the Nations life will pe more and
more endangered until the brakes are
applied.
Postmaster General James has a letter
from DR.. Slaghorn, the postmaster-gen
eral of the German Empire, congratulate
ing him upon his promotion to the head
of the postal service ofthe United States,
a compliment that is the more valuable
from the fact that it is purely personal
and without the formality which attends
official correspondence.
Macveagh like Mrs. Partington's Ike
never opens his mouth but he puts his
foot in it. That he did try to bluff the
President by saying that he could not
remain in the Cabinet if the appoint
ment Of w. L. Chandler was made, is
without doubt true. and it is apparent
that he would now like to find an easy
wav of taking it all back Chandler
however will not ask to have his name
Withdrawn to please Macveagh, nor is
the President willing he should do so.
1t may as well be considered settled: in
the outset, that General Garfield is to be
President.
The Senate galleries are packed every
day with visitors who watch with inter
est the movements of the democratic OBJ
structionists. Senator Malone, small i'm
stature but full Of eloqnence, is firing hot
shot into the bourbon camp. He de-
clares that the day Of bourbon serfdom
in Virginia is past, and the balance Of
his life shall be given in defence Of a
free and untramelled ballot, and or the
right Of every man To have his vote
sTccAvs-~~> rso - o~%~.
Mr.. j. S. Brown, the Presidents. ps;-
VutC % - sitttiNS vi ILL Wy,
the son of a carpenter. His Sunday
school teacher inspired him to aim high
err than carpenters work and give him
instruction in Latin which, the boy
learned at night after handling carpen-
tei's tools through the day. After a
year or two of study he advised him 10
learn shorthand. 70 this art he dovot-
ed himself with patience and industry,
always practicing after the days labor,
Thus he worked on till at length he was
employed by Garfield to write for him
evenings. Being expert he was engaged
to 60 to Mentor, where he survived the
siege Of offce-bunters; and moves up to
q salary Of s $500 per year. He has also
acquired an interest in a sheep ranch at
Ivanpah, Greenwood county, Kansas.
He "a of the right stuff to make himself