Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-11-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Graphic Correspondence.

WASHINGTON, d. C. Nov. 6, 1882
There ale not few people in Wash
ington who, for one reason or another,
strange as 1t may appear, feel good
deal interested IN the election returns
now coming in, and the town has for
some days stood up on edge, as 1t were.
Not much public business has been
done in the departments for more than
a week past, as large proportion of
the clerks have been absent on voting
leave, while those that remain have
been studying the situation. Taking
the country over, it is pretty safe to say
that things political were never more
thoroughly mixed than they are at this
time. 1t is scarcely worth while to
discuss the matter in this letter, how
ever. 1t is too late to speculate and
rather too early to morallze intelligent
ly. We shall see what we shall see,
and probably all find out where we
stand later on. Whatever happens me
individual opinion is that the Ameri-
can eagle vii! continue to soar and the
old fiag-and an appropriation-con-
tlnue to wave over the land of the free.
Preparations for the Garfield Monu-
ment Fair, to be held in this city the
latter part Of this month, are going for
ward on large scale. 1t gives prom
ise of beng grand exposition second
only to the Centennial. So much de-
mand has been made by manufacturers
of fancy goods for room to show off
their wares that the Capitol is not large
enough for all of them, and the new
building lately erected in the Smithson-
ian grounds has been pressed into ser
wee. There is to be an immense
Knight Templar parade one day, and a |
grand bicycle tournament the next, and
this will be followed by a competitive
military drill participated in by crack
organizations from abroad, while on
Sunday evening there is to be grand
sacred concert in both the theatres and
Lincoln Hall, the principal artists ap-
pearlng at each place successfully.
The ladies of various States will make
special displays of pretty things at the
tables allotted to them. The Arkan-
'as ladies' will make specially of flow.
ers at their table and cotton bolls tied
With ribbon marked in memory of the
occasion to be kept as souvenirs will
De among their wares. The Illinois
aides will make fine display ofperfu-
merry, and Pennsylvania; have chosen
confectionery for their specially.
Mrs. Garfield, they say, is employed
n a task which rarely combines the ex-
remes of pleasure and sadness. In
er new Cleveland house large room
as been set apart for the reception of
IL the gifts of love which came to her
usband during his long days of un- /
omplaining sufferings and the tokens of :
which rained IN upon the :
'ricken wife after those sufferings had :
eased. Hearts were touched in everv +
art of this broad land as hearts had Il
ever been touched before, and offer H
lgs OF love and sorrow were sent by z
lasonic brotherhoods, State associa- K
ions. orders Of high and low degree, v
men and women individually and by q
osts of little children. For, in the %
implicitly OF his life in the pathetic en-.
france and heroic courage displayed
that man, wounded unto death, was
uched that chord in nature which
axes the whole world kin. The sew. >.
al valuable Libraries which Mr.. Gar. "a
Id gathered about him at his various To
aces of residence are to be placed in
is room.
The president went over to New