Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-28
WASHINGTON.
A BAD TINE FOR THE OFFICE
BROKERS.
Mahone's Observation-Disclosures Patents
Busting" from the Inside-CleveIand's s
Majority.

WASHINGTON, october S6 The President Is
going very slow just now. He Is waiting for
the November blast from New York aud Penn
syIvania He is not making any appointments
he has been urged to make a large number Of
removals and appoint new men. It is almost
unnecessary to say that the persons urged for
removal are people who are tainted with half
breedism in that they are not bowling stall
warts. The other day politician, anxious for
change of the kind mentioned, called on the
President and urged the necessity Of his plea.
The President replied that he did not intend to
make any new appointments until after the
November elections and that it was needless
20 urge him to do so. To others on similar
errands he has said the same The character
OF the November elections. it would thus SEEM
is to influence Presidential appointments.
THE WAY HE poEs IT
You know that Malone has twice assessed
government employees from Virginia five per
cent or their salaries, and he got the money,
too. An official of the Post ONCE Department
told me today that not Virginia employe
there escaped. The very laborers and women
on salaries OF six hundred and nine hundred
collars year, snd many of them with fami-
Hes 20 support, have twice been compelled to
hand over five per cent. of their yearly pay to
the jay Hubbell, OF Virginia He cited in
stances or three women, one with a family Of
other with an invalid sister to take care of who
mad tried to escape the rake, but to no avail
The presentation of their case to Malone did
not cause that gentleman even to reduce the
assessment. They had to pay or go. All of
dollars.
:. Speaking Of Malone, 1 was looking over a
llst or Presidential post offices in Virginia the
other day. The list at the Post Office De-
partment, and is used for reference. Opposite
each Postmasters name was the name of the
appointment had been made. With but few
exceptions that name was Malone.
EDIsoNs PATENTS.
With nearly every issue, weekly, of the list
or patents granted inventors. there is added
one or more, sometimes as many as eight, new
ones to Edison. He will average at least
seventy inventions year. Many of these In
ventions are the result of his brain years ago,
unon which he IS now getting patents
WIN .h "a very rare exception. all
Long ago separate room in the Patent Office
was set apart for the reception Of the models
OF bis Inventions This room. known as 'Ed
sons Room, " is being rapidly filed. 1t is one
of the sights not to be missed by visitors They
are always shown that room. 1t is certainly
worth seeing: The use of the inventions or
how they work is uninteliigible to the average
man, but the collection of queer looking I
models is decidedly interesting. If Edison
goes on at his PR sent rate he will soon have to
be assigned another room. 1t is said that he
graph Company by which for s.. 900 that COM
pany is allowed to make the first bid for every
improvement invented by the Wizard Of |
Menlo Park"
HOW THEY BUST
On the corner of Sever tn and F streets in |
this city here has been located for years an |
aged darkey who, with brush and blacking |
makes living by shining boots He il a |
quaint old customer and shrewd withal. He |
is credited with having snug little nest egg. |
His stand is Just in front of the building for |
merly occupied by the German-American |
sav1ngs Bank. which exploded a couple of /
years ago under somewhat peculiar circum. |
stances. The vaults formerly in the building |
are now being taken out. large mass of |
bricks anu mortar obstTucts the sidewalk. To- /
day while Sam was polishing away at half an |
acre of leather the owner OF the leather said:
Sam. there is enough bricks and mortar there |
to build house." 'Yes, sab, >" said Sam. land. |
boss. can't see for the life of me how that |
bank busted Certainly it did not bust from
the outside; must been from the inside, Just |
like the Freedman's Bank. They all busts |
from the inside, bleves."
BIG FIGURES.
The figures that are predicted as the ma
jority of the Democrats in New York are GER |
Bainly large. do not hear any politician say |
that Cleveands majority will be less than |
1900. ana from that upward the figures grow
very rapidly. Fifty thousand is what most
Democrats predict, and Republicans even the
most stalwaTt concede the State to The Democ-
racy by "a very fair msjority." Many Repub-
hcans concede $4,000 defeat for Folger. One
Republican from New York is very downcast
He Is business man in the interior of the |
State. he was in the oflcs of Treasurer Gill
hllan to-day. Mr. Gilhllau asked him how
thirgs were going in New York. Badly. very
badly" he replied. Cleveland will be elected |
by an overwhelming ma ority. l would not be
surprised if his majority was 200,0OOI'
Potomac.