Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR.
Washington, March Is.

President Arthur's little recruiting
excursion to Fortress Monroe has
been delayed by the prolonged indis-
position of Senator Don Cameron,
who has intended to accompany him.
The wealthy Senator is now rapidly
improving, but his illness was of so
severe a character and subjected him
to such intense physical torture that
the question of his recovery was Sc
riously discussed by his friends. He
will probably be able to go with the
President before the end of the week.
The Z. S. Steamship Despatch, pro-
visioned for the trip, awaits their
pleasure at the Navy Yard.
Secretary Folger's ill-health con-
tinues to the extent Of making the
routine duties of his office insupport-
able to him. His nervous dislike of
remaining for four hours in one po-
sition continuously signing his name
to papers retards his recovery, and
between the demands for his sigma
ture and the demands of place-hunt-
ing callers, he is completely worn
out and longs for the quiet of his old
judicial position. Since Justice
Bradley will be eligible for retirement
from the Supreme Court next May,
it is said Mr.. Folger will be his sue
cessor. 1t is probable Secretary
Folger may also accompany the Pres
ident to Fortress Monroe and then
leaving him to sail over to the Ber-
mudas in the Dispatch, where he will
remain until rested and recruited.
President Arthur has another trip
planned for the last of May. This
is to Yellowstone Park and possibly
to the Pacific Coast. He is very
anxious to make this western trip
during this year because next years
long congressional session will pre-
vent his getting away until too late
for such a journey.
The subject of the next presidency
is being agitated in administration
circles. Mr.. Arthur's name is of
| course mentioned for denomination,
but it is not much talked about. A
veteran Democrat says every man of
any prominence in his party is can
didate except Jones of Florida, and
Beck, of Kentucky. They are debarr-
ed only by their birth-place-Treland
and Scotland. The Administration
has no candidate as yet, but the
Presidents friends speak very kindly
of Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of
War. He has delighted many people
by ability and firmness in his Depart
ment, and is said to be the first Sec
rotary of War since jefferson Davis
who has completely mastered its de-
tails. He devotes as much care and
study to his work as if he were build
ing up law practice of fifty thou.
sand dollars year, and by his per-
feet familiarity and equipment is
absolute master and head of the De
partment. His friends are proud Of
him and intend to speak superlative
ly when they say ''He is worthy o.
his Father" Tt is said Secretary
Chandler Of the Navy would like tx
be the next Vice-President. Lincoln
and Chandler would not be a veal
combination. Their names are rem
iniscent of the earliest and best er:
of the party. And doubtless Mr.
Blaine's friends would support it, il
expectation of its resulting in making
him Secretary of State. Apropos o
: Mr.. Blaine, it is alleged he has pu
on fresh coat of social veneerin.
since he has occupied his grand hous
ON Dupont Circle, and requires hi
guests at dinner every day to appea
in evening dress, besides the institu
, ton of many other forms and rule
, suggestive of the household of
| duke or prince. This is nothing t
criticize, since every family in TIL
| free country may be law unto itself
, 1t is only another little instance {
} the steady increase in Washingto
of what is vulgarly called "style'.
The report of vital statistics show
: the health of the city to be bette
now than at any corresponding tin
0 during the past nine years. I'll
: mortality due to malarial causes
Y also shown to be less than that of Il
q principal northern cities. Indee
: Washinston is an exceptional
o healthy city at any time of the yea
n but the work of reclaiming the Pot
# mac flats will soon be in full oper
/ ton, when some ten to twenty tho
:, sand cubic yards of earth will be d
is posted daily upon the portions de
n tined to be dry land, and it is fear'
o the stirring up and exposure of th
miasmatic deposit will initiate again
r, the health of the city, produciI
l. malarious atmosphere by evaporatio
ii So, in view of this result, very ge
y eral fight of Westinghouse may
re predicted for the summer to sea-si
N and mountain-side resorts.