The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-04-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
~ WASHINGTON, D.. c.,
April % 1888

drawing to a close and it is interest
ing to note the different views and
expectations concerning the result.
The prosecution is very confident of
conviction, while the defense is in
high glee over the certainty of ac-
quittal. The judge has seemed to
lean heavily lately towards the de-
tense, which has greatly surprised
his friends. Certain tits that Brady
and Dorsey are in excellent spirits,
and they are, already planning to be-
ginsbig law suits against the papers
that have slandered them. The first
suit, they say, will be agsinst the
New York Times by Dorsey, and his
damages will be laid at a halfmillion
dollars. He. will engage the best and
biggest lawyers, and although he has
to raise money on his valuable prop
erty, he will, SO he says, spend a lot
ofmoney TO punish the Times. Brady
announces that he intends to make
the government pay him a large sum
of money for defending himself
against a prosecution for doing what
the law required him to do. llthis
planning fer revenge will come to
naught if it should happen that these
gentlemen are called upon tosreside
a few years in private quarters at
government expense. 1t is hardly
worth while to express an opinion
as to the result. A pretty strong
case has been made out by the pros
ecution, but it is hard to tell how the
Jury may stand nevertheless. The
defense have fought tooth and toe
nail"to keep all the evidence out they
could, and a good deal has been rul-
ed out on technical grounds that
would have thrown much light on
1.-THE case. This is the full inyestiga.
ltion these defendants professed to
court when first accused. MI. Lilley,
the old man o fseventy whom Dorsey
kicked out of his house e, has brought
suit against the latter for $4,000
damages for assault.
There is small breeze over the
displacement of Peter Collier, chem
ist of the Agricultural department.
and the appointment of Prof. Riley
to the place. From what can be
learned it is a case of refractory con.
duct on the part of the chemist. Il
is understood that fer eighteen
months he has chosen &c far to EN-.
phasise his difference with the Com.
missioner as to refuse to speak to
him, and it. became intolerable. The
original point of departure was sor.
ghum. MI. Collier had the LIE Due
theory about it, and he somehow go'
the Academy of Science on his side
Perhaps, at its meeting here, it will
again takeup the matter. President
White writes from Cornell university
that his college loses and the depart
ment of Agriculture gains by the re
moval of Prof. Riley to Washington
1t is known that Commissioner Lor
ing is we'll sustained. And now the
Agricultural bureau is busy prog
~nosticating the yield for wheat, most
of which has never been sown an6
the rest of which is not yet out O.
the ground. In order to get this ri
d%iculous nonsense the government
has to pay the travelling expenses o.
half a dozen agents travelling ovel
Minnesota and heaven knows where
Last year, besides the fact that no
body knew or cared one copper cen
about these absurd wheat estimates
a clerical error of a hundred million
bushels was discovered in the bureau
of Agriculture. This bureau is real
ly rather a useful thing when it il
managed on common sense princi
hples, and does not aspire to know il
February how much wheat will b.
harvested in July.
The country rests easy under tn
absence not only of the President
but four out of the seven cabinet of
%ficers. Mr.. Chandler, of the Navy
is still with the President, though
he has not fallen out OF a wagon 70
several days. Mr.. Lincoln, Of tn
War department, is away on the Dis
patch. Mr.. Brewster, Attorney Gen
eral, is somewhere out of town, pro
badly in Philadelphia, but he goei
and comes with such suddenness an
frequency that nothing is though
of it. Secretary Folger is reporte'
as absent at Seneca, N. Y, wher
his son and daughter are both yer.
i'll. They have consumption in it
most threading form, and though on
has been travelling in Florida an
the other in Minnesota, they canno
get relief. The rumor that MI. Fo,
ger will resign is revived. The gos
sips say that when the discouraein
condition of his children was mad
/ known to him it had the effect g
leading him to determine on a retur
to private life. Added to his ow
illness, it had a very depressing e.
feet. The Princeton Glee Club CAV
a concert here one night last weeE
t and were afterwards entertained 6
; supper at the White House by youn
Allen Arthur and Mrs. H]syneswortl
who is at the White House durin
1 the Presidents absence. Youn
!, Arthur came over presumably to d
t the handsome thing by his college
mates. They were received in tn
, Blue Room and half q dozen youn
girls invited to meet them. tt
boys had supper with plenty of wir
and a hilarious time after the mai
ner of college youths, which ws
S kept up until three o'clock in til
Y morning.
d Here is a picture of Conkling
seen on the streets of Washingto
! not many days ago, on his way
K the Patent Office to argue a case b
g fore the Commissioner. He w.
e dressed in black coat and vest vii
e dark grey trowsers, and walking
the head of a small procession. F,
the first time within the memory
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