Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-11
Aantasier :Antflligri,rlr.
THURSDAY FvENING JAN. il, 1855
TX .E5TEETIC KENJAMiN.
TT" 'ieau,ies Of Art Wherein Els sOI
Delights.

Tr" reau:ies of Art Wherein Els Soul
delights.
Aut ,rney General BrewsteI's aesthetic
,"a'.- are iii part revealed in his annual
Ic,"It, in which il is shown that the de-
p" t;ufut of justice has not only paid
retail rates for its purchases, but at very
liberal advance over what ordinary people
pay. Two of the local papers. ior in
statce. whose subsci Vtion prices delivered
are res pcctively 80 and "A cents month,
are charged throughout the report at 81
AID AT - cents.
TIE department bougiIt during the year
4iG yards o! floor covering and upholstery
rs follows: -Four pieces of frieze, eight
pieces Of border, eight pieces Of flock ard
:iSi set OF gold bead, all Of this lot cost
ing $3f 81 also one piece velvet border,
two AID a half pieces t!ado border, 3: teet
goli lead, black Japanese wolf robe, so:
hanging pictures, sl2. 80; moving furnl-
tuIe and arranging rooms, $1,000; two
and "a half yards of billiard cloths 81 UP
holstering four sofas and lounge and chair
$50 each eleven small chairs at S2y0
each two arm chairs, easy chair and
sleepy hollow, s. each Turkish chairs,
:lS two chair seats, S. each.
Among the other items are q half GALLON
,eimijohn and two cOrkscrcws, seven dec
Grated cuspidOres, bust of Icung Au
gus:us," $6 {; one celluloid cOsnb, one
ounce Goulard's ceIate, ono plaque, SO :;
one pearl Congress knife, $3.50; 800
catds for the attorney general, s. ; foot.
stools !or tie attorney General, four plated
ice pitchers, $40 ourrlated walters,
81 49, and one decorated plate, - -.
'.he attorney generals telegraphio bill,
WEE usually small, but in one month thcy
reached 1928 and in another $379. The
expenses for the United States courts il
the District of Columbia for the fisca!
year OF 1881 paid in the fiscal year Of
Of 1892 amounted to $2,0il.72. expended
as follows MarshaIs, $13G.G2 ms;els-
rccus, s12l.G5 attorneys. $2, 113. 40. The
expenses incurred aud paid IN the fiscal
year 1882 amounted to &i39, 1869, be
sides SIS, ,0GO for the district Jail, expended
rs follows Marsha!s, $500. jurors,
$96. .S92: witnesses, SCI. .0S0 50 ; mis-
celaneous expenses, $fS, 90 q; attor-
ncvs, sG05ij 45 c"r IisSionerS, $3il 40.
In the District of Columbia W. 4. Cook
received s., ,250 for services scLdcred the
government in the Star Route CT: cs ~.
NJ. Gibson and II. T. Mrrrio!s each Io-
cciyed s5,OC0; ". W. Kcr, I'll 900 for
election and Star Route cases George
Bliss, SJS, lJo.oi Tor ices ana expenses III
Star Route eases John I. Porter ana W.
G. Dav;'ge were paid each $4,000 for
services N the Guiteau case.
The attorney general, before his accos-
sion 20 office, received -, 800 :rr services
IA The Star Route eases ~ ti.c Eastern
district OF Pennsylvania. Mr.. Mcrrick
and Mr.. KPr are each credited with re
c~;yiug $50 day for services as counsel
in the Star Route cases. Mr. MGR
ricll's fees above the 5000 specified, as
well as the expenses Of the govc.nment's $
special AGENTS and detectives III ihe last
trial, ;."a probably included iii the mis-
cnianeons item CT $iS,SlG.46, making
Star Route expenses SD far certainly Ept
less than !l5o,GOo Mr. Bliss has been
continuously for over "a year under gov
ernmeDt pay at 800 a day.