The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-27

enemy, and retired with stronge
sense of security. After the clerks hat
returned to their desks, General Grcsh
am had conference with his assistants
anu thus, pleasantly, personally ant
official acquaintance began. One o
Judge Gresham's first official acts viii
he to make selection from the designs
sent by the American Bank Note Com
pany of New York for the new two cen
postage stamps. After the two cent
law goes into effect the three cent
stamps IN stock will be used for pack.
ages of third and fourth class mail mat
ter, and for Canadian mail, and if the
demand for them will warrant it the
Department will continue to print three
cent stamps.
The Society Of the Army Of the PotO-
mac will hold its annual reunion in this
city, and as the event approaches much
interest Is felt, as it is expected to at
tract a very large number Of visitors to
Washington. These throngs of people
are of course conducive ~ the business
interests of the city, and there will be
an effort on the part of the citizens to
contribute to the pleasure Of the occa-
sion and thereby make Washington a
popular place for these gatherings, as it
is really the most appropriate place. In
its campaigning days, this Army for a
long time made the Capital the centre
of its operations, while around it are
many of the battle fields and bivouacs
of its dead. The Society has held thir-
teen annual reunions in different cities
before returning to hold one here, where
every spot is familiar to these old SOL
diers and suggestive of martial memoir
les. The formal features of the reun-
ions arc business meeting, and ora
tiOn, poem, and banquet. But the vet
Grams have a high old time shaking
hands, renewing friendships, strength
ening ties, reviewing past scenes, and
living over together the events of a Pc
Rod so thrillingly forcible In the men,
cries OF each other,
Twenty-Five senators still rema in in
Washington, among them Senator Kel-
logg, of Louisiana, who was recently in
dicted for implicitly in the Star Route
Cases.
Hon. Roscoe Conkling always at
tracts attention when he appears in
Washington. He has just been here
IN an electric light patent suit.
He spoke with his characteristic facility
to room full of listeners and warmed
up with his subject until the prespira-
hon ran down his face. He is growing
Did rapidly, but seemed to be healthy
and cheerful. He is always stared at
on the Avenue by those who are on the
yui rire for lions, and COnkling is a no
less leonine lion than Blaine or Butler.
The CIVIL Service Commission is es-
tablishcd in Its rooms III the annex of
the agricultural building. These quar-
ters are not regarded as necessarily per-
though they answer all present
requirements, and will be occupied un-
Ill the Government furnishes something
better. The examinations will not be-
gin for about thirty days. The room is
arge enough to examine sixty appli-
.ants at one time. The answers will all
De in writing, and the marking will
be done by experts from the
assigned to the duty, with
every precaution necessary to insure
fairness, even to the extent of the recon.
alteration of cases where there should
De any complaint of uniairness.