Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
spEoIAL :oaREsPoNDENcE oFrHE MONITOR.
Washington, july 2Ist.

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Washington, July 2Ist.
At the republican headquarters
here they are busy preparing cam
paign material. Ten new tracts have
been added to the list they are send
ing out, all relating to the tariff.
They are made up from the speeches
of the tariff democrats as we'll as re-
pnblicans, and are arranged so as to
make them particularly pointed, APP
pealing to the manufacturers, farmers
and to the labor element. These,
with large assortment of Blaine and
Logan poems suited to various sec
tons and huge paper plumes tinted
to suit various tastes, not forgetting
the green for Irish, make up stock in
trade of the workers. The democrat
ic committee is not doing much yet.
They are waiting until after the joint
meeting of the congressional and ma
tional committees, to be held on the
oath inst. Then they will prepare
their documents and begin their liter
airy campaign work.
Gen Logan left the city on Satur-
day evening for the west. Having
announced that be would start on that
day to the annual reunion of the grand
army of the republic at Minneapolis,
the veterans here seized the oportu-
nifty of giving him cordial adieu.
Preceded by the marine band, they
marched to his residence and offered
| their services as an escort to the rail-
! road station. There he was COM
PEELED to submit to the inevitable
handshaking ordeal, and left amid
rousing cheers, strains of music and
good wishes. He will return in a
fortnight and accompany his wife to
their Illinois home. He has completed
his letter of acceptance, which will be
published next Wednesday morning.
II is about half the length of Mr..
Blaine's letter.
Many department officials were
made happy the past week by promo
tons. But the women, alas were
snubbed again. In response to call
from the civil service commission for
applicants for examination to fill one
hundred and fifty pension office ex-
aminers' positions, created by the re-
cent act, quite large number of la
dies filed applications. AS there
was some question about their eligi-
bility for the places, the secetary of
the interior was consulted, and deci-
ded they were obviously such as could
not be be filled by women.
The session of the last cabinet
meeting was devoted to considering
the best method of preventing the
introduction of cholera into the Uni
ted States. 1t was decided to issue
an order prohibiting the importation
of rags from all infected countries
for period of ninety days. 1t was
also decided that the vessels of the
, revenue marine service should estab
lish a Gordon along the coast to pre-
vent the landing of all vessels from
foreign ports which do not posses.
clean bills of health.
Speaking of health reminds M
that the health officer here makes al
: exhibit which utterly demolishes th,
5 frequent charge of malaria agains
the capital and proves it among th,
most healthful cities in the world
and it is becoming daily more so
. The reclamation of the Potomac fiat
e is progressing rapidly, and the drain
:; age af the city is to be perfected soon
), not that congress has provided liber
ally for the purpose. Congressme
n have tried to cover their violations o
u Hygienic laws by charges agains. tn
climate and bad sewerage of the CAP
ital. These excuses for ailment
If caused by overdiligence cannot stan
If when examined by the light of offici:
5. records. They will have to resort
+ more plausible invention to conce:
: their intemperance
- And now another president is con
- ing over the sea to see us. This tin
r it is the chief magistrate of Sansalv'
n dor. These foreign potentates con
10 so rapidly that if international cou
lie tesy required them to be returne'
!" our own president would have lit
time for anything else. He is cor
re ing at the wrong time too. III
at White House is in its summer dish
rs bile of cool straw mating, linen co
&C cred furniture, and white curtain
= All tie winter grandeur of plush al
he velvet carpets and satin draperi
Int has been taken up and down al
he stored away from the moths. Besid
nd the foreign guest will tharwt pre-
U =, dent Arthur's plans, for he want
Of to run up to the Catskill regi
rht this week, and it would never do
the the head of the nation to be abst
Tho from his post when the head of {
PIE other Republic, about as big as
4sa county, arrives.
his CONVENTION NOTES.
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