Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
True Inwardncss of the Cha1ge III 'h'
Fort Worth Postcfllee.
Sacrificing Efficient Public Servants
for Party Interests.

iUI ihtN'N''
Sights In the Great Thorougllfare oil the
National Capital.
q Special Correspon donce OF the Gazette.
Washington. February SIT was
not desirable. which Mrs. Burchell
was contending for her place, against
/ intriguing party leaders, that the GA
{ zErrE should recite incidents OF each
, day in its telegraphic columns II was
: well-known here rs in Fort Worth,
that she was sought to be
| victimized by spies and informers of
the department, who are simply traV-
cling agents and organizers of the Re
publican party. The postoflice at Fort
Worth could pay railway fares and ex-
penses in Chicago of two or three roar
ing fellows such as have done Arthur's
bidding for twenty-five years in Re
publican ward meetings In New York.
The acknowledgement is good
and godly and righteous man. We
know he Is, because he
makes such an lawful noise about
the desecration OF his mail bags by
that sinful institution, the Louisiana
lottery. He doesn't propose to have
any newspapers containing an adver-
| tisement of this impious "rebel' lottery
transmitted through his bags, conse-
Grated to virtue and goodness. He is
a mighty good man, this General
Gresham, and therefore the necessity
fer proper charges of misfeasance or
malfeasance before the postmistress of
Fort Worth could be elected. The |
postoilice inspector for Texas who
was organizing the Gresham-Arthur
combination which makes its
first appearance at Chicago
next June, overresched himself. He
knew that the postmistress must go,
and that whatever his allegations,
they would subserve the purpose OF
his masters, furnish a preteXt and the
name of the camp follower to be sub
stituted for Mrs. Burchill would at
once go to the senate. But Mrs. Bur
chill heard the news from Washing.
ten, and when she came down sud
denly on Gresham and showed how he
was victimized by pair of inspectors
who had inspected nothing, when
Mrs. Burchill exhibited the facts
and the written statements
of the "pals" and employees of
the good custom house officer at Gal
weston who supervises the distribution
IF public plumber in Texas, when
Gresham saw that he had been duped,
he simply threw up his hands and
urned up the piety of his eyes and
aid, well, Mrs. Burchell, you've
'ornered them"
Gresham was forced, so the story
,oes, TO confess that the Fort Worth
'ostmistress had exposed the vices
nd double-dealing of the
agents. She had /
lso demonstrated her own blameless- h
ess. But for all that, dent think e
he will be suffered to retain her
lace. Malloy of the Galveston Gus.
,m house demands it for one of his
.rvitors, and Mrs. Burchill must go.
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. q
OF course the first impressions and I
plnions of men and facts made in the "
ipital affect Pennsylvania avenue. o.
was the direct street connecting the
capital with ancient George
wn, and most Important, and so con-
iered when George Washington
lsied himself on the spot with en- di
neers in planning the country's cap &C
al. The people of Washington speak OF
tmiringly if not aifectionately of the h,
reat thoroughfare rs ''the avenue" W
Is by no means beautiful and only is
road and well paved with asphalt.
he buildings on either side constitute
lde, Jagged walls between the streets
ntering the avenue from the north
nd the south. Only here and there, +,
long intervals, ale the d
usiness houses worthy of the Of
lace, its fame or its trades-people. Of
hese business houses are of every n,
ossible style of architecture and beau -
fractures in Fort Worth, and more ~
isteful and costlier with three or four "
RECEPTIONS, than any store house on I,
avenue. In business &c
vocations and in manufacturing, ~
Washington city is an unutterable
allure. Of merchants there are none
nd only trades-people. The mills"
re those of the whisky gods, -.
rlnding slowly but awful fine. VI
mere are several breweries and great ~
eer gardens, but the beer bibblers tell p'
lie that the best beer drunk in the a
ipltai is produced across the Potomac OF
the venerable town of Alexandria. III
n fact multitudes of people go over to
.lexandria to devour oysters, drink FL
eer; and poker is lawful over there W
nd can live in the open air in the II
capital. Gresham and h'
ne eminently godly trjumvirs al
riding 1t ever the people of this dis d.
ict, have suffered gambling hells, and
lille people having fine clothes do 90
church on Sundays, the gamblers
ave NED away to oysters and beer
nd to Alexandria and Baltimore, AL ne
Sandria prospers and is then happy VI
Its sinfulness, while Washington Is n
Feary and depopulated. The ~
TVS of the place may 81
eminently proper, but they Oh o.,
'ive, weary multitudes, for recreation, w
lat have toiled six days in depart. IA
ents, over to Baltimore, ANNAPOLIS 10
Alexandria on Sunday. Last even pc
g ut o'clock two great passenger ii
RS were filled to Overlooking at Alex :.
ldria with roysterers and pleasure. III
ekers from the capital, and these IN
ere only few of the great number We
turning on ferry boats and other
ainSof the evening from Alexan- u.s.
ia ana from other neighborinp rel
ties. sa,
PECULIAR SOCIETY AND MORALS. sal
Peculiar habits, morals and wI
odes OF life are begotten of the pres. if !
&c OF powers ana government and wh
us enormous expenditures in Wash. 90,
eton. The trades-people deal main. sb
WIN clerks and place-holders and Ia
tn plactAseekers and H. Ie ou,;o,,s w