Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-02-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Regular oorrespondent.l

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From Our Regular Correepopdont1
WAsnINeToN, Feo. %, 1884.
Ex-senator Dorsey, who has been about
Washington some weeks, left Monday night
for New Mexico. A large interest in his
big ranch down there has been purchased
by Colonel Ingersoll and John B. Alley, OF
Boston. These two are to meet Dorsey in
n short time and Join him in a trip to Old
Mexico after looking ever the property
they have just acquired. But Dorsey has
not been occupied wholly with business
matters since lie has been here. Polite.
ians, lobbyists, men with schemes, appli-
cants for pensions, have thronged his par.
lors from morning until late at night
There are two politicians who have spent
many hours with him whose visits have no
little political significance. These are Sen
ator Logan and Richard Crowley. Last
summer Dorsey was very bitter in his re-
marks about Logan. He felt very keenly
the slight caused by the resolution of
thanks to Colonel Hooker, assistant secre
tary OF the Republican National Commit.
tee, that Logan offered. No mention at
all was made OF Dorsey's services, and he
regarded this omission as an intended in
suit. But it appears that Dorsey has
changed his views in that respect; at all
even =, IL is certain that whatever differen.
ces there may have been they have all
been smoothed over. Ii il question how
much good the ex.stnr route defendant
can do anybody in politics just now; but a
candidate who ia real anxious generally
accepts any kind of aid he can get.
Hon. E. NJ. Marble, ex-Commissioner of
Patents, who recently resigned to enter
upon the practice of his profession here,
has found-plenty TO do, and is looking m ore
hale and hearty than when presiding ever
that vexatious department, the Patent OF.
fee. He thinks with many others that the
| Government lees for letters patent might
| well he reduced, and that instead OF earn.
ing large surplus from the tax upon in
dustry and genius, the office should simply
be self sustaining. There are other reforms
which Mr.. Marble would have been glad
TO inaugurate had he remained iE the Of
| flee. One of these, the compiling OF com
plete descriptive digest of all the patents
issued from the founding of the office, he
did have begun, by the consent of Con-
gress, and n very valuable and convenient
work it would have been, to the public
and the department. but go much opposi-
ton was made by parties Interested in
keeping the office in its present state, that
Congress was induced to withhold the nec.
essary appropriation for carrying on the
work. In few years at most the depart
inent will advance to Mr.. Marbles views
on all these points. Meanwhile his long
connection with ii, both as law officer and
Commissioner of Patents, enable him to
render valuable service ie those who con-
suit him. 1t is wonderful how rapidly the
business OF the Office increases and what
complications grow out OF it. Just now
there Is among many ether contests a hot
battle over the different telephone patents
The Bell Company have had practically a
monopoly 80 far, but it is question
whether other claimants will not be able
to show priority.
Those who have attended receptions and
other dress occasions this winter have re.
mni ked the unusual display of slow necks
II is the style just now, more than hereto
lore, Tor fashionable society to strip itselI
down to that condition whith Mr.. Anthony
Ccmstock says should not lie tolerated
even in an art collectors private prints
A stranger who went to the President.
last reception was asked How did YOU en-
JOY the levee :? "Well, saw several dude.
and good many hudes," was the reply
THIS extreme fashion is eliciting much nm
favorable comment both here and else
where, as it prevails in fashionable circle,
everywhere. 1t is question whether wo-
men who at a public gathering expos,
their persons in a manner that would al
most cause ballot girl TO blush can Ii,
really modest. And yet mothers send thei
blooming young daughters out in thi
fashion. These are admired. Pretty, fair
| young shoulders are attractive, but wher
stout marrons OF middle age, and scrawn,
women still old, bare their neck beyon,
all sense Of delicacy and limit, modes
people are ashamed. There were ladies -
q the Presidents reception who felt lik
turning their faces to the wal to hide thei
tlushes, so shockingly low were some Q
0 the dresses.
, While / write the Capital is full of Dem
oerals from the various cities who hav
come to attend the meeting OF the Naiiona
Committee and contend for the location @
t the convention. OF course the matter wi
be settled by the time this reaches yon, bu
at present the contest seems to be betwee
st Louis and Chicago. They are jell
n lot, these Democrats, and put down gre;
e deal OF evil in the shape OF corn Juice an
q "sich.' Ii our hotels are so filled up wit
the delegations from these cities how couT
T. we even take care of convention repre-
e seniing the whole country? Yet mar
II claim that Washington is the place for a
% OF them. Not much is id about caad
=. dates among the Democrats now here, b
l. there are some boems ready to he launch,
'e after the lime and place for holding Il
y convention has been settled.
"a Dom PEDRO.