The Press., 1884-10-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, D. C., Oct. Is, 1884.
 Republicans here are of course very hap py over the result of the Ohio election. They now regard the election of MT. Blaine as assured. and this confidence has acted like tonic on the business life of Wash ington which has grown with the growth and strengthened with the strength of the republican party.
 The president and most of his cabinet have returned to Washington, and it is now the season of the year that real estate agents, landlords, and boarding house. keepers are happy. It is the time for renting houses, furnished or unfurnlshed ; for the selection of hotel accommodations, and for the engagement of rooms. Mem contingent have already begun to appear on the grounds intent upon the selection of homes for the winter. Those who have been here before know the importance of arriving early in the season; but those who come late will not be without place to lay their heads. Washington is an om- nibus that has always accommodation for more. The city is accustomed to crowds, and, like 8 thrifty mater p0trioe. is ever ready to welcome her sons and daughters, and to entertain them for consideration of from one to five dollars day.
 Much the larger proportion of the tran sent winter population 'f Washington lives in b ,arding houses at an average cost of alb ,ut $35 month. Many s+'r ators and representatives live ill this way, but they frequently have more than one room, and the cost of living with them will probably average as much as $6O per month. Oth- CTS prefer residence in hotels, where by making special terms they live at cost not much exceeding what they would have to pay at the better class of boarding houses. A small number of members o1 congress rent furnished houses, bring their families, and their wifes' relations, and endeavor to enjoy home life during their stay at the capitol, while favored by fortune-few own palatial residences and are more at home in Washington than they are in their own state.
 ''Flats'' have become quite popular with fashionable people and with members o1 congress who can afford to live in them They are huge edifces with restaurants C Ia carte attached, but with rooms so ar ranged in suites that family can have kitchen, a dining room, bath room, parlor same floor. They are usually six or sever
 
 steam heating, etc., make the higher storie as desirable as those below "Flats" hav long been feature of New York and Pa risian life, it is only recently that the. have been introduced in Washington Senators Vorhees, Butler of South Caro lima, Manderson of Nebraska, Jonas o Louisiana, Postmaster General Hatton Congressman Hunt of Louisiana, an' many others that mig ght be mentioned, oc cupy s'hats'' in some of the numerous es tablishments of the city devoted to thi purpose.
 The return of people from the sea an mountain has been somewhat checke during the past three weeks by the yer hot wave which has visited the city. Tn heat during the few days last past, ha been really as oppressive as at any tim during the entire summer. Notwithstane 5 ing this, however, the arrivals have bee t numerous.
 The supreme court of the United State
 reassembled In Washington on Monda ) with full bench and a large attendance 8 the bar. Among the first cases to b B. heard are the ''war premiums or "Al.
 bama claims, cases of the Great Wester
 and Columbia Insurance Companies agains the United States, brought by appeal fro1 f the court of claims. President Arthur on Tuesday appointe , First Assistant Postmaster General Ha ton to be postmaster general.
 ' In the International Prime Meridia ! Conference at Washington on Monday th
 Greenwich meridian was recommended
 twenty -one nations voting for it, an 8 France and Brazil sustaining from voting