Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-09-26
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent ]

WASHINGTON, u. e., Sept. 22th, 1884.
Although il is three months since Con-
gress adjourned, and three more before !,
meets again, the city is infested with
thieves, small and large, vagabonds, cour.
teous and audacions, swindlers, official
and otherwise, to say nothing of ten mur-
lerers, black and white. who have made
way with their victims since February
last. Neither Sodom or Chicago could
ever boast of such vileness US exists in the
Capital Of the United States to day. yet
the schools are crammed infinitely beyond
their capacity, and the white element at
least affects the very highest stages Of civ
ilization. Crime is indeed so rampant that
the Chief OF Police in his recent report
announces the utter incspacity OF our
police court to attend to the business,
although 81. Louis with population three
times larger, and Chicago with Its cosmo-
polltan populace four times larger, require
but one. The police force here is ineffi.
cient both in numbers and discipline, facts
80 we'll known by the thieving gentr,
that their raids upon The Capital occur at
periods as regularly as the phases of the
lunar system.
One can hardly look ont Of the window
since the nominating conventions without
seeing Presidential candidate, male or f..
male. Of the multitude OF candidates
Washington claims two as permanent res
idents-ex Senator Pomeroy and Mrs. Bel.
va A. Lockwood, while Mr.. Blaine himself
can scarcely be considered less thur a
domiciled citizen. Mrs. Lockwood is alone
in her glory as a feminine tricylist, and
many u parasol has she used up this sum
mer over the heads Of the vicious urciiins
who capture her vehicle while she is in
doors nursing her little boom. The ele.
ments OF popularity possessed by Mrs
Lockw rest chiefly upon her aversion,
to the snobbery that abounds in modern
sociely, and her astuteness Ms member oil
the legal profession, in which, If she has
not won laurels, she has managed TO rake
in no uncomfortable amount Of unsa,itary
lucre.
hear no comment upon the action OF
the Interior Department in permitting a
special agent to take Sitting Bull through
the country for educational purpo-es--
though II is not easy TO comprehend how
anybody could learn anything from II
sight Of this greasy scalawag-but when il
comes 10 putting the red devil on exhibi-
,ion in New York theater, at ffty cents
u sight, it strikes me that the aforesaid
special agent IL exceeding the scope Of hi.
authority in the matter. When one re-
members the bloodthirsiy massacre Of Gen
Custer and his men at Little Big Horn. he
can scarcely contemplate with cOmpln
cency the Junketing at Government ex
pense OF mur.erous savage, while the
widow of his victim appealed in vain for
pension sufficient 10 keep soul and body
together.
Passing by Mills equestrian statue oI
Jackson a day or two ago, 1 was reminded
OF the bitter quarrel nuw gong on In the
counts by which II ia probable that the
small fortune that lie left 10 be divided up
among the members OF his family, will lie
dis,ribnied TO the lawyers engaged. The
career Of Claik Mills, both before and after
he had acquired his renown M sculptor
and artist, has been tinged with a good
deal Of romance. Tie neighborhood gos-
alp on the Bladensburg road where he
lived during his heydays oi fortune, was
proliic of stories of domestic discomfort
aud uupleasantne.s of which il will do nu
good to speak now. but phase of the case
in court develops the fact that while the
assumed widow clai,ns her share Of the
estate by virtue of ths statute, the chill
dren of Mr.. Mills by his frat wife are
proposing 10 show that they were never
legally married, nor indeed were never
married AT all but that their father, for
The pallry confederation of 500, bought
the woman from her husband, who relin-
qnished all right, lille and interest in and
to her affection. and per.o".li,y for and
during her natural life. "A have said
the outcome of the snit will he the alb.
sorptlon Of the whole property in the un-
seemiy contest in the nonrls, and the i'm
l'overislment Of the whole family who
seemed not to have have had, nor wanted
any other source Of maintenance.
DON pEpRo