The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-07-12
FROM WASHINGTON
Special tc the CARBON ADVOCATE.
WASHINGTON. July 8, 1884

Special tc the CARBON ADVOCATE.
WASHINGTON. July 5, 1884.
The American people seem to take it
for granted that for the summer months
at least. the President is .stified in ab-
dicating his power and leaving the Gov
ernment to take care of ITSELF OF all the
line of Presidents, from Washington
down to the pineteenth, Grant was the
first chief magistrate who had ever taken
a summer junketiug. Mr.. Lincoln in
the last summer of his life slept occas-
ionally out at the Soldiers Home, but in
his four years administration, he never
left Washington. Nor was il particular
ly because of the existence of war and
the supervision of military affairs that
detained him, because these duties could
as well have been performed from any
other headquarters, but Mr.. Lincoln
would not establish the precedent of
leaving the Capital and the duties of b 8
high position. simply because of it's eli
mate and its malarious Accomplishments. 3.
Y t the Washington OF to-day is infnit e.
" more heGltbful than it was then, and
the neurology of the White House shc VS.
but two Presidential demises-that Of
II irrlson who was killed, not by malaria
but by the Office. bunters. and that OF
Tay lur who ate too heartily of ice crea III
that was favored with the same villain.
Gus vanilla that afterwards poisoned Mr..
Buchanan ana others at the National
Hotel, and is now slaughtering the youth
and beauty of our land.
This leads me to mention that Mr..
Arthur, who hns never spent summer
in Washington, never intends to. Aa
soon as Congress is done with its work,
the President will go in the Despatch
straight to Newport, and during the
summer will go up and down the eastern
coast, fishing around Poppysquash Point.
digging clans at Squantum and eating
them ut the Gut How the Preside nj
| will spend his days of retirement after
the 4th of March next, is a problem
which even be cannot solve. He car
hardly assume any prominence in the
political wo-ld, for the dignity of bis
retirement will be above that, whatever
it may have been in the time of Johr
Quincy Adams.
BY the first of September the Wash
ington Monument will have attained 6
height of 500 feet, when the shape of th,
magnificent structure will be changed
to that of pyramid, to continue on 70,
55 feet to the apex, which will be tht
completion of the Monument proper
The dedication of this grand memoris
will take place on the 22ud of Februar'
next, just thirty years from the date O
the laying of the cornerstone. One c
the peculiar aud appropriate features G
the dedicatorv exercises will be the de
livery of the oration by Hon. Robert c
Win throp. of Boston. the same orato
who officiated thirty years ago. Th
ceremonies attendant upon the dedIci
lion will be the most elaborate that hay
ever taken place upon like occasion /
this country, Congress having by join
resolution appointeda committee of bot
houses, empowered to make such a
rangements as will be appropriate to &
august an occasion. The whole cost {
the monument when completed will |
not less than 81 25O, 900, but to the eve
, lasting disgrace Of some of those WI
had the manipulation of the funds wbe
A the original Monument Association nj
!. dertook the work, about oue-thlrd Of th
, amount was stolen from the fund.