The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-08-30
FROM WASHINGTON
Special tc the CARBON ADVOCATE.
WASHINGTON, August %, Is

special &c the CARBON ADVOCATE.
WASHINGTON. August 20, 1884.
There will be nothing 10 the Blaine cam
paign to parallel the entrance OF Grant,
Conklng and Cameron into the Garfield
campaign. There will be few of the party
leaders in the field in the next sixty days
who were then on the stump in many
States. Perhaps there was not sufficient
authority for it, but when Blaine was nom
mated it was reported that Mr.. Conkling
would re-enter politics, by speaking in his
support. There is no hope ot that now. 1t
is said that John Sherman has almost lost
his voice for any purposes of the campaign
Gen. Grants brief and effective talks will
not, as in the Garfield battle, call tens OF
thousands to meetings and set wheels in
motion that can save the day. Elk Senator
Window is somewhere in the far Northwest
and will cut no figure. The frisky Foster
of Ohio is now the quietest OF men. There
are a dozen more who helped to make the
Garfield campaign lively, to say nothing Of
Dorsey aud his soap corps, who will be
missed. Hawley aud Everlasting Evarts,
with the hired orators OF whom Mr.. Storfs
of Chicago is ablest, will have to bear the
brunt of the battle.
The War Department has been informed
of the death this morning, near Philadel-
phis, of Col. ]. J. Woodward, Surgeon
United States Army. The death of Surgeon
Woodward was not unexpected, as he had
been in i'll health Tor several years, suffer
ing from chronic dyspepsia, which had pro-
duced melancholia and unsettled his mind
to such an extent as to compel his isolation
from time TO time in various asylums. He
was sent abroad some few years ago on
nominal duty for the Government, in the
hope that his health would be benefited
and from time be gave signs of recuperatlon
only To relapse again into more dangerous
condition. The impression prevails in
army circles that his death was seli-inflct-
ed, or the result of an attempt to commit
suicide while laboring under violent in
sanity.
The naval court of inquiry appointed to
investigate the Navy Departm frauds,
which adjo urned recently upon the recon
mendation of the district attorney, will
probably not reassemble until some time in
October 1t will then be necessary to ap-
point another president of the court, 8
Commodore Jouett will assume command d
of the North Atlantic squadron before that
time. The inyestiga tions Of the court thus
far have reyealed toe facts that there were
frauds in the bureau of medicine aud surg
cry before Medical Director Wales became
surgeon general; that there were one hun
dred and fifty six false vouchers, involving g
nearly 100000, aud that there were no
similar frauds in the other bureaus Of meal.
cine and surgery.
Washington city has for some time bad
the distinction OF being the most attractive
meeting place in the country tor all sorts
bodies, and now 1t seems that its fame ID
extending throughout the world. Lon.
don cablegram says that in the face of the
competition of Berlin, St. Petersburg aud
other European cities, it has been decided
to hold the uext meeting Of the lhterna-
tionsl Medical Congress in Washing ton,