The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-08-28
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, August 2S, 1885.
OUR WARRINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, August 2th,


WASHINGTON, August 2ith. 1885.
Although the President and five members OF
his Cabinet are absent from the city, there is nc
hitch and very little friction in the work OF The
Departments of Government. The Assistant
Secretary of State ex-Gov. Porter is in charge of
the State Department, while Mr.. Bayard is spend
ing week at his Delaware home The Secretary
days in the hands OF Assistant Secretaries Fair
child and Coon. The able First Assistant z. M.
General Mr. Stevenson has charge of the Post
Office Department during the temporary absence
of Mr.. Villas. The War and Navy Departments
are in charge of their respective chief clerks
while Secretaries Whitney and Endicott are TAX
ing brief rest. Secretary Lamar of the Interior
Department and Attorney General Garland are
the only members of the Cabinet who remain at
their posts. STEPPED in the suns of Arkansas and
Mississippi the dog days heat of Washington has
no terrors for them.
The hotel keepers of summer resorts are much
given to advertising the fact that Cabinet minis
tiers and prominent officials of all sorts stop
ping at their health-giving inns, where the seem
cry Is grand and the thermometer at IS degrees
Attorney General Garland has been much annoy
ed at advertising of this sort, and when it was
announced last week that he was at Rock Enon
Springs he got mad and gave notice that he had
not been away and did not intend TO go. He
tramps down to his office as early as seven in the
morning and seldom leaves until six. When he
goes out he rides in street and lives plain
ly as the lowest grade clerk in his office.
Secretary Lamar also lives very plainly. He is
occupying for the summer the house of Senator
MCPHERSON of New Jersey and he takes daily ex-
ercse in the saddle.
There are three members of Congress who have
houses In Washington and at present are resid-
ing here and making this city their regular home,
Notwithstanding their legal residences are many
miles away. Mr.. q. X. Breckenridge, member
from Arkansas whose home is at Pine Bluff, has
house upon Capitol Hill, and with his family
has been there all the summer and intends to re-
main. Hon. John s. Barbour, of Virginia, lives
in Washington also, although Alexandria is his
legal residence. Mr.. Barbour also resides on
Capitol Hill. Mr.. Benjamin Butterworth, who,
while Commissioner of Patents, took house out
at LIE Droit Park. has had his family there ever
since, and has paid little attention to his home in
Cincinnati.
Mr.. W. NJ. King, the new chief of the Seed Di-
vision at the Agricultural Department. seems to
be taking hold of his work with real vigor. MIR.
King was well known by Commissioner Coleman
before the appointment was made, and it is said
that he is peculiarly well posted on the various
soils of the country and the seeds that will thrive
therein The difficulty with this Department in
the past, and the reason 1t has been brought into
disavor is because seeds were not judicously dis
tributed. The Department is now sending out
wheat and rye. new kind of wheat which Mr.
King calls the Houghton farm variety, he en-
poets great deal from. He thinks it is one of
the best ever distributed. He is sending out a
new variety of turnip seed into the South also
-Four varieties of italian wheat have recently
been received at the Department, which will be
distributed to the experiment stations.
me reported breach between the President and
MIR: Tilden has fallen very fiat Few persons
took any stock in its truth, and as was very likely
the expectation of its author Somebody else
will probably take Mr.. Tilden's place in day or
so as the bitterly disappointed and vindictive
the name of every prominent Democrat shall
have been dragged in. This is not very good
campaign material; bnt 1t is valuable as any the
Republicans can now lay their hands on.