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NOTES ON EVENTS AT THE CAPITAL
lettings Here and There in Washington
What the New Administration Is
Doing Gleanings from the Tel
egraph and the "Reliable"
CORRESPONDENT.

lettings Here and There In washington
What the New Administration Is
Doing--Gleanings from the Tel
egraph and the Reliable"
Correspondent.
Very few of the clerks in the departments
went home to vote, except those from Virginia.
Mr. James G. Blane's magnificent Washing
ton mansion is let on a long lease at $1,000 a
year.
Mr. K X. Kennedy, of Mississippi, has been
appointed chief of q division in the Postofice De-
partment.
1t is estimated that the decrease in the public
debt during the month of October will amount to
about s13, 100000.
The President went to New York on Monday
to vote and returned to the capital as soon as he
had performed that duty.
Hon. VIM. E. Smith, lawyer of New York
State, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, vice Coon, resigned.
Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, is q man of great
wealth and he is preparing to entertain hand
somely in Washington this winter.
The President issued his proclamation on
Monday, setting apart Thursday, November Goth,
a day of National thanksgiving and prayer.
Marshall McMiohaoi, of tho District, says
tina. eApeces retire in a few days and that
the President may name his successor this week.
The Washington Sunday Gazette says "spoils-
men and their advocates will meet with a cold
reception at the White Houss hereafter" That's
tough.
The President is being urged to appoint the
widow of Gen. Custer to the Pension Agency at
Detroit, Michigan. A number of papers in that
State favor the appointment.
The Postofice Department is receiving many
applications for the establishment of new post
Offices in Maryland. A number of these applica-
tions have already been granted.
1T Is said that every time President Cleve-
land goes to church he puts a one-doller green
back in the collection plate. This is an example
that should be followed by others.
Another Executive order is to this effect
thereafter members of Congress desiring to in
troduce friends to the President are expected to
do so, like other citizens, at the three public
ceptions each week."
"A young clerk named Edward S. Balm, en-
ployed in the National Metropolitan Bank, Wash
ington, had $4,000 of the banks money stolen
from his pocket on the street few days ago, and
the money has not been recovered
No more offce-seekers are admitted to the
presence of the President now, and even their
hackers are denied the privilege of interviewing
him. Hereafter the heads of the several depart
ments must dispose of these people.
Gen. Grants presents still remain unpacked
in the War Department, where they will stay un-
til Congress passes an act accepting them. After
they are formally accepted they will probably
be placed in the National Museum.
1t is said that the President has some fear Of
cranks of the Guiteau species and that therefore
when he leaves Washington he does it so quietly
that no one except those nearest to him in the
White House are aware of his plans.
1t is said that some difficulty will be expert
enced in securing the proper men for the new
Civil-Service Commission. The salary is $500
per year and very few prominent and suitable
men willing to undertake it for that.
"A clerk who was lately removed from one of
the departments is said to have been insane for at
least two years past. He was regarded as very
eccentric, but no one thought him really insane
until the unmistakable evidence was produced.
The total assessed value of real estate in the
District of Columbia is $96O54,3 O1, of which $685.,
15l,4S9 is in Washington S967,1l5 in George
town, and $500, 545 in the county. The total per-
sonal estate of the District is assessed at S12 34s
765.
The resignation of Assistant Secretary Chas.
E. Coon, of the Treasury Department, has been
accepted by Secretary Manning. Mr.. Coon has
been in the Department for many years and was
very popular official. He will engage in private
business.
Many new faces were seen in some of the De-
partments on the LIST of November, the owners
taking the places of others who had taking per-
| manent leave for one cause another. Just at
this time the lot Of the average Government clerk
is not happy one.
The Special Agent at Baltimore has sent an
other report to the Secretary Of the Treasury,
recommending an additional reduction of force in
the Custom House and the cutting down of some
of the salaries of clerks. The Secretary has not
yet acted upon the report.
"A gentleman in Washington lately bought
seat in the New York Stock Exchange for which
be paid the snug sum of $4,000. There is no
truth, however, in the story that Assistant Secre-
tary Coon, of the Treasury Department, is the
man who made the purchase.
The gossips say that the President will, in his
annual message to Congress, have something
favorable to say for the proposed sixteenth or
woman suffrage amendment to the constitution
1t is believed, however, that this is joke at the
expense of the bachelor President
Gen. John A. Logan has filed his new Wash
ington house with American Indian moccasins,
leggins, hunting shirts, blankets, robes and other
aboriginal brc-a brac, and his proclivity for such
curios is said to be due to the Indian blood which
is rumored to run in the Senator's veins.
Auditor Chenowith received word few days
ago that Mrs. Thompson, of Fannin county,
Texas, had given birth to five children-all boys.
They have been named Cleveland, Hendricks,
Bayard, Manning and Chenowith, and the latter
is anxious to know what he is going to do about it.
Congress will assemble in Less than month
and active preparations are going on in the Capt.
toll preparatory to that event. Already the city
is filling up with strangers and by the LIST of De-
cember thousands will have gathered there. An
unusually lively winter is predicted for Washing
ton.