The Baltimore County union., 1885-08-15
NOTES ON EVENTS AT THE CAPITAL.
Jottings Here and There in Washington
What the New Administration is
Doing-Gleanings from the Tel
egraph and the "Reliable"
COrreSpoudeut

Correspondent.
The President has been honored by having q
new California gold mine named Grover Cleveland.
Several thousand people from Washington at
tended Gen. Grants funeral in New York last
Saturday.
twenty-five Sioux children were in Washing
ton on the 7th, en- route to the Indian school at
Hampton, Va.
Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is
said to be worth S., ,OOO,O He owns much val
liable property in Washington.
The Carroll mansion and grounds, southeast
of the Capitol, have been purchased by Hon. E.
John Ellis, of Louisiana, for 100000.
Supervising Architect Bell, of the Treasury
Department, still hangs on and it is said the ap-
plicants for his place have all gone homo disap-
pointed.
Secretary Whitney has declared the contracts
with John Roach for the three steel cruisers for
feted, the contractor having failed to comply with
certain terms.
There are many people who believe that
Gen. Grants body will yet be removed to Wash
ington, when the Nation will erect grand Monu-
ment to his memory.
Copying letters in the Treasury Department
is now done by caligraph on separate sheets Of
paper for binding in volumes. The new process
saves time and money.
of the seven successful candidates for the
Presidency during the past twenty eight years,
five are dead, while of the seven unsuccessful
aspirants five are alive.
The National Museum at Washington con-
tains on exhibition collection illustrating the
foods of our native races of the redskins. More
than 500 varieties are represented.
Charles L. Skinner, another Maryland attor-
ney, has been disbarred from practice before the
Treasury Department on account of Some crooked
ness with reference to pension claims.
-"Been to Washington?' eyes; I was there
six weeks" "Did you see Cleveland?" eyes .
"Did he do anything for you?" "He cured my
rheumatism" "How?' "By letting me walk
home"
The Chicago Times says "it is again rumored
that Mr. Higgins is to be removed. But Mr.. Hig-
gins himself is understood to intimate that, if
anybody is to be removed, it will be the Admin
istration."
The President is now on his fishing excursion
in the Adirondack Mountains and the newspaper
people are having some fun at his expense. A
Southern editor warns him not to forget to spit
on his bait.
Col. A. G. Sharp, chief inspector of the Post
office Department, has resigned. 1t was only at
the earnest solicitation of the Postmaster
that he remained as long as he did. Col. Sharp
is lawyer and resides in Chattanooga, Tenn.
1t is now stated in Washington that Mr..
Randall will not be candidate for the Speaker
ship of the next House, but that Mr.. Carlisle is
to be re elected without opposition. This, it is
said, is to be done in the interest of harmony in
the party.
Since the President left Washington the White
House has been closed and is undergoing a
thorough cleaning and is being placed in proper
shape for the winter. A great many people who
do not know that the President is away, call daily
to see him.
Heretofore the towels used in the departments
have been washed by poor women who have made
living by the work, but now this is to be changed
and the washing given out by contract, proposals
being asked for the work, which will now go to
the laundries.
Mr.. Morris A. Thomas, of Baltimore, lately
appointed Indian inspector, was at the Treasury
Department on Tuesday, accompanied by Senator
German and Col. L. Victor Baughman. He gave
the necessary bond and is ready to enter upon the
discharge of his duties.
Miss Cleveland, who is spending the summer
at her former home, Holland Patent, N. Y, in a
letter to friend in Washington, says: "The old
homestead never seemed more attractive and
pleasant than now." She will probably remain
where she is until October
Mr.. Kelley, of Richmond, Va, who was ap-
pointed to foreign mission, has been recalled and
will resign He was so obnoxious to the Austrian
court that they would not receive him. Perhaps
Mr.. ]. Fenner Lee, of Baltimore county, who was
appointed Mr.. Keley's secretary of legation, will
succeed him.
Since the new administration took charge OF
affairs 5,246 fourth-class postmasters have been
removed, the greater part of that number since
First Assistant P M. General Stevenson took
charge He has been firing the "rascals" at the
rate of 500 per week, and he says be is only now
getting his hand in.
The prohibitionists are getting ready to move
on Congress and ask that the sale of liquor be
prohibited in the District of Columbia. Should
they succeed in this it will be pretty rough on the
average Congressman. But the fanatics will not
succeed in this scheme and they had better direct
their efforts elsewhere.
&C. P. Judd, who was appointed by President
Cleveland on the 10th of May to be special agent
of the National Labor Bureau for Nevada and the
territories, has been arrested on the charge OF
horse-stealing and has confessed the crime
Judd has already served two terms in the peni-
tentiary for similar offenses.
Tho Philadelphia Times says that "if Miss
Cleveland is really to get $4,000 her share of
the proceeds of the sale of her book, she will be
the best paid woman of modern times; and the
fear is that all the gifted maiden ladies of the
land will want to write books and have their own
brothers run for the Presidency"
The annual report of the Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue shows that the total collection
for the past fiscal year were Sl12, 2,42O,ll1, and
that the whole amount has been properly account
ed for and covered into the U. S. Treasury. The
total cost of collecting this large sum was $4 4SO
OOO 5000 900 less than the cost for the year 1884,
up to this time four hundred and seventy-six
Presidential postmasters have been appointed by
Mr.. Cleveland, of which two hundred and seventy
four were to vacancies caused by the expiration
of terms or designations. Every case of suspen-
sion was carefully considered by the President,
and many solicited removals have been refused
by him.
1t is said that the clerks in the departments
are beginning to gain confidence and do not now
believe that there is going to be clean sweep
As an evidence of this many who have been stick
ing close to their desks are now asking for their
usual summer vacation, feeling assured that they
will not be "fred" during their absence.
The great cattle companies Of the West have
illegally fenced in millions of acres of the public
lands and the President has issued proclama-
ton requiring these fences to be removed forth :
with. These illegal fencings include over 5,OOO,-
nm acres of Iands in Colorado New Mexieo.