The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-25
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
COrresDOndant

What the New Administration is
Doing--Gleanings from the Tel
egraph and the Reliable
Correspondent.
The cost of maintaining the Government in
sane asylum last year was Sl20,SO0.
Charles M. Newlin has been appointed United
States Marshal for the District of Delaware
For the week ended July 18th, Ss39,9s1
standard silver dollars were issued from the United
States minis.
Miss Cleveland's book is to be translated into
two or three foreign languages. The sale of the
work continues very large.
u. S. Senator Brown, of Georgia, owns $780,
900 worth of real estate in that State. He dab
bles in politics just for the fun of the thing.
Henry Krauskopf of Indiana, who had been
clerk in the Second Auditors Office for twenty
years, dropped dead at his desk on Tuesday.
Mr.. Fred Moale, of Baltimore, is often in
Washington just now. He is said to have his eye
fixed on one of the appraiserships at the Port of
Baltimore.
The President, on the 18th inst, appointed
Alexander Davezac, of Covington, KY, to be con-
sui at Nantes. He is SO years of age and a sue
cessfu merchant.
"A fire in Washington on Thursday night of
last week destroyed four of the newspaper offices
and other business property, entailing loss of
something like 100000.
All the internal revenue coectorships in the
country except ten or dozen are now filled by
Democrats. The few remaining Republicans will
no doubt soon be displaced.
| ago to spend the summer in the North. She is
like other ladies in at least one respect-she took
a large number of trunks with her.
Mr. William B. Webb, Republican and
prominent lawyer, has been appointed District
| Commissioner by the President. He takes the
place of Senator Edmunds, resigned.
Last Sunday the President went to church
and sat patiently through the service, notwith-
standing the thermometer was along about Co.
This is big card for Mr.. Cleveland.
Secretary Lamar has appointed Col. Henry
E. Payton, of Virginia. special agent of the land
Office at salary of $1,000 per annum. He was
formerly executive clerk of the U. S. Senate.
Secretary Whitney has issued an order that
the eight-hour law shall hereafter be enforced in
the different navy yards-that is the employees
shall receive ten hours pay for eight hours labor.
Scarcely day passes but what number of
| appointments axe made by the President and
heads of departments. Official heads are drop
ping into the basket as rapidly as circumstances
will permit.
| Mr.. C. S. Mosher of the Maryland State Tenn
perance Alliance, was in Washington a few days
ago and called upon the President. He said his
visit had no political significance, and that he
didn't want an Office.
Secretary Manning has prepared and is send
ing out circular to manufacturers and others in
terested in the industrial arts, stating that inves
LEGATIONS prove that the tariff laws are largely
evaded by under valuation.
"A number of appointments made in the
Treasury Department on Tuesday, two of the ap-
pointees being from the District of Columbia one
from Louisiana, one from Alabama, one from Hi
nois and one from Pennsylvania.
AN oil painting of the Greedy camp in the
Arctic regions, as it discovered by the rescu-
ing party, has been placed in room in the Navy
Department. 1t is by New York artist and is
said to be a most realistic picture.
that the number of immigrants arrived in the
United States for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1885, was 3S7,S 1921, or over one hundred thousand
less than for the previous fiscal year.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, thinks the intel
lectual standard of the U. S. Senate is not very
high. Sherman he considers strong man, but
not as capable of leading a party as Allison, of
Iowa, because of his unrestrained selfshness.
Mr.. Justice Bradley, of the Supreme Court,
reached his SEVENTEEN year last March and it is
thought he will retire from the bench before next
January. Should he do so it is believed that ex-
Senator Mcdonald, of Indiana, will succeed him.
"A delegation from the 18th New Jersey regi-
ment was in Washington this week to endeavor
to secure the return of some Confederate battle
flags now in the custody of the War Department,
which were captured by that regiment during the
war.
Capt. Howgate, ex-disbursing officer of the
Signal Corps who skipped out from Washington
some time ago and has since been hiding, is now,
it is said, negotiating for his surrender to the
authorities. He is supposed to have stolen about
$3.50, 900.
culture warns farmers against selling out their
wheat too soon on account of the poor crop. The
report says that the condition of the corn crop
throughout the country is higher than in any year
since 1880.
There are $50 places in the Pension Office pro-
vided to be filled by the act of March Sd, 1885,
and the President has decided that these appoint
,et bo 4bo o,d
territories upon the basis of population ascer-
tanned by the last census.
The new First Assistant P. NJ General (Ste-
venson) now asserts that great care is being exer-
cised to remove no offensive partisan postm aster
except on good and sufficient evidence, and to put
offensive partisans in their places. And it is
said Gen. Villas assents to this.
The failure of John Roach, the ship builder,
caused great deal of gossip in Washington
The fault is laid upon Secretary Garland, whose
opinion was against the Government accepting
the Dolphin, upon which Roach had expended
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
1t is said in Washington that Attorney Gen.
eral Garland has declined to sanction the removal
of Mr.. Chesley, the Solicitor of Internal Revenue,
who was to have gone out July LIST. This is the
position, it is said, that Hon. J. Fred G. Talbot
was to get. The salary is $4,000.
Representative Morrison, of Illinois, spends
most of his time in Washington, the warm weather
not even driving him out. 1t is said he remains
at the Capital to watch Secretary Manning's
progress with his volunteer tariff commission
Morrison is tariff reformer and will have another
bill before the next Congress on this subject.
Five Certificates of transfer" each of the de-
nomination of $4,000, were mislaid in the Treas
ury Department on Tuesday afternoon, and for
time there was considerable CONSERVATION. After
wards the certificates were found where they had
been inadvertently left, of them having gotten
among the wastepaper and was badly crumped up.
Some New York politicians, who have lately
been in Washington, think the President is not
moving fast enough in the matter of appointments
in that State. But the trouble seems to be that
these politicians can't agree upon the men for the
places and probably never will agree. Therefore