The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-12-05
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"
CORRESPONDENTS

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natural gas in considerable quantities was dis
covered.
The President on Monday appointed John
w. Causey Collector of Internal Revenue for the
District of Delaware.
The White House and other public buildings
in Washington are heavily draped in mourning
for the late Vice. President.
Hon. Levi P. Morton, of New York, has pur-
chased the fine residence of Chief Justice Cartier,
located on II street, for $4,000.
1T is said in Washington that Congressman
Randall is preparing bill that will reduce the
customs revenue about S3O,OOO,0OO.
Senator Wilson, of Maryland, has taken a
suite of rooms at the Ebbtt House for the winter,
having abandoned the idea of going to housekeep-
ing.
Senator German, who spent some time in
New York, has returned to Washington and is
actively at work preparing for the opening of
Congress.
During the year ended June 3Oth, 1885, A.
sO4, LAC pieces of undeivered mail matter were re-
ceived at the dead letter division of the Postofce
Department.
Miss Tillie Malone, a daughter of the noted
Virginia Senator, who is said to be both pretty
and intelligent, will make her debut in Washing
ton this winter.
1t is said that Mr. A. D. Hazen, Third Assis-
tant Genera will have to 60 very soon.
He is a Republican and an Indiana Democrat
wants the place.
Tbara uoe q emo II inorao in tho nnh1ic daht
for the month Of November. The payments on
account Of pensions for the month amounted to
about ST., 100000
The Senators most prominently named to
succeed the late Vice-President as President of
the Senate are Logan, Sherman and Edmunds,
with chances in favor of the former.
Congress meets next Monday, 18th instant.
1t is believed that the Presidents message, which
is presented on the opening day of the session,
will be document of unusual interest.
In the u S. Court Washington, on Monday
last, suit was entered against J. L. Hodge, de-
faulting paymaster in the army, to recover S441,-
200.75, with interest at six per cent. from May,
1875.
In his annual report the Commissioner of
Agriculture suggests that efforts be at once made
to check the destruction of forests, and advises
the institution of "Arbor Days" for the planting
of trees.
"A correspondent says the "short hair craze"
has attacked the ladies of Washington and that
hundreds of those who formerly had beautiful
suits of hair have had it all shorn off at the behest
of fashion.
The thirty days of mourning for the death of
the Vice President will have passed by New Year
Day, when the President will hold his usual re-
ception, and social life will not be interrupted
thereafter.
Mr.. Frank Brown, of Baltimore, was in Wash
ington on Monday. 1t was rumored that he
wants to be Assistant U. S. Treasurer at Balti-
more. Mr.. Brown is president of the Maryland
Agricultural Society.
The late Vice. President Hendricks had the
reputation in Washington of being a most liberal
man. He was always generous to the poor and in
his death they have lost friend whose purse was
always open to them.
The Secretary of the Treasury has approved
the report Especial Agent Mahon with reference
to the reduction of force and salaries in the Bal
.timore Custom House. The total reduction will
amount to near $4,000
Lucy E. Macklem, female crank from New
York, made her appearance in Washington Thurs
day and was determined to see the President
She was loaded on the first train and shipped
straight back to New York.
The estimates for the new Pension Building
in Washington were $500, 900. More than $780,
600 have already been expended upon it and it is
not yet finished, although the business of the de-
partment is being conducted therein.
AS shown by the annual report of Commits
sioner Colman the increase in the acreage of
cereals in the United States since 1870 has been
e. OO0, 900 acres, or an additional area equal to
the entire surface of Iowa and North Carolina.
The newspapers have done Gen. Logan great
injustice by asserting that he was working hard
for the presidency of the Senate. Upon being
asked about the matter he said: 81 have not asked
nor have made any effort to obtain the position"
From the report of the Third Assistant Post
master General it is learned that the total postal
revenue during the past year was $40, $50, S43,
while the expenditures, actual and estimated,
were s5O, 942, AIS, leaving an excess of expenses
over receipts of SS,3s2,571.
Tie President on Wednesday settled the o.
S. Marshalship of the District of Columbia by ap-
pointing Mr.. Albert A. Wilson, prominent bust
ness man of Washington, to that Office. Mr.. Will
son had not been an applicant for the place and
his appointment caused much surprise.
Mr.. Gresham Hough, of Baltimore, has been
appointed chief of division in one of the depart
ments, the place having been secured for him. tits
said, through the influence of John P. Poe, Esq.
Mr.. Hough served through the was in the Con-
federate army, part of the time in Mosby's COM
mand.
One of the new chiefs in the Pension Bureau is
said to be very much opposed to female clerks and
frequently expresses his disgust at having "pas-
sep of woman about him. He is always fearful
that when any of these female clerks write letters
on the business of the Office they will not "kiver"
all the points.
"A certain Democratic statesman from one of
the New England States is charged with being an
ofice-broker-that is of selling his influence to
secure postoffices for Democrats. The matter has
been brought to the attention of First Assistant
P. NJ. General Stevenson, who proposes to sift it
to the bottom.
The Postmaster eneral has issued the fol-
lowing order: email contractors, mail carriers
and their agents who have contracts, or are inter-
ested in transporting the mails, will not be accep-
ted as sureties on the bonds of postmasters at
postofices located on any mail route on which
any mails are transported under such contract"
In answer to an inquiry as to the where
abouts of Morris Thomas, Secretary jerks is re-
ported to have said: "He is among the Indians,
you know, and may be they have scalped him.
If that is SO, that is an end of him and his case"
But it is safe to say there is danger of Thomas
having his chair raised" He's entirely too smart
for that.
The President very wisely, we think, decided
not to go to Indianapolis to attend the Vice.
Presidents funeral. We do not believe that he
was in any danger of being assassinated, but the
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