The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-05-30

years to the American Bank Note Company at
$1O3, 959.61 per annum.
On Tuesday last the U. s. Treasury paid out
about 900, 900 for pensions. The total paid
on account of pensions during the present month
was about S1O,OO0,OOU.
The South Carolina Democrats in Washing
ton are engaged in hot fight over the Collector
ship of the Port of Charleston. Senator Butler is
into it with his coat off.
Congressman Morrison has returned to Wash
ington from Illinois. His candidacy for the U. S.
Senatorship from that State did not pan out to
suit him and naturally he is a little sour.
The President this week issued and ordered
that all the departments shall be closed to-day
Saturday SO that the employees can participate
in the decoration of the soldiers graves.
Congressman Morrison says that Mr. Carlisle
will be reelected Speaker of the House next
winter with very little opposition if it is true, as
reported, that Mr.. Randall will not enter the con-
test
Attorney General Garland will have his little
joke. He says the first removal he made in his
department was the removal from his private Office
of bronze statue which Mr.. Brewster so highly
priced.
The Department of State was closed on Sat-
urdsy last as mark of respect to the memory of
ex-secretary Frelinghuysen. Many prominent
officials from Washington attended his funeral on
that day. 1851
The President walks about the White House
grounds like any ordinary citizen. The body
guard, which some of the smart newspaper CORES
pondents said be had always with him, is nowhere
TO be seen.
The President told committee of Union
veterans from Pennsylvania, who called upon him
a few days ago, that those veterans he found in
office he will retain long as they perform their
duties creditably.
The President is making it lively for the Ma
hone Office. holders in Virginia. Hell firing them
out about as rapidly as the work can be DONE
The period of Mahone's boss business is rapidly
drawing to close.
of division of the first comptrollers office, was
requested by Secretary Manning to resign, but he
refuses to do SO on the ground that there are no
charges whatever against him.
An Indiana postmaster who had been appoint
ed during President Folks administration, and
who had served continuously ever since, period
of about forty years, sent his resignation to the
p. o. Department few days ago.
Mr.. ]. Randolph Tucker qualified on Tues
day, at Alexandria, as guardian of ex- President
Garfeld's children, merely to represent them in
relation to land which their father owned there
in connection with the late Judge Black, of Pa.
Mr.. Joseph Trainor, of Baltimore county, who
has been clerk in the Sixth Auditors Office since
about the close of the war, has been dismissed
He received his appointment under a competitive
examination and had been promoted several times.
The chief of the chronological division of the
Agricultural Department says the 17-year locusts
are harmless to growing crops and do no injury
except to the twigs of forest and fruit trees He
says kerosene emulsion sprayed upon the trees
will protect them.
Miss Cleveland returned to Washington few
| days ago and is now at the White House. OF
course there was truth in the foolish newspaper
stories about difference between herself and the
President. A book which she has written is to be
published shortly.
Mr.. William Daniel, the great apostle of tenn
perance, was in Washington few days ago and
called upon the President. He asked Mr. Cleve-
land what he thought of his (Daniel's) "third
party" business, and the President is reported to
have said that the thing was n. g.
Another large batch of postmasters was ap-
pointed this week, the commissions of the former
| incumbents having in most cases expired. The
Department appears to be disposed to hold post
masters to strict performance of their duties,
the slightest infraction of the law being thought
sufficient ground for removal.
Another rumor has gained currency that Sec
rotary Manning will leave the Cabinet and be-
| come the Democratic candidate for Governor of
New York. An enthusiastic admirer of the Secre-
tary remarked, on hearing the report, that off Dan
Manning does this he will be the next President
of the United States as sure as fate"
The newspaper correspondents who gave cur
rency to the story that Miss Cleveland had left the
White House on account of a difference with her
brother, have been debarred from the privileges
extended to the press at the Executive Mansion.
This, it strikes us, is perfectly proper. Even the
domestic circle is not too sacred for such vultures
| The President has appointed Edmund G. Ross
to be Governor of the Territory of New Mexico
During the impeachment trial of Andrew johnson
Republican. He voted against the impeachment
of johnson and was at the time charged with hav-
ing been bribed. Since then he has become full
fedged Democrat.
Mr.. Hay, First Assistant P. M. General, is
having taste of the sweets of Office. He is being
harrassed almost to death by seekers after the
small postofices, and the smaller the Office the
more persistent the applicant In nearly every
small town where there is a postofice the fight is
between rival store-keepers, and they are max
ing things lively around the department.
The condition of the Agricultural Department
is said to be worse than at first reported, and
it is further said that the balance now standing to
the credit of the department for the current fiscal
year is only s3S. 1t may be found necessary to
discontinue the department entirely until the new
appropriations are available. Tho friends of DIR.
Loring, the former Commissioner, will call upon
him for an explanation.
"A man named Snyder, who belonged to a
New York regiment appeared at the Pension
Office on Tuesday and requested that his pension
be cancelled. He had been receiving s72 per
month since the close of the war, and being now
in comfortable circumstances, he thought it un-
just to take this money from the Government.
Commissioner Black says this is the first case Of
the kind within his knowledge. P.S.-But it
has since turned out that Snyder is crazy man,
and good story is spoiled.]