The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-18

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1t is expected that Mr.. Bosher Radcliffe, of
Baltimore, will be appointed consul to San Domin-
go, where he has resided for eighteen months.
Chief Clerk Swayze, of the Treasury Depart
ment, has resigned, and Mr.. e. B. Youmans, of
Elmira, N. Y, has been appointed in his place.
Mr.. Albert Query, Baltimore artist, has
made an engagement to paint portrait of Presi-
dent Cleveland, and he commenced the sittings
this week.
"A paper published in Buffalo, N. Y, and
called the Sixteenth Amendment, dominates Mrs.
Hayes and Miss Cleveland as its Presidential tick
ct for 1888.
The Postmaster-General is about going into
the business of decapitating the Malone post
masters in Virginia and filing their places with
Democrats.
Mr.. George w. 0'Donnell, of Baltimore, this
week filed an application with the Secretary of
the Treasury for the Office of general appraiser at
the port of Baltimore.
The wife of Secretary Bayard has been ex-
tremely i'll for some days at the family residence,
Wilmington, Del. At last accounts her condition
had improved somewhat
There is an unusual demand for Miss Cleve-
lands book and the sixth edition has already been
exhausted and another has been ordered. 1t is
meeting an unprecedented sale.
The P. M. General has issued an order that
those clerks in his department who lose time from
sickness or other causes shall have the same de-
Quoted from their annual leave of absence.
w -, ybo has haap h;af &c fha
navy pay division of the fourth auditors Office for
twenty one years, has resigned and James NJ.
Wright, of Alabama, has been appointed in his
place.
1t was whispered in Washington this week
that the Governments agricultural reports were
garbled and inaccurate, but Prof. Dodge, statisti
clan of the Agricultural Bureau, positively denies
the charges.
-Messrs. A. Hoen Co., of Baltimore, were
the lowest bidders for supplying the Postefice De-
partment with post route maps for the present
year. Their bid was S14,7OO. The highest bid
was $4,000.
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, is credited with
the following remark about Mr.. Cleveland: "The
most that can be said of President Cleveland is
that he has not done as badly as was to be ex-
pected of Democrat"
The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed
special commission to inspect all the large Gus
tom houses of the country with view to reduc-
ing the force and dispensing with the services Of
all inefficient employees.
L. G. Moore, colored Democrat from Mis-
sssippi, has been appointed messenger In the
Office of the Secretary of the Interior. He is an
ex-member of the Legislature of that State, and
was endorsed by Congressman Catchings.
There appears to be no truth in the report
that movement is on foot in Washington to raise
the necessary funds to build monument to the
memory of Mrs. Surratt, who was hanged for sup
posed completely in the assassination of President
Lincoln.
Another bustling old lady, who said she had
been waiting twenty-five years to see Democrat
in the White House, was among the President's
callers on Wednesday. She had the usual set
speech and she whould not let up until she had
fired all of it at Mr.. Cleveland.
The President, accompanied by several mem
bers of his Cabinet, were the guests last Sunday
of the Woodmont Club, at their beautiful resort on
the upper Potomac. Bass fishing is the favorite
sport of the members of the club and the Presi-
dent is said to be an enthusiastic angler.
AT an informal reception held by the Presi-
dent the other day clerk in the Capitol grasped
the hand of Mr.. Cleveland and commenced firing
lot of Shakespeare at him. The fellow was
quietly hustled out of the way to make rom for
other people who were not quite SO brilliant.
Attorney General Garland has decided that
the dispatch boat Dolphin, built by John Roach,
and about which there has lately been so much
talk, cannot be accepted by the Secretary of the
Navy, and that the large sum of money already
paid to Mr. Roach can be recovered by the Gov
eminent.
Eugene Higgins keeps the news mongers of
Washington quite busy. They now have it that
he has grown tired of his desk in the Treasury
Department and would like to be made door
keeper of the House of Representatives. Higgins
says at would like to know what they will have
me at next"
The Presidents mail grows heavier every day
and letters are being received by the hundred
Only a few of these reach Secretary Lamonts
hands, the foolish or unimportant letters being
promptly burned. Requests for autographs are
laid aside until the President has time to give
them his personal attention.
Secretaries Manning and Whitney have not
yet rented permanent quarters in Washington
Secretary Garland lives with his mother in a very
retired way, Secretary Lamar lives in boarding
house and Secretary Villas is keeping bachelors
hall with Judge Bryant. Secretary Endicott is
the only member of the Cabinet who has rented a
house.
The clerks in the several departments in
Washington are very much displeased because the
time of their summer leave has been cut down
from thirty to twenty days. They think this par
ticularly hard in view of the fact that many of
them have lately been obliged to work at night in
order to dispose of the rapidly accommodating bust
ness.
The favorite song of The Postmaster General
is said to be "Silver Threads Among the Gold, y
and the other day the author of the song, Eben
E. Rexford, of Sheocton, Wisconsin, made appli-
cation for the postmastership of that place and
was promptly appointed. The fellow who wrote
"Climbing Up the Golden Stair" may now have a
chance to catch on.
"A deputy collector of internal revenue, in
transmitting his books for the last quarter to the
Treasury Department, pinned to q leaf piece of
paper upon which he wrote the following: "We've
kept these books and kept 'em straight, and Wen
keep 'em again in 'SS. Goodbye, boys" The
messageof the good humored deputy caused much
amusement in the department.
Mr.. Edward G. Johnson, of Baltimore, who
wants to be u S. Marshal of the District of Colum-
bia, was in Washington few days ago and called
on the Attorney General, who spoke highly of his
eminent father the late Hon. Reverdy johnson,
and assured the son of his interest in his pros
pects Mr.. johnson has many friends who would
be highly gratifed at his appointment.
1t is said in Washington that Commissioner
of Pensions Black has been hauled over the Goals
by the President for the part he has been acting
in the Offensive partisan" business; that this
charge was too indefinite in its meaning, and that
no more changes in his official force are to be
made until there is a thorough understanding on