The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-10-10
NOTES ON EVENTS AT THE CAPITAL.

The new National Theatre in Washington,
was formally opened on Monday night last.
The President and members of his Cabinet
will attend the Virginia State fair, at Richmond,
on the 22d instant.
There is said to be no truth in the rumor that
differences have arisen between Secretary Bayard
and the two South Carolina Senators.
Tho President is said to take q great deal of
interest in the affairs of the District of Columbia,
and devotes much time to their consideration.
Secretary Whitney has ordered the reinstate-
ment of seven old soldiers who were last spring
discharged from the Brooklyn IN. W Navy Yard.
On Wednesday the President appointed Rev.
Jabez L. M. Curry, of Virginia, to be envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain.
During the month of September 100000
standard do lars were put in circulation by the
Treasury Department in the regular course of
business.
The Treasury Department is receiving in
creased demands for small currency, which is
regarded as sign of the revival of business in
the country.
Hon. Samuel J. Randall was in Washington
this week, looking after some important Federal
appointments in his State. He would have moth
ing to say on the subject of politics.
1T is said that the charges against Morris A.
Thomas, of Baltimore, are regarded in the In
terror Department as of very little Importance
Manifestly, Mr.. Thomas has come to stay.
First Assistant Postmaster General Steven
son, who has been taking brief vacation, will
resume work next Monday. The fourth-class
postmasters may expect to "hear something drop"
very soon thereafter.
Joseph e. Hayden, clerk in the Pension
Office, was dismissed on Tuesday, for "using gross
language towards the Executive of the United
States" Hayden, although Democrat, was ap-
pointed by President Arthur.
&C. B. Lester, stock dealer at Burlington
Junction Springs, Iowa, committed suicide on
Tuesday. He was an old friend of President
CIeveand's and was deputy under him when he
was Sheriff of Erie county, N. Y.
The President having been elected an homo
rary member of the Veteran Association of Buffalo,
N. Y, he has written letter returning his thanks
and offers to contribute to the erection Of monu-
ment Gin token of grateful appreciation of patriotic
devotion" of the veterans.
When the Senate meets it will have a list of
between Eve and six hundred postmasters to con-
firm. There are 1885 Presidential postmasters
in the country, and at the rate that has been OBJ
served during the past six months, all of them will
be changed in two years.
A bill, passed at the last session of Congress,
relating to the annuIment of patents obtained
through fraud or Misrepresentation, has very
mysteriously disappeared from the files of the
Senate Committee on Patents and cannot be found.
1t is likely the bill was stolen, but this will effect
nothing.
Not day passes but what some crank
some times several of them-visit the White
House to see the President, but these people are
so well known now that it is a rare thing for any
of them to get in. There are good many people
who are not cranks who give the President and
the attendants quite much trouble.
The Commissioner Of the Land Office has
been informed that the operations Of R. G. Bloom
field, an English manager of the Arkansas Land
and cattle Company, recently convicted at Denver
of procuring fraudulent entries upon public lands,
were of the most audacious character. All of the
cowboys in his employ were forced to make entries
in his behalf, and then he made entries in the
names of persons who had no existence.
"A little pale-faced girl, aged about fifteen
years, made application to the President for po-
sition "to earn living for herself" The Presi-
dent said at first that he could do nothing for her
and referred her to the heads of departments
She said she could get no satisfaction from them
and insisted that the President was the only one
who could help her. He saw there was no way
out of it and finally promised her, to her great de-
light, that she should be provided for.
The new Commissioner of the Land Office
will, in his forthcoming report, give facts and
fgures showing that in numerous instances rail-
road corporations, upon which have been confer
red grants of public lands, have claimed end re-
ceived through the means of false surveys. large
tracts of valuable land to which they had no
legal or equitable claim. No doubt the Govern
ment has been heavily swindled in these land
transactions, and it is time the scamps we're being
exposed.