The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-29
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
COrrespondent

correspondents
Monday last was the anniversary of the CAP
ture of Washington by the British.
of the three hundred and fifty employees in
the Patent Office but one-half are men.
Judge Thoman, of the Civil Service Commits
sion, has bought house in Washington for $l4,-
900.
Attorney General Garland left Washington
on Thursday for brief visit to his home in Ar
kansas.
The mourning emblems which had been placed
on the various public buildings out of respect to
Gen. Grant, were removed on Monday.
The remains of Hon. S. L. Phelps, late min
lister to Peru, who died abroad, arrived in WASH
ington on Monday and were inferred in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
Walter NJ. Wilson, private Secretary to At
torney General Garland, has rendered his resigna-
ton. He will go to New Mexico to engage in the
practice of law.
The force of the third auditors Office of the
Treasury Department is being reduced. War
clerks were this week asked to resign and other
removals will follow.
| The President is said to keep a scrapbook in
which newspaper comments upon his administra-
ton are carefully pasted without regard to the
nature of such opinions.
AN exchange says "the Postmaster General
has evidently become fully and fatally convinced
that to be fourth class Republican postmaster ia
to be frst-class offensive partisan"
MIR. c. R. Faulkner, is the new chief of the
record division of the Pension Office. Senator
Voorhees, once said, speaking of Faulkner: aye
Gods you ought to see his spellingw
/ The name of Miss Cleveland is still being
mentioned in connection with the presidency Of
Vassar College, and it is not at all unlikely that
she will be chosen to fill that responsible position.
Col. Lamont has quick and retentive men,
DRY and it is said that he can tell the President
the sentimen. in regard to any particular policy
in whatsoever section of the country he may de-
sire.
Only three Cabinet officers have stuck it out
in Washington through all the hot weather
Bayard, Lamar and Garland, the latter being a
hard worker and is nearly always found at his
desk during business hours.
President Cleveland is said to be very success
full as a sportsman and fisherman. He wears a
flannel shirt, SLOUGH hat and high boots and wades
through mud and water, says Democratic ex-
change, as recklessly as he rides over spoilsmen.
During the month of August Washington has
been almost like deserted city and twill hardly
assume its wonted activity until the first of Octo-
Der. By that time all the Government officials
Al, l,AkcI
commence filing up for the winter.
The publicity given to the fact that the U. S.
Treasurer has resumed the transfer of gold coin
from San Francisco to the East by registered mail
has again caused the suspension of that mode of
transportation. The Government is afraid the
road agents may gather in some of the coin.
Another very large batch of postmasters was
appointed last week, and Mr.. Stevenson, the First
Assistant Postmaster General, is keeping up his
reputation as being the champion in the business
of firing the "rascals." The hot weather does not
appear to interfere with him in the least.
The commission engaged in investigating the
workings of the different bureaus of the Treasury
Department is still hard at work. It is believed
that it will recommend several reductions in the
clerical force and some radical changes in the
present system of business. Assistant Secretary
Fairchild is at the head of the commission.
The President is still up in the Adirondack
mountains and is having good time fishing and
taking things easy. The only thing that seems
to trouble him is the fact that he is growing so
very stout. When he gets back to Washington
and the Office seekers get on his track again per-
haps they will run off some of the surplus flesh.
The clerks in the Interior Department are
again on the ragged edge and are anticipating
is caused by an ingeniousy worked circular lately
issued by Secretary Lamar, calling for informa-
ton as to where each clerk halls from. This is
no doubt designed to reach those who are credit
ed to States where they never lived
Dispatches from Washington published in a
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