Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1885-09-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, August,29, 1885

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wAsHrSGToS, August,29, 1885
| Although the president and fiv,
members Of his cabinet are absent
from the city, there is no hitch and
very little friction in the work OF
the departments of government: The
assistant secretary of state, Ex-Gov.
ernor Porter is In charge of the state
department, while Mr.. Bayard is
spending week at his Deleware
home. The secretary Of the treas
urY has left the department. for a few
days in the hands of Assistant Sec
retaries Fairchiid and Coon. The
able First Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
eral Stevenson has charge Of the p.
o. department during the temporry
absence Of Mr.. Villas. The war and
navy departments are in charge of
their RESPECTIVE chief clerks while
Secretaries Whitney and Endicott
are taking a brief rest. Secretary
Lamar OF the interior department.
and attorney General Garland are
the only members of the cabinet who
remain at their posts. STEPPED in
suns Of Arkansas and Mlssisslppithe
dog days heat of Washington has no
terrors for them.
The hotel keepers of the summer
resorts are much glvento advertising
the fact that cabinet ministers and
prominent officials Of all sorts are
stopping at their. health-giving inns,
where the scenery is grand and the
thermometer at 75 degrees. Attor-
ney General Garland has been much
annoyed at advertising of this sort,
and when it was announced last week
that he was at Rock Enon Springs,
he got mad and gave notice that he
had not been away and did not IN
tend to go. He tramps down to his
office as early as seven in the morn
ing and seldom leaves until six.
When he goes out he rides in
street car and lives as plainly as the
lowest grade clerk in his office.
Secretary Lamar also lives very
plainly. He Is occupying for the
summer the house of Senator Nc
Pherson, of New Jersey and he takes
dsily exercise in the saddle.
There three members of congress
who have houses in Washington and
at present are residing here and
making this city.their regular home
their legal residen-
ces are many miles away. Mr.. CIR.
Breckenridge, member from Arkan-
sas whose home is in Pine Bluff, has
a house upon the Capital Hill, and
with his family has been there ali
the summer and intends to remain.
Hon. John S. Barbour, of Virginia
ilves in Washington also, although
his legal residence is Alexandria.
Mr.. Barbour also resides on Capitol
Hill. Mr.. Benjamin Butterworth,
who, while commissioner of patents,
took house out at lie Drolt Park, |
has had his family there ever since,
and has paid little attention to his
home in Cincinnati.
Mr.. M. w. King, the new chief OF
the seed division at the agricultural
seems to be taking hold
of his work with real vigor. Mr..
King was well known by commission
er Coleman before the appoi ntment
was made, and it is said he is pecu-
liarly well posted on the various
soils of the country and the seeds
that will thrive therein. The diff
Guilty with this department IN the
past, and the reason it has been
brou ght into dlsfavor is because
see1s were not iadicously distrib
uted. The department is now send
ing opt wheat and rye. A new kind
OF wheat which 1Er. King calls the
Hopghton farm variety, he expects a
great deal from. He thinks it Is one
the best ever distributed. He is
sending out new variety of turnip
seed into the south also. Four va
rieties of Italian wheat have re-
Gently been received at the depart
ment, which will be distributed to
the experiment stations. The re-
ported breach between the president
=
and Mr.. Tilden has fallen very fat
Few persons took any stock in It's
truth and as was very likely the ex-
pectation of its author. Somebody
else will probably take Mr.. Tilden's
place in day or so as the bitterly
disappointed and vindictiye Deme-
crat, .,.'srs9 soi the good work viii go
on until the name Of every prominent
Democrat shall have been dragged
in. This is not very good campaign
material, but it is valuable as any