The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-03-13
OUR wAsHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March 9th, 1888

FROM our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March 9th, 1885.
To relate the events of the past week in the
space allowed for letter, am afraid will re-
Quire power of condensation that your CORES
pondent does not possess.
The President was inaugurated with well Or
dered pomp and pageantry, in the presence of a
crowd unprecedented in numbers and respecta-
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Bureau, was perfect as If it had been regulated
by a thermometer. The inaugural address was
delivered in the presence OF at least 90 600 specta
tors, and owing to the strength of the Presidents
voice, a large proportion of them were actual au-
ditors. The parade that followed was such as has
never before been seen in this country. and it was
review ed by the President, and many distinguish
ed personages around him. as well as by 100000
balconies, stands, and house tops of Pennsylva-
MIA avenue.
At night the sky was painted red, white and
blue, with fireworks, and the great ball attended
by the President and nearly ten thousand per-
sons was the brilliant and frivolous finale OF the
face as he rode to the Capitol in the forenoon,
and wondered how he would be able to bear up
and nervous strain must have been intense. To
go through the preliminary etiquette at the
cynosure of hundreds of thousands of eyes; to
appear the observed and criticized of all amid the
distinguished throng in the United States Senate
Chamber; to deliver without reading, an address
in the vast presence East of the Capitol; to stand
for four hours while a line of $500 uniformed
O'clock at night, to appear in stifing ball room,
amid mob of aggressvely curious women-ths
was the gauntlet with which President Cleveland
commenced his administration on the fourth of
March. He is alive! and thank heaven human
ingenuity and pageantrly has done its worst.
Since the fourth the White House has been be-
sieged by delegations. but the President manages
to find time to eat and sleep.
With the exception of the Cabinet of the late ad-
ministration none of the rascals have yet been
turned out. but quite number have with the in
sinct of Davy Crockett's coon come down gone
OUT of their own accord. The majority however,
will wait until MIR. Cleveland shoots. They ex-
pect to have to come down finally, but will defer
their tumble as long as possible.
The new President has given out that he will
not persoally hear or personally consider appl
cations for Office unless they shall come to him
recommended by the Cabinet officer in whose de-
partment the Office is sought 1t Is believed that
Mr., Cleveland will literally adhere to this rule.
At any rate it Will be a literal impossibility for
him to consider one-tenth of the applications he
is receiving. Each mail brings an immense load
of petitions which Col. Lamont and his clerks
look over, acknowledge with prepared blank
forms, and refer to the Departments to which
they belong. The President does not see them,
and no persistence on the part of the applicant
will secure his attention.
Miss Cleveland held the usual reception on Sat
urday afternoon last and hundreds went to the
White House who had not been there before, to
pay their respects to the Presidents sister. Miss
Cleveland is not what is known here as a society
lady," She is wanting in the saUoir Jaire the
graces, and the je ne sails quot which are charac
teristic of great social leaders. But she has what
is better than all these, in plain Democratic
country, an air OF sincerity and amiability which
impressed her guests with welcome. Her race is
expressive of intelligence and character.
-Au earthquake shock was felt at Lancaster,
Pa, last Monday night.
Eight thousand miners are on a strike in
the Pittsburg coal district
Last Saturday the first efring of the sea-
son were caught at Salisbury, Md.
-Ex-President Arthur will resume the prac-
tice of law with his old partners, Knevals d
hanson, New York.
Mrs. Mary Ann Shriner died at herresi-
dence, in Carroll county, on Monday, aged 81
years, 6 months and 30 days.
-T.S.Arthur, the well-known author and pub
Usher, died in Philadelphia, last Friday, aged rs
years. One of his best known books is "Ten
Nights in Darkroom"
-Four powder mills of the Latin g. Rand
Company, near Newburgh, N. Y, blew up,
Monday morning, killing two men and fatally
injuring third Over 1000 lbs. of powder were
destroyed.