The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-09-04
From our Regular cousspondsnt.I
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASl1lNGlON LEJ"IEkks
WASHINGTON, ID. q. Aug. Gath, 1885.
Although the President and five mem
bers Of bis Cabinet are absent from the
city, there is no hitch and very little
friction In the work Of the Departments
Of Government. The Assistant Secre-
tary Of Etate, Ex-Gov. Porter, 10 In
charge OF the State Department, while
Mr.. Baysrd is spending week ct bis
Delaware home. The Secretary Of
Treasury has left the Department for
few days In the hands Of Assistant Sec
retsries Fairchild and Coon. The able
First Assistant p. M. General. Mr.. Ste-l
venson, has charge OF the Post Office De-
partment during the temporary absence
lof Mr.. Villas. The War and Navy De-
lpartments are In charge of their respect-
live Chief Clerks while Secretaries Whit
lney and Endicott are taking . brief rest.
ISecrefary Lamar, of the Interior DEPART
|ment, and Attorney General Garland,
|are the only members of the Cabinet who
remain ct their posts. STEPPED In the
sums OF Arkansas and Mississippi the
dog days heat Of Washington has no,
terrors for them.
The hotel keepers Of summer resorts
are much given to advertising the fact
that Cabinet ministers and prominent
oficials Of all sorts are etopping at their
health giving inns. where the scenery lei
grand and the thermometer at rs de-
grees. Attorney General Garland has
been much annoyed ct advertising OF
this sort, and when It was announced
last week that he was at Rock Enonl
Springs, he got mad and gave notice that
be had not been away and did not in
tend to 60. He tramps down to bis
Office 80 early as seven In the morning
and seldom leaves until 6. When he
goes out he rides In street car and lives
ss plainly as the lowest grade clerk In bis
Office.
Secretary Lamar also lives very plain
Nv. He is occupying for the summer the
house Of Senator McPherson, of New
Jersey, and be takes daily exercise in the
saddle.
There are three members Of Congress
who have houses ia Washington aud a.
present are residing here, and making
this city their regular home, notwith-
|stauding their legal residences are many
|milcs away. Mr. G. II. Breckenridge,
lmemb Der from Arkansas, whose home is
lat Pine Bluff, has house upon Capital
lHill. and with his family has been there
al the GUNNER and intende TO remain.
Hon. John s. Barbour, Of Virginia, lives
lin Washington also, although Alexan-
Idris Is his legal residence. Mr.. Barbour
also resides on Capital Hill. Mr.. Ben
|iamin Butterworth, who. while CON-
missioner OF Patents, took house ont
at LeDroit Park. hes had bis family
there ever since, and bas paid little at
tention to his home In Cincinnati.
Mr.. w. King, the new chief Of the seed
Division at the Agricultural Depart
ment, seems to be taking hold Of his
work with real vigor. Mr.. King was
well known by Commissioners Coleman
before the appointment was made, and
liz is said that be is peculiarly well pos
ted on the various soils OF the country
and the seeds that will thrive therein
THE difficulty with this Department 10
1.-The past, and the reason Il has been
drought into disfavor is because seedt
were not judiciously distributed. The
'lDepartment is now sending out wheat
and rye. A new kind Of wheat, which
M. King calls the Houghton farm "
lrIety. he expects great deal from. Ht
Ithinks Il is one Of the beet ever distri'
Ibuted. He is sending out new variety
|of turnip seed into the South also. Fou'
varieties Of Italian wheat have recently
|boen received at the Department, which
will be distributed to the experiment
|vtations.
The reported breach between the Pres
lident and Mr.. Tilden has fallen very
rlnat. Few persons took any stock IN -
struth, and as was very likely the expeG
tstion 81 its author. Somebody else will
probably take Mr.. Tilden's place In
dsv OF 20 ss the abittcrly disappointed
and viudictive Democrat and 90 IN
lcood work will 20 on until the name Q
every prominent Democrat shall hsv
been dragged in. This is not very goo
lcampsign material, but II is as valuable I:
, any, the Republicans can now lay tnei
hands on.