The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
NO 81
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, Sept. IL, 1885, Wash
1 ington has been somewhat dull since
| The adjournment OF congress and 1.-THE
departure OF the president. The earth
| quake shook it up a little, bnt nothing
comparison to the election Of DEM
Icratic president. Since that event
nothing surprises the average Wash
ingtOnian, who looks upon all sublu-
1ary and subteranean disturbances
With an indifference which seems TO
say,
with that dire rotrospaetion curst
Ny only solaeo il TO know
Whistler betides, I've seen the worst.a
What is the worst? Why to bet on
Jim blaine and lose the money lac had
borrowed at ten per cent. interest per
month. aud then be dismissed for often
i've good for nothinghess. But this, as
we democrats say of the war, is ancient
| history.
Modern or contemporary history as
viewed from this standpoint Is flat
tnOugh. It will be more interesting
when the president returns and when
the president returns and when co n
gress gets back. After the fall cleo
lions it will be liveiier still.
The departments are moving along
in their old rnts. In the treasury de-
pal AiAtGAl lAAtN alt htN ping nOOkk. knln-
Ting the revenue, making contracts,
calling in bonds, auditing accounts.
md paying the great army of clerks
known as the civil service, as well as
the small but expensive army, and the
formidable on the payroll navy. Now
Jhat Geronimo and his band of forty
thieves are captured the United States
army will be able to take a rest, for it
is the intention OF Secretary Lamar to
shift the Apaches from Arizona to Flor
ida and end Indian wars forever. All
The other warriors have either Joined
Buffalo Bills circus or are so civilized
aud cowed by government tough beef
that they are as harmless as their wood
en- effigies I'm front of tobacco stores.
without any Indians to fight, with
diving torpedo boats that eau blow up
the great iron clads OF foreign navies,
ana with diplomacy carried, on by
special ENJOYS, how much longer will
these triplets of barbarism, the army,
and sham foreign service have reason
to be. Iour correspondent is not quite
ready to announce the millennium. Jim
blaine has broken out in the old place,
and the government OF the United
states Is still mal-administered,i in great
part, by the cOnvicts condemned by the
last presidential election to outer dark
ness with wailing and crashing of
-eeth. When will the sentence of that
election be carried out, and when will
we have in the departments at Wash
ngton body of employees placed for
some other purpose than to work for
he republican party and now have no
iearer object than TO hamstring the
democratic administration.
All the cabinet officers, Mr.. Raya-d
are out of town. MIR. Lamar
up IN Vermont, writing a big speech
nat he Is expecting TO deliver at the
-uVelling OF a statue Of Calhoun in
charleston, 5. G, Vermont is as near
he poiitico geographical ant p)de OF the
,alhoun cult as the eloquent Misslssip-
ian can get, but | predict that his
peech VIII be as far removed from an
dVocacy of disuniOn as the Green
fountains are from the center of the
The usual summer improvements
9th public and private, have been go
lg on in the city. Many houses have
cen built. Parks have been extended,
rec planted, sewers dug and streets
aYed. The great improvement of re-
tanning the Potomac Flats with
lew to the expurgation of malaria is
DING on and 10 is thought that the city
Ill be in trim be-times for the great
entennial celebration of the Inaugural
on the first president i'm 1889, when
ne Washington Monument entwine1
18th the national cOlors will look Ikea
erber's pole, and the Grant memorial
ridge spanning the Potomac will fur
lsh an easy approach for the Virginia
'uck gardeners. But this is sacrilege,
nd will be discontinued till next week.