The Daily Tombstone., 1886-10-16
EvAsH6NGTGX LEE"Eslzs.
WASHINGTON, Oct. Il.

MIR. EDITOR :-After ShOrG Taca- ton of one week, spent with friends in Buffalo, Mrs. Cleveland returned on Wednesday morning, to Washing ton. She was accompanied by her friend Mrs. Csdman, of Buffalo, who will be her guest for few weeks. The President was Ut the depot to welcome his wife upon her arrival, and the party was driven direct to the White House. Owing to the extremely early hour of the arrival of the train but few curious people had gathered at the depot, and the party was spared the annoyance that would have other wise been occasioned.
 The wonderful success achieved by Dr. E. NJ. Gallaudet in educating the deaf, dumb and blind, during the several years tn It he has been in charge of the National Deaf Mute College at Kendall Green in this city, has given him reputation second o none in the world, as deaf-mu:e educator The college at Kendall Green is the only collegiate institu- ton in existence fer the deaf It is we'll known in England that in no country has the education of the deaf and blind received such careful at tention as in the United States, and on Saturday last Dr. GAllaudet sailed for England upon an invitation of the British Government, sent through the British Minister, to appear be- fore a royal commission on the educh ton of the deuf and blind. The Pre- sident who Is ex-officio patron of the Deaf Mute College, at once gave his approval to Dr. Gallaudet accepting the invitation, and he expressed great interest in the matter.
 Now that the time of the elections ill the various states is close at hand the question that most perpleXes the minds of the clerks ill the Govern ment Department is as to how to cast their votes without giving offenSe. The Republican clerks are especially agitated, as while their friends are urging the necessity of their going home to vote, they fear that by so do ing they would be likely to lose their places. Many of the clerks who have not taken their vacations are now ap- plying for their leave, and to conceal the fact that they have gone to their homes, clerks have in many instances exchanged railroad tickets with clerks from other states, and have shown these tickets as evidence of their go- ing simply upon vacation, sfter which the tickets arc returned ts their rightful owners.
 A great deal of fault is found by the Washington banks on account of the recent order directing that the new silver certificates should be dis tributed from the sub-treasury in New York City. They com plain that it is an extraordinary business reg ulation which requires them to ship silver to New York, and pay charges upon return packages, when it would have been much more convenient fol them to have deposited the silver al the Treasury in Washington There are over twenty-eight hundred na- tional banks in the country, and as each of the banks will be supplied with $1,000 of the new one dollal certificates, before outside orders will receive attention. it will necessarily be sometisle before the bills will entsl into general circulation.
 The Acting Secretary of the Treas ury has called upon the Attorney General for an opinion as to whether the oleomarga-lne law imposes tax on the different ingredients ased in the manufacture of oleomargarire and also tax on the article Wher finished, or whether the Jaw contem- plates d tax upon the finished article only. The decision of this question will make great difference one way or the other to persons dealing 1T olsOmargarine. The new stamps arc about ready for shipment to the col lectors. The wholesale and retai stamps contain a vignette ot tht