The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-10-07

q lne Zolu OI OeptemDeT LAS passeu. duu
Washington still looms upsin all her
beauty, although about midnight of that
day the people were awakened from their
slumbers by a bowling wind that sounded
like the approach Of a destructive cyclone.
1t continued for nearly an hour and was
followed by heavy rain fall, but in the
morning everybody found bright and
peaceful sky and cool and bracing tenn.
perature.
The delightful temperature, clean
streets, beautiful parks and handsome
residences completely charmed our visit
ing brethren Of scapitnlar masonry, and
made them 10th to leave the Capital
City. On Wednesday in numbers Of
200, accompanied by fifty ladies, repre-.
senting a!lseetions of tie country from
Maine to California, the deliberative
body assailed the President, who accorded
them a special reception and gave each
member q hearty shake of the hand.
The banquet on Wednesday night was
attended by So companions and their
wives, and was one of the most elaborate
set outs, coraplete in all lis details, ever
giyenin Washington. The visitors, after
electing Noble D. Larner, of the District,
General Grand High Priest to serve for
the next thres years, wound up the round
of pleasure on Friday, and departed
for their homes delighted with their
weeks sojout'n at the Capital Of their
country.
Secretary Lamar endeayors always to
carry out the spirit of the laws without
looking through a microscope to find
some technically fine point on which to
defeat the intention of our Legislators,
and in keeping with this spirit has revers.
ed the decision of Commissioner Black
and granted the claim of the widow Of
DR.. Payy, of Greedy Arctic expedition
fame, based upon the act of Congress
allowing her pension of SIT q month.
The Office refused the claim on the ground
that the doctor was not in the service Of
the United States at the time of his
death, but the Secretary held that being
under the orders of an army officer he
was by liberal construction in the en-
ploy of the government and entitled to
the pension.
The stories about the Monument set
Ting out of plumb seem not to have had
the desired effect of deterring people
from climbing to its top. During the
past month 2,SG0 people ascended to the
top, and since April 10000 have made
the same fatiguing journey.
The photographic Office is in possession
of considerable matter showing the
efficiency Of oil in quietiDg the waves
during storm. and will soon publish it
in pamphlet form for the benefit of mar
liners. The reports all show that vegeta-
BILE or fish oil produces the best results,
and that no instance of failure is recorded
where such oils were used, although
kerosene or lighter oils have sometimes
failed.
The new government printer is making
sweeping discharges in his ofice-over
two hundred employees having been
already dismissed and others are soon to
follow. The reduction in force however
will only be temporary, as Congress will
assemble in two months and then the
men will have to work both day and
night to keep up the work. Of course
when the force is increased Democrats
will be given the preference, as the civil
service rules do not apply to that branch
of the service.
Two hundred men were discharged
from the Washington Navy Yard last
week, made necessary by converting the
yard into an ordnance foundry. The
plant of the equipment bureau will be
transferred to the Boston yard, that of
the construction bureau to New York,
and the steam engineering to Norfolk.
The machinery for use in making
ordnance will hs put in place as fast as
possible, but it will be some time before
work in making the ordnance can com.
mence. d.