The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-04-17

time of his former visit Madison was President,
and he spent several days as guest at the White
1t is said that the President on his late visit
to the San Domingo Ducking Club, on the Gun
powder, killed seven red head ducks at one dis
charge of his double barreled gun. These ducks
were served for dinner on the White House table
the day following.
Secretary Lamar has gone to Mississippi on
two weeks trip and Attorney General Garland
will go to his home in Arkansas. 1t is atated that
they both require relaxation from their arduous
duties, and they have taken warning by Secre-
tary Manning's illness.
ANY one contemplating pleasure trip to
Washington should 90 there about the first of
May. Its many beautiful parks are then car
peted with rich green, the flowers are beginning
to bloom and the trees putting out their foliage.
By many it is regarded as the most beautiful city
in the Union at this season of the year.
The President on Monday nominated Senator
Jackson, of Tennessee, to be judge of the Sixth
Judicial District of that State, to fill vacancy,
and he was promptly confirmed. Mr.. Jackson
was member of the Senate committee on pensions
and it is said he never reported q pension case
ravvraply since peen in the Senate.
Congress is about to commence wrestling
with a bill to regulate the sale and taxation of
oleomargarine. 1t is proposed to put tax of
20 cents per pound upon every pound of this stuff
solo, and is charged that the manufacturers of it
have already raised purse Of 100000 to defeat
the measure in Congress. 1t is stated that pro-
fit of 100000 year is made on this bogus
butter.
And now the gossips have again fixed up the
Presidents affairs in the matrimonial line and he
is to be married in June to Miss Folsom, charm
ing young lady of Buffalo, N. Y, who is now
travelling in Europe with her mother. Her late
father was law partner of Mr. Cleveland and
she is his ward But the Presidents friends con-
tinue to doubt the story, as they regard him as
confirmed bachelor.
Mr.. Robert G. Winthrop was the originator
of the proposal to make April 3Oth, instead of
March 4th, Inauguration day, and which now re-
appears in Senator Ingalls's bill before Congress-
Mr.. Winthrop suggested the change of the day in
his grafton at the dedication of the Washington
Monument, recalling the fact that Washington
was inaugurated as first President of the United
States on April 30th
Some of the Washington correspondents of
Democratic newspaper are just now busily engaged
in trying to make it appear that serious breach
between the President and his party is iminent
and that the storm, when 1t does come, will be
likely to land Mr.. Cleveland on the same rocks
that stranded Andy johnson. Perhaps this is
what those correspondents would like,to see, but
it is hardly likely that their predictions will be
realized.
About two months ago a Democrat-an old
Irish veteran-was appointed Waterman in the
Treasury Department and was assigned to duty at
the door of one of the rooms of the redemption
bureau. 1t was noticed that he was always on the
alert and scrutnized every one very closely. A few
days ago he took a Democratic friend aside and
told him that the Republicans could not be as bad
as they had been painted, and said: "I have
been here eight weeks and watched every one of
'em like cat watches a mouse, and divil one of
'em has been caught stealing thing"