The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-08-07
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.


The President has signed the oleomargarne
bill and it is now q law.
The first session Of the Forty ninth Congress
adjourned sine die on Thursday.
The River and Harbor bill, which passed the
Senate on the 31st, appropriates 1908, 393.35.
Senator Blair is a total abstainer from intox-
icating drinks, but he is great smoker of expen-
sive cigars.
The President and his wife will spend several
weeks in the Adirondack mountains and will leave
Washington as soon as Congress adjourns.
Second Assistant Postmaster General Knott
is about commencing the erection of dwelling on
X street, the estimated cost of which is $4,000.
Public Printer Rounds has handed his resig-
nation the President, and it is understood that
his successor will be ex Congressman Rogers, OF
Buffalo.
Congressman Ssm Randall occasionally
smokes cigar just to keep up with "the boy"
but it is plain to all who see him that he does not
enjoy it.
John A. Parsons, of Maryland, ex- State Sen
ator from Wicomco county, has been appointed
chief of the division Of surveying in the General
Land Office.
Congressman Geddes, of Ohio, has been sued
for $4,000 damages by Washington widow
named Sarah Zimmerman, who alleges that he
slandered her.
The new Republican Senator from California,
Hon. A. P. Williams, is native of Maine. He
is a yery rich man and said to be warm friend
of Mr.. Blaine's.
The reduction of the public debt for the
month of July amounted to Sc, 049, 1885. The
total cash in the treasury at the end of the month
was S4S4 1856, 9O3.67.
Thirty clerks we're dropped from the rolls OF
the Patent Office on Saturday last. There was
no money to pay them, hence their services had
to be dispensed with.
Gen. Sheridan rents thirty acre farm near
Washington, where he spends the summer with
his family. The General don't take any stock in
fashionable watering places.
Mr. John B. Moore, young lawyer of Will
mington, Del, who about year ago was appointed
to a ST, 200 clerkship in the State Department
| has been appointed Third Assistant Secretary Of
State at a salary Of $500 per year.
| "A clerk in the Treasury Department wht
| on one of the Sunday excursion boats, was sum-
mafily dismissed by the Acting Secretary when
| the matter was brought to his attention.
| 1t is now currently rumored in Washington
| that Gen. Black, the Commissioner OF Pensions
will shortly retire. 1t is said the President is not
| pleased with the intensely partisan manner IN
which he has been running his department.
The appropriations made by the bills passed
| at this session of Congress mot including the
| Forti6cations billy aggregate the immense sum Of
1896, 600, OO0 which is $45,0OO,0OO in excess oil
the appropriations of the last session of Congress
| Among the clerks dismissed from the patent
| Office on Saturday was Miss Alice E. Meikleham
who is a grand daughter of Thomas Jefferson
She depended entirely upon her position for
living and also supported a crippled brother. II
| is thought she will get back again.
! Judge George A. jerks, of Pennsylvania
has been appointed Solicitor General, In place Of
| Hon. John Goode of Virginia, who was rejecte'
! by the Senate. Judge jerks only few months
| ago resigned the Assistant Secretaryship of the
Senate to accept private position in Pennsyl,
vania at salary of 900 per year.
l. Mrs. Cleveland was admitted to membership
in the First Presbyterian Church, Washington, on
| Sunday morning last. The announcement, in
| which much interest was manifested, was that
| "Frances Folsom Cleveland has been admitted
| upon certificate, from the Central Presbyterian
| Church Of Buffalo," Mrs. Cleveland was accom-
panied by her mother.
| The Presidents wife appears to be becoming
immensely popular with all classes in Washington
| 1t was raining when she emerged from church
| last Sunday morning and gallant policeman met
| her at the door with an umbrella. She accepted
! his escort, took his arm and walked through an
admiring crowd to her carriage. That officer is q
| mighty proud man now.
A large party of excursionists from Whining
ton, DEL, went to Washington few days ago,
and wanted to inspect the White Honse, but as
they reached there after O'Clock they were re-
fused admission This greately disappointed the
ladies, who finally prevailed upon door-keeper
lust to let them enter the main passage way
Then they departed in better spirits.
Mrs. Cleveland is making her marriage GER
tifcate matter of more than personal interest by
the historical flavor it will have in years to come
The certificate has been elaborated by an effective
picture of the White House, and attached to it
will be the signatures of all those who were present
at the ceremony. The document is in an alligator
portfolio, the inner lining being of blue velvet.
Mrs. Kate Chase, who has been in Washing
ton some days, had pleasant interview with the
President on Friday. She has been in Europe
for some time, where she is having her children
educated, and came on to Washington to have
the remains of her late father Chief Justice Chase
removed to Ohio. In her young days she was 9
an unhappy one and she procured divorce from
him several years ago.