The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-08-21
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

Mrs. Charlotte Smith, of Washington, wants
to be the next Woman Suffrage candidate for the
Presidency.
Fred. Douglass and his white wife, who make
their home in Washington, expect to sail for
Europe in few days.
The statue of Gen. Rawlns to be erected in
Washington will be placed in the small triangle
in front of the Center Market
Congressman Thos. M. Bayne, of Pennsylva-
MIA, is about building himself $4,000 residence
in fashionable quarter of Washington.
1t is said that U. S. Treasurer Jordan does
not agree with Secretary Fairchild on financial
questions and that he contemplates resgning.
The President failed to appoint q public
printer before starting on his summer trip and Mr..
Rounds still holds on to that comfortable office.
Mrs. Cleveland is said to possess the
faculty of remembering the face of every person
she meets. If this is so she would make good
politician.
Gustav Kissing, of Maryland, who has held
a 81 200 clerkship in the Patent Office, has been
promoted to the position of third assistant exam
iner salary $4,000.
The President has appointed VIM. H. Web
ster to be chief examiner of the Civil-Service
Commission, vice Mr.. Lyman. He is Republi-
can and chief of division in the Pension Office.
Washington is now almost entirely deserted
BY prominent Government officials and the de-
partments are being run by subordinates. All
who get away from the hot city are off for their
summer vacation.
The District Commissioners have ordered the
withdrawal of all commissions to guides to public
buildings, and hereafter the watchmen of the
buildings will give information to visitors and no
fees will be charged.
Mr.. Riddleberger's characteristic garb in the
Senate during the late days of the last session
consisted of yellow nankeen trousers, silk smok-
ing Jacket, on waistcoat, and bullying display of
NJ IL -, oh nrrkE
as this.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland, accom-
panied by the atter's mother and Private Secre-
tary Lamont and wife, left Washington on Mon
day morning for their Summer pleasure trip
They 90 to the Adirondack Mountains and expect
to be absent about month.
Secretary Fairchild has issued the one hun
bred and fortieth call for the redemption of bonds
of the three per cent. loan of 1852, and notice is
given that the principal and accrued interest will
be paid in Washington, September 18th. The
call is for $40, 000, 900 of these bonds
"A statement has been prepared at the Treas.
ury Department, showing the unpaid balances
due by the government to private individuals.
The governments debts of this character amount
in principal to about 81, 100000 mainly in unex-
pended balances of accounts of former officials
The receipts of the government since July
LIST. have been nearly 600 in excess OF the
receipts during the same period of last year. The
increase was about 50, 100000 from customs, and
about s., 500, 900 from internal revenue. These
figures are held to be Indicative of good state Of
business throughout the country.
Among the callers at the last public recep-
ton at the White House were two ladies, one
blind and the other a cripple, and both of whom
had lately lost their positions in the departments
through reductions of force They told pitifu
stories to the President, who promised to see II
something could be done for them.
During the absence of the President and his
wife on their summer trip the White House is to
thoroughly renovated from garrett to cellar and 1t
is also to be painted on the outside. The sum OF
$4,000 was appropriated by the last Congress to
keep the house in order for one year, and the
greater part of this will be expended by the time
the President returns.
-Ex-P President Arthur has just been paid 1927,
that amount having been still due him for salary
while he was Collector of the Port of New York.
While he held that Office about $l2, 900 were
stolen and the Collectors salary was withheld
The last Congress relieved Mr.. Arthur of any re-
sponsblity for the loss and the balance OF salary
due Elm has therefore been paid.
u. S. Treasurer Jordan, in a letter to the
bankers convention held last week in Boston,
stated that $685. 1928 2S6 silver dollars were coined
to June Goth, 1886 estimated value of subsidiary
silver $40, 900, 000-a total of 1908 ,7232S6. The
value of the silver in standard dollar at the
price August 10th, 1885, is 7l.2l, while the sub
sidiary silver is valued at 66.6l, exclusive OF
abrasion. The present value of the silver coinage
is S213 ,O61 1859.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury is about
carrying into effect the act passed at the last SEES
sion of Congress directing that certain articles OF
plate, jewelry, portraits, &C., captured by the
Union army during the civil war, and now stored
in the Treasury Building, be returned to their
rightfu owners In this collection there are about
500 gold and silver watches which we're mainly
taken from prisoners who died in hospitals around
Washington and elsewhere.