The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-06-12
NEWS NOTES FROM WARRINGTON.

w. P. Armstrong, of Maryland, has been APP
pointed Waterman in the Treasury Building.
Private Secretary Lamont and wife spent
Sunday last at Deer Park, where they were the
guests of the President.
Mr.. G. G. Hubbard has purchased Is acres of
land adjoining the country seat lately bought by
the President, for $4,000.
Miss Cleveand's book has so far netted her
upwards of $4,000 and the income from it is still
from $25 to 500 per month.
Mrs. A.. M. Gibson has sold her handsome
residence on Dupont Circle to Rev. J. A. Aspn-
wall, of New York, for $4,000
Up to this time there have been introduced in
the House the present session over 5000 bills
Only 932 of these have passed so far.
1t is said the President will not send back any
of the wedding presents. He very properly says
that these given to the bride and that he has
nothing to do with them.
Secretary Manning has sent his resignation
to the President, to take effect next October. 1t
is believed that his will be Congressman
VIM. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania.
"A son of Secretary Endicott, who has just
graduated from Harvard College, will 60 to work
in the Department of Justice as a volunteer. He
wants business experience, not money.
Representative Shaw, of this Congressional
district, made speech on Wednesday in which
he took strong grounds against the present civil
service law, pronouncing it unconstitutional, DC.
The rate of tax in the oeomargarine bill has
been reduced from ten to five cents per pound and
in this shape the bill may pass the Senate, it hav-
ing already gone through the house by rs majority
1t is said that the President gave the Rev.
DR.. Sunderland a crisp new 800 note for per-
forming the marriage ceremony. 1t is also said
that the Dr. will have the note framed and keep it.
Elk President Arthur, Mrs. Grant and hun
dreds of other prominent people sent kilograms of
congratuation to the President. Nearly thou
sand such messages were received at the White
House.
in speaking of the Presidents wedding SEN
ator Edmunds said that he had not been able to
give his approval to many of Mr.. Cleveland's pub
lie acts but that this one met his most hearty COM
mendation.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland reached
the White House at 7.30 on Tuesday evening after
delightful sojourn of six days at Deer Park, Md.
They were welcomed back by the Presidents
brother and sisters.
Hundreds of ladies called at the White
House the day after the wedding and were highly
indignant because they were not permitted to go
in and inspect the floral decorations. The ushers
had all they could do to keep them out
The engraved cards announcing the Presl-
dents marriage, only limited number of which
we're sent out since the event, read as follows:
"Mr. Grover Cleveland and Miss Frances Folsom,
married on Wednesday, June I'd, 1886"
The fact that Attorney General Garland di
not attend the Presidents wedding has caused
great deal of gossip in Washington and it is said
that it would not be surprising if he were asked
to resign. But we don't believe there is anything
in the resignation business.
"A few days ago the House Committee on War
Claims heard arguments by representatives of the
Confederate bondhoders, who urged the redemp-
ton of those bonds by the Government This is
a new and very bold scheme, but it is hardly like
ly anything will ever come of it.
An enterprising representative of one OF the
VI, I'D friad tO a
form from one of the members of the Marine Band
so that he might be an eyewitness of the Presi-
dents wedding. But he didn't sCcceed, although
the proposed trick was good one.
1T is now said in Washington that the Presi
dent did not buy the country seat on the Tannal
lytown road place of residence for himself,
but that it was purchased merely as a real estate
speculation. 1t is expected that property in that
neighborhood will now enjoy great boom.
Members of Congress who are opposed to the
Civil Service law are doing all they can to EN-
barrass the Civil Service Commission in its work.
There is an intense feeling against this law in GER
tain quarters and there can be no doubt about its
being repealed at the first favorable opportunity.
One of the last official acts of the President
before his marriage the pardoning of b. +.
Bigelow, the defaulting teller of the National
Bank of the Republic, Washington. He was SEN
fenced for five years to the penitentiary and since
his confinement his wife died, leaving seven little
children in the care of their grandparents
Some of the ultra society people OF Washing
ton are complaining because of the Presidents
private wedding and of them are in high
dugeon because they were not invited. In the
meantime the President has been enjoying his
honeymoon, utterly unconcerned about their
croakings 1t would be strange thing indeed if
the President could not be married in a manner
that suited his own tastes.
"A claim of the heirs of a man named John
Yesterday, amounting to $3.50, was presented to
the First Comptroller of the Treasury for pay
ment, on Friday of last week. 1t is dated Febru
airy IA, 1898. The claim, which had never been
satisfied, was only lately found among some old
papers of the deceased. Interest was also claimed
at the rate of per cent 1t was decided that the
claim was barred by limitation.