The Dillon tribune., 1886-10-22
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
r,vn Talk Autumn Glory The "Oyer-
mid" Discharged Employees
Idaho FruitClevelanl's Eco
nomic C.re'-The .Jayas
NOcker.
From an occasional correspondent.

W\SislNGroN, Oct. l6, 1856.
=, the Editor of the Dillon Tr1B,SE:
Your paper comes regularly every Fri.
day. and all in the household hail it as q
verv welcome visitor. We find it ALWAYS
interesting, and, without any desire to fiat
ter or puff, say that it most assured" re-
fleets great credit upon the management,
and bids fair to become an important ant!
Influential journal in your region of coun.
ry. As local journal it is admirably got.
ten up. There is an energetic, breezy,
wide.a.wake air all over its pages which
clearly warns all rival journals to look well
ID their la,rels. The reporter that keeps
track of the babies born is dangerous
competitor in his line.
Since my letter of the 10th l,imo, the
temperature of Washington has undergone
radical and most agreeable change. &C.
tober is by far the most delightful month
OF the calendar in this latitude, and the
weather now is simply glorious-perect--
and has been for over week. AS sam.
pie, take the Thernometric Readings at
the Chief signal Office for Saturday, the
9Th inst. 5 a. m. $40: a. m. 800; IL a. NJ.
10: 3p. m. $50: I p. m. 67o; 10 p. M.
500; IL p. N. SO. Mean temperature
6,u; maximum $50; minimum 900. Do
yoa want ANYTHING better than that, N1r
Editor:
The fine weather has brought numbers
OF strangers to the citv-srcat numbers
some of courss. on business, but most of
bring in one or two excursion parties
every day.
The Departments are very busy lust
now, and the annual reports of heads of
5ureaux and divisions are expected to be
ready by the 1st OF November.
And right here l may add that the flip
pant remark SO often heard about the "ovei-
mid' and "under worked government
clerks is all o!-dc-rol--wi,hout the least
foundation in fact. y class they work
well ard hard, and in intelligence, cduca-
ton and general responsibility, will not
suffer by comparison with any class Of peo.
pie in the world. AS to their pay it is not
one bit too liberal; a very large majority Of
them honestly earn every nickel they re-
ceive.
The new one dollar silver certificates are
oat and they arc very pretty. Martha
Washington's good face adorns one corner
the notes are generally declared "hand.
some money"
Mr.. Benedict, the new Public Printer,
has found it necessary, in order to keep
within the appropriation, to discharge
about five hundred employees.
George W. Adams, the president Of the
Evening Star Newspaper Company, died
in this city yesterday morning Of dropsy.
lie was torty.si years of age, at one time
correspondent of the New York IFW7d,
and became one of the owners of the Star
len Or twelve years ago. His success in
journalism had been marked, not only as
writer, but in the more important duty of
business manager. He was Il man OF great
'onhomie and will be sadly missed in
Newspaper Row.
notice in the annual report OF the
Governor Of Idaho that, in fruit products,
HAT territory cannot be excelled. ".\pples,
PEACHES, pears, nectarincs, apricnts, plums,
HFunes, grapes and all of the small fruit are
Produced in great abundance and OF 4 quail
'y unsurrasscd.' This has set me to
"'nking, and wondering whether the
country about Dillon can boast OF the same
power in the fruit line. | have no geo.
yaphy at hand, but it seems to me that
Dillon is not very far irom Idaho
As an item OF news in White House
economy, it is stat,,t! that resident Clevc.
'''a Is more sparins than any OF his pte!e-
>sSs'rs were OF the contingent approplia-
"'h' Gran. spent every cent 10000;
''a'es had nineteen cents left out Of fund
$1,000; Arthur saved $3.50 from fund
"9lo,ooo, while N:. Cleveland has saved
SSis'sl during his first year ont Of 4 con-
"Agent fund o. 5000
''ence you perceive that o:ir President
. setting all Of us a good example in
''''e ways than one. The government
.see'p>s tor Oct. 9, were: Internal revenue,
,'Sro'977; Customs S7l.,S-y.y0. This
Dig and great Coun.rv-isn't it:
I" my sketch Of the I. $. Treasurer
.s 'here occurs al: error, which I now
''" 70 Correct The force of the office is
considerably over three hundred. rs
printed :, ,,,,