The Press., 1886-09-16
WASHINGTON LII aER. .
Washington D. Q Sept. II,

Dullness has been reigning in Washing ton since the adjournment of congress and the departure of the president. The exo- dus of people to the mountains and sea shore has this year been greater than usu- al. Those who leave Washington in the beginning of the warm season and do not return until after frost, fail to see the capitol city in her loyeliest aspect. The temperature here during the summer months is quite as cool as in far higher attitudes. The streets, with their smooth surfaces shaded by the overlapping branch es of trees, form beautiful vistas, at the ends. of which may be seen cool fountain or majestic statue. All unsightly objects are hidden by luxuriance of verdnre .un- pRFalleled in any other oity of this size. The parks, for whose beauty Washington is famous, are a delight to the eye with their many colored flowers and shrubs and altogether one wonders where pleasanter place conld be found to spend the summer.
 Already Q few familiar faces on the streets denote the return of some of the old habitueG. The president is expected to be at his post again in about week. It is still debated question whether Sec retary Manning will be able and willing to resume his duties.
 w The crank has not felt it to be his fash ionable duty to leave Washington during the summer months. The other day a good looking, we'll dressed gentleman walk sd with an imposing. air into the white ihouse. On being asked his name and business. he answered haughtily, 1T am the emperor of America, and desire that thirty millions of money shall be immedi- ately brought me from yonder building, !" pointing tp the treasury. The door-keep- or, with mock obeisance, and protesting his allegiance, persuaded his majesty to enter carriage, and he was quietly driven be placed ID company with another crank, who has been there. for several years, and whose claims are even more extensive than those of the would-be emperor He be- ieyes that he is the monarch of the world, and, unlike the Respondent Alexander the great, he does not weep for other worlds to conquer. .....f,s.. -...r .., a ..,l..
 The employees at the white house are very busily engaged just now, getting the mansion ready for occupancy. Every sum- mer during the presidents vacation it un- deHgoes . thOrOugh cleaning. All the car pets are rolled mp, the window curtains and draperies taken down, and chaos and the chambermaid reign. The woodwork in the house is being painted and regilded, both in the private and public apartments Then there are to be some changes in fur niture, the wear and tear of which in the rooms open to the public necessitates ire quent renewal. Everything will be com .Pleted and the entire house in order by the time MT. and Mrs. Cleveland return, though 1t is not probable they will occupy 1t at present, as their country home is also rapidly approaching completion, and it was the presidents ox{ginal intention to spend the rest of the bet season there.
 Afr. Bayard is the only cabinet officer in the city at present. Mir. Lamar is in Yer mont, writing speech, it is said, to be delivered at the unveiling of statue of John c. Calhoun in Charleston. The statue will be unveiled provided any solid ground can be found for it. What a spec taCle and what theme for the poet, the historian, and the moralist. A bronze Oa1han a00king on the skeleton ruins and the BaHas heart of secession, amid sul- phurous fumes and internal perturbation.
 The secretary of war has not been in the city for weeks Adjntant General Drum has been acting secretary. There is great rejoicing at the war department over the capture of Geronimo and his band of red anarchists. It is said at the war de- partment that they will hang. Indeed they ought to hang. This refined and civilized means of exit has terrors for the untutored sewage that mere familiar shoot ing cannot equal. To die like christian malefactor; with benefit of clergy, fills the mind of poor To with unhowlahle horror. and tnrns the sweet memory of brained babies and tortured, disemboweled women to ashes in his mouth. By all means let them hang, and let congress honor Gen. eral Mileniand Captain Lawton.with vote of than1s. sl
 The Connecticut Roman Catholic total abstinence union met in state convention at AnsOnia Tuesday. The secretary's re- port showed gain for the year of 186 adults and loss of 666 cadets. The drink ing Of Weias beer was prohibited.
 Colonal Frederick Dow. son of Neal Dow, ia dg8 of the representatives just elected b the republicans of Portland to tho next Maine legislature.