Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-11

than one hundred per cent. more than was
paid for it six or eight years ago, and much
oft is appraised at one hundred per cent
more than it was bought for two years ago.
1t is safe to say that the most unfortunate
purchaser will not make less than % per
cent on his property, yet all are dis
satisfied The two blocks viii cost the
Government something over a half
million dollars. The buildings upon the
ground are very poor.
So much money has been made in real
estate in Washington during the past three
or four years that spectators feel that they
are imposed upon and are not doing well
unless they make from % to 100 per cent
within year or two.
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Few men know how to spend holiday
as Senators, Representatives, Cabinet Off
GERS and that class who occupy high posi-
tons in public life. The streets
of Washington on night
before Christmas holds hundreds of these
men in high positions and the restaurants
and bars of the city entertain scores OF
them on Christmas night. They are not
given to that violent dissipation that char
acterizes all men who visit these places,
but there is one abandon which seizes
them all. Two holidays in each year are
ALWAYS recognized and fully celebrated by
public men. These are Christmas and
| Fourth of July. Last Monday, which was
celebrated as the fourth, saw but few pull
lie men in Washington. The depart
ments were all closed and
those that did not go to their constituents
! TO make oratiOns took carriages and drove
to country resorts about the city, or, tax
ing boats, went down the river or ran over
to Baltimore, Philadelphia or New York.
They all enjoyed themselves in the ways
which their tastes led them, and those ways
are generally in the line of unusual activl-
ty. When it comes to holiday the posi-
ton man occupies in Washington is
wholly 3isregarded. He leans back on his
character. If that is little lax
| he runs astray and becomes
pretty wild. A majority of these
public men do not consider it very great
improperly to celebrate on holidays, and
the 4th of July, 1866, or rather the 9th,
was more thoroughly celebrated by public
men, and celebrated in the way the Bach
anatians used to celebrate 1t, than was
ever known before. 1t was very solemn
and sour looking crowd that filled the
Senate and occupied the important places
on Tuesday, the 9th, and it was very sad
crowd of men and women who had to
march upon the orders Of these men.
~
In the opinion of some officers in the
POstoffice Department who are closely re
lated to the Postmaster General, the postal
clerks at indianapolis, who have organized
to make demand for some kind Of an as
surance that they will be retained in theiI
position, will receive very little satisfaction
I from Mr.. Villas. For six months or more
the Postmaster General has realized, 1t Is
stated, that there was being organized q
movement to compel him, in his opinion,
to retain railway mail employees whether
he desired to do so or not, and
with the belief that he is to bC
boycotted or forced, he intends to deal
with them with an an iron hand. 1t Is
stated further that arrangements have beer
in progress mt the POstoffice Department
for some time to meet any emergency which
may arise by a general strike of railway
mail clerks. 1t may be that the PostmaS
ter General will make some kind OF al
answer which will appear satisfactory, i
the organization of clerks now in the ser
vice demands an answer to the request FOL
an assurance of retention, but whatever il
given by the Postmaster General in this
direction will be given with very large
grain of salt He is the sternest man IL
the Cabinet and is averSe to doing anything
which could be construed as having ariser
out of forced circumstances, and is likely
that the postal clerks will remain in STATE
of CONSERVATION.