Nevada County picayune., 1888-11-07
WASHINCTONTOPICS.
Weekly Budget of News From the
 National Capital.
[From our Special Correspondent.

From our Special Correspondent.
 WAsHINGToN. D. C, Nov. ?. 1888.
 The President by his prompt and courageous action in dismissin9 Lord Sackville, the British minister, has turned his meddling letter, upon which the republican managers hung their last hope, into boomerang that in it's recoil will knock the republican party out of existence. It is only another striking example of the man. ner in which the wicked fall into the pits they have prepared for others. When the republican party. through its managers, entered into a conSplr' acy with the British minister to write letter endorsing the candidacy of l Mir. Cleveland, they imagined that they had concOcted scheme which would give Blaine-1 beg pardon, l Harrison-.the entire Irish vote of the country, but they mistook the man they had to deal with. As soon as Mir. Cleveland ascertained that the letter was genuine, he instructed See retary Bayard to inform the British minister that he could go. And at the same time the English government was informed that the United States had dismissed Lord Sackvllle. and would no longer recognize him as the representative of that government By this action Mir. Cleveland has l I q ,1. ,aY FrpnndS among republicans. for Lord Sack ville's letter was an insult to every American citizen, republican as well as democrat, and if any doubt had remained of his election, his study and uncompromising Americanism i'll this matter would have instantly re- moved it.
 Three hundred and fifty working women of Philadelphia have present. ed Mrs. Cleveland with q handsome gold watch. as an evidence of thelr appreciation of the advanced position the wife of the President has taken toward the working women of Amer ica.
 Bob Ingersoll says the Republican National Committee is composed oi cranks. The letter of Lord Sack , vile makes them appear as some thing worse than cranks.
 The L. $. $. kearsage has beer ordered to Hayti as soon as she cal be got ready, it being rumored tha, the Haytian government had selzet an American vessel at Port-au-Prlnce The Republicans of this city ar' thoroughly disheartened with the out look. while the Democrats are con fdent and anxious to bet their money on Democratic success. There Is a least S1OO. .0O0 of Democratic money } posted in different places around th' city to bet on Cleveland, but there are no takers. As the gamblers say money talks.
 Speaking iiguratively, should say that Lord Sackville found Mir l Cleveland's boot heavily soled. The United States Supreme Couri , has decided that no state has a righ to impose a tax upon commerce. drummers residing in another state l.. $. Treasurer Hyatt, who re turned from Connecticut this week has no doubt of Cleveland's carrying that State by larger majority thal !, in 1884.
 . Representative $. $. Cox passed through here this week on his way t'
 New York from Michigan, where h'
 has been stumping. He is coniiden . that Cleveland will carry Michigan
 Murchison cannot be found, al though s1,0OO reward is offered To l him. He is probably identical witt the man who struck Billy Patterson.
 C. A. S. Fine impOrted gents underWaTe