Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-09
WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Forecast of the sum mer Plans of the
 Cabinet Pcople-Omce-Seeker Using
 Novel Schemes-A Registry Clerk Ar
 rested For Extracting Money From
 the Malls.
 WASHINGTON, April S.-The season is far enough advanced to make 8 forecast of the plans of the Cabinet people for the summer possible. The President it is expected will gc once & week to Deer Park in the AlleRha- nies on the Baltimore & Ohio railway, as it has been his custom for some years Vice President Morton will accompany his family to "Ellerslie" and will return in the autumn to take possession of the house which he has recently purchased of Prof. Bell here and greatly altered. The families of the Cabinet, save Mrs. Windom, who is accustomed to Washington summers. will return to their homes.
 The postmaster general has appointed Leonard Buckland postmaster at West Hart ford, Conn.
 means to advance their interests. Three ap- plicants for postofices have sent along pho- tographs to be filed with their papers of en- dorsement The last of the three exhibits 8 rather curious effect The applicant had evidently endeavored to assume his most genial expression, but the skill of the coun- try photographer, who took the portrait, seems to have been overtaxed, for the result
 
 is an amusing combination of mingled as- tonishment and dismay.
 Sec Rusk finds the roll of employees of the agricultural department so largely in excess of the resources for the current year, that until after June 30, there will be far more dismissals than appointments. In this division alone eighty of the employees have been dismissed and the force will be still further reduced. Secretary Rusk says that he is determined that there shall be no de- ! fciency in his department for congress to ! provide, if he can help it, and he thinks he can.
 Post Office Inspectors Smith, Pulcifer and l Troy to-day arrested Harry D. Darby, regis- ! try clerk in the post ofics in this city, for | rifing valuable registered letters. When are rested Darby had $70 in his hand which he
 had just taken from letter. The letter was mailed at Harper's Ferry, w. Va, con- tained $246 and was addressed to the United States treasury. After removing $70 Darby was about to reseal it. He is an old employe,
 having entered the office in 1880. He was ! taken before United States Commissioner
 Mills and held in $2,O00 to await examina-
 tion tomorrow. When arrested ne had
 $562 on his person which, it is thought, was taken from other registered letters. ! The Secretary of the Treasury has ap proved the bond of Mir. Houston, but he will not qualify and assume the duties of the of ice until after Treasurer Hyatt is relieved o his duties at the New York sub-treasury. an6 Il probably not until after the count of thu Il moneys and securities at that office has beer 1 completed Assistant Secretary Roberts ex
 pects so taks charge of the New York sub
 treasury next Monday, and the count vii
 probably be completed in about three weeks
 The Washington office will then be trans
 ferred. The examination of the treasur vaults will occupy several months, owing t
 the immense quantity of silver dollars to b counted,