Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-19

now broom sweeps clean" Among
tho transactions of II week may DO
mentioned: The establishment of n
new division for the purpose of edit.
lug tho scientific reports of the do
partment into language that can be
understood by plain every day sort
OF people; the publication of six
teen page pamphlet explaining the
work done and results accomplished
by the experimental stations in differ.
ent sections of the country; tho ro-
moval of the State Agent for Mary
land and abolishment of tho office,
and the sending of an agent to tho
Rocky Mountain section to examine
INTO the methods used in collecting
agricultural statistics.
According to kilograms received
here ex-Coneressman Roswell &.
llorr, of Michigan, considers his ap-
pointment rs U. S. Consul to Valpar.
also rs al insult. He was al appli
cant for foreign mission, and will
refuse to accept the smaller place.
One of his friends said today That
Mr.. Harrison WAS offended with
Horn because he stuck to Alger at
the Chicago convention.
Ex-Congressman Hart, of Ohio,
tho man that caused Senators Sher
man and Quay TO have quite So
rious falling out several months ago,
has Mt last received tho Office which
he Mt that time accepted He has
just been appointed Solicitor OF In
ternal Revenue.
Commodore Schley, who is to DO
tho commander of tho now steel
cruiser "Baltimorc,' which made its
trial soa trip last week, pronounces
that vessel to be magnificent, and
says 'sho will be able TO lick any
thing ahoat.' If we had thirty or
forty such vessels we would havo II
navy to he proud Of.
The plate printers are jubilant
over the removal of the steam plate
printing presses from tho Bureau of
Engraving and Printing. Tho re-
lnoval was made by order of Score
tary Window, who declined TO allow
tho company owning them to accept
tho ridiculous compensation Of one
cent por thousand impressions us
royalty for the use of presses, Which
Congress had provided for with the
expectation OF course that the own
els would refuse it.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
has Jumped on" tho telegraph com
panies by notifying them that in flu
turc tie Government would pay only
one mill per word instead OF ono
cont, rs at present. Representatives.
of tho telegraph companies while
recognizing the legal right of tho
Postmaster General to say what
compensation shall be for this work,
claim that they lose money by doing
the work for tho present price, and
say that if Mr.. Wanamakcr will not
change his mind they will carry the
messages for nothing as it will be
cheaper than to keep tho accounts
and make the collections Mt tho rate
of one mill per word.
The usual number of Performers"
in the methods of transncting the
departmental business which always
follow new administration is now in
full swing. If all these PERFORMERS"
hud been improvements tho business
systems of the various departments
would long ago nave reached per-
lection. But alas. ''what is one mans
meat is another mans poison SO
what one man calls reform" another
calls nonsense.
Mr.. Harrison went to Deer Park
Friday afternoon, he is expected back
i'll time to attend IL cabinet meeting
on Wednesday.
Tho office seekers are having n
tough time with the thermometer in
the nineties and only an hour or two
in the week to see the dispensers of
patronage, but still hang on, Mt least
n great many of them do.
There are no new developments in
the misunderstanding between Sec
rotary Noble and the Pension Com
missioner which it was believed at
one time came near resulting in Tan
ner's resignation.
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