The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-05-24
Iron our regular ecrrespondent.l
OUR WARRINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, ID. T., Mey 10Th, 1889.
Harrison's religious following will
probably DO greatly shocked to learn
that the truly good and piOus BENJAMIN
has been INDUCING In . sinful Sunday
excursion. But such 10 the tact. Pious
Benny left Washington Saturday MORN
Ihg on board OF the Government vessel
Despatch and the calling masters ord era
were I" keep going night and day until
the return 10 Washington Monday.
And 10 make matters worse uo has led
of with him such innocents &c Secretary
Window, who has mt vet entirely re-.
covered from the effects Of his own in
dulgence 81 the late New York celebra.
ton, Secretary Rush, who bv the way.
needs salt air very much since he was
fresh enough 10 think that welding :
scythe for five minutes in tho psesence
Of several newspaper correspondence
WAS sufirient TO p0pularize him with
the Agriculturists and working people
Of The country, aud lastly but by no
means least. Joe Hawley,. who although
born IN The Stkte OF North Carolina. car
|nDd does constantly give the trickiest
of the State which he represents IN ths
United States Senate Connecticut
points In all manner OF things. Mrs..
Harrison was along, Lut so Alan we're
the two Mckee children, who probably
fully occupied her time, leaving sbe fonr
: mark the number pious gentlemen 70
indulge In their favorite game 10 A.
great an extent as they might wjsh.
What was done will probably never be
kno " n ss neither of The -four concerned
are likely 10 tell any tales.
Chief Justice Fuller, finding the resi.
|dence In the suburbs which he now oc.
Icupies under lease, ID be- ~tuo:far from the
Capitol for him TO walk 10 and from the
Supreme Court room in the Capitol, has
put chased one OF the most desirable pri-
vste houses 10 this city, located almost
u is centre. The price paid was $780,
700 cash.
Mr.. Palmer, the new Public Printer.
took charge OF the Government printing
ofice Monday. Mr.. Benedict. the re.
firing Public Printer has MOI been . pop.
ular Official no man can be. IN that or
fee. who properly looks out for the in
~ierests OF the Government. but he has
nevertheless been one Of the very best
Public Printers we have ever had.
There has been less waste and moro
work turned out for the amount paid
than was ever before kno wn 10 the his
tory Of the Office.
Al last the colored nan and brother
has captured q Presidential appoint
ment. The lucky man was Rev. ). "A.
Tow nsend, Of Richmond, Indiana, and
the office was Recorder Of the General
Land Office, not . big office BY any
means, but just now the race l. extreme
Ily thankful for anything il can get.
Corporal Tanner 10 getting TO imagine
himself the "biggestv man connected
with the admins tration. Some OF his
personal friends have air eady began 20
Ialk OF him Is = Presidential caDdidAfe.
II less than two months al the head Of
the pension bureau has had this much
effect, what may be expected Of four
The ~S29O,000COO in the United States
treasury has all got to be "a, Dted in order
that Mr.. Hyatt the retiring Treasurer
may take the receipt Of the new Treas-
urer, Mr.. Huston, for the eamc. Tho
count began this week aud Is expected
10 last something like three months.
Nearly fomr-fiihs Of the money consists
o. standard silver dollars.
The appointment OF Ex-Governor
Thompson, OF South Carolina. as the
democra,ic and Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt
I0t New YORK. % the second republican
mem Der ~ The Civil Service Commiss-
ion, mages The board complete for The
b = timr a. many months One Of the
first things thsi the Commission intends
10 do Il 10 CONTEXT he recent decision Of
the Interior department, that appoint
ments IN the Census bureau wOuld be
made without civil service examinations.
Mr.. Wansmaker u oppOsed to one
|cent postage. He seems to have already
become q victim 10 the fever that Post
matter Generals always get soon after
their appointments and seldom ever get
rid Of. That Is the absurd desire TO
make the Post Office Departments seIf-sus-
llSining.
It's dollars 10 ginger cakes that some
New Hampshire paper mill gets In lie
work early IN the administration Of the
new Pubic Printer. Ny reason for
Thin king SO u that little BILLY" Chan
der helped Palmer tx up bis bond and
ALSO went on Il himself. Now Chandler
never does anything for nothing. and
his long experience In manufacturing
lGovernment contracts in which he has
been silently interested, causes me to be-
lIieve that in this case he will stick 10
the same line Of tactics that have made
him . rich man.
The next Congress will have sixteen,
CONTESTED election cases 70 determine
thirteen Of them from the South. Tho
papers IN several OF these cases are now
81 the Government printing ONCE being
put In type. e. A. 3.
Indiana Patents.
The following patents we're granted
for the week ending May llth, 1853, re-.
nopsod exnreaalv for thio nanar hv .yOe.