The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-01-02
TALES OF THE TELEGRAPH.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The secre-
tory of war has awarded the contract
for furnishing S1,5OG,0O0 worth OF
steel forgings for 8, 10 and 12-iuch
high power guns to the Bethlehem
Iron company, their bid being the
lowest and within the statutory price.
Award has also been made for the
contract for furnishing cast-iron
bodies for 80 mortars to the Builders
company of Providence, and that for
the steel parts OF the mortars to the
Midvsle Steel company. The bids
for assembling and completing the
mortars were rejected as excessive.
GOVERNOR" o'FERRALL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The friends
of representative O'Ferral expect to
make him governor Of Virginia next
fall. There is going to be hard
fight between the two parties for the
governorship. The Republicans,
with the prestige ofnstional success,
will put forth a bold move to elect
the governor 30 as to open the way to
Republican success in the state in
'92. To meet this the Democrats
feel the necessity OF putting up a
man who will make the most vigor-
GUS canvass in their behalf. Mr..
OFerrars friends are going to make
hard fight to give him the Demo
cratic nomination, and are already at
work to that end. He has been nom.
mated to congress four times by &C.
clamatioD.
AFTER A HUNDRED YEARS.
NEW, YORK, Jan. 1.-At a meeting
of the committee on plan and scope
of the centennial of the inauguration
Of Washington, to-day, Russell Har-
rison appeared and said that the
president. elect would cooperate with
the committee to make the oelebra-
ton a success. The committee have
decided to issue 1000 tickets for the
ball. Each lady present will be pre-
sented with souvenir, as was done
at the inaugural ball a hundred years
before.
The boxes for the ball at the Met
ropolitan Opera house have been as
signed as follows; box 35, vice presi-
dent Of the United States; box Sc,
president of the United States; box
81, representatives of John Adams;
box 38, representatives of general
Washington; box 43, speaker of the
house of representatives; box A,
chief justice of the United States;
box 45, admiral of the navy.
Box 46-Generals of the army.
Box 61-Ex-president Rutherford
B. Hayes.
Box62-Ex-p president Grover Cleve-
land.
Box 71-Msyor of New York.
Box 72-Governor of New York.
DIR. SCOTT BREAKS DOWN.
WASHINGTON, Jan L-Dr. Scott,
Mrs. Harrison's father, although only
clerk in the pension Office, has
broken down under the strain i'm
posed by the new dignity of his
daughter and her husband. For q
month his mail has been filled with
letters from people begging him to
use his influence with his son-in-law
for their advancement IN Office.
DR.. Scott is gentleman of the
old school, and in vain does his
daughter, Mrs. Scott Lord, tell him
it is not necessary for him to answer
each letter, because as government
official he can't NEEDLE in appoint
ments to Office in any way. He per-
sists in replying to all, saying, II
must be courteous" and he is quite
used up with his labor Of courtesy.
He has been very i'll during the
week, but is now convslescing. All
his associates in the pension Office
have become oppressively deferen-
tial toward DR.. Scott.