Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-08-24
From cur Regular Correspondcl.t.)


 Ws.ssiiSGTox, D. C., August IS, 1889.
 Tac President has returned to Wash ingtGa from his eastern trip, but he siil go to Indianapolis early in the coming week to partici E ,te n the laying of Una corner stone os t!'e sHife-s morGnert and in the 1cnai0l Q. Is cid regimen, the date of s.'.I.i ,-,i,anged to sns- ble him to st:er. is looking re- markablg wele,t o,,s, :e. !han at ary time dnriRs; t.ae ! -iz months. He ex- poets to reEs;i.l ;is ti.-.:iuayolis several days and Ggcn bIs r,.. ,igI. may go direct to Deer Par; ,rhere Le exoects 10 re- mans dufinp September, instead of cO,.s- ing. to Washington. This has net now ever been fully settled yet.
 TT TlEere has bsen so much tfflk in the newspapers aOout tfe excite ment in At ldnte, Georgia over the appointment of d eoloTed maa to 8 position in the PO-; office at that place that Assistant Pos: Llastar Gene ral Cli,;lsY a has made pG.- lie tae follow 'ng statement.
 "I'he story s-s printed in the Atlant4 papers and teiCgraphed north staisd that the new postmaster had appointed a negro clerk and assigned him Co duty at the sane desk with a young white woman. Hest, are the real facts: Af;.r the appointment of Genera Lewis postmaster one cf the registTy clerks re- sigred and .ths postmaster appointed C. c. Penny, colored man, vhO stood a- the head of the civil service list of eligi bles.a He was assigned tc duty in the registry division, not iG t.o sane room | Xl .l~ l... The Father of the ysosOaa gho was sup authenticated the reg.stry division re- signed becaase a neGrs, as appointed m thelGirisioD, The in-saeeTitY of the cry raised by the 1aEiccrG-i.: .s;. oers is shown by the fact that tf.ere we're five negro clerks in tbe office ur .l,sr the denlocrs- tic postmaster There is nothing ia' the matter for the department to act rpon, and there is nothing in the aetic.l of Postmaster Lewis to be criticiset. by fair minded people,. l-~-- Secretary WiEdOm has decided that the, new revenue steamer built for sof- vice at Charleston, South Carolina, De named "Lot NJ. Morrill, in honor of tLe late Lot M. Morriii, who was for three years governor ot Maine; fer nearly four | teen years United States Senator from that State, and who was Secretary of the Treasury during the last year of Gen. Grants administration.
 Mrs. John A. Logan Is at her home in this city and is devoting her time exclu- sively to the Home Magazine, of which she Is editor, and her many admirers and friends hope that she will make it great success
 The information gained by Secretary Rusk on his recent visit to New York \ City has caused him to issue a supple l ment to his July circulars prescribing | regulations for the disinfect;on of cattle during transportation from the Texas fever district. The supplement relates | to precautions necessary to prevent the | infection of cattle selected for export | The Postmaster General has given in- | structions that the one cent per word | rate is to be considered as in effect un- til the pending dispute with the tele- graph companies is settled. The tele- | graph companies have not as yet given
 any sign as to whether they would ac- cept this, but it is probable that they will, as they have nothing to gain by
 being contrary.
 Gen. John B. Colt of Washington, has
 bought the lumber of the scaffold on | which John Brown was hung at Char
 leston, W. Virginia, December 3, 1859, and intends to exhibit the scaffold for
 the purpose of raising fund to erec
 monument to John Drown on the Shen
 andoah river Setwsea- Charleston and Harper's Ferry, West Virginia | The State department has issued | special passport to Senator Evarts, who | is going to Europe to consult some of | the distinguished occulists over there
 about an affection of the eyes which has troubled him very much of late. | More than ten thousand pages of tes-
 timony in he Congressional contested election cases have already been put in | type at the Government printing office,
 and it is not all in yet. This is pretty extensive business.
 Secretary Noble has asked for the res ignaticn of J. B. Lindsey, of Colorado, property clerk of the patent office. His
 successor has not yet been appointed.
 The commission investigating the re-
 rating of pensions expect to make it's re- | port early in September.