The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-24

| Senator Edmunds is growing quite boisterous
He does not take his pleasure half so gravely
now as he used to do. Formerly he sat in the
Senate Chamber like pilgrim at worship or a
| saint at prayer, but now he carries on like
mischievous boy at school-a thoroughpaced
disturber of the peace The other day while
! Senator Hawley was speaking, only a couple of
! desks away the reverend Senator from Vermont
| was engaged in an animated conversation with
| his neighbor, Senator Platt The Senator from
Vermont was doing all the talking, and he was
! talking quite loud. 1t was evidently good
! story, too, for both Senators were laughing
| Altogether Senator Edmunds was creating a
| great noise and making great show of inatten-
| tion. So much so that Senator Hawley had to
halt in his speech and ask the venerable Senator
| from Vermont, in a stage whisper, for goodness
sake to let up. The Senator from Vermont did
not hear the rcmonstrance. He continued the
story and he and Platt continued the laugh until
Senator Hoar reinforced Hawley's appeal for
order. AS as Mr.. Edmunds realized the
situation he looked very much as the clown in
the pantomime looks when the policeman
| catches him in the act of stealing He took a
hurried look all around, and then burying his
head in his hands he ducked his head below his
desk and continued the laugh where he thought
he couldn't be seem AS soon as he could re-
cover his gravity he sat up again in his chair,
but 1t was quite evident that he felt very guilty
and very bad
The remains of Gen. Grant will soon be in
Arlington, where they ought to be. Those
New Workers have no reverence for the great
soldiers tomb. They didn't care about his
bones, exceptin so far they might help them in
business speculations. They don't think enough
OF his memory to subscribe for monument to
1t. They are an irreverent community-a city
OF shopkeepers and hoodlums New York City
is no tit resting place for the bones of Gen.
Grant. Before long it will be recognized be-
| yond dispute that here in Washington, under
the shadow of the Capitol, there should be
temple where the remains of all great Ameri-
cans should be buried.
Some prominent Missssippans say that the
reason why the House of Representative failed
to give Col. Kernaghan the seat for which he
contested with Gen. Hooker is that the Repub-
lican party managers don't really want to give
either place or power to white Republicans of
the State. For some reason the Republican
party managers hold that the State cannot be
made Republican except under colored leader
ship, and 1t is the control of the State they are
| looking for more than additional member
in the House Of Representatives. That is the
reason, they say, why Mr.. Bruce, the Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia, and Mr.
! Lynch, the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, are
permitted to dictate the distribution of Federal
patronage in the State of Mississippi, as they
are credited with doing. 1t is a remarkable
| fact that Bruce who was appointed as a resi-
dent of the District of Columbia to District
Office which pays him from $12, 900 to $4,000
year, should as colored Republican leader of
the State of Mississippi be consulted as to the
| Federal appointments to besmade in that State
There is something wrong.
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''The Reports of the Consuls of the United
States," that distinguished periodical which is
published by the State Department, is a peculiar
| publication and sometimes quite amusing. Its
| correspondents the consuls of the United
| States. Some of these correspondents are very
| voluminous and write long dispatches the
smallest provocation. Others seem to be rather
| lazy and write only in response to specific as
! sgnments sent out from the State Department,
not caring fig whether they get ''scooped" or
not. Consul James Fletcher, the able CORE,
| spondent stationed at Genoa Italy, seems to be
of an industrious disposition, but to find news
| very scarce in his bailiwick. Here is an extract
! from despatch of his which was printed in the
last number of our esteemed contemporary:
Only one house in Genoa. G. Centurn & Co..
deals directly with packers and shippers of pilch-
ards in England. On his return on the 4th instant
to this CITY, after several days absence, the head
of the firm named kindly gave me three items, to
wit: English pilchards are delivered at this port,
solidly packed in small barrels casks. and pre-
served in salt and the brine thereof; each cas1
barrel contains 200 pounds net weight of fish; the
government duty is 6 lire per 100 Kilograms, or
| lire per cask.
thankful for piece of news of that quality
must be cleaning in very barren field
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NJ. ROchon was once Mrs Cleveland's hair
dresser. At that time NJ. Rochou was keeping
high-toned wig emporium and hair-dressing
establishment on Fifteenth street. All his con-
nections were supposed to be pure and proper
enough for the approval of even Postmaster
| General Wanamaker. But one day in 1887
President Cleveland received communication
from a lady in Lyons, France in which she
claimed M. Rochon as her husband, whereas he
had been understood in Washington to be some
body elses husband. AT that moment Mr..
Cleveland registered a VOW that NJ. Rochon
should not daily with Mrs Clevelands tresses
any more, even in a professional way. Mr..
! Cleveland exercised a pretty comprehensive
control over his own household, which may to
some extent account for the fact that Mrs.
Cleveland never fell into the error first of dis
cussing real estate deals with newspaper inter-
viewers and then of accepting gifts of real
estate in violation of her own precept In
Mr.. Cleveland's Presidential career there is a
! good deal that Mr. Harrison would do well to
avoid and some things that he would do well
! to initiate.
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"What must l do? ?" said young John Jere-
miah Lamb to the O'Sligo in the play of New
Babylon"
sob, tip her the blarney, NEE boy" said the
! O'Sligo.