Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-01-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
January IA 1890.

bers of the present Congress to break
up that great swindling concern
known as the Louisiana lottery. A
bill has been introduced in the House
which provides that no letter or cir
cular concerning lotteries or similar
enterprises shall be carried In the
mail. and that any one who shall de
post such matter in the mails shall
he fined not more than $500 or less
than 500. and shall be imprisoned
not less than six months. To further
enforce the spirit of the bill, it is pro-
yided that the Postmaster-General,
upon satisfactory evidence that
person or company is engaged in
lottery or similar scheme, may in
struct Postmasters to return all regis
tered letters addressed to lotteries or
their agents to the senders, and that
if it be publicly advertised that any
bank or other firm will receive money
for lottery, it shall be taken as evil
dence that the firm is an agent OF the
lottery, and no registered mail mat
fer shall be delivered to the firm.
The same regulations shall apply to
the delivery and payment of money
orders. Several other bills have been
introduced against the lotteries and
it begins to look as if their days were
numbered. 1t is said that every
month 100000 worth of lottery tick
cts are sold in Washington alone.
The first volume of the triennial
register or "blue book" will be out In
a few days. This volume contains
the names of all employees Of the gov
eminent except those in the general
postal service, the total number OF
names amounting to 5000. The vol
ume shows that 1924 people are en-
ployed by the government in the city
of Washington alone, 1928 being
men and 4,021 women. The employees
of the different departments are as
follows: Department Of State, 81 men,
- women; Treasury department,
9. 1884 men, 1908 women War depart
ment. 1 ,749 men, 70 women; Navy de-
partment, ,43O men, 81 women; De-
partment of the Interior, 2,3OS mem
sol women; Post Office department.,
4S1 men, 147 women; Department OF
Justice, so men, Is women; Depart
ment Of Agriculture, 1856 men, 12O
women; Department of Labor, Al
men, women government printing
office, 1904 men, 700 women; city
government, 906 men, 667 women.
The remainder Of those resident in
Washington are employed chiefly in
the other smaller executive offices of
the government and at the Capital.
Even with this large number OF
offices Jefferson county Republicans
don't appear to catch on.
Judge William d. Kelley, better
known as Pig Iron Kelley" Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania, died in
this city last Thursday after a short
illness. Judge Kelley has been in the
House continuously since 1861, and
was known as the father of the
House. having served the largest
consecutive number of years of any
of the members. He was man of
scrupulous honesty, and after SER
vice of nearly thirty years has never
had word said against his charac-
ter, public or private. He died in
moderate circumstances, although
had he chosen he could have been
worth millions.
1t is shown by the official records
of the War Department that since
the close Of the war ninety-two Off
GERS of the Army have been killed by
Indians on the frontier, twentyone
drowned, one murdered, five killed
by railroad accidents, one in quelling
a mutiny, four by accidental dis
charge of guns and 275 by disease.
and all west Of the Mississippi River.
This proportion of casualties is con-
siderably larger than that in ordinary
warfare and people who imagine that
the hardships and dangers Of army
service ceased in 1865 will readily per-
ceive their error.
On Saturday morning the House
Committee on Elections took up
the contest case of McGinnis against
Anderson, and heard some arguments
! by General st. Clair for Anderson. 1t
appeared that the contestants brief
! did not cover the whole case, so the
committee granted him fifteen days
to file complete brief and then give
the sitting member like space of
time to prepare his answer thus post
poning the further hearing thirty
days The other West Virginia cases
will be taken up in their regular turn,
but it will probably be several weeks
before any Of them come before the
House for final action.
That ex-President Cleveland expects
10 resume his residence in Washing
ton in 1892 is evident 4 deed was
placed on record Saturday in which
Thomas f. Waggaman and wife con-
vey to Grover Cleveland for the con-
sideration of S2,025, lots Is and IA,
block 3, Cleveland Heights, being
parts of tract called Rosedale. Mr.
Cleveland already owns a fine resi-
dence near Georgetown, just outside
the limits of the city, and refused a
large price for it short time ago, as
he wants a country residence near