Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-12

but one where wealth is distributed VIII,
surprising approach to equality. The en-
tire assessment OF real estate Ii the. Dis
trict Is a little over $4,000, 900 and cf
personal property not quite $12 200, OO0, on
which the taxation Is almost exactly l X
per cent, SO the District IS not 50 badly op-
pressed by taxation without representa-
/ ton. 1t also appears that 25, 900 persons
pay taxes On less than $40. 600 each and
only 665 on $40, 600 or more each.
OF all the social or semiofficial events of
the season none has attracted such general
interest or brought out 50 many curious
facts as the dedication on the 10th inst. of
the monument at Fredericksburx, Va. In
memory Of Mary, the mother OF Washing.
ton. As was long announced in advance,
The president and many officials took part,
and there were many attending festivities,
including q Masonic banquet. It has only
been four years or so since the ladies or
gained the Mary Washington Memorial
association, of which Mrs Amelia c..
Waite is president-that is, president of
the lady managers, though the nominal
first place Is held by the president OF the
United States. Mrs. Roger A. Pryor is
vice president, and other ladies Of Wash
tngton and Virginia hold various positions
The singular facts are that Mary Wash
tnRton, pursuant to her own request, was
buried on a knoll on the plantation OF her
only daughter, though her husband was
buried in another place, and none Of her
family has ever been laid by her, nor has
any memorial ever been erected There is
not a line to show that Washington ever
contemplated erecting even tombstone
though he outlived her 20 years, nor does it
seem that any OF the family took any ac-
ton in the matter. The only reasonable
conclusion is that they thought her request
to be buried there was mistake and OK
pectcd her remains to be removed to the
family vault Of the Washingtons en-
Bridges creek, in Westmoreland county,
where her husband, Augustine Washing
ton, was laid.
Tardy Recognition.
About 60 years ago some New York gen
tlemen visited her grave, finding it unpro-
tected even by a picket fence and tr.nipled
by the cattle and horses grazing in the old
field. One Of them was so affected by the
sight that he Immediately ordered small
monument and fence, but as he died before
the stone was erected it lay by the gfA.ve
for many years until it became worthless
ANA ehS pun p'oV. Anu ytt tIiS IN inc grave
OF the woman who gave us our political
Moses, and according to one account pre-
vented his entering the British navy, which
would have assuredly made him a naval
officer of George III instead Of the Father
of His Country. However, the American
ladies of this day have done the honorable
thing at last and the occasion has been
fttingly celebrated by officials and citizens.
round Of the house committee rooms
in these rather quiet times of that chamber
shows that many persons with local inter
ests are still hammering away despite the
fact that little encouragement is offered.
For instance, a resolution has been intro
duced and referred to the house committee
on merchant marine and fisheries to in
quire into the oil wells at Tcrre Haute,
Ind, which are said to be dumping their
waste oil into the Wabash and killing the
fish. Before the committees on education,
labor, land and so forth ara even more
than the usual number of bills and resolu-
lions for investigating and reforming ev-
cry evil of the day, and these are but speci-
mems of the work expected at tho tail end
of the session.