New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-08
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
Washington, July I.

Washington. July T.
HE is A DEMOCRAT.-That Appointment Clerk
Holcomb. Of the Department Of the Interior IL an
intengc Democratic partisan the following Incident
may serve to Illustrate: Early on the morning OF
March 8 last a LAND Office clerk died Shortly
after o'clock the same morning Mr. McCorkie
the chief of division In which the aforesaid clerk
had been employed. was Informed OF his death
The chief received the intelligence with melan.
choly pleasure and In muled. ring -the-bell-softly
accents conveyed the news to one OF his favorts
Democratic clerks. Mr.. Holcomb No 2. relative
Of the appointment clerk. After counseIling with
his MachiaveIlian assistant chief and law clerk.
witten, II was decided that procrastination should
not work the larceny racket on Father Time IN the
existing emergency Realizing that the morrow
would usher In a Republican Administration ana
defeat their she sr
and rushed 70 the RyslSn y s.s s s5ss
peted his preliminary Functions much less buried
the object o, ' Tor .ns his
tant relative. The latter easeriy stepped Into me
of fes msh that e1 HI: mbsrrsns sx
tension Of mortality beyond midnight Of March J
had deprived Nv n entire no oea Day That Denmark
in need OF liberal fumgatIon the foresoing ssmRis
regime may tend to Indicate
WANTED TO BUY AN OFFICE.-Assistant
Secretary Howell Of the Treasury Department. mas
boldly offering him one-fourth OF the salary Al
tached II he would assist In procuring the writer
the place OF collector OF customs at Mobile. or. IL
that IL not enough. as much more as he thinks MS
services In the matter are worth" The writer
ssne Si his s1nos In Mr. Howell wrote 10 the Once
seeker reply that he had been guilty 81 ysa; COW.
eminent oicia and that his letter showed snon nis
SiIity.
ANOTHER EFFORT FOR MRS. MAVERICK
Ambassador Hay is making attempt TO procure
a pardon for Mrs Maybrick, the American woman
who IL serving a life sentence In an English prison
for the alleged murder Of heh husband Miss
Abigail Dodge Gail Hamiiton) In common with
many other Americans. believed that Mrs May
brick had been unjustly convicted that she was
really innocent. and that she should be released
Miss Dodge devoted her best energies during the
last years Of her life to obtain pardon ios he un.
sSe O Ms a
MI sa1n' signed ana peon for Mrs Mabrcs
pardon. Now that Colonel Hay is the Ameassador r
efforts In Mrs Maybrick's behalf will be successful
LILIUOKALANI IN HER TRUE LIGHT-Rs-
Gently Mrs Harriet Prescott Spofrord has taken
up the cudgels for Liluokalani. "Kamehameha.'
tho correspondent Of THE Star" In Honolulu. dis
poses Of Mrs Spoford's client in short order
Among other things he says: The ex-Queen may
be distantly related as Mrs. Spoford alleges, to
the excellent, heroic and gentle lady kapiolani.
whom Tennyson sang as the defer OF the terrible
fire goddess Pele. Mrs Spofford says 'Lilluokalani
,s a woman who to-day could do the same thing
Unfortunately about twelve years ago she did
precisely the opposite thing. After. as heir-appar.
ent royalty patronizng great Sunday-schooI
convention OF the natives at Ho. she PROCEEDED
with her retinue the Volcano Hotel and d.
seconded to the great fire lake. Instead. however.
Of defantly finging In stones like Kapiolani In
1895. she threw in a live pig and live fowl a.
sacrifice to the goddess. accompanying the act
with heather chants by her attendants. This 1
state upon the personal testimony Of guide wn S
carried the pig and witnessed the sacrifice, as well
as Of the white keeper OF the hotel, who knew al
about IL Mrs. Dominis afterward endeavored 10
parry the charge by explaining Ii as a harmless
conformity TO ancient customs. Ike standing under
the mistle,oe.' There have been, however, too
many weknown Of her otherwise particle
pating ir gross heather ceremonies when visiting
country districts. She may not have been person.
ally superstitious: she have done these things
solely for the political purpose Of winning to her.
self as size succeeded in doing. the firm support OF
the large heather party among the natives Who
the strongest element among the hoyal.
lists. II was this gross tampering with the ancient
idoatry which set so many OF the best and ablest
native pastors against her when dethroned