Show HE IS BY OFFICE SEEKERS who give him no rest day or night hon samuel J bandall who has been confined to his residence in this city for several weeks past is now much better although not yet well enough to get out of boora he contemplates spending the summer at the seashore solicitor general jenks of the department part ment of justice who tendered his resignation at the beginning of the present administration has been notified of its acceptance by the president to take effect on the dinst mr jenks will continue in the service of the government as counsel ia the telephone cases until they are disposed of this position was the bone of contention which brought on the recent bitter wrangle between senators sherman and quay it was privately promised to shermans Sher mans candidate alphonzo hart of ohio some weeks ago but for some unknown causa the appointment has not yet been publicly announced ex senator would be congressman laughton and other anti mahone republicans como to washington and chin the president all they want to but so far everything given out in virginia has gone to a maheno man A big scramble is now taking place daily at the government printing office palmer the new public printer having taken charge of the office monday since which time he has hardly been allowed an opportunity to eat or sleep so great is the rush he has made but few appointments yet but one of those few chief time keepers was secured by ex senator billy chandler of new hampshire who is one of halmers palmers Pal mers bondsmen for his private secretary billy s friends are also likely to be heard from when the contracts for the years supplies for the office are made next month chief justice fuller has gone to norfolk and from there he will proceed to south carolina on his district tour hammons Ham sons first negro appointment eav james townsend of indiana to be recorder of the general land office has created quite a commotion in the land office in the division of which townsend is to be chief there are twenty five white lady clerks and every one of them is trying to get transferred to some other division in order to escape the negro chief As one of the ladies puts it we naturally have to pay a certain amount of court and difference to our chief and it will be very disagreeable for me to treat a negro as my superior I 1 shall get into some other division if I 1 can if not I 1 suppose I 1 shall have to stand it as my bread and butter depends upon it oklahoma does not propose getting left in the great scramble for office corporal tanner has appointed a board of pension examiners for guehne and tho civil service commissioners ners have received a letter asking how examinations are to be i held in oklahoma it is said that the sherman and foraker factions of ohio republicans have got up a compromise on the federal officers in cincinnati and that ex mayor smith will be surveyor and col D W mcclnne collector the first is a shenafan man and the latter pins his faith to fora lier one man has appeared here as a candidate for office that every respectable spec table man in the country should rejoice to see disappointed I 1 refer to W E haskell editor of the minneapolis tribune who wants to be minister to denmark haskell is tho man who publicly insulted mrs cleveland by a editorial in the columns of his paper while she and her husband were the guests of his city it is surprising that ho could get anybody to indorse his application the court of claims has decided that the celebrated triggs swords which have been in the custody of tho treasury department ever since the war should be turned over to mr myers the executor of general trigs estate ex congressman ochiltree who spends his time in new York but who for political purposes claims residence in texas says that barrison has given him control axall the federal patronage of texas it may be just as mr ochiltree says but you know mr ochiltree is the champion romancer of the country ex public printer benedict and his brother ex chief clerk of the government printing office have been presented with handsome bald headed canes by the clerical force of that office washington D C may |