Show OUR OCR froia out our own corm t d 1 washington oct 21 1887 the federal tl capital Is arr arp eminently hie lie city of conventions wol greit great public meet that brinar to gather people from ull oil parts or tile llie creale area it nation of tile the globe tf lolie list week thim elt city y had the Lt laundry mens national al convention and this week there bra aro two in session at t the same time the carriage build erla national association and the national agricultural convention As aa tile the latter Is in tile the only ono ora nl ill interest to your readers I 1 will not enter into the iba details of the first t two the agricultural convention is so culled iv virtue of till an act of the forty nicch Con grei and its triem mem roul als of ali tho represents lie agriculture college and stations sli liona it in the stasea tho ali pur of the Ine elint being to devi deblau so ways and aad incani to improve the he methods of farming hal anil thus In increase creaso the ferill ferell ity fly and of the herl cultural area or of the country and it goes that tile dis dig cassion of I 1 hese 1 I by such liuch a cepro intelligent body if ahe mutual interchange or nf views tin and it ex s will lio be vastly beneficial to I 1 he ha firma fir mors hi veritably tile tha bono bone and binea of the land for upon I 1 their heir arduous labors depend the in cot prosperity and well being of the whole country there is considerable gossip in the political circles cir cloo of the lie about thu the charges of bribery had and political treachery lirou eln against senator of new jersey by a prominent finein ber of his own party this man mail fiertag openly these theme things mines ot of the sanator the attack fifteen columns 1 in a newspaper ono one or of lait 1 most lost damaging iama glog Is that but for the action of tile the bellat senator or in III com compassing by bribery ane e eleu ee llou on of ti ewell hla is republic an colleague tile the united blates conato would have been dem several years beo ago tho gaur pinina 1 t lot id li its l i boldly thrown aloun arid and ia hie 14 Senator challenged it to a leittl c ani on ier the virginia state officers have hava been beau liberated upon a writ of habeas corpus upon own and the caw caio is set for or final hearing in the supreme court on the first monday in november it is the prevailing vail irig opinion that the decision of judge bond will be ba affirmed generals Oen roger kogor A anti and ban jamin F but bat er will bring the tha cases ath of the chicago anarchists Anar chitta to the at of I 1 the he supreme court the last of thi ibis a week with the hope of ing a and remanding the trial to the illinois courts general butlers Bat lern rA retainer iu in abid suit is and a day in addition while engaged g upon it mr oberly has materially modi fled fied his bis views on the relations of do part apartment ment officials who are members of political clubs to the civil service 0 and his hi edgerton takes issue with wilb the original position of the former the rho present attitude atti tudo of the niad arity of u I 1 aho he civil service commis stun upon question am sorry to 1011 buy Y is ib far from encouraging to the truo true friends of 0 reform the examination of the tha war department dopart part ment nent clerks under the now new civil service ruler which was suspended last summer have bare been resumed and to in consequence the clerks in in all the he other departments are again hav having ing i their apprehension of going gonlag through this dread ordeal aroused for evenou a ally ily the revised rules will be applied to all there is la a serious cabinet disagree ment ie reported ported over the tha alaska seat seal fishery question lidyard and gallaud being the disputants and it is is given out that the secretary of state will resign soon unless his bis views on thra this matter ate are shar shared e d by abo it 13 true this report has been danied by one of ct those chiefly concerned still I 1 believe the rumor la is not entirely unfounded the latest latent move of the treasury iff in lie lieu u of tile continued cautioned pure hasrof booda bood sis 19 an order increasing the number of nati national onal bank depositaries deposit aries tor for government funds tho the object t being a did dif lusion of a few millions of the tha sur ear plus pill s that is lie becom coming ng juab an into antol erable baldeu both to the tha adminis administer tr aaion and the people |