| Show POTPOURRI cabinet lauc ln Uc torr t Doe doctors tors iuca star uy hie the HERALD correspondents EDITOR alie gay season has fairly begun now and no lady who pretends to keep keel up iier her social I duties at all thinks of spending an afternoon otherwise than in making or receiving ca c calk a lh the rush of evening parties hs has s not yet begun and I do not believe there will be as many as usual the cabinet is still so unsettled that only one lady of the cabinet families received on wednesday this I was mrs lincoln tho wife oj of the secretary of war who had numerous visitors two of the families that of secretary hunt whose cifes father died last month and of the new postmaster whose wife died last summer arc are in iii such deep mourning that they p probably rob will wil not receive or make calls this winter the expression cabinet ladies used here as a mutter convenience lias has often been censured as incorrect but it is substantially accurate now since the ladies of the families of president arthurs cabinet are c in a sense members of his bis cabinet too while the gentlemen advise and assist him in ill affairs of state the ladies no less arc are his counselors and ami assistants stants in social matters by liis his request it is really comical to licar hear matrons matrona say of the president poor man lie haa has no lady to tell him what lie ought to do at the white house the clerical force of the white house remains with but few exceptions unchanged mr frank phillipps president arthurs private secretary is one on the new attaches F from rom what experience I have had bad of him thus far he lie has shown himself to be a thorough business man early and late at his desk attending to his work in a methodical way he is able to satisfy many of those who call imbued with the idea that they will have to sec see the president or th tho c country will certainly come to an untimely end mr phillipps is is an nil ornament to his responsible office and a great improvement upon all his predecessors mr L pruden still remains at his old vi place ll 11 ll 11 lo 10 and rind is ably assisting mr phillips i i lips in in dealing with visitors and looking over the mails besides he enjoys a good joke when he sees it mr crook keeps the accounts and alid pays off everybody about the house two or additional clerks for special and general work completes the clerical force of the white house dr bliss returned from new york where lie met other physicians of the late president garfield for consultation relative to fees the total of the various sums agreed upon foots up it may surprise the country a little to learn earn that dr BI blissa i iss share according to this arrangement is rather more than twice as much as that of cither either agnew or hamilton it is said that dr bliss has taken cliar charge c of the claims of all of the physician physicians and will present them to the congressional committee it is is understood that he be will ask for himself for drs agnew and hamilton for dr ceyburn and for dr boyton and mrs dr edon 1000 each intense sensation in certain circles cica of the star route kind was created the other night by the wholesale arrest of members of the ring the arrests were made cautiously and quietly and the matter is a profound secret secret excepting to a fe few w newspaper men the warrants were sworn out by special officers and leross of the post office afi ic e department late in the afternoon and placed in the hands of the detectives after dark james a clerk in the pension office john wind mian a blacksmith edwin J sweet a real estate agent and sam hoyt another mother department clerk were locked up on the ell charge a rge of baving furnished wort worthless bless bo bonds nd in mail contracts it is cla claimed i med also that our city postmaster D B ainger and his assistant have been guilty of certifying to a largo jar number of these worthless bona bonds s on approaching col ainger today to day be said that the charge was groundless ground less and that he lie had bad already given satisfactory is explanation to everybody concerned if the government relies alone on the investigation and report of detectives and to prove its case against tho accused am satisfied that the prosecution has a ft very bad c case I indeed because both these detectives have proved themselves to bo be regular nuisances nuisances in washington during the past two or three bears years the editor of one of our dailies here says that they arc are mean enough to kiss their bible and their mothers into the penitentiary at any time AUGUST washington WASU INGTON jan 16 |
