Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1885 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

rGlcaned from the Washington dispatches.] The President has been annoyed by the reports that he is overworked. A leading Albany physician who called upon him says: “There are no signs of President Cleveland breaking down, notwithstanding all the stories of that kind that are being so freely circulated. He is as light on his feet as he ever was. I have seen him almost every day from the first time he came to Albany as Governor of New York, and have no hesitation in saying that he is as well to-day in every respect as he has ever been since I have known him. There is no evidence of biliousness or malarial fever of any form about him, and he told me that he had no cause of complaint in regard tohis health.” The heads of the various departments have had under consideration the proposition to curtail the thirty days’ annual leave allowed the clerks. The Treasury Commission have paid special attention tp this subject, and have come to the conclusion I that the thirty days’ leave is not excessive. Henry Watterson has been to see the President. A local writer has discovered that th 9 interview was entirely satisfactory to Mr. Watterson, and that he left the j White House deeply impressed with the- | Democratic ideas of the President