Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1885 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

[Gleaned 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 pf 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 to his health.” The heads of the vaiious departments have had under cohsidemtion the proposition to curtail (he thirty days’ annual leave aEowed %he clerks. The Treasury Commission have paid special attention to this subject, and have come to the conclusion that the thirty days’ leave is not excessive. Henry Watterson has been to see the President. A local writer has discovered that th? interview was entirely satisfiictory to Mr. Watterson, and that he left the White House deeply impressed with the Democratic ideas of the Preadent. .. Kekly, of motor failure fame, has at last discovered a new power, which he says consists of “interatomic air" or “luminiferous ether," and dynamite is as a parlor match ojt - Alabama physicians say that pneumonia is now worse in that State than at any time with n thirty or forty years. The Emperor of Austria give the Pope as an Easter offering a chandelier for 600 candles. The banking capital of the United States to-day is >738, COd.t 00.