Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Since March 4 about five hundred changes have been made in tbe personal of the Railway Mail Service. First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson, in speaking of the matter to-day, said it has been the policy of the department to displace incompetent clerks and to appoint experienced and thoroughly efficient men who left the service during the last administration, wpere such were availabie and desirious of reentering the service. A gentleman, who is very to President Harrison, is responsible for the statement that the Chief Executive has made up his mind that General Rosecrans shall not be disturbed iu his position as Register of thfr Treasury until his term has expired. The President and his party, including several members of the Cabinet, left Washington Sunday for New York in a special train of elegant Pullmans. Mr. Blaine is indisppsed and did not go. Secretary Tracy has decided to build an armored coast-defense vessel. Mrs. Flora E. Haines has been employed during the past year by the Maine Labor Commission to gather statistics concerning women wage-earners. She finds in that State over fifty different employments in which women are engaged, ranging from cotton and other manufactures to the professions. By far the greatest number are employed in manufacturing, there being about 7,000 thus employed, the average weekly salary <s SB, and one maker of portraits in crayon gets sl,6(K’. Qne woman is the proprietor of a prosperous news paper; another owns an ’ extensive orchard; there are a dozen regulailv endoreed physicians in practice, and three ordained ministers, all Uni vtrealists.