The bill appropriating $6,500,000 for
the inlprovemenit of the Mississippi river
bilow Cairo, has flne prospects of being
passed. The Mississippi valley delegates
will make a conibination with Western
men, who also want aid for internal im
lprovements.
The bill introduced last session by
Gen. J. Floyd King, providing for a
United States District Court for North
western Louisiana will also likely pass
this session. It would have passed last
session, bult it was thought that a DeI:
oeratic President would he elected, and
a Democratic Judge was preferred.
Everybody is putting their houses in
order for the inauguratir n. Hotel keep
ers, etc., will make greenbacks while the
sun shines; or, rather, about the time
Hayes is eclipsed.
There are comparatively few office
seekers in Washingmut; a few contractors
and Indian agents make things lively
enough, however, for the quietude of
Congressmen. Outside of these, there
are a very few visiting strangers here,
and rooim retnt anld boarding can be had
at inmoderate prices. But "inanguration
week " will be their millenium.
It is a noticeable fact that none of the
pretty girls in the Treasury Department
ever resign, and a lamentable one that
few get married. Yours,
J. M. S.
Scientific Notes.
