Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Arthur and daughter narrowly escaped a serious carriage accident in Washington last night...
...daughters of Ex-Secretary Blaine and Attorney-General Brewster were married in Washington yesterday, both events being of a most brilliant character...
...clerks in the government department at Washington vigorously denounce the proposition to compel them to do eight hours work a day, as is done by other clerks in government employ...
...similar in purport and phrase to several which had preceded it, and which came from the like officers of other principal colleges of the country. These ask that it shall be provided by law that whenever hereafter a superintendent shall be appointed for the United States Naval Observatory at Washington he shall be a professional astronomer of experience, and that the new observatory building, soon to be erected, shall be planned and built by a commission of scientific men. Hitherto the observatory has been an adjunct of the naval department...
...unconfirmed report prevailed in Washington yesterday that Senator Windom would be offered the Treasury portfolio in President Arthur's Cabinet upon the expiration of his term in the Senate...