Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1877 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Hayes, accompanied by Secretaries Evarts, bchurz and Dovens, loft Washington on June 26, for a brief trip to New England. The President has tendered the Haytien mission to John M. Langston, the Ohio colored lawyer. The President has appointed Gen. G. W. Leduc, of Minnesota, Commissioner of Agriculture. A new scheme for the prevention of outrages on the Mexican border has been matured, and is to be pressed upon the administration. The plan is to create a mixed commission, which shall have jurisdiction of predatory offenses committed within fifty miles of the Rio Grande.