Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1877 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Secretary of War in his annual report will recommend that the army be increased to 40,000, The English battalion system will also The final conference with the Indian delegation took place at the Executive Mansion on Monday. Spotted Tail remarked that he would like a supply of short-horned cattle, Catholic priests, overcoats, saw and grist mills, agricultural implements, seeds, and five or six stores, so liis people could “buy cheaper at one than at another.” Mr. Hayes referred them to the Interior Department for such things as the appropriations would warrant. He also informed them that it was considered too late in the season to remove the agencies, and advised the chiefs to gather their people as near to the present supply points as possible. In the spring, ho said, the agencies would be removed to the mouth of White river. A swindle, consistmg of the overpayment of an Illinois firm or mail contractors to the amount of $20,000, has been discovered in the Postoffice Department. Work at the Government Printing Office is almost entirely suspended, only two presses being in operation. President Hayes has issued a proclamation, placing all the unsold public lands in the State of Arkansas in the market.