Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1877 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

At the session of the National Grange, at Cincinnati, the constitution was amended whereby the Court of Appeals was abolished and the Master and Executive Committee constituted such court instead. The membership fees were fixed at $3 for male and $1 for female members. A resolution was adopted declaring disapprobation of the laws demonetizing silver, and committing the Government arbitrarily to any fixed plan in future for the resumption of specie payments, and expressing sympathy with the effort now being made in Congress for the repeal of these measures. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : Master, Adams, of Minnesota ; Overseer, Woodman, of Michigan; Lecturer, Mortimer, of Cincinnati; Steward, Ilaughan, of Iowa; Assistant Steward, Symmes, of Kansas; Chaplain, Forsythe, of Illinois ; Treasurer, McDowell, of New York ; Secretary, Kelly, of Louisville; Gatekeeper, Dinwiddie, of Indiana: Ceres, Mrs. Adams, of Minnesota; Pom*na Mrs. Woodman, of Michigan; Flora, Mrs. Moore, of Indiana; Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. Hall, of Louisville. Tho chief recommendations of Secretary Sherman in his annual report are that the duty upon tea and coffee be restored, and that all articles le placed upon the free list which do not yield an annual custom revenue of SIO,OOO. The public-debt statemont for Dec. 1 shows a reduction of the nation’s indebtedness of $1,323,634 during the montli of November.