Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1878 — Land Grants Forfeited. [ARTICLE]

Land Grants Forfeited.

The House Committoe on Public Lands have agreed to report to the House a bill forfeiting all land grants to the following named railroads, with the recommendation that it be printed and re ommitted for consideration by the committee. The railroads named are: Northern Pacific, Texas Pacific,-Atlantic and Pacific, Oregon Central, .Hastings and Dakota, St. Paul and Pacific (St. Vincent extension and Brainerd branch), Wisconsin Central, North Wisconsin, Houghton and Ontonagon, Detroit and Milwaukee, Little RoCk and Fort Smith, St. Louis and Iron Mountain, New Or leans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg, North Louisiana and Texas, Florida and Gulf Central, Pensacola and Georgia, Alabama and . Chattanooga, Mobile and'Girard, Coosa and Tennessee, Alabama and Florida, and Gulf and Ship Island. It is estimated that this bill, if passed, wjU restore to the public domain about one hundred million acres of land.— Washington Cor, Chicago limes, A sllver quarter-dollar and 5-cenJ piece, coined by the Obnfederate States of America, have turned up in the South. •