Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President Arthur arrived in Washington on Sunday, April 22, from his Southern excursion, showing little trace of the illness he was said to have experienced on board the Tallapoosa, at Savannah. The question of issuing 4-cent postage stamps is being considered at Washington The Trustees of the Garfield Memorial Hospital fund have at last purchased a site. It is a tract consisting of several acres on the ridge north of the dty. It is very near to that portion of the ridge which the Senator Sherman syndicate is now improving. Mr. Hazeh, Third Assistant Postmaster General, who has charge of the finances of the department, desires to have his prediction go on record that the deficit on account of the reduction of letter postage to 2 cents will not exceed $3,000,000. Ex-Surgeon General Palmer, U. S. N., died at his residence in Washington, aged 72 years At a Cabinet meeting the other day, the rules and regulations prepared by the Civil Service Commission and the operations of the dynamite plotters in the country were considered. Rear Admiral Baldwin, commanding the European station, has been ordered by Secretary Chandler to proceed, with his personal staff, to Moscow to attend the approaching coronation of the Czar. A Washington dispatch says “there is good authority for the statement that the Government has sent secret-service agenti to Philadelphia This would indicate eithei that the attention of our Government hat been called to this subject by Great Britair or that the State Department expects communications from Great Britain.”