Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

J. B. Gardner, a wealthy citizen of Boston, recently deceased, provided by will that a large sum of money, bonds, and other securities, aggregating in value $931,600, should be turned over to the United States treasury to be used in helping pay the national debt The bequest has been received at the Treasury Department, and placed to the credit of the “Patriotic donations;” The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that bitters sold in good faith as medicine need not pay a special tax as a beverage. One specimen which he caused to be analyzed contained 82 percent of whisky. The enormous sum of $26,000,0000 was paid out for pensions during August Gen./ Crook has written a letter to the War Department, reiterating his views on the .’Apache question. He does not believe the fiends can be exterminated with powder and and ball, but holds that the evil of which they, are capable can be minimized by corraling them at San Carlos.