Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The prediction is made at Washington that Mr. Bland, as Chairman «f the Coinage committee, will prevent the passage of a bill to stop the manufacture of the daddy dollars. Representative Townshend, of Illinois, feels confident of the passage of his bill to pension-all survivors of the Mexican and Blackhawk wars. - . Gen. A. A. Humphreys, who was retired in" 1879, died suddenly in Washington last week. He was Major General of Volunteers, and afterward became a Brigadier in the regular army, serving as Chief Engineer for twelve years. He was an honorary member of several scientific societies in Europe and America.