Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The annual report of the Agricultural Department at Washington puts tho corn crop of Illinois at 8,151,463 acres, yielding 203,786,600 bushels, being an averago of twenty-live bushels per acre. Illinois is the banner State, no other having as large an acreage or producing as many bushels. The next highest is lowa, which has 666,621 acres, though Kansas, tvlilch has 478,473 acres, has a larger number of bushels than lowa, her total being 172,800,000, against lowa's 169,639,000. Illinois has almost oneeighth of the total corn acreage of the entire country, and over one-eighth of the total yield, the yield running 23.10 bushels per acre, which is above the average. It is, however, a curious fact that the New England States have a higher number of bushels per acre than Illinois. The bill of Representative Townshend for the adopt.on of retaliatory measures against France and Germany was defeated in the House Committee on Commeroe. C. P. Huntington made his appearance at Washington before the House Committee on Public Lands, in behalf of the California and Oregon railroad, as the.representative of a company which always performed its contracts within the specified time, and argued against the forfeiture of the land grant. The Garfield Memorial church at Washington was dedicated last Sunday. The corner-stone of the new church was laid on tho first anniversary of the assassination of tho late President. The dedicatory sermon was preached by President Pendleton, of Bethany College. Ex-Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, also spoke. Piesident Arthur, Secretary Frelinghuysen, and several prominent public men were present. C. P. Huntington, before leaving Washington for New York, revealed to an interviewer some of the intentions of the Southern Pacific monopolists. He virtually threatens that if Congress forfeits tho old Texas Pacific land-grant he and his associates will, by protracted litigation, prevent the people from settling on the lands for the next twenty years, even if tho railroad does not, by Its peculiar methods, suocoed in securing a favorable decision. Huntington distinctly stated that thero is nothing in the recently published letters which he wants to take back or apologize for. Ho declares that he will not take any hand in the fight against the bills to regulate interstate commerce. The House Committee on Pacific Railroads has decided to report a bill compelling all subsidized lines to pay the cost of surveying and selecting lands given in aid of construction.