Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Robert Small, the colored who ran away from Charleston with a tug-boat, during the war, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventh District of South Carolina. Attorney-General Brewster has addressed a circular to the various United States District Attorneys and Marshals throughout the country, calling their attention to the section of the Revised Statutes providing for the punishment of persons who ship explosives without complying with the legal regulation concerning them. He adverts to the reports that dynamite and nitroglycerine are sent from the United States to foreign countries, having reference, no doubt, to the rumors concerning the Fenian dynamite party. He says he does not believe that these reports are true, but at the same time urges diligence and zeal in the matter on the part of the attorneys and Marshals, and that every guilty person shall be vigorously prosecuted. The House Committee on Coinage will make a favorable report on Mr. Bland’s bill to stop the manufacture of $1 and S 3 gold pieces, the 3-cent nickel, and the trade dollar. Adverse reports on all bills for the establishment of postal savings banks have been ordered by the House Committee on Postoffices. Henry Watterson appeared at Washington before the joint committee on the library and argued in support of the bill to give dally newspapers a copyright for eight hours.

The secret service division of the Treasury Department has discovered a coun-

terfeit silver certificate of the denomination of *2O. The paper is much shorter than the genuine, and is thick and stiff.