Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Nearly 5,000 citizens of North Carolina assembled at Greensboro, to celebrate the opening of the Cape Fear Road, which has completed 130 miles. Chief Nimmo, of the Bureau of Statistics, has submitted a report to Secretary Folger, urging the Improvement of the Galveston harbor on the ground of its national importance. Secretary Frelinghuysen has informed Congressman Curtin, of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, that he will present to that body in confidence correspondence showing the necessity for the item of $230,000 recommended to be added to the consular and diplomatic appropriation. The money,

it is generally understood, is required to insure the control of the United States over the proposed waterway across the Isthmus of Panama along the Nicaragua route. Capt. Eads, of Jetty fame, is opposing the appropriation, and accuses those who are advocating it of personal dishonesty. In the town of Pendleton, South Carolina, is a half-Sbetland pony 37 years of age, which was presented by an English nobleman to a citizen of Charleston. The animal was originally black, but its head has turned white from age. The Congressional conference committee on the shipping bill has agreed to strike out the free-vessel feature and to repeal all laws requiring American ships to carry mail matter at 2 cents per letter. A hotel-keeper in Washington says a President from New York makes his house worth SIO,OOO per yeai more than if the Chief Magistrate be a citizen of any other State.