Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Treasury Department, in order to stop the alarming decrease in the gold reserve, has decided to redeem gold certificates in other funds in all cases where possible. Jolm B. Dawson, a clerk in the pension bureau at Wsshington, who died the other day, weighed 438 pounds. His body has been placed in a grape arbor until a coffin can be manufactured. Reports received at the Department of Agriculture at Washington indicate that the cotton crop will be larger than last year; that the corn crop will be more abundant than in any year since I 860; the tobacco crop is quite promising; and the wheat crop will be larger than at any time since 1877.