Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The white and colored laborers of Washington are greatly excited over the news that the sewer contractors have brought from New York 500 Italian, German, and Swiss excavators who will work for 75 cents per day. The internal revenue bureatt reports a falling off of receipts at the rate of $9,000.000 per annum, for which no reason can be given. Judge Gresham has accepted the position of Secretary of the Treasury, made vacant by the death of Judge Folger. It is rumored that the appointment is but temporary, and was accepte i merely to accommodate the President. Judge Gresham, it is said, will retire in about a month, and will be appointed to succeed Judge Drummond at Chicago. A call for $10,000,000 3 per cent bonds, maturing Nov. 1, has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury.