Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

White House employes claim that no precaution of any kind has ever been taken to protect the President from assassination. The count of the cash in the National Treasury is practically completed. The only discrepancy is 2 cents missing from a $5 package of pennies. Secretary Manning has that directed the issuft of $1 and $2 notes be discontinued for tho present. Prof. C. V. Reiley, the entomologist of the Agricultural Department, has prepared a circular announcing that the department will purchase during the coming summer such quantities of silk-worm eggs as may be deemed necessary for the distribution it is proposed to make for the season of 1886, und, so far as practicable, will purchase them from American producers. Eggs of improved race (preferably of the French or Italian yellow races) will be bought. Col. De Alma, a special timber agent, called on Land Commissioner Sparks and asked for his pay, which he claimed was in arrears. He grew importunate and was cast out, whereupon ho secured the arrest of his superior officer for assault.