Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Washington telegram: Immediately utter the funeral of Gen. Grant, President Cleveland, accompanied by two or three friends, will leave Washington for Northern New York to to absent a month. After this week no officii! appointments will be made until Cctobcr. Five American steamship companies have declined to carry the United Sta'es mails hereafter. A Washington dispatch says the Fostoffice Department has made satisfactory arrangements, so that the service wil! not be materially interfered with. Gen. Burdett, Grand Army Commander, declined to serve on the committee appoint d at Washington to present resolutions of protest against the interment of Gen. Grant at Riverside Park. Attorniy General Garland has reached the concluson that the cuttie leases in the Indian Territory are illegal and has so Informed the President. It is now believed at Washington that an arrangement will le made with John Roache's assignees, by virtue of which the Dolphin will be accepted by the Government, and will go to sen. The report of the Naval Advisory Board on the Steamer Dolphin has been made public, as has also the report of the committee appointed to specially examine the vessel. The Board holds that the boat is a subject for congratulation rather than condemnation, but the special examiners do not think so, neither does Secretary Whitney.