Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

According to returns received by the Department of Agriculture the wheat crop this year will be below, and the corn crop above, the average. The harvest in Great Britain will not vary materially in yield from that of last year. The September cotton report of the Department of Agriculture shows the prevalence of hot and dry weather during August, except in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. The shedding of bolls and the decrease of vitality have resulted quite generally. Drought has teen serious in Texas and Arkansas, and quite general in Western Tennessee, Southern Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The caterpillar has caused much damage in fou|hern Texas, Arkansas, and in Central and Southern Alabama. Its prevalence is noted throughout Central and Southern Georgia, with small effect as yet. The bod worm is causing much dama.e in the black belt of Alabama and in Arkansas and Texas. Condition has declined in every State. The average is 87, against 96 in August. Last year it was (2 in September and 87 in August. The present is two points above the September average of ten years. The Second Comptroller of the Treasury has made a decis.on refusing to reopen the accounts of tho Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company for transportation of soldiers and supplies during the civil war. Congress will be asked for an appropriation of $:50,000 to improve the navigation of the Red River. A committee has been appointed to open negotiat ons vith the Choctaws, Seminoles, Creeks, and Cherokees with a view to opening their lands for settlement. A. M. Keiley tendered his resignation as United States Minister to Austria, which was accepted. It is believed in well informed circles at Washington that the mission will be left unfilled for an indefinite period.