Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Recently at Washington Ensign A. F. Halstead, who has but just graduated from the Naval Academy, married Mrs. Bernadean, of Camden, N. J., a woman old enough to be his mother, Who has several grown-up children. After the ceremony the groom departed on a three-years cruise. The President is said to have called on the State Department for full details of our relations with Germany and Austria in regard to the treatment of naturalized citizens of the United States in those countries. The Chief Inspectoi’ of the Postoffice Department reports 539 arrests and 179 convictions for violation of the postal laws during the year.

Second Comptroller Maynard has disallowed a bill of sl4l incurred by the House Appropriations Committee last winter. The expense was incurred during a junket on the Tallapoosa. Attorney General Garland has informed the authorities at Tacoma, W. T., that he will afford legal assistance in prosecuting persons lately arrested in the Territory for attacks recently made on Chinese residents. Commissioner Sparks recently ruled that the commutation of a homestead is, in effect, a turning of the entry into a pre-emption. Settlers can no longer obtain 480 acres each under this law’.