Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The receipts from internal revenue for the first seven months ot' the fiscal year were $06,878,117, an increase of $1,535,157 over the corresponding period of last year. The House Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads unanimously agreed to report adversely all bills before it for the purchase or construction of telegraph lines by the Government The following cable dispatch has been received by the Chinese Minister at Washington from the Governor General of Canton: Canton, Feb. 25. Hlb Excellency Cheng, Chinese Minister, Washington, D. C.: Cablegrams received from Chinese merchants at San Francisco stating that Chinese in the United States havo been most outrageously attacked. Hearing this news Canton people are furious. .Retaliation is threatened. How did the American Government act in this matter V Can you not ask the President to adopt measures for the protection of the Chinese there and for prevention of these inhuman acts in order to preserve the good friendship of the two countries V Otherwise the consequences here may be serious. Chano Chi Tong. President Cleveland has nominated General Alfred H. Terry to Ihe Major Generalship made vacant by the death of General

Hancoek. General Terry was born in Hartford, Conn., November 10, 1827, wan graduated from Yale with honorary degrees, and was bred to the bar. He was serving as Colonel of the 2d regiment of the Connecticut militia at the outbreak of the rebellion, and led it to the field. After the battle of Bull Run he returned to Connecticut, recruited the 7th Connecticut Volunteers, and joined Sherman’s forces in its command. Col. ! Terry was made a Brigadier on March 24, 1862. | He participated in many of the most noted I river Dattles, and on Jan. 15, 1865, became I commander of the Ist division, 24th corps, aud, aided by Porter’s fleet, carried by assault Fort Fisher, ending the Confederate supremacy in Cape Fear River. He was brevetted a Brigadier General of the regular army, and voted the thanks of Congress for this service. He was made a full Brigadier General of the United States army for gallant conduct at the capture of Wilmington, N. C. The close of the war in 1860 found him in command of the Department of Virginia, and during the early stages of reconstruction in Virginia ho performed valuable services. Since the war he has held important commands in the South and in the Northwest, and has gained a wide reputation as an Indian fighter.