Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

As it passed the House of Representatives, the river and harbor appropriation bill makes the following division of the total appropriation: Mainesloo,ooo'Arkansassl46,ooo N. Hampshire.. 8,000 Tennessee 491,500 Vermont 15,003) Kentucky 257,000 Massachusetts . 214,003 Indiana 132,500 Rhode Island... 95,000|0hi0 348,060 Connecticut.... 255,000;111in0is 261,000 New York 35,000 Michigan 918,500 New Jersey 120,000 Wisconsin 335,500 Pennsylvania... 491,000|Minnesota 150,000 Delaware 105,003 Montan a 25,003 Maryland 157,OOOCalifornia 322,500 Virginia 404,000 Missouri 17,500 West Virginia.. 215,500 Oregon 605,000 North Carolina. 206,500:Wash’nTerritoSo. Carolina.... 341,000| ry 14,500 Georgia 410,500 Ohio River 500,000 Florida 304,000iFalls of 0hi0... 200,000 Alabama 375,000 Missouri River. 610,000 Mississippi 103,5'JOiMiss. River... .3,805,003 Louisiana 163,000|Exaniination & Texas 950,000 i surveys 100,000 A private letter received in Washington to William H. Bissell, the President’s former law partner, says that the President will marry Mins Folsom, at Buffalo, on Juno 12 ; or, if the illness of Mrs. Folsom, who is suffering with the Roman fever, at Paris, should compel a postponement, within a week after the return of Mrs. and Miss Folsom from Europe. The Senate Committee on Commerce has ordered a favorable report on Senator Hoar’s resolution, which requires the committee to explain the public necessity for each item of expenditure m the river and harbor bill and provides another clerk for the committee. Several syndicates are besieging Congress for a charter to introduce the cable road in Washington. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Atlas National Bank to begin business in Chicago with a capital of $700,000. D. T. Patterson, formerly United States Senator from Tennessee, has been appointed Postmaster at Home, Green County, Tennessee. Ho is a son-in-law of the late President Johnson. The office is worth $240 a year.