Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It is stated that the internal revenue officials are surprised at the magnitude of tho receipts under the oleomargarine law. Treasurer Jordan says the effect of the offer to prepay too interest on the public debt will be to distribute almost immediately about $10,000,090 in every section of tho country, thus greatly assisting in tho moving of crops aud aiding other branches of business. Since the present system of internal revenue was organized, July 1, 1862, up to June 30, 1886, tbe total collections have been $3,438,290,455, or enough to pay the public debt at its highest liguro ($2,756,431,371), and leave a balance of $681,858,881. A "Washington dispatch says that all of the companies of the Second Infantry now stationed at other posts are to bo transferred to Fort Omaha wit-hiu a few days. Tho plan of concentrating troops by regiments in large posts is being carried out as rapidly as the limited appropriations available will permit, and as fast as this is accomplished the smaller posts will be abandoned and turned over to the Interior Department as public lands for entry.

The claim of Editor Cutting against the Mexican Government for SSO 000 damages, on account of false imprisonment and personal indignities suffered by him, has been for some timo on file in the State Department, but it has not yet been examined by the Secretary, and there has been therefore no decision with regard to the disposition to be made of it The annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is out. The total receipts from all sources of internal revenue for the year ended June 30, 18SG, were $116,902,869, as compared with $112,421,121 in 1885. The principal increase was in cigars, cigarettes, and spirits distilled from grain. The cost of collection during the year was $4,299,485. The War Department has approved of the allotment by the Mississ ppi River Commission of SIOO,OOO for the Yazoo Delta district, which will probably complete a continuous line of levoe from Memphis to Vicksburg, 35) miles. General Sheridan, in his annual report to the Secretary of War, remarks that unless the status of the Oklahoma lauds be fixed by legislation their advantages will prove a continued temptation to adventurers.