Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

A. F. Kingsey, of Illinois, principal examiner in the Pension Office at Washington, has resigned after fifteen years of service on account of bad health. A law lias been passed by the Vermont Legislature requiring all hotels and restaurants using oleomargarine for butter to put up large signs notifying the public of the fact. Tlie President has made the following appointments: Consuls—Charles Jones, of Racine, Wis., at Prague; C. T. Grellat, of California, at Algiers; Edmund Johnson, of New Jersey, at Kohl; Alexander C. Jones, of West Virginia, at Chin Xiang. ;.' Pay Director James FultoD, United States navy, to be Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing and Paymaster General United States navy. It is understood that the naval estimates aro $10,(X) >,(XK) less iti amount than last year. Bishop Whipple lias resigned as a member , of the commission to negotiate with certain Indian tribes in the Northwest for the sale to the Government of portions of their reservations. Jared W. Daniels,s<pf Minnesota, is his successor.

The report of the inspector of buildings shows the rapidity with which Washington is growing. In tha last fiscal year 2,104 dwellings were erected, against 1,338 in 1885, and 1,004 in 1884. The long strike last spring in the building trades appaars to have made very little impression on the building. Mrs. Sarah H. Sampson, now receiving a salary of #1,400 as a clerk in the Pension Bureau, has received from President Cleveland a commission as Notary Public for the District of Columbia. During the war slio devotedly nursed sick and wounded soldiers. «TohnT. Carey has been appointed by the President to bo United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. Tlie surrender of Geronimo, according to,Gen. Miles, was an absolute one, and amounted in military law to the same thing as a capture. The Postmaster General reports 53,614 postoffices, of which 2,244 are Presidential. The highest rental paid, #7,500, is iu Brooklyn. There are 181 free-delivery offices. The annual report of the Signal Service Bureau claims that tlio foretelling of the arrival of cold waves lias saved millions of property, as also has the flood warnings. Appropriations aro asked for extending the service.