Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It is understood that tho naval estimates are $10,000,000 less i:i auiount than last year. Commodore Schley, Chief of the Bureau of Equipment an I Recruiting, in his annual report urges tho necessity for two modern made steam cruiser training on tho ground that it is only on such vessels that the training necessary for modern warfare can bo given, and because the improvements in naval warfare have made )t impossible to recruit our navy, in case of war, from merchant seamen or watermen of our seaports. Attorney General Garland has instituted a suit in the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia to settle tho title of the Potomac Flats, and especially that portion of them which has been known for years as the Kidwell Meadows, the amount of land involved being forty-seven acres.