Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The General Land Office has received reports during the last week showing the removal, under peremptory orders from special agents, of fences from twenty inclosures, embracing over 270,000 acres of laud, principally in the Denver Land District The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the 'l4sth call for the redemption of bonds. The call is for $10,000,000 of the 3 pef cent loan of 1882. The principal and accrued interest will be paid on Feb. 1, 1887, and interest will cease on that diy. The Dea'd Letter Office reports that put of sixty-four letters addressed to Pittsburgh, Ohio, all but nine were found to belong to parties in the Pennsylvania city. Another common error is that of addressing letters to Chicago, New York. and Mrs. Cleveland, assisted by members of the Cabinet and their wives, gave an official reception in the Bltiq Parlor of the Executive Mansion on New Year’s. . The President showed but slight traces of his recent illness. The residence of the Chilian minister at Washington was robbed of $7,0 )0 worth of jewelry and considerable money by a discharged servant named Silva, who was arrested while boarding a train for Now York. Representative Springer, after a careful study of the Pacific Bailroad question, has decided to offer an amendment to the Outhwaito refunding bill requiring the companies to discharge their debt to the government in twenty-six years, by annual installments of $3,877,410. It is now thought probable that Mrs. Logan will consent to the burial of the deceased General on the site in the Lake Park which has been tendered, free of all restriction, by the Chicago Council. The Washington, subscription for tho benefit of Mrs. Logan amounted Saturday to about $40,000, and tho same day Mrs. Logan received $6,500 as tho result of the first day’s subscription in Chicago.