Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of the Interior reports to the Senate that forty-four of the older Apache children at Fort Marion have been transferred to the Indian school at Carlisle, and that sixty of the younger ones are to be educated at St. Augustine by the Sisters of Charity at $7.50 each per quarter. The Commissioner of Pensions has made requisition for $18,783,000 with which to make his March payments. This is the largest sum yet asked for any quarter. A report has been made to the State Department by United States Consul J. C. Bacon of Montevideo, Uruguay, that an excellent market might be opened there for American cured pork and lard, as most inferior homemade liam and bacon sells there at from forty to fifty cents a pound. It is said that it would pay American shippers to open a market there and sell at about twenty-five to thirty cents a pound.