Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Colonel Gabe Wharton, a prominent Republican politician of Kentucky, was found dead in bed in a Lou sville hotel Edward D. Tucker, a Chicago drummer, who, upon the strength of a Utah divorce, cast off his Chicago wife and wedded a Minnesota grl, has been lodged m tbe Joliet penitentiary to serve three years for bigamy. The production of gold during 1886, as shown by a report from the Director of the Mint, exceeded that of any previous year since 188 J, and almost equaled tbe production of that year. This amounted to $35,000,1'00 in 1886, against $31,8.0,000 in 1885, an increase of over $3,000,'J00. Ihe production of silver, as nearly as can be ascertained, was $49,895,930. The amount of gold bullion imported into the United States was $17,947,518 and the exports $27,862,637. Mr. Montgomery, Commissioner of the Patent Office, has resigned. First Comptroller Durham has decided that there is no law under which a duplicate bond can be issued to the Chicago man who recently swallowed a SI,OOO coupon bond in order, as he said, to prevent its falling into the hands of burglars. A constituent of Congressman Payson, of Illinois, consigned to him a car-load of hay, with a request that he seli it in Washington and remit the proceeds. The unpaid freight bill has reached the Representative, and he has contracted to sell five tons to Ohio members at the ruling rate. William Beck, a Wayne County, Indiana, veteran, was allowed a pension of $72 per month, which entitles him to draw $10,301). He is blind, and was led around Washington for some time.