Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

President Cleveland appointed Henry Lacombe of New York City to be additional Circu t Judge in the Second Judicial Circu t and L W. Reid, of Virginia, to be Assistant Register of the Treasury. The Commissioner of the General Land Office favors the institution of proceedings to vacate the Rancho et Llano de Buena Vista grant in California, embracing about nine thousand acres, on the ground of fraud. The collections of internal revenue during the first ten months of the fiscal year were $95,253,C0G, a slight decrease as compared with the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. . ' ' A Washington dispatch announces the

death ot the veteran newspaper correspondent, Maj. Ben; Perley Poore. He had been a sufferer from Bright’s disease for several years, which was the cause of his death. His life has been a busy and eventful one, as the following brief biography will show: Ben: Perley Poore was bom in Massachusetts in 1820. At the age of eighteen he became editor of the Southern Whig, a Georgia newspaper, continuing in that capacity for two years. Subsequently he went to France as historical azent for his native State, rema ning abroad from 1344 to 1818. During the same period he was foreign correspondent of the 80-ton Atlas. After his return to America he edited the Boston Daily Hee and the American Sentinel. Subsequently he removed to Washington, and in 18.4 became correspondent at that city of the Boston Journal Am«w his writings are “The Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe," written in 1848; “The Conspiracy Trial," written in 186 >, and “The Political Register and Congressional Directory.” Major Poore, during his long residence at Washington, had met and known fifteen Presidents, beginning with John Quincy Adams, besides having had familiar relations with sueh eminent men as Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton, and Marcy. During his residence abroad he traveled through all the leading European countries, as well as Greece. Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt. His residence, Indian HiU Faim, near Newburyport, Mass , was built over two hundred and thirty years ago by Major Poore’s English ancestor, John Poore, but has, of course, received frequent additions, not the least interesting being the wing added by Major Poore. It contams over two hundred acres. Among the curiosities to be seen there is an oak grown from an acorn of the “royal oak” in which Charles IL hid after the battle of Worcester.