Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1887 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

GF the $14,000,000 of bonds which the Government .offered on Sept 22d to buy for the sinking fund, $8,000,000 had been already purchased up to the 28 th. During the month of September there was a net increase of $32,350,375 in circulation, and a net increase of $7,261,136 in cash in the Treasury. The Postoffice Department at Washington has just issued a statement showing the sales of postage stamps, postal cards, and stamped envelopes at seventy-six of the principal pos toffices of the country for the month of August, 1887, as' compared with the same mouth in 1886. The returns for the Northwestern cities are as follows: In- Per City. 1886. 1887. crease, cent. Burlington .2,928 3,407 479 16.35 Chicag0...173,996 199,940 25,944 14.91 Dee Moinse 8,606 6,032 *2,574 *29.91 Dubuque ... 3,397 3,775 378 11.13 Elgin 2,090 2,235 145 6.93 Kansas Citv 24,505 29,233 4,729 19.30 Milwaukee 20,130 21,631 1,501 7.46 Minneapolis 19,274 22,954 3,679 19.09 Peoria 5,426 6,261 835 15.39 Quincy. 3,042 8,802 759 24.97 St. Paul 17,153 22,772 5,619 32.76 ♦Decrease.

A Washington special says: The General Land Office is in receipt of information that a British syndicate, which is eaid to have purchased a largo tract of land in lowa from the McGregor Western Railroad Company, is mercilessly evicting settlers, the title to the land being in dispute in the State courts. A circular from the Treasury Department to customs officers enjoins the strictest-econ-omy in collecting the revenue, as the appropriation is running short Captain Mobder, special examiner of the Pension 'Office, says that his investigations have convinced him that one-rthird or more of the pension.applications are fraudulent. In a report to the Agricultural Department at Washington on the relation of railroads to forest supplies and forestry, Mr. M. G. Kern computes that the maintenance of existing railroad and telegraph lines requires the extinction of about 250,000 acres of timber land annually, and that nearly 50,000 acres as timber must be out annually to provide for the additional'Construction of 5,0u0 miles of track and telegraph lines.