Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

OP the $14,000,000 of bonds which tho Government offered on Sept. 23d to buy for the sinking fund, $8,000,000 had been already purchased up to the 28th. According to the most excellent authority, says a New York special, speculation over the successorship to the seat on the bench of the United States Supreme Court, made vacant by the death of Justice Woods, of Louisiana, may as well end, for L Q. C. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior, has been selected for the place. The matter is said to have gone so far that the appointment has been tendered to Mr. Lamar, who has consented to accept it He is already arranging his affairs with a view to the promised change in his official position. The appointment is likely to bo formally announced by a nomination quite early in the session of the Senate.