Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Treasury Department has issued orders to Collectors of Customs that hereafter when a vessel carrying rags arrives at any port it shall be the duty of the importer to produce positive evidence that the cargo is from a non-infected port, and is free from the germ of disease. The difficulty of producing such evidence" virtually prevents the introduction of rags.... John B. Dawson, a clerk in the Pension Bureau at Washington, died Last . week. He weighed 438 pounds, and his body had to be placed in a grape arbor until a coffin could be made. The experiment of illuminating Pennsylvania avenue with electric light has not proved entirely satisfactory. The middle of the street is brilliantly lighted. The sidewalks are left in almost total darkness;