Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Judge Gresham f authorizes the statement that he expects to remain Postmaster General until March 4, notwithstanding the rumors that he had accepted the vacant judicial bench in Chicago. Washington is disturbed at the news that farmers in Virginia and Maryland, whose hogs are dying of cholera by scores, are throwing the dead carcasses into the Potomac River, which furnishes Washington its water supply. Cunalboatmeu report that the stench from the festering hogs is unbearable in portions of the upper river. The commission appointed by President Arthur to visit Central and South America will leave Oct. 10 for the City of Mexico, expecting to be absent six months. The horse of Alfred M. Scales, candidate for Governor of North Carolina, ran away in Jackson County and fell down a precipice. Scales was caught in a tree and received serious injuries.