Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Garfield Statue Committee, consisting of Secretary Lincoln, Senator Sherman, and Gen. Barnett, of Cleveland, have decided upon a site for the statue to be erected by the Army of the Cumberland. The place fixed is the circle at the point where Maryland avenue reaches the Capitol grounds westward from the building. According to the annual report of the Third • Assistant Postmaster General, the total value of postage stamps, stemped envelopes, postal-cards, etc., issued during the year was $41,515,877—a decrease, of $1,394,442 as compared with the year previous.... Col. C. B. Corkhill, one of the attorneys in the Guiteau case, was assaulted by Maj. Gen. Sprigg Carroll in Washington. The former is counsel for the latter’s wife in a divorce suit.... . Some one has taken pains to ascertain from the army register that during President Cleveland’s term there will be retired Gens. Hancock, Pope, Augur, Sackett, Holabird, and Murray.