Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

A little notice has been posted in the Western Union Telegraph - office, at Washington, telegraphs a correspondent, informing the public that contributions to the Grant monument, to be erected at Riverside Park, would be received at that office. The notice has been there about a month. Similar notices, it is said, have been posted in every Western Union office in the country. Up to date there has not been one cent contributed in this city, aM as fru* as can be learned the telegraph company has not received a cent any where, and it is probable that the $5,000 they contributed themselves is all they will ever have to turn in. Everybody says: “Let New York do it. If Gen. Grant had been buried in Washington, there would have been more th in enough for the monument contributed.” This is the Only notice people ever take of the poster. The crop report of the Agricultural Department for September says the condition of spring wheat has been impaired since the Ist of August in the Northwest, the district of principal production. Heavy rains were followed by extreme heat between the Ist and the middle of August, before harvest, shriveling the grain and causing rust. Heavy wind-storms prostrated and injured large areas. In Nebraska there is some complaint of smut, and A little in Dakota. Chinch-bugs have done some damage in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The injury was greater in August than in July. The averages are: For Wisconsin 77, a loss of 8 points; Minnesota, 78, a loss of 5: Dakota, 96, a loss of 4; lowa. 88, a loss of 7 points. Northern -New- England, —Colorado and the Territories are nearly or quite up to 100. The general average for all spring wheat is 801 against 95in August. The crop of last year was 156,000,000 bushels. The returns of winter wheat are almost Identical in results with those of July. There is a slight advance in Michigan, Texas, Maryland, and Home other States and a point or two in several. The general average is 65.8 against 65 in July. Except as the result of thrashing may change present expectations, the winter-wheat area may be placed at 217.000,000 bushels, and the remaining area about 134,000,000. If the injuries reported in the stack should prove to be greater than is at present apparent, a few millions of reduction might still accrue. The condition of com still continues high, tanging from 90 to 100 in State averages. The general average is 95, against 96 in August. It was 94 last year in September. Frosts have wrought very little injury, and will be capable of little. The prospect is still favorable for a crop slightly above the average.