Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Eight Italians, two of them women, were arrested at Washington for passing counterfeit coin.... The transfer of the silver cargo of the United States steamships Swatara and Yantic, amounting to $10,400,000 in silver dollars, to the United States Treasury has been completed,. It is said at the Treasury Department that, owing to the trouble and delay in transporting money by water, railroad transportation will be employed in the future. A statement prepared at the Treasury Department shows that the amount of standard dollars put in circulation during the month of September in the regular course of business was $2,700,000. The suit of the United States against the Bell Telephone Company to set aside the patent held by the lattei-was dismissed by Solicitor General Goode, at the suggestion of the President... .The October term of the United States Supreme Court be-’ gan at Washington last Monday. There are how 10.000 cases on the docket, and it is expected that the number will be in- I ’., creased to 15,000 before the end of the term. All the Judges are in good health. The Department of Agriculture reports at Washington that the yield of wheat per acre for the area harvested is bushels, and only 9 on the area sown, which was nearly 40,000,000 acres. The area harvested will not exceed ’34,000,0(10 acres. Corn —The indications point to a yield of 26j bushels per acre, which would give a yield of 1,960.000,'100 bushels. Oats —The crop exceeds 600,000,000 bushels. Cotton—The condition of cotton has dropped from 87 to 78 per cent. The rye average is 10.4 bushels, nearly 2 bushels short of the yield of 1884. The average yield of barley will be about 22 bushels per acre. The condition of potatoes has seriously declined on account of the prevalence of rot in New York, Michigan, and elsewhere. The decline from Sept. 1 was 11 points. Mails from New York to Havana are now sent by rail to Tampa, reaching their destination in sixty-five hours. But Postmaster General Vilas has arranged for daily steamer service direct from Tampa to Havana, reducing the time from New York to forty-eight hours.