Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

During the last fiscal year toe star-route service cost $5,414,804—a decrease of $62,623 as compared with the previous year. .... Commissioner Black has started westward on public business. He will risit the Soldiers’ Homes at Dayton. Milwaukee, and Leavenworth, and inspect several of the pension agencies. The President; Mrs. Cleveland, and Mrs. Folsom, Col. and Mrs. Lamont, and Master Lamont returned to on Wednesday, Sept. 23. They.ah looked toe better for toeir vacatiomzThe President looked particulaily well. The President expressed hiiysglfas thoroughly delighted uis trip, but glad to get back to worjr f.gain. Col. Lamont said that the president had found Secretary Manning in good health and. spirits at their interview in Albany, that there was no truth in the story that Manning had insisted upon the acceptance of his resignation,' ana therefore there was, of course, nothing at all in the rumor that he would be appointed to a foreign mission Secretary Lamar has had a vacation in New Hampshire. Gossips assert that he is about to marry Mrs. Holt, a handsome and wealthy widow of Macon, Ga., to whom he paid attention in his early years. The navy yard at Washington *, has been transferred" to the ordnance department for a naval-gun factory. The plant for making anchors and chains will be removed to Boston, and the boiler works vvill probably be shipped to Brooklyn.