Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Commissioneb Sparks bas affirmed the validity of a French grant covering millions of dollars’ worth ..of property at New Orleans, including the Metairie Ridge Cemetery, and other tracts on the’ shell load to Lake Pontchartrain. Illinois paid $25,000.000 of internal revenue taxes last year, the greatest amount of any State in'- the Union. Kentucky Comes next, with $16,000,000; New Y'ork, $14,000,000; Ohio. $13,000,000; aud Pennsylvania, $73)09,000. The smallest contribution of any State or Territory was from Vermont, $31,000.