Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Arranoemexth are being made at the Treasury Department to Bupply tbo demand for small notes, silver certificates, and United • States notes, which is large and increasing daily... The dorks of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations find that the sums .actually sot aside by Congress aggregate .$247,387,144. Under the Mexican pension law 7,710 claims have been filed. The March report of the National Department of Agriculture of the distribution and consumption of whont and corii shows that 30 per cent, of tlxe crop is still in farmers’ hands. The estimated remainder is (103,000,0(10 bushels. The estimated proportion Lebl for home consumption is 1,377,000,000 bushels, lenving 28M,000,000 for transportation beyond county line's. The proportion of merchantable corn is 80 per cent. The amount of wheat on hand is 27 per cent, of the crop, or about 122,(HH),000, against 107,000,000 last year and 189,000,000 in March, 1885. The proportion held for local consumption is 194,000,000 bushels, and the proportion to be shipped beyond county lines is 203,000,000. The quality of (he crop is unusually good in the principal wheat-growing sections, the average wheat being 58.5 pounds per bushel. Information has reached the Department of State that the cholera has spread through parts of the Chilian Province of Aconcagua and Valparaiso, and is extending along the Ynlley of Aconcagua toward (he sea....D. Lynch Pringle, of South Unrolinn, has been transferred from the position of Consul General and Secretary of the Legation nt Guatemala to that of Consul General at Constantinople. The Secretary of the Interior has decided in the case of the San Francisco survey that since the patent had been issued and accepted by the city the G overnment bad lost all authority over the land in question.... President Cleveland has made a substantial gift to the Hendricks Monument Association ...Minister Manning will be allowed to quietly resign and retire from office.