Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-29
FROM H.gSHIIfG TOIv.


WASHINGTON, D. g., July %, 1879.
Boards for the examination Of the parties
designated for appointment to ID lieutcna1clss
in the Amy, will meet at Newport. Ky, San At
tonio, N. Y, Prescott, Chicago, L:aVen~orlh
and this city. Tho Board here will consist Of
General Mcdowell. hlcCook, Surgeon Norris
Mai or Breckenridge and Lieut.. Hobbs.
j. s. Delaao, DEPUTY 81 Comptroller Of The
Treasury, will, it is said, he made i.h Auditor
to supply the vacancy 10 be cccasloncd BY the
resignation OF Mr.. Tabor. Secretary OF War
McCrar7 AID Senator'S Logan snd Ferry arc
pressing hIN i0r tic posltlon.
Senator Bruce is pushing hl1 Investigation
into the affairs of the Freedmen Bank as rap
idIy as the limited force at bis command per
mits him. The examination of Tho Alexandra
branch las been completed and, Mr.. Bruce
saws, shows that while the officers oil that bank
were utterly inramp eteut and Inefficient, 50
much 80 that The errors 10 their books
and tho efforts to fore, balances were palpabIe,
mono of tho money OF tho dsposltor5 was lest
thero. lilo also seys that the branches OF tho
bank lost little or none of the immense sums OF
which the coored people wero swnd!ed, but
that most, if no, all tho losses. took place at the
bank in Washington, 10 which the branch banks
tad to forwar1 their deposits. Tho l0vcstlga-
ton Of tho breloh at Atlanta will b, mD'ctcd
Itxt week, when that Of the bank here I'll! be
commenced. lud The prcscut Indications are
that pcIioc. h0nRrza Of fraud will be disooV-
cred. The committee making this lhve5llga.
ton adjourned with the understanding that they
woal1 not meet again until Congress assembled,
h2. should tho developments be sS itch IS ex-
pe2isG they will probably .acet nj MI earlier
date aad au.h0riz, tic chairman, SENATOR
Bruce, 20 employ m)To clerks. " the coli'
luittee, Mr.. Bruce, and Senator Wither+, whc
is OF his homo 10 Virginia, a!e the oclg two
members who Can conveniently DO here uotll
after the commencement OF Tho next s3Sslcn OF
Congress.
Dispatches received OF tho ofhuc OF tho Ma
lional Board Of Health here day from NJ em'
phis state tina. Is casts and ono death OF yellow
fever had occurred there since tho last report.
The abrupt return OF several OF the prominent
radical officials who have baen executing at The
expense OF the Government il attributed to the
comments Of the opposition newspapers thereon
and to the published statements OF tho expan-
ditures CT these excursions, which inform the
people Of the country Of one 0! the ways by
which their money goea.
Dir. Tullock, assistant postmaster CT the city,
Informed Mr.. Burnside, disbursiog clerk OF the
posofhoc department, and ono OF tho board app
pointed to sotcct q bulldog for the CITY post
Office. 10 emphatic terms, aed 10 the presence
OF witnesses. day or two ago. that money had
been used to iuhaeIco that board to select the
Scaton building. The day after Mr.. Burnside,
compelled hin 10 rctrlot what ho hsd said. 10
tho presence of the same Witnesses, and IN just
as emphatic terms.
Herman Brandt, charged with 40 attempted
outrage on Emma Flelth. child seven years
old, last plight, was sent to Jail for six months,
this morning, by the police court Of this city.
The child is unirjlred, aud tho evidence upon
which the conviction was made is said to have
been by 90 lncars positive or direct.
A greasy burit small pcrvaded the city TO
day, caused, it is said, by the destruction OF
worn aud mu!iecl currercy at the Treasury
Department..
Oxon Hill, the handsome estate opposite
Alexandria. belonging 10 Mr.. Owen Berry, Is
advertised for sale.
The proprietor Of 40 Avenue restau-
rant and his wife had q fight on
the corncr OF 18Th street aud the Avenue this
morning which attracted o large crowd The
woman, though heavily handicapped By her
baby, which she he'll! in her left arm, fought
CALAMITY aud defended herself SO ably that she
1ot Only repealed every assault Of her husband,
cut punished him quite severely.
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Com.
pauy aro replacing tho sheds at their 9Th street
depot with better looking AMI moro substantial
structures