Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-10-03

York tn his partner In this city was shown
to the GAzETTE's correspondent te-1ay. IL
wss written two hours and e-hslf after the
President signed the new tariff bill, IN whicn
time, the writer ssye, the price OF their pre-
duot bad advanced eleven and a-half cents
a barrel. This fact Is not calculated TO IN
duce Intelligent Virginia farmers to vote LOT
republican candidates at the next election,
nor for so-called Independent candidates SUP
ported by republicans.
7, is understood that the members OF the
Olt D5minioa republican league of this city
indicted for violating the civil service law
by collecting political assessments from leo
eral officehoders will be brought to trla!
some time this month also that there is q
Vlsginia repub lean congressman Denlnu
NeWtou and Verser, the parties referred to-
vhom the law officers are after. who 10 Inc
nrirne offender In the case, and VINO, II tue
leads now beir followed don't divide, Will
loon be csughs, and if 80, that the prossca-
tion will uay special attention to BIN ana De
enient with those it terms the small Try.
Assistant Attorney General TSner, under
Instructions from Postmaster General wan
smaker. tc day issued postal order prohlc-
it;ng the passage Of any matter, written or
nrinted. cnncerniog any lottery scheme
thronph the mails, and declaring that
the term "lottery" ss used in the act en-
braces all kinds Of schemes, general or local.
for the des,ribution OF prizes Dy ioe OF
chaocr. such "a gift exhibitions, enterprises,
concerts, rail- %, or the drawing OF pT'zes IN
money or property at fairs. Hence, letters
postal cards and circulars concerning them
and newspapers, pamphlets, and o'nel
publications containing advertisements 81
them, are unavoidable.
The fall term of the .. S. Supreme C1ur'
will commence on Monday the 10 ins1
Ga the II b the trial of the cases on the
docket viii he commenced aud CONTINUED
until the 20 h, wban cases set Tor epecia
hearing will be commenced, the hrst oeibp
that OF the negro euano diggers on the lslapo
of Nevaesa who murdered their white over
seers.
MIR. W.P. Garrett of Alexandria was
here to day He says that he expects at
early appointment to a clerkship In one o.
| the government departments here. through
the influercs Of his friend Senator sherman
Mary F. Money was to-day appointed
| stmsster at Hunters Mills, Fairfax coun
| ty. Virginia. a.,
Wheat. the republican approximation OF the
| House mas gone hack to Wisconsin. III no mac
remained here he would have been arrested tol
his otrsnce. His son has also been removed from
his cerkshjp in the Office it is said, at the ipsJani
of some rel u5i:csn congressman who lntoi met
| the new postmaster that If he did not dismiss nm
| he, too, would have 10 90. .
| Congressman Bowden, of Virginia, is hore to
day Judge Clairborn, referred to in another 7 IT
agraph, says he has had talk with him. ana ~. ina
he seems little detected and doesn't talk Ike
man whose election Is entirely sure
| If Mr. Speaker Reed ever had an idea OF seeking
thu Presidential nomination, it certainly will no
be dissipated by any regard he has for President
Harrison in whose bonnet the bee Of renomlna .
ton is tuzzing all the time, for the Speaker lei
here yesterday, saying. before he left that TN
President had refused every request he hsd made
and is utterly devoid Of gratitude, and that IL
| meant to .get even"