Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-06-04

Of contempt of court. running away while

of contempt of court, runplog aW6y While
under irj untt on.
It ia reported here to-day that Mr.. t. @.
Fuller OF Raleigh, N. O. one of the law
s,tners OF ex-U. 8. Senator and present
Chief Justice of the North Carolina court,
Merrimau, a lawyer of acknowledged a6ili-
ty. has been selected as one OF the new Ter
ritorial lard judges to be appointed. Inc
salary OF the position Is 5000. Senator
Ransom, who Is chairman of the Senate
committee Oh private land claims. and who
drew up the bill creating The judges referred
t., has been urging Mr.. FuIier's appoint
ment. Mr.. Fuller is democrat.
II Ia rumored at the State Department.
here that Fred Douglass, the negro U. 5.
Minister to Hayti, finds his place by no
means agreeable, 90 the government TO
which he Is accredited judges from his
course that he considers himself the rep
resentative of the negroes In the United
8 ates, rather than that of the u. 5. govern.
ment. Hs has been granted f1rlough OF
two months, to return to this country, aud
it is thought he will never go back.
An OHIO republican here today says that
though Foraker has control OF the machine
In that Safe, and Ia backed By the school
book ring there, Senator Sherman has the
support OF the great mass OF the party. ato
that when Foraker finds that out, he will re-
tire from the Senatorial contest, ss he is not
the sort of man to 60 into fight merely for
the purpose Of being knocked out.
Among the visitors here to-day Ia ex-Con-
pressmsn Brady, collector of internal reve-
me for the Richmond, Va, district. Mr..
Brady has Just returned from New York.
he Save the impression there on the subject
Cd Obj mo
vhether he 10 or not, Harrison will be the
nominee of the next national republican
convention, and must be, az nowadays 1t lie
almost impossible to defeat the renomina-
tion OF President About political tfisi
10 his own State, Mr.. Brady says that owing
to the rule OF Gen. Malone the republican
Dslty is weaker there now than 1t ever was
even In reconstruction times, and that, too.
though be was given almost the entire OF
fetal patronage of the State By President
Harrison. Mr.. Brady says that to such q
condition has the republican party IN Vlr-
ginia been reduced by Mehone's mismanage-
ment that counties which have always here
tcfore gone republican. at the recent election
gave large democratic msj critics.
Tue agents of the Virginia bondhoders
who have b,en to Richmond to try to settle
here Yesterday on their return to New YORK.
They said they had come to no agreement
with Vlreinia's representatives.. a lady
who las moved TO this oily from Alexandra
holds four thousand dollars worth of Vir'
eipia's bonds and about four hundred dollars
of accrued conpops, left 10 Der by her father
who bought them as means for her support
But she cau't even pay her Virginia taxes
with them. Il ia rumored here that the
State officials at r CT m md say g. ma OF Vir.
pinia's bonds are counterieita, but bankers
here gay that could hardly be. But the Ma
| hone legislature did refu'e to accept one Sci
| of bonds printed by company who refused
| TO subscribe to is election fund.
OF the cadets who have just graduated at tht
! West Point Military Academy, Charles D. Hine
son of NJ, jor O. E. II ne OF Fairfax county, Va.
near Alexandris, stood highest in tactics.
f! in addition 20 the positions at the Norfolk
navy ward made vacant by Secretary Tracy, the
] following positions in the construction depart
mont OF that yard declared vacant on the first
| of July next: Qlartermau Sparmaker in charge
fem br icing block makers and coopers); Quarter
| man Painter in charge. Qusrterlnsn eau ker in
charge Q1arterman in charge of laborer5, and
Pstternmaker in charge of shop. An Gamma
ton OF applicants for filing these positions will
be held at the navy yard beginning on Monday
June 18th.
A dispatch from FL Paso Texa0, was received
here last night stating that Col. John S. Mosby
was there experimenting tho drawing of the
Jusrez lottery.
The Treasury is 80 strapped for money that
Secretary Foster to-day called UPON number OF
national bsnk depostaries to transfer to the sub
treasury portion of the amount of pub ic money
held by them and not needed for the transaction
of pubic business