Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 80.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 80.
Commodore Folger's resignation as
chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy
Department takes effect on the End
prox., and his successor will probably
be nominated by the President next
week. The general impression III
naval circles is that Captain W. /.
Sampson, Commandant of the WASH
ington Navy Yard, will receive the APP
pointment. ,-n
Congressman Cochran has been cali
ed to New York to be offered the mug
wump and anti-snapper nomination lor
Z. S. Senator; but he said before he
left that he would not oppose Tam
many. ,.,..,a
saws that no matter what Mr.. Cleye-
lands intentions in interfering with the
Senatorsbip from his State may have
been. many people will look upon 1t rs
mn attempt to dictate to the New York
Legislature.
( telegram was received here to-day
from Speaker Crisp saying that ne
would not return 70 Washington untli
tomorrow evening. Contemporaneois-
" with this announcement it is ascer-
tained that ex-Mayor Grace, of New
York. arrived in Washington yester-
day. and dined with Senator Carlisle,
and that both left for New York last
NIGHT. The stay in New York OF the
Speaker, and the departure OF senator
Carlisle for the same city, have stirred
up mnch speculation among the politi-
clans in this city.
1t is reported here to-day that sena-
tor Carlisle has been formally rendered
the place of Secretary Of the Treasury,
and that he will so to New York IN a
dav or two to inform Mr.. Cleveland OF
its acceptance. Mr.. Lamont, Mr.; Cieve-
lands private secretary when he was
President, will, it is said, certainly be a
member of the next cabinet.
Mr.. Speaker Crisp has not yet re-
turned from New York, where he has
had a talk with DTr. Cleveland, so that
nobody here knows why it is that
though he went away i'll favor OF an
early extra session Of the new Congress,
he is now reported as saying there Will
be no extra session until September
Mr.. Crisp is mentioned by some as the
most probable successor of Senator Col
quit. but Georgians Eerc to-day, who
have recently seen the Senator referred
to. saw he is recovering and will prob
ably resume his seat in the Senate when
the weather becomes milder His
term will not expire until 1895.
A Brooklyn democrat, here to-day,
when asked if Mr.. Hugh Mclaughlin,
the leader of the democracy OF that
city, would stand by Mr.. Murphy, Tam
manv's favorite for the New York Sena-
torship. replied to the effect that he
would after his own favorite, Judge
Pratt. of his city, shall be defeated in
the democratic legislative caucus. He
also said Mr.. Murphy would be nomi-
mated by that caucus, that all the
democratic legislators would stand by
the nominee OF that caucus, and that
llr. Murphy, if he shall be alive on the
4th of next March, will be Mr.. His
cocks successor in the u. S. Senate.
The Judge Pratt referred TO is well re-
mcmbered about Alexandria, near
which city he WAS camped for some
time during the war. He was a gallant
officer. and therefore did not believe in
the rr cictiS idea.
Little Martena Harrison, the Presi-
dents grandchild, who is i'll with scar
let fever. is reported TO be doing Very
well to-day, with every indication OF III
innate recovery. Her illness is having
Il marked effect on the number of visi-
tors to the White House. No one is
now admitted unless he has particular
business with the President or his pri-
waite secretary. The President spent
the afternoon in the grounds surrounds
ing the house in company with his
other grandchildren, Benjamin and
Marie Mckee, whose welfare is an OBJ
iect ofespecial solicitude TO him just al
p 'esent.
The receipts from Internal Revenue
fJr the first five months of the current
fiscal wear aggregated so 045, 0106S, az
increase over the corresponding perioC
of last year of $5,712, S75.9S.
Petitions for the admission of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad into this
CITY are being circulated here for sigma.
lures to-day. and are being numercusly
signed under the mistaken idea tina;
somebody opposes such admission
They will be presented in the House
Monday week, when the bill for that
purpose will be called up. There is
opposition to that bill, because, by it, the
admission is not to be into Washington
hut into Georgetown, and the depot to
be on Rock Creek. A few interested
people want the road admitted at
Georgetown, but all the others want il
admitted at the north end OF the Long
Bridge. BY such admission the estab-
lishment of the desired union depot
would be expedited.
1t is estimated at the Treasury De-
partment that the government has
profited to the amount of twenty mil
lions since it commenced to issue paper
money, by the loss and destruction OF
such money before it had been re-
deemed.
Frank Schwarz, Washington agent
for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso-
citation, of st. Louis, committed suicide
last night at Trinidad, Gales's Woods,
a suburb of this city, by shooting him
self through the heart, on account OF
domestic unhappiness. The affair was
premeditated. During the past few
days the suicide made inquiries as tc
the various modes of self-destruction
one question he asked was whether re.
coverv was possible after having placed