Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-28
. Of the Commercial National Bank

Baron de Angular dc AnuTaia, VIC
special Brazilian envoy, who died Sat
urday night from stroke of apopleXy,
were held at St. Matthew's Church this
morning. The honorary pallhearers
were the Secretary of State. the British
Ambassador, the Brazilian, Mexican
and Peruvian Ministers, the charge
d'affaires of the CHILEAN and Argentine
LEGATIONS, and Senior Cerquieira, a
member of the special Brazilian mission
of which the deceased was the head.
At the request of the Brazilian Minister
the Secretary of War detailed the [. ).
Marine Band and two troops of cavalry
from Fort Myer to act as guard OF
honor. Diplomatic representatives from
every legation here attended the ser
vices, and q ge number Of prominent
officials and representatives OF social
life. The remains We're conveyed to q
vault in Mount Olivet cemetery, where
they will lie until instructions are re-
ceived from the Brazilian government
or the members of Blron Andrada 5
family.
Up TO date there are ten applications
on file in the Department OF Agricul-
ture for the Assistant Secretaryship;.
They are Hon. Morgan Rawls Of
Georgia. Hon. b. NJ Hord of Tennes-
see. Samuel Blackwell Of Alabama, +
l.. Merritt. of Spripgfeld, H., Charles
Griffiths OF Illinois, Major II. E. Alvord
Of Virginia, Gen. Stephen d: Lee OF
Mississippi. Daniel Strange of Michigan,
Prof. E. NJ. Shackelford of Alabama,
and S. w. Corbin of Virginia. There
will. however, be no immediate success
sor to Assistant Secretary Willets.
Secretary Morton has addressed
letter to every bureau and division
chief in the Department Of Agriculture,
asking whether any reduction could be
made in the number of his employees
without impairment of the public SER
vice, it being desirable in the interest
of economy TO lessen the expenses OF
the Department.
The applications for appointment to
the Marine Hospital Service, Treasury
Department, have become so numer-
Gus that Supervising Surgeon General
Wvman has published rules governing
III VIC oSi VIZ.
Secretary Carlisle to-day appointed
DR.. Joseph A. Senner commissioner OF
immigration at the port of New York.
1t is understood that the appoint
ment of Ex-Representative Herman
Stump of Maryland has been agreed
upon for Superintendent OF lmmlgra-
ton.
The Cabinet began its regular session
to-day at II o'clock and thus shut OIL
the two score of visitors in the Cabinet
room waiting to see President Cleve-
land. Between ten and eleven o'clock
the callers were numerous, but there
were few who came on business of gen
eral interest. Gen. Patrick Collins of
Mass, the new consul general to Lon
don, paid his respects to the President.
The appointment of Mr.. billiard as
consul general at Guayaquil, Ecuador,
to-day was universally commended, not
so much on Mr. billiards. account as on
that of the man he supercedes. That
man is w. r. Sorsby, who distracted
certain private papers from the desk of
General Catchings Of Mississippi and
sold them to Mr.. Carter, chairman Of
the national republican committee,
who used them for partisan purposes at
the last election, and induced President
Harrison to pay for them with the Of
flee from which Sorsby has just been
moved.
1t is understood that the republicans,
under the impression that the increase
of pensions is the most popular move
they can now make, will force the dem
ocrats to an issue on it as soon as
possible, so that the yeast may have full
tine to work among the pensioners,and
those who want to be, and those who
want their pensions increased, and the
lends of all three classes, before the
,xt congressional election.
The services of twenty-three special
agents OF the land office were dispensed
with to-day. Ofthe remaining eleven
who are retained, a majority are repub-
licaus.
The fact that Mr.. Hoar, the defender
OF all the republican crooks whose ras-
calitics come before Congress, should
have deemed himself specially called
upon to introduce q resolution in the
Senate to-day demanding an investiga-
ton of the charges against democratic
Senator for an otfense, alleged to have
b .cn committed fourteen years ago, was
the subject of general adverse comment
at the Capitol.
There are many applicants for the
place of Comptroller of the Currency,
among them Mr.. Abraham, deputy
comptroller under Mr.. Cleveland's
former administration, and who halls
from Virginia. But the President is
looking beyond the applicants for Of
fees, for men to fill them, and has offer
ed the place to ex-Congressman Nc
Mahon Of Ohio, who will not accept it.
There were only two nominations
sent to the Senate to-day. Hundreds
of office seekers were at the Capitol
waiting for the list when it arrived.
They rushed to the blackboard on
which the lists are posted, with the inn
petuosity of the waves of the incoming
sea, but receded from it as quietly and
almost as rapidlya as such waves do from
a shelving shore. Two a day! 1t is
enough to make their hearts sick with
hope delayed.
SURGICAL OPERATION ON AN IDIOT.
The Hahpemann Hospital in Newark
performed on Sunday an operation