Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
w.cuINcToS d O. July Is.

rCorrespoudence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. c., July Is.
Yesterdays offers of silver were not
made public, either as to the amounts
offered or prices. This morning the mint
bureau announced the purchase Of lOO.-
600 ounces of Yesterdays offers at II!
cents Der ounce, which is the figure Of
the Treasury counter offer. Further
details are withheld. The total amount
of silver purchased up to date for July
is $685. 600 ounces.
Mr.. Douglas, chairman of the demo
cratic committee OF Alexandria county,
who is here to-day. says the delegates
TO the State democratic convention
from his county will be chosen in the
three districts thereof on the Sd proxl-
mo. which is the first Thursday in the
month.
There is no loan market in New
York on Saturdays. 734 was bid there
to.day for silver, and stocks were oil, in
consequence of more bank failures IN
the West and anticipations of others.
Representative Meredith of the Alex
an lria district and ex-State Senator
Moore of Fairfax county, Virginia,
were here to-day, and together visited
some of the departments in a vain Ell
fort to secure positions therein for Fair
fax county democrats in place of the
republicans hailing therefrom who now
fill them.
At last nights meeting of the Vir-
ginia democratic association OF this city
the report of the committee on the late
excursion Of that association TO Mar
shall Hall was presented, by which 1t
appeared that the net profit of that eX-
cursion amounted to forty dollars.
Captain William Gary of Alexandria
county, Mexican war veteran, who
has been i'll with dropsy at Providence
Hospital here, has recovered sufficient
~ to be out again, but is still very fee
bic.
Mr.. Lawrence Gardiner, chairman,
and Mr.. NJ. J. Weller, secretary, Of the
committee IN charge of the proposed
celebration of the centennial of the lay
ing of the corner stone of the Capitol,
went to Alexandria to-day to consult
with the authorities of that city in ref
| erence to that object.
Secretary Smith Of the Interior De
partment received an official communi-
cation this morning from Chief Jones
of the Choctaw Nation, in which the
latter says he has suspended the order
for executing the sentence of death
upon some criminals, at his request, un-
Til the 4th of August, but that he has
done so only out of courtesy, and that
the Secretary must not for moment
think that ne comedies or admits the
right of the United States to interfere
with the laws of the Territory.
1t is said at the Capitol to-day that
Mr.. Hurt, who was doorkeeper of the
House in the 5lst Congress, will proba-
bly, be elected to that position in the
53rd, as Mr.. Turner of New York, who
held it in in the SD, is not as popular,
even with the members from his own
State, as he might be. Mr. Hurt was
originally from Mississippi, but is now
of Tennessee, and is said 10 have the
support of the members from both
| those States.
The total number of fourth class post
masters appointed to-day was 81, OF
whom GA will fill the places of removed
republicans. The changes in Virginia
we're as follows: Bells Cross Roads,
Louisa county, L. w. Massie appointed
postmaster, vice ]. o. Missile, resigned
Cove Creek, Tazewell county, K. G.
Shufllebarger, vice w. r. Neel, re-
signed Gap Store, Tazewell county,
T. ]. Brown, vice ]. W. Yost, resigned ;
Hebron, Dinwiddie county, w. T.Stone,
vice 7. Johnson, resigned Oakland,
Louisa county, r. A. Perkins, vice j.
w. Lancaster, removed; Thoroughfare,
Prince William county, w. B. Perkins,
vice Ct. c. Robinson, removed.
A gentleman from Prince Georges
county, Md, here to-day, says the part
of that county Immediately opposite
Alexandria is more thickly settled
now than it was before the war, when
the steamer Alice Fox did profitable
business by running regular ferry line
between that city and Opossum Hall,
on the opposite side of the river, and
that he thinks cheap boat put on that
line would pay now, if run regularly,
and that if the ferry were re-established
he believes the people of the county
would improve the Oxon Hill road
leading to it.
A dispatch was received by the sur,
geon general of the marine hospital ser
vice to day stating that yellow fever had
developed itselfin another member OF
the crew of the brig Darpa now at the
quarantine station at the mouth OF
| Ch(s peake bay.