Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
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A telegram was received at the Inte-
rior Department to-day announcing that
the execution of the nine condemned
Choctaws had been further postponed
from Aug to Sept. 8, by order of the
Choctaw court
A cable dispatch was received to-day
by DR.. Wyman, from assistant surgeon
B. w. Brown, Of the Marine Hospital
Service, stationed at Genoa, Italy, as
follows "Cholera prevailing in pro-
vinces of Cuneo and Alessandria. &C.
noa suspicious"
The total number of fourth class post
masters appointed to-day was 113, OF
whom 20 will fill the places of removed
republicans.
After remaining at the Treasury De-
partment this morning for g couple OF
hours, Secretary Carlisle returned to
his home sick with what his physician
calls rhuematism.
Official changes were to-day made in
the Treasury Department as follows ::
Appointed James A. McEnery, Louisi-
ana, special agent; David Bucher, Vir-
ginia, superintendent of construction of
public building at Staunton, Va; Thos.
+. Bailey, assistant custodian of custom
house at Chicago, ILL.,, $l400, and John
Dair, chief engineer of court house and
postoffice building at New York city,
$500. Resigned-O. P. Ames, New
York, special agent.
Commissioner Miller has submitted
preliminary report of the operations
of the internal revenue bureau for the
last fiscal year. The total collection
from all sources were S16l ,002, 900, an
increase of 81, 145,0O0 over those of last
year. The sources were spirits 1884,
10000, an increase over the previous
wear of $3,410,0O0; tobacco S31 $3.50, 900,
an increase of sSS9,000; fermented Ii
quors $50 ,54S, 00O,an increase of 81, 511 :
600; oleomargarine sl,670,O0O, an in
crease of $404, 900; and miscellaneous,
$4,000, a decrease of $4,000. The
sum of 9,375, $50 has been paid as sugar
bounty during the year. of which Louis
lana received IS, 5S4, S65.
The democratic administration has
been in office nearly five months and
vet of all the clerks in the Treasury
Department not ten per cent are demo-
Gratis, and nearly all the hundreds OF
messengers there are negroes. The
cause Of the latter fact is said to be the
influence of democratic congressman,
to whom the retained negroes render
various kinds of service.
The members of the Virginia con-
gressional delegation in the city to-day
are Senator Hunton and Representa-
tives Meredith and Marshall. The lat
ter will attend a G. A. r. reunion at
Marshall Hall tonight and make a
speech there. Mr.. Meredith was at
the Postoffice Department and at the
Navy Yard, trying at both to have DEM
ocrals appointed to places filled by re-
publicans.
It is said at the Pension Office that
no less than one hundred thousand pen
sous will be suspended under the late
order of Secretary Smith, of which
more than ninety per cent. will be
proved TO be fraudulent, and that the
consequent saving to the government
will be about twelve million dollars
annually.
The financial news from New York
up to , o'clock to-day is as follows :
Money on call five per cent, silver
7O!, and stocks way down.
1t is reported here that Mr.. MaN-I !
retention as Assistant LOS ,-ary
cauauol ,ras-,, ,USee. y. ). Attorney
.s.SN-r--".-, requested by at least one
a. ~ me democratic members of the L. S.
Supreme Court and by other promin,
ent demo rats, but it was thought best
that democrat should have his place.
The successor of Lynch, the negro
4th auditor of the Treasury, has been
selected, but his name has not yet been
announced. He is a white democrat
a, d halls from a northern State. Lynch
is from Mississippi.
The State Department up to =
o'clock this evening had heard nothing
in resptc, of any decision of the Ber-
ing Sea arbitrator.
1t is said at the several departments
that no body except the President
knows to whom the federal patronage
of New York city will be given, and
that Mr. Cleveland has taken that mat,
ter in his own hands and will do with
it as he thinks proper.
Surgeon General Wyman to-day received
the following telegram from Delaware Break
water: "Arriyed Yesterday American schoon-
or Hannah McIoon, Havana and Matanzes
with captain on board dead of yellow fever
Five other cases on voyage recovered"