Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. c., July Is.

WASHINGTON, u. u, July 10.
Secretary Lamont arrived in Wash
inqtop last evening to complete some
arrangements for the selection and fur
nishing of his home. He remained in
the CITY but a few hours and then left
for the East. He will stop at Buzzard's
BAY. Il is understood that the Secre-
tary has leased what is known as the
Wood house, on FL street, near 18th,
northwest. next to Senator Brice's
house. The place has its history, hay
ing been occupied during the war by
Secretary Gideon Wells and later by
ex-senator Stockton. The fact that
the lease is for five years may perhaps
be regarded as an indirect contradlc-
ton Of the rumors that Secretary La
mont contemplates retiring from the
cabinet at an early day.
Since their issue last year not one of
the Columbian half dollars had found
its way back to the Treasury Depart
ment until Yesterday when one was re-
ceived in package of money sent for
redemption by an Atlanta bank. Co
lumbar half.dollars readily bring
double their value as souvenirs, but
the Treasury Department does not rec
ognize any sentiment in connection
with hard cash, and therefore the At
lanta bank will receive only so cents
for its sample. Treasurer Morgan Sc
cured the coin as a souvenir.
Secretary Carlisle will leave Chicago
this afternoon for Washington. He
will be at his desk Thursday morning.
Eight hundred and eighty-thrce thou
sand seven hundred and fifteen pension
certificates were issued from March l,
1889, to Feb. IS, 1898, and the amount
of first payments due on them from
March l, 1889 to Feb. 2S, 1898, was
Sl66,3SS, Al, ga.
The total number of fourth class post
masters appointed to-day was 81, OF
whom 50 will fill the places of removed
republicans. There were no changes in
Virginia. Among the changes in Flori
da was the following, which may be OF
interest to some Alexandrians as both
The parties named were originally from
that city: n. r. Fitzhugh, appointed
postmaster at Picolata, St. Johns coun-
ty, vice w. D. Corse, resigned.
Dispatches from New York received
here up to . o'clock this afternoon re-
port money on call in that city at five
per cent, 70 cents an ounce bid for sill
yer, and stocks three points lower all
around, and no prospect for rise.
The report that Professor McBryde
of Blacksburg College, Virginia. has
been offered and declined the position
of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture is
credited at the Agricultural Depart
ment. The Professor was not one OF
the Virginians who received the unani-
nous endorsement Of the Virginia con-
gressional junto.
Mr.. II. w. Paul, of Norfolk, a
Washington correspondent, who has
been designated for place as special
agent of the Treasury Department,
passed the requisite examination yes,
terday, and will be appointed.
Mr.. John N. Popham Of Rappahan-
mock, Virginia, U. S. Commercial agent
on the Isthmus of Darien, who has been
here on furlough for some weeks, will
leave tonight for New York, from
which port he will sail tomorrow fol
Colou. He will return about the 18th
Of September, which day his resigna,
ton will take effect, and when he will
be succeeded by DR.. Bradley of Prince
William county, in the same State.
People from Alexandria county here
to-day say that but slight regard is paid
t. the law there now, and that all sorts
OF vice and crime are practiced there
with impunity.
Bermuda has sent two commissioner:
to this country to ask for reduction il
the duty levied here on potatoes, onions
and tomatoes, which, they say, exceeds
the eutire tariff revenue of the Bermu'
da Islands by $4,000. One of the com
missioners is Mr.. Samuel G. Masters, Z
member of the Bermuda Assembly, bu
formerly resident of Alexandria, Va
The reported arrival of q vessel q
Valparaiso with sixty thousand skins o
seals caught in the Antarctic Ocean Il
credited at the Smithsonian Institution
here, and is said there to be due TO thu
fact that seals have not been hunted II
that ocean for some years, on the sup
position that too much hunting hat
rendered them almost extinct, and tina
during that period they have increased
and multiplied and become plentiful.
The Navy Department officials do no
credit the story that the U. S. S. Mo
hican was fired upon and disabled by 8
poaching steamer in Alaskan waters on
the 18th of last month.
A gentleman just from Westmore
land county, Virginia, here to-day, says
that the marriage of Mr.. George Doug
lass Washington of Caroline county
and Miss Agnes Writ of Westmoreland
last Thursday, was an old time one, the
festivities lasting an entire week.