Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-27

Wilson of Mississippi, to be Register OF
the Land Office at Jackson, Miss.
Francisco Estudillo of California, TO be
agent for the Indians Of the Mission
Tale River (consolidated) agency, IN
California. samuel E. Morss of lndl.
ana. to be Consul General of the United
States at Paris. c. w. Chancellor Of
MARYLAND, to be Consul at Havre. AL
len B. Morse of Michigan, to be Consul
at Glasgow. George F. Parker of New
York, to be Consul at Birmingham.
So alton Norman Of Indiana, to be an
Assistant Surgeon in the Marine Hos
pital Service. Medical Inspector John
II. Clark. to be Medical Director. Sur
geon James NJ. Flint, to be Medical
Inspector. Passed Assistant Surgeon
Nelson II. Drake, to be Surgeon.
Ensign Joseph H. Rohrbacker, to be a
Lieutenant, junior grade. Some post
masters, among them two from v,
ginia, Henry |. Tuggle, MartlnsvliIe,
and Charles d. DENT, Salem.
The government Of Costa Rica has
appointed Senior Don Manuel NJ. Peral-
Ia, who is the representative OF his gov
ernment at several of the European
courts. Envoy Extraordinary and Min,
ister Plenipotentiary to the United
states on q special mission of congratu-
Iotions and good wishes on the part OF
Costa RIGA to the President OF the
limited States. Mr.. Peralta may also
treat of other subjects. The established
LEGATION of Costa RIGA remains at the
same place in charge of Senior }. b.
Calvo, who is charge d'atiairs OF that
republic. -
The U. S. Fish Commission steamer
Fishhawk has arrived here from Lower
Chesapeake bay with marine specimens
which will be transferred to the aquarl-
um here preliminary to their shipment
to Chicago for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair.
The nomination of DR.. c. w. Chan
cellor of Maryland, to be consul to
Hayre, made to-day, meets with the
appreciation of the people of Maryland.
He is one of the very popular men OF
that State and the present president OF
the State board of health, which Office
he has held for a number of years. He
has lived abroad a great deal and has
made special study of all matters per-
tanning to quarantine and sewerage.
He is a scholar of great ability and
speaks German and French huently.
In politics DIR. Chancellor has always
been pronounced democrat and those
who know him say that no better APP
pointment could have been made. Be
fore the war he practiced medicine in
Alexandria, Va,
Monday is day of seclusion for Pres
dent Cleveland and he saw few visitors.
He spent the day in his office working.
Among the half-dozen persons who saw
him was Allen G. Thurman, jr.
The Supreme Court of the United
States today declared its opinion that
the United States could not condemn
property of private corporations with,
out considering in the proceedings the
earning capacity thereof.
The following nominations were con-
firmed to-day Silas w. LamoreuX OF
Wisconsin, to be commissioner Of the
General Land Office; Horace II. Lur,
ton of Tennessee, to be United States
circuit Judge, for the Sixth judicial cir,
cult. The confirmation of Mr.. Risley
to be Minister to Denmark, was not re-
leased to-day.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Maxwell has taken his republican pre-.
decessor's wise advice and is filling the
country postoffices with democrats as
rapidly as possible. He appointed nc
less than one hundred 4th class demo
cratic postmasters to-day, sixty-seven
of whom will ill the places of removed
republicans. Among the changes are
the following in Virginia :Alberene, Al,
bemarle county, r. E. Thomas appoint
cd postmaster vice J. Hattersley, re-
moved; Beulahville, King William
county, Mrs. n G. Eubank vice Sallie
B. Shuman, resigned Broadway, Rock,
ingham county, Mary L. Pugh vice j
E. Beard, removed; Burnleys, Abe
marie county, II. B. Douglas vice A. S
Taylor, removed; Earlysville, Abe
marie county, ]. c. Lupton vice f. +
Madison, removed McMullen, Greene
county, II. w. Meyer vice HI. J. Taylor
removed; Madison, Madison county, L
c.. TAYLOR vice +. a. jenkins, removed
North Garden, Albemarle county, NJ
Durrett vice w. Garland, removed
Rochelle, Madison county, Emma L.
Wayland vice r. G. Sommers, removed
The diminution in the number of Of
fee seekers here is so great that it is ap,
parent to every body, and the hotel lob
bies now present an almost normal APP
pearance. The only place at which
they are seen in any force at all is the
lobby of the Senate, where they so to
see the Senators from their respective
States and to look at the nominations
that arc sent from the White House.
Those who have departed filed their APP
plications before they left and have
gone home to wait until they hear from
them, but in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred they will wait as long as Hugh
Miller did for his father, who was
drowned, or as those who wait for the
ship that never returns.
Representative Marshall of the 9th
Virginia district called upon Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General Maxwell to-
day with list of republican 4th class
postmasters in his district whose imme-
date removal he desired in order that
democrats might have their places.
His request was granted ut once.
Among the official heads thus chopped
off was that of the postmaster at Max
well, whose blood Mr.. Marshall said he
hoped would provo the seed of the
church.
Mr.. Morss, who was nominated for
U. S. Consul General at Paris to-day,
the place for which General Peyton
Wise, brother of Representative Wise