Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-02

meantime Appointment Clerk kretz Is
getting together the names of the old
collectors who have rendered their res
ignations, and those whose places are
wanted but who have not resigned Will
be requested to do so at once.
Lieut.. V. S. Nelson, attached to the
cruiser Charleston, is to be tried by
courtmartial next Tuesday, at Norfolk,
where his dereliction is said to have
occurred, on a charge of drunkenness
on duty and leaving his station.
United States Consul Hanna at La
Guayra, Venezuela, in report to the
Department of State says he has been
informed that the Venezuelan govern
ment has granted concession to an
American company to construct tun-
mel through the mountain from La
Guayra to Caracas. This tunnel will
be about seven miles in length, giving
an easy and direct connection between
the capital and La Guayra, which Is
the seaport. The present connection
is by means of the English railroad.
line 24 miles in length that twists
around the mountain spurs and re-
oaires nearly seven hours time to make
a single trip owing to the heavy grades
United States Consul General Gold
schmidt. at Vienna, has transmitted to
the Department of State an official re-
port on cholera in Austro-Hungary up
to May 4th, showing that during the
week from April 26th to May 3rd only
one case, proving fatal, occurred in the
community of Kudrynce. In the case
of man who died in Smykowce, and
another who died in Buozaoz, the pres
ence of Koch bacillus was detected.
In view of the fact that the prices
charged by local dealers for furnishing
the government departments with Ice
during the present year are double the
rates charged last year, all bids have
been rejected. A new advertisement
for bids will be published, but what &C
ton will be taken if the dealers do not
reduce their prices has not yet been de-
cided upon. 1t is suggested that out
side ice dealers might find Washington
a good field for experiment.
One hundred and eighteenfourth class
postmasters were appointed to-day, OF
whom only twenty-six will fill the
places of removed republicans. The
changes in Virginia were as follows:
Chestnut Fork, Bedford county, ?. F.
Dowdy, appointed postmaster, vice j.
A. Wilson, removed; Herndon, Fair
fax county, A. G.. Hutchinson, vice W..
d. Sweetser, removed; Rosenberger,
Frederick county, V. r. Mcllwee, vice
J. T. McIlwee, resigned; Timber Ridge,
Rockbridge county, ]. w. Shultz, vice
d. w. Taylor, removed; Franklin City,
Accomac county, F. A. Porter, vice X.
Wilgus, removed.
The public debt statement issued to-
day shows that the aggregate interest
and non-interest bearing debt May 3lst
was 1861, $50, SSS.73. The gold reserve
was 800, O4S, 6i0.00. In the month there
was decrease Of s., 764, 1882 in gold
coin and bars. Ofsilver there was an
increase of So, l73,S74.4S.
People here to-day from Alexandria
county say that Messrs. Frank Hume,
J. c. Clements and Charles Thompson
will be the delegates from that county
to the State democratic convention OF
Virginia, and that Mr.. Thompson will
be the county's candidate for the Leg
islature from that legislative district.
4 Vireinian who in n printed inter
view had said in effect that Representa-
tive O'Ferrall would sweep the western
section of his State for the democratic
gubernatorial nomination, repeated
that statement in the Metropolitan
Hotel to-day and offered to back its
corrections with money. U. S. Mar
! shall Watts, from that section, who
heard him, Immediately proposed to
| take the bet, but it was at once with
drawn. Col. Watts then said his, the
9th district, contained thirteen counties
and that the delegates to the State con-
vention from every one of them would
he solid for Tyler, and that more than
half of those in the adjoining district
the 9Th, would be the same.
The application Of J. B. Rhea of Ma
rion, Virginia, for the Office of register
of the Treasury was filed at the Treas
ury Department to-day.
At the Treasury Department it was
learned to-day that the prospect Of the
appointment of Colonel l.. w. Reid OF
Alexandria to the office of registrar OF
the Treasury is by no means favorable,
for several reasons, among them the
fact that the two Senators from his
State are not united upon him. Then,
too, he is subject to the ex rule, which
PREVAILS whenever favoritism is not in
volved.
Governor Mckinney, and Messrs.
Bigger and Berry of the Virginia board
of visitors of Mt. Vernon, were enter
tanned by Col. i. @. Washington, an
other member of that board, at his
rooms here last night. This morning
they all left on the steamer Manchester
for Mount Vernon to make their annu-
al inspection of that place.
Attorney General Olney sent down o
decision to-day TO the effect that the
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized
to issue bonds whenever he shall deem
it necessary to do so in order to main
tain the gold reserve. The strange
thing about this is not the decision
itself, but the fact that it was deemed
necessary to make it, as every body has
supposed from the first that Mr.. Car
Isle was convinced that he had such
authority.
Nearly all the white republican audi
tors of the Treasury have been re-
moved. but Lynch, the negro 4th audi
tor, still remains, and is likely to do so
as long as any other republican shall be
retained in the Treasury's service.
a prominent democrat who went to
the District office here day or two ago
to urge the appointment of a good and