Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON, D. c., April q.

Acting Secretary L1anii
Treasury Department said this morn
ing that the financial situation con-
tjnued satisfactory. The Treasury re-
ceiyed and accepted to-day several Of
fers of gold. The amounts were not
large and the offers came from divers
points.
Thomas c. Rye of Tennessee, has
been appointed chief of division in the
pension office; Julius Andree of Wis
consin, has been appointed examiner
of land claims and contests in the gen.
eral land office. James F. Taylor of
Tennessee, a special examiner in the
pension office, and VIM. c. Shelley of
Tennessee, chief of the division of dep
relation claims in the Indian bureau,
were removed to-day.
Secretary Morton has appointed Mat
thias (. Pagan of Illinois, chief OF the
seed division of the Agricultural De-
partment, vice J. B. Peck, removed.
The salary is $4,000 per annum.
Miss Virginia T. Lewis of Baltimore,
who inherited the sword worn by cen
Washington at his first Inauguration
and on other State occasions, has lent
it to the Chicago fair managers for ex-
hibition.
Eighty-four postmasters were ap-
pointed to-day of whom only fifteen
will take the places of removed repub-
licans. The changes in Virginia were
as follows: CORTLAND, southampton
county, E. c. Barrett appointed post
master, vice w. n. Sebrell, removed
Rival, Buckingham county, A. S. Spen-
Ger. vice A. l.. Baldwin, resigned.
Mrs. Hathaway is an applicant for
the postoffice at 1.-THE Plains" Fauquier
county, Virginia, but only, it is stated,
in case the Postoffice Department shall
determine to remove the incumbent,
Mrs. Carter, who was appointed during
the HAYES administration and has held
office ever since, though General Ma.
hone tried to give her place to one OF
his followers.
Before he left this city yesterday the
President told e1-Congressman kilgore
of Texas that an extra session OF Con-
gress would meet some time between
the first and the middle of September,
and that he might impart that informa'
ton to whomsoever it might please him
to do so.
Congressman Livingston of Georgia
went to the President yesterday to rec
ommend one of his constituents for q
place as Indian Agent. The President
informed him that he had determined
to appoint army officers to such places
whenever it was practicable to do 80.
After the close of this correspondence
of Yesterdays date, the last official
act of the President, before he left the
White House, was the removal Of
Postmaster Iost at Staunton and the
appointment Of Mr.. McCue to fill the
vacancy. 1t is said here that the APP
pointment of McCue was the result
Of an interview Congressman OFerrall
had with the President yesterday morn,
ing, but the removal of Mr.. Iost Is re-
ported to be due TO collection OF ex,
cerpts from Mr.. Yosts newspaper, crit,
cising Mr.. Clevcland's personal charac-
ter, which, with appropriate head lines
had been bound together and folded
like railroad time tables, which were
placed in Postmaster General Bissell':
hands and which subsequently tount
their way to the Presidents table. The
change was entirely unexpected, a
the announced postotfice rule wa
hat postmasters should serve lou
years, and applicants for thu
place other than the success
full one had thereby been induced to sus
pend their opportunities. Virglnlan:
from Loudoun county here say the re
moval of editor Yost for the cause re
ferred to looks bad for editor Brown o
their county, who said much worse
things about the President than eve
Mr.. Yost did, but who still retains hi
office in this city, though Congressman
Meredith has demanded his removal.
Judge Shepherd of Texas, one Of tn
justices of the new Court of Appeal
for the District of Columbia, arrived
here this morning That court vii
now be organized at once. 1t woulC
have leen before, but for Justice Shep
h 'rd's absence.
yirgiuians here to-day don't expires
themselves as particularly grateful fol
the empty honor, if even that, bestow
ed by the President yesterday upol
General Fitz Lee, by appointing him
director in the Union Pacific K. L. Co.
place with neither fees nor salary.
Editor Smyth of the 9th Virginia dis
trict has gone home, confident in the
belief that the Hong Kong or some 9th
er consulate will fall to his lot.
Intelligence from various parts o
Virginia is to the effect that the recent
action of the Virginia congressiona
delegation, in meeting here and divid
ing the feueral patronage of their State
to suit themselves, has been anything
else than satisfactory to the democratic
voters of Virginia, and that the latter
will bear it in mind and act accord
ingly.
The American Society of Religious Educa-
ton organized in indianapolis some years
ago. has been reorganized and its headquart-
ers removed 10 Washington, with J. E. Gil
bert, d. d., secretary. The object is TO pro-
mote religious education by improved methods
of studying and teaching Bible truth III
churches. schools aud families. To carry out
this work. institutes, conventions, etc, will
be conducted IN various partS Oh TIE country
aud at the Office in this city religious stats
tics will be collected. The governing council
will meet in Washington somi-anpually, and
advisory councils will be found in each State
and Territory.
The Secret Service Bureau Of the Treasury
Department is in receipt of a counterfeit five
dollar note made by the Photographic process
1t is on the Lagonda National Bank offspring
field. Ohio, and is very poor one, no attempt
being made to initiate the localized fiber paper
or the silk threads of the genuine paper.