Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gazette.
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The President made the following
annoiut.Aents to-day: .John Z. Ed
wards of Illinois, to be deputy second
auditor of the Treasury Samuel Black
well of Alabama, to be third auditor OF
the Treasury Henry G. Stuart OF Col
orado, to be secretary of legation at
Guatemala and Honduras and consul
general of the United States to Qua
temala Andrew A. st. John of Penn
svlvania, to be consul of the United
States at Batavia, Java Thos. NJ.
Crocker, collector of customs, Port
Huron, Michigan.
Thousands of people, most of them
women, were at 9TH street wharf here
this morning to get sight of the Span
ish infanta and her suite as she board
ed the Mt. Vernon boat. AS no attack
upon her was expected during her trip,
the guards of marines in charge of SER
eeant who accompanied her, was the
occasion of some surprise. Hundreds
of people took the regular boat
for Mt. Vernon and the ferry boats and
cars which connect at Alexandria with
the electric road to Mt. Vernon in or
der to see the infanta.
Representative Marshall of Virginia
called at the White House to-day and
told the President there are five hun
dred fourth class postoflices in his, the
9th district, and that the democrats
there are dissatisfied because the re-
publican incumbents are retained. Mr.
Cleveland said in reply that he couldn't
help it, and that none of them would
be removed except on proved charges
Mr.. Marshall has endorsed Mr.. Alec
Hunters application for promotion IL
the Interior Department. Mr.. Mar
shall has accepted an invitation to de
liver the address on memorial day il
Warrenton on the 3rd proximo. His
fame as an orator is so extensive that
he has been invited TO address the eX'
Confederates of Arkansas on q like oc
casion.
One hundred and fourteen fourth
class postmasters were appointed to-
dav. of whom twenty-seven will take
the places of removed republicans
The changes inYirginia were as follows
Camp Creek, Floyd county, Mamie A
Booth, appointed postmaster, vice Car
t r. Bower, removed; Sampson, Angus,
tn county, w. d. Huffman, vice A: G.
Sampson, removed; Topeco, Floyc
county, f. A. Hall, vice ]. A. l.. SUIT
phin, resigned; Variety Shade, Buck
ingham county, Mamie +. Hall, vice
Fannie B. Bondurant, resigned; Noy
Prince William county, l.. NJ. Storke
ice E. IT. Wright, resigned.
Senator Hunton and Representative
Swanson of Virginia were at the White
House to-day to urge the appointment
of Mr.. Montague as U. S. attorney fol
the western district of Virginia.
Representative Meredith was here
to-day and called at several of the de
partments in behalf of his many Office
seeking constituents.
Senator Hunton and Representative
Marshall and Swanson will leave here
this afternoon and not return for sew
eral days. >.
On June 1st Gov. Mckinney and wife
will arrive here and on the next day
will accompany the Virginia board o
trustees of Mt. Vernon on the latter:
annual visit to that place. The board
consists of ]. Bell Bigger, l.. @. Wash
ington, w. w. Henry, Taylor Berry
and J. Walton Moore.
The President says he thinks it vii
better to give the place of register O.
the Treasury to some old northern man
of national reputation, than to either o.
the two yirginians who are applicants
for that position.
Mr.. Montague will be appointed U.
S. attorney for the western district Of
Virginia and his assistant will be ap,
pointed from the 9th district. Mr..
Shepherd will be appointed collector OF
internal revenue for the upper district
of the State. Two more consulships
will be given to Virginia, and Mr.
Smith of Tazewell, and Mr.. Howell
Miller, of Rappahannock, friends of Mr.
O'Ferrall, will probably get them. Mr..
Moran of Loudoun county will proba-
bly, get place as chief of division in
the Interior Department.
1t is understood that all the chiefs OF
division in the Treasury Department
except the following will be removed
MacLennan, warrant division; Dascom,
public monies; Rogers, redemption di'
vision; Huntington, loans; Harrington,
chief bookkeeper treasurer's office.
The indian inspectorship to which Mr.
Province Mccormick of Clarke county, Vir'
ginia, has been appointed, is worth $4,000
year.
A TRAGEDY.-A special from Glou'
cester Courthouse says the whole com,
r,un;tv was ineypressibly shocked and