Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-19

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Witness was shown some of the sandy
substance used as mortar In under
pinning the piers beneath the old build
ing aud gave it as his opinion that Ii
did not contain the kind of cement ne
sold Dant. 1t was very poor mortar,
he said. A builder named Robert
Clarkson, testified that the building, MS
it now stands, is in o dangerous c0ndl-
ton. Capt. Thorpe said the contractor
was not quite ready to give bond and
Col. Ainsworth allowed him to go on
with the work without giving it. Chief
Clerk Tweedale said that notwithstand-
ing testimony to the contrary, dis
satisfaction with Colonel AIMS
worth's treatment of clerks was con-
fined to minority Of the employees
of the Record and Pension Division.
Although the jury has not finished the
taking of testimony, it is definitely SET
tied that its verdict will hold Col. Aims
worth and contractor Dant responsible
for the disaster and probably include
Covert aud Sasse, superintendent and
engineer, respectively, of the ruined
buildings, in its findings. At 4:5O
o'clock the jury brought in verdict
holding Col. Ainsworth, Contractor
Dant, Superintendent Covert and EnSi,,
neer Sasse for the action of the grand
jury .,,o
The President, it is announced at the
White House, has changed his plans
this morning, and will not accompany
Mrs. Cleveland to Buzzards' Bay to-
morrow, as he at first intended. There
are matters of public business which he
desires to dispose of first, before taking
his summer vacation.
A we'll informed congressman here
to-day says the extra session will COM
mence on the 18th of September, that
Mr.. Crisp will be reelected Speaker
and will Immediately announce the
composition OF the currency, the appro-
priations and the tariff committees, that
it will then adjourn for thirty days SO as
to avoid the sickly season; thatin these
thirty days theSpeaker will make up the
other committees. When it reassembles
bill to repeal the Sherman silver act
without any concession in respect OF
the ten per cent. tax on State banks
will be reported, which, the congress,
man referred to says, may pass the
House, but will hardly pass the Senate
The application of 3. w. Nails OF
Alexandria for the place OF assistant
custodian of dies and plates was put on
file at the Treasury Department to-day
The President appointed a large num-
Der of postmasters to-day, but none II
Virginia. He also appointed many
other officers, among them Charles NJ
Wallace of Virginia to be collector O.
customs at Richmond, and w. Lever
Powell, formerly of Virginia, but now
of the State of Washington, to be In
dian agent at Neah Bay in that State
People here to-day from Alexandra
county say that with the Pennsylvania
Railroad now being extended 30 Ross
lvn, the C. & o. Il. Il. now applying
| for permission to cross the river near the
same place, and the other railroads al
ready running thaough their county, II
will soon be impossible for electro
roads to get routes through it, no mat
ter how necessary it may be for them
to do so.
A slight difficulty occurred in front o.
the Metropolitan Hotel here last sat
urday night between the congressman
from the 4th Virginia district and
correspondent of a Richmond news
paper. 1t was soon over and no dam
age was done.
1t is understood that Mr.. John Igor
of Virginia got his appointment as Law
clerk at the request of Representative
Wise of Virginia, and that Mr.. Viii
loughby Newton got his as special In
spector in the Department of Justice a
that of Mr.. John Goode.
1t is rumored at the Postotfice De
partment to-day that the position 0
Second Assistant Postmaster General
now filled by Mr.. ]. Lowrie Bell, viii
be given either to Judge Bergman
Green of Danville or to Mr.. Otey or Mr.
Brown of Lynchburg, Virginia.
From letter received here from Mr.
J. L. Doggett, formerly of Fredericks
burg, Virginia, but recently appointed
internal revenue collector in Texas, l
is learned that his appointment wa
unsought and was unexpected, ant
came as favor from his good trient
Senator Mills. The office, he says, h
understands, is worth between three
and four thousand dollars year.
$50 4th class postmasters were ap
pointed to-day Of whom "A will TAX
the places of removed republicans
The changes in Virginia were as follows
Crewe, Nottoway county, r. R. Grave
appointed postmaster vice Fl. G. Dyson
removed: Emporia, Greensville county
P. Il. Farley vice H. w. Weiss. remov
ed: Hampdeu Sidney: Prince Edward
county, G. NJ. Eggleston, vice A. ]
Price, removed; Hollins, Roanoke
county, A. J. Banner, vice A. V. Cam
per, removed; Lunenburg c. H., Lunen
burg county, r. C. Foelkes, vice W: II
Burnett, removed; Prospect, Prime
Edwards county, w. H. Walden, vict
Mrs. f. A. Scott, removed; Yale, Sux
sex county, w. 7. Freeman, vice Madi
son Lowry, removed.
Commissioner Lochren issued an or
der to-day to prevent frauds in maxim!
applications for pensions, by requirin!
that they be prepared in the presenc
of the applicant and from this ora
statements then made and sworn to.
A RECEIVER ASKED FORA suit ha
heen instituted in Washington by sew