Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorrespondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.I
WASHINGTON. D, c., Aug. 3.

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WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 3.
The total numb r of fourth class post
masters appointed to-day was 81, OF
whom SIS will fill the places of removed
republicans. The changes in Virginia
were as follows: Harmony Village.
Middlesex county, T. Y. Lawson, ap-
pointed postmaster, vice w. H. Lawson,
rssipned: Return, Caroline county, Il.
r Williams, vice Z. NJ. Bayne, resigned.
Capt. John S. Payne, o. S. A, retired,
was to-day appointed a member OF the
board of pension appeals, with a salary
of 81. 900. Capt. Payne is from Warren.
ton. Virginia, and half brother OF
General ". II. Payne. He says ne
will live in Alexandria if he can rent a
suitable house there.
Among the members of the House
who have arrived here is Mr.. Swanson
of the Danville, Virginia, district. He
saws the election for delegates from his
county, Pittslyvania, to the State dem
ocratic convention will be held next
Saturday and that he thinks they will
he divided. He also says he thinks the
delegation from Richmond city will be
divided.
The bids for the construction of the
S75. 900 light house tender ordered by
the last Congress were opened to-day.
The lowest bid was from Cleveland,
Ohio. The next was that from the
Newport News ship yard, which was
$500 higher. AS the acceptance of the
lowest bid is not compulsory, it is not
improbable that the vessel may be built
at the latter place.
Representative McCreary of Ken
lucky, an ex-member of the interna-
tional monetary conference, now here,
said this morning he did not believe In
the ultimate failure of that conference,
and that he did believe international
bimetallism on a common ratio among
the great nations of the world to be the
best solution of the whole trouble.
Mr.. Clayton G.. Coleman of Louisa
county, Virginia, was to-day appointed
special agent of the land Office.
The place in the Interior Department
for which Mr.. E. S. Fleming OF Alexan-
dria was applying has been given to a
man from New Jersey. Mr.. Fleming
still retains his place in the Treasury
Department.
The financial news from New York
received here up to 2 o'clock this after
noon was as follows: Money on call 81
per cent; no sales of silver, last offer
1T; stocks lower.
The application of S. S. Dawes of
Norfolk, Virginia, for the place of clerk
to the Inspector of boilers and bulls was
filed at the Treasury Department to-
day.
Senator Hunton was informed at the
Interior Department this morning that
Virginia would get no more places in
the Indian bureau, as her quota there
was overfull.
Representative Catchings told the
GAzETrE's correspondent to-day that
no reliance could be placed in the re-
ports that the tariff would not be con-
sidered at the extra session of Congress,
and that Mr.. Crisp is not an advocate
of early tariff reduction. He says
the committee on ways and means will
commence the preparation of tariff
bill as soon as appointed, and that Mr..
Crisp is in favor of a reduction in the
tariff as soon as possible.
No more silver certificates will be Is
sued by the Treasury Department for
the present, as the limit prescribed by
law has been reached. That is to say,
as many silver certificates are now out,
standing as there are standard silver
dollars coined and in the Treasury to
redeem them.
The four years for which Mr.. Ross
was appointed a member of the board
of commissioners for the District of Co.
lumbia have nearly expired. There
are several good and true democrats
applying for the place, but as he is a
northern mugwump, many believe ne
will be retained.
Pension Commissioner Lochren has
written letter to the National Tribune
pension agents newspaper, in re.
Spouse to its request that he Should
cause q list to be made to show the
number of fraudulent pensions by hay
ing 1000 cases drawn from the admit
ted files and examined. He denies the
request, says in effect that the exami'
nations are being conducted properly.
that the only pensions being examined
are those who are reported to have OBJ
tanned pensions improperly, and that
the result so far shows the urgent ne
cessity of such examinations.
The lobby of the Metropolitan Hotel
seems to be the headquarters OF
most Of the southern Congressman
who have arrived, and of all
the applicants for office at the
disposal of the U. S. House Repre-
sentatives, and its appearance now,d day
and night, is very much like that 1t
wore during the early days ofthe pres
ent administration.
1t is announced at the Department
of Justice that Sherman Hoar, Boston
mugwump, has qualified as Q. s. dis
trict attorney for the district of Massa-
chusetts. Mr.. Hoar's appointment has
never been announced officially from
the White House.
DESERTED FARMs.-Out West men
are reported to be starving for want of
n or1-