Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., July Z.


the Chicago postoffice open on Sunday
during such hours as may be deemed
necessary for the sale of stamps and for
the receipt and delivery of the mails.
Mr.. Geo. w. Lyon, U. S. Surveyor of
the port of New York, has notified the
Treasury Department that he has for
warded his resignation to the President.
Edward NJ. Gadsden of Georgia, has
been appointed superintendent OF the
money order service, Postoffice Depart
ment. vice DIR. Mcdonald, who has re.
signed to accept the position OF consul
at Hamilton, Ont.
The Treasury Department resumed
the purchase of silver bullion to-day,
blying 100000 ounces at sop The
price of silver bullion in London to-day
was "a and fraction pence, which, at
the exchange rates, made the New York
price about 1912, but the tendency was
downward, and it is believed at the
Treasury that the price of silver next
Monday in London will be lower than
it was to-day.
The Presidents friends and such OF
his Cabinet officers as remain IN the
city are quite unwilling to believe that
there is anything serious or unusual IN
the reported indisposition of the Presl-
dent. Private Secretary Thurber says
the President was suffering from no Sc
rious trouble when he left Washington.
He thought that the rheumatic attack
was due to ovcrwork and the present
ailment was merely the temperance OF
a trouble TO which the President had
been subject at intervals, and which
soon Welded to treatment &C
companied by complete rest. He
took the sea trip for rest and recrea-
ton, and purposely avoided haste. NO
mail has been sent to the President
from the White House, for such were
the Presidents instructions before ne
left Washington. Many telegraphlc
and verbal messages of inquiry as to
the Presidents condition were
received at the White House
Yesterday and this morning, and
to all these response was made
that the complaint was not serious. Dr:
Thurber denied that the President had
been taking or contemplated taking
treatment to reduce his flesh, and said
that he weighed less and was more ac-
tive than during his first administra-
ton.
The county clerk of Culpeper county,
Virginia, here to-day, says the guber-
material contest has not begun in his
county vet, and that there is not much
talk about it there, but that from the
little he has heard on the subject he
supposes the county will send Butord
delegates to the nominating conVen-
ton. A Richmond democrat now here,
in respect of the same question, says q
majority of the delegates so far elected
to the convention are in favor OF MIR.
O'Ferrall, but that the reason is the
O'Ferrallites are organized, while
the TYLER and Buford men are not,
and that early elections of dele
gates have been held in O'Ferrall's
strongholds for the purpose OF affecting
the result in other parts of the State,
but that when the later elections are
held they will tell different tale.
Richmond, the largest city in the State,
and Pittsylvania, the largest county,
he saws, will send Buford delegates 10
the convention. Congressman Mar
hall saws the delegation from his, the
9th Congressional district, will be prac-
tically solid for Tyler.
Ninety-eight fourth class postmasters
were appointed to-day, of whom sixty,
two will fill the places of removed
republicans. The changes in Virginia
were rs follows: Appomatto1, Apo
mattox county, William Rosser, ap-
pointed postmaster, vice G. I. Peers,
r signed Bowling Green, Caroline
county, j. r. Collins, vice w. c. Digges,
removed; Colonial Beach, Westmore-
land county, ]. w. Miller, vice Harriet
Walcott, removed Cumberland G. H.,
Cumberland county, Mrs. Rosa Y. Eos
ter, vice ]. A. Age, resigned Gooch'
land C. H., Goochland ccInty, Z. IL.
Powell, vice w. D. Mower, removed,
.Jefiress Store, Nottaway county, NJ.
V. II. Jeflress, vice E. L. Hubhd, re-
signed Joyceville, Mecshburg coun-
ty, A. o. Bracey, ice G. ii. Harris, re-
signed MaRRflle, Accomack county,
S. U. Bvr,dvice NJ. A. Walsh, removed;
MoIat, Carroll county, Mrs. Mary h.
Srk, vice r. C. Pedigo, resigned
Olinger, Lee county, w. G. Banks, vice
W. II. Johns, resigned Prldemore, Lee
Mrs. Rebecca J. Wood, vice W.
P. Wood, resigned.
DR.. Walter Kempster, who has been
in cholera countries for the
last six months as the accredited agent
Of this government, has returned and is
report of the result OF his
the gist of which Is that
''cholera must be eaten; it cannot be |
absorbed or breathed. The germs must
be taken into the stomach
1t is stated at the Postofiice Depart
ment to-day that no more Presidential
postmasters will be appointed until the
Presidents return in August.
Congressman Marshall of Virginia
called at the State and Agricultural
to-day, at the former to
the appointment of Mayor
Hines of Abingdon to a South or Cen
trail American consulate, and at the
latter to ask that a brother of General
Gabe Wharton should be appointed to
a position in that department. In re-
spect of the consulate he was informed
that no more consuls would be appoint
ed until September. Ofhis application
for Mr., Wharton, he was told it would
receive due consideration when there
shall be a vacancy.
The financial news from New York
M to . o'clock to-day was to the effect
that silver opened at y, but rose to
73I. that money on call is at six per
cent, and that there has been no rally
in atncks