Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
NasaISeroN. D. g.. July II.

sum OF IJ,oCl ONHScS- "L.S-- ~ - -
total purchased for the month 163,o0
ounct.s. silver will be purchased
again 10 morrow, and on that day the
gir.t half Of the month will have passed.
aich only small fraction more than
II per cent. Of the amount Of silver or
iered 10 be purchased monthly, on
hand, leaving 3,732,O00 ounces still TO
he bought.
Referring TO the published report that
the nine Choctaw Indians found guilty
OF murder by the national court
were soon 10 be shot By order Of Gov.
Jones. the special agent in charge OF
the indiana at SIuscogee has telegraph
cd he Interior Department as follows:
.sThe execution OF the Cboctaw prison
ers has been suspended until August 4.
No action has yet been taken by the
L. :. Court Inspector Falson Is act
ing under instructions from the secre-
tary of the Interior"
The first OF the twelve thirteen linen
guns being constructed at the WASH
ing,on navy yard for the main bat
;eries Of the battleships Indiana, Ore
yon aud Massachusetts has been com
pleted and will be tested at the Indian
Head naval proving ground as soon a.
proof mount can be built. seven oi
the guns are we'll advanced.
ANY fresh subject in the dog days OF
July is refreshing at the departments.
To-day Judge Sencr republican, called
on Chief Clerk Fowler, OF the First AS
eistsnt Postmaster Generals Depart
ment. armed with letter from Post
master Wallace (democraU Of Fred
ericI:sburg. Va, asking for flag TO De
placed over the postofiice there. Judge
Sener was requested TO leave 1t with an
endorsement, which he did substantial
IL as follows: That if there was no
precedent for such an allowance It was
time there was, quoting Lord Eldon On
one occasion TO like effect, and adding
that Postmaster Wallace ought 70 be
commended for asking for the flag.
Fredericksburg like Gettysburg, Pa,
onlv pays 81 800. If the salary Of the
postmaster at Fredericksburg was
y. go ii would be plain sailing. The
outcome will be watched with interest.
Evidently it can't be objected to Post
master Wallace that he is not favora-
bic 10 .'the flag" Chief Clerk Fowler,
who is always polite and accommodate
ing. promised that if there was any way
Of reaching the object it would be
found.
Senator Faulkner Of West Virginia
il here to-day. He says he has no
doubt the Sherman silver bill will be
repealed at the coming session Of Con
gress aud that, too, without much de-
lay. az the knowledge that more than
one hundred million ounces OF silver
bullion are nov stored in the Treasury
and are being added to at the rate Of
four million and half a month,
the whole OF which may be thrown
upon the market at once, and
thus make silver comparatively
valueleag, il sufficient Of itself
alone to induce even the most pro-
nounced silver men TO vote for the re-
peal. He SAYS the rules Of the last
House will, if readopted, enable the
friends Of the repeal TO effect their OBJ
ject without further change. Mr. Faux
ncr also says the tariff bill should by all
means be taken up at the coming seq
sion. and that if the ways and means
committee have such bill prepared by
the time the vote on the silver bill be
reached, there will be no recess, but
that Congress will proceed TO consider
and pass it at once, 50 that the people
can Judge OF ita practical effects before
the next congressional election, which
otherwise they would be unable TO do.
Ninety-three fourth class postmasters
were appointed to-day, of whom sixty
four will fill the places of removed
republicans. The only change in Nir-
GINA is the following Clintwood, Dick.
enson county, l.. ]. Jones, appointed
postmaster, vice r. E. Chase, resigned.
The Postofiice Department has de-
termined to abandon the three sizes OF
postal cards now in use, and TO substi-
tute one size for both single and reply
cards.
The financial news from New York
received here up to 2 clock to-day was
that interest on call loans is 6 per cent;
that IL cents an ounce is bid for silver,
and that stocks are still depressed and
with no prospects for rise.
A democrat Of this city who had seen
in yesterdays GAZETTE that the Dis
trict Office here is what he calls a snug
harbor for Virginia republicans, said, to-
day, the District democrats are by no
means pleased with the administration
for allowing so many republicans to re-
main in the District Offices, and though
they had so far kept their mouths shut
upon the subject, it could not be ex-
pected, naturally, that they would do
so much longer. Some of the men, he
said, now holding District offices were
during the last campaign among the
most offensive republican partisans in
the whole city.
1t is rumored in all the government
departments here to-day that no more
appointments will be made until after
the commencement of the coming ses-
sion of Congress, the assigned reason be-
ing that if made now they would have
TO be sent to the Senate for confirma-
ton, with ali those that have preceded
them, and that that would be double
work, Cor which there is no urgent ne
cessity.
1t is reported here on the most relia-
BILE authority that the friends of Col.
O'Ferrall are so alarmed at the change
that has become manifest in the pros
poets of his chance for the guberna-
torial nomination in Virginia that they
have even gone so far as to offer to pay
the expenses of delegates to the nomi-
Mating convention from Alexandria
county if such delegates pledge them
rol,rac IN ,nfa for their man As the