Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

would appoluI ieIeioo W tI"i
testimony and decide upon the facts
in the matter of the petition of Church
and Church asking that rule issue
upon eX-Commissioner Simonds and
Foster & Freeman to show cause why
thew should not be disbarred.
The following changes were made IN
the Treasury Department to-day: APP
pointments Geo. Fort of Georgia, Chief
of Division, Second Comptrollers Office;
Henry Chase of Vermont, Immigrant
Inspector. vice F. A. Woodbridge, re-
moved. Resignation: f. n. Hartshorn
of Ohio, Deputy Second Comptroller.
Eighty-fve fourth class postmasters
were appointed to-day, of whom twen-
ty-eight will take the places of remov-
ed republicans. The changes in Vir-
mia were as follows: Amissville, Rap
pahannock county, n. ]. Cropp was
appointed postmaster, vice G. A: Hack
ley, removed; Ayletts, King William
county, w. f. Shelley, vice Mary Gate
wood, removed; Gold Hill, Bucking-
ham county, P. f. White, vice Mrs f. A.
Word, removed; Jump, Rockbridge
county, Z. l.. Patterson, vice r. NJ.
France, resigned; Lone Fountain, Au-
gusta county, II. H. Hevener, vice
Mary f. Dunlak, resigned; Moseley,
Buckingham county, Bette c. Morris,
vice Lille i. Faber, resigned; Norwood,
Nelson county, Paul Stratton, vice II.
l.. FOCUS, removed; Pratts, Madison
county, Fannie S. Fry, vice NJ. S. Bow
man, removed; Ridgway, Henry coun-
ty. G. /. Griggs, G. 0. Jones, removed.
Representative Tyler of Virginia is
back here again to-day trying to have
democrats appointed to the federal
places in his district now filled by re-
publicans. Representative Marshall of
the same State, who is still here on
similar business, says he fears the
"evening up" process has been con-
oluded aud that Virginia will get but
little more. There are many Others
here who in this matter agree with MIR.
Marshall.
Secretary Herbert has determined to
retire all officers who have held COM
mand of fleets for more than three
years.
Siam will establish q legation IN this
city at an early date.
General Fitz. Lee has gone home.
He returned here last Friday, as stated
in the GAZETTE OF that day, but did
not call upon the President.
Secretary Carlisle has announced
that there shall be no promotions in
the classified service of the Treasury
Department.
Representative Lester of Georgia
was at the Capitol to-day. He says the
people of his State are complaining that
the negroes and republicans who held
the postofiices there under the last re-
publican administration still continue
to hold them, and that the fact that q
postmaster there is an offensive negro
or an obnoxious republican is not deem
ed by Postmaster-G General Bissell suf-
ficient cause for his removal.
Among the visitors here Saturday
evening last was Mr.. Leonard Marbury
of Alexandria, member of the demo-
cratic committee ofVirginia, the recent
meeting of which at Richmond he at
tended. He said he went to Richmond
under the impression that Colonel
O'Ferrall would have an easy walk
over for the gubernatorial nomination,
but found that that impression was
far from correct. He said that while
that matter was not preached in the
meeting of tie committee, the members
of the committee did talk about it in
the hotels and other places, and that
from what he heard he is induced to
belive that Mr. O'Ferrall will not be
nominated, that is if the members of
the committee reflect the sentiments
of the members Of the party. Mr.. Will
son, the Washington correspondent OF
the Richmond Times, who went to
Richmond to attend the meeting of the
State committee as proxy-but, along
with all the other proxies, was not al
lowed to participate, because most of
the others were in favor of holding the
convention in Richmond for the benefit
of the hotel keepers there, and no dis
elimination could be made, says that
he was not at all disappointed at what
he heard in Richmond, and that the
combined forces of Buford and Tyler
already outnumber those of O'Ferrall,
and will grow from now until the day
of the convention, while those of the
Colonel will decrease. He says the
time, place and ratio of representation
fixed bv the committee were all against
the wishes of O'Ferrall's friends. MIR.
]. E. Clements of Alexandria coun-
ty. in talking about the same sub
iect Saturday morning, said both
Mr.. Bufrl and Lieutenant Govern
or TYLER al many friends in his coun-
tv and that O'Ferral's course in
The last Congress had not been ptrt,cu-
iarlv satisfactory to the democrats there.
Two well-known, old time Virginia
democrats here to-day, one from War
renton and the other from Culpeper,
in talking to the GAZETTE's correspon-
dent on this subject, said that of the
three candidates spoken of, Buford was
their choice by long odds.
AS the GAzETTE's correspondent was
coming out of the southern door of the
18th street entrance of the Treasury
Department about one o'clock to-day
he met the royal Spanish party coming
in. The Infanta is nothing like any of
the newspaper portraits of her, and in
no respect reminds aR observer of the
picture of any Spanish woman be has
seen; indeed she looks very much like
an American, but more like a German
woman, being an almost perfect blonde.
She is of the average American woman's
height, is well formed. and weighs
about hundred ana twenty-five or