Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July IL.


Secretary Herbert, Capt. Sampson,
chief of the bureau of ordnance, and a
number of naval officers went to the
naval proving ground, Indian Head,
Md. to-day to witness the test of the
plate representing the armor for the
turrets of the Indiana. The plate IS a
composition Of nickel steel, seventeen
inches thick, being the thickest ar!nor
plate ever tested for use on our vessels.
The proiectiles which will be used in
the test are twelve-inch armor piercers,
the largest so far used by the navy for
testing purposes.
Besides the large number of persons
who have been spoken of as candi-
dates for Assistant Secretary of Agri-
culture, there is on file in the depart
ment the personal application of twen-
ty-seven people, among them one
woman. Secretary Morton is of the
opinion that nothing will be done in
the matter of filling the place until the
President returns from his vacation,
and possibly not even until after Con-
gress meets. Mr. Willis is still acting,
but is anxious to get out and take up
the practice of law in this city. The
following is the official list of
applicants for Assistant Secretary ::
Major H. E. Alvord, Virginia; Hon. J.
H. Bceman, Mississippi; Samuel Black
well, Alabama; James B. Brown, New
York; S. w. Corbin, Virginia; G: W..
Click. Kansas; Chas. Griffiths, illinois,;
John b. NJ. Hord, Tennessee; j. B.
Killebrew, Tennessee; Hon. stephen
d. Lee, Mississippi; Prof J. NJ. Nc
Bryde, Virginia; Ed l.. Merritt, Hi
nois; James NJ. Mobley, Georgia; DIR. j.
A. Myers, West Virginia; Owen Nor
ris, Maryland; d. A. Ostrom, Califor-
MIA; Mr. Pond, -; Hon. Morgan,
Rawls, Georgia; Mrs. A. H. Richards,
Illinois; w. H. H. Seth, Maryland; +:
NJ. Shackelford, Alabama; Daniel
Strange, Michigan; c. Y. Wilson, Ken
lucky; Martin V. Calvin, Georgia; w.
P. Addison, South Carolina; +. c. Pace,
Illinois: ex-Gov. Ross, Texas.
Secretary Morton to-day denied any
knowledge of any intention of asking
for the resignation of Mr.. Harrington,
the republican chief OF the weather bu-
reau. The office is Presidential gift,
but the Secretary believes there had
been no change contemplated. The
position of chief of the weather bureau
the Secretary looks upon as one entire
" without the pale of politics, and, SO
far as he knows, Mr.. Harrington will
remain. The real object of the weather
bureau is, the Secretary says, to state
with certainty what the weather will
be tomorrow or the next day, and he
looks upon Prof. Bigelow's scientific
work as wholly theoretical and its con-
tinuation unjustfiable.
Major Halford, who has just arrived
from Paris, says the impression de-
rived from the questions put from
time to time by the Boring Sea arbi-
traitors during the course of the long
argument, is that the arbitration will
result in a decision recognizing the
property right of the United
States in the seals to more or less
limited degree, and recommending some
international agreement for the pro-
lection of seal life.
Ninety-nine fourth class postmasters
were appointed to-day, of whom sixty
six will fill the places of removed re-
publicans. The only change in Virginia
is the following: Claremont, Surry
county, James Boyce, appointed post
master, vice Ellen Farrell, removed.
When Mr.. S. P. Bayley, jr., of Fir-
ginia, was deputy health officer of this
city he had difficulty with reporter
for one of the city newspapers, and was
removed therefor, and Mr.. Tracey Of
this city was appointed in his stead.
Now Mr.. Tracey aud another CORE
spondent of the same paper have had q
difficulty, and the latter has preferred
charges against him, which, it is re-
ported, will cause his removal also.
But Mr.. Yardley Brown, clerk in the
District office, the radical republican
who published filthy articles against
Mr.. Cleveland, is retained, at the re-
quest of Mr.. Ross, the so.called demo-
cratic member of the Board Of District
Commissioners.
Lynch, the Mississippi negro, appoint
ed 4th Auditor of the Treasury by Mr..
Harrison, though still in office, will
soon be out. He asked the President
not to remove him until the first of Au-
gust, and was told that he could retain
his place until that time.
All the hold-over assistant .. S. at
torreys general for the court of claims,
whose salaries range from $500 to
$1,000, have been asked for their resig-
nations. They will be allowed thirty
days furlough with pay. Among the
applicants for the places to be vacated
is Mr.. Jack Mason of King George
county, Virginia. 1t is reported that
the friends of Major r. w. Hunter OF
Winchester are urging him also for one
ofthe places.
Representative Meredith was in the
city again to-day, looking for work
mems and other minor places for his
constituents, but finding such work al
most as useless as searching for nee
die in haystack, and so handicapped
is he by the fact that his district is al
ready charged with more than its fair
quota of places, that he hesitates to ask
for the removal of a republican who IS
bona tide resident of his district, lest
the place be given to man from some
other State.
The gist of the financial news from
New York received here up to 2 o'clock
this afternoon is as follows: Money on
call per cent, silver 7ls, stocks still
weak and weakening; the Kansas City
Safe Deposit Company, capital one mil
lion dollars, failed to-day the banking
house of Thornton & Son, Shelbyville,
Illinois failed. liabilities half million