Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandris Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 8, 1894.

VI VIC AiOAdliu1lo Ro1ot.S'l
WASHINGTON. Oct. 8, 1894.
The American consul at Dundee,
reports to the State Depart
ment that 31,745 tons of potatoes,
valued at 1854, G6S, were shipped from
that port to the United States IRON
October last year to June, this year, III
elusive. The tariff was then % cents
bushel, which has been reduced by the
German bill to Is cents.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
is gradually to do away with the SCI
vices of all the Interpreters now en-
ployed in the Indian service, thus saw
ing the government the annual ex-
penditure of large sum of money. +,
TIE failure of the President and OF
every member of his Cabinet but one,
who now says she is making no predic-
tionsn to let it be known whether tr
not they will support thu unanimously
nominated democratic ticket in New
York, is the subject of general comment
here, among republicans as well as den
ocrats. Such case is said to be I'M
precedented, and all contrast the course
of the President with that of Senator
Hill. after the formers denomination,
though the long cherished aspirations OF
the latter had Just been dashed to the
ground.
Mrs. Corbin, wife of Col. H. c. Cor.
bin, of Ohio, assistant adjutant general
of the army, died at her home in this
city to day.
board to select the route of the Chesa-
peake and Delaware ship canal. The
appointees are Gen. Casey of the army,
Captain Dewey of the navy, MIR: Men
des Cohen of Baltimore and j. Alexan'
der Porter of Savannah, Ga.
A gentleman who was at the politi-
cal discussion at Leesburg yesterday
saws there was large crowd there, but
apparently no very great amount OF
enthusiasm. Mr.. Meredith led of and
was followed by Mr.. McCaull, and Gen.
Hunton closed. Mr.. Mason was not
present, and no time was allowed MIR.
Beverly. who was there to represent
him. Tae gentleman referred to says
those he talked with there seemed 10
think that Mr.. Meredith would carry
the county by six or seven hundred
majority.
Subscribers of the GAZETTE here are
loud in their complaints of the delay
AMI irregularity with which they get
u @ paper. One on F street, near 10Th,
told the GAzETTE's correspondent to-
day that he never got his till II o'clock
on the morning after its publication, and
often not until the afternoon. And
this, too. though the paper is put in
the postoffice at Alexandria before Z
o'clock on the day of its issue, and the
distance between the two cities is only
six miles.
General Malone has returned to this
city, which as place OF residence he
finds more agreeable than Petersburg.
The General is not taking much part
in the politics of his State this year,
and as his enemies in his own party are,
it is not supposed that he will grieve
much over their anticipated defeat.
The General is stouter than he was and
doesn't dress as daintily as he used to
do when in the Senate.
The following changes in the fourth
class postofices of Virginia were made
to-day Amelia, Grayson county, Fan
ME Osborn appointed postmaster, vice
B. F. Ward, resigned; Columbian
Grove, Lunenburg county, Mrs. L. L.
Bagley, vice H. B. Hatchett, resigned.
Among the strangers III the city to-
day are Messrs. Duke Of Portsmouth
and Booker of Old Point Comfort. They
say the indications are that Congress
man Tyler will be reelected in that
district.
The Mt. Vernon Railroad is waiting
upon the Metropolitan Railroad of this
city. When the latter shall have de-
termined upon the best system of in
sulating its electrical power, the former
will adopt the same system and be
built at occe. The trollies outside OF
the city's limits will be above, and not
underground. There will be no trouble
about crossing the Long Bridge, nor in
getting to that bridge, as many have
supposed there would be.
Assistant Postmaster General Max
we'll Gulu hS ~ OACCCuIpSiy tiobSC thoV
though the newspapers throughout the
country are still harping on the change
of the name of the postoffice at Apo
mattox nobody served with mail at that
office has yet complained of the change,
and as the postmaster there recon-
mended it.
Motions to advance five cases to
which the United States is a party, were
made in the United States Supreme
Court to-day. One of these involves
the case of Captain Howgate. The
suit concerns the $4,000 bond Civ
en- by Captain Howgate. The bonds
men were w. B. Moses of Washington,
D. c., and L. H. Rogers of New York.
Judgment was obtained but the Q. S.
Supreme Court, after affirming it enter
ed a mandate forbidding its issue until
further order. The suit which the So
licitor general moved to advance to-
day is against the heirs of Moses.
CAST HER Foe INTO A FIRE.-"Now,
low tbora ond die ,, ahouted Mrs. T.. F.