Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandris Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON. Oct. 16, 1894.

euClC oiO hCotiS hioy
at which no revenue was collected last
year and turned into the Treasury.
That at Alexandria was not among
them, for from that the sum OF $685. 81
was received at the Treasury Depart
ment.
Affairs at democratic headquarters
TO-DAY were very quiet. Neither Chair
man Faulkner nor Chief Secretary Gar
diner was there, and General Walker,
who was in charge, said he was trying
to figure out some republican congress
men whose seats would be occupied by
democrats in the next House. 1t SEEM
ed that he was engaged in fruitless
task, but he was by no means as those
without hope.
The belief is expressed in Treasury
circles that the export of gold announc-
ed for to-day is,not the Inauguration OF
general gold export movement, but is
due largely to local causes in New York,
which are influenced by speculative &C
ton. The rate of exchange is not, it is
said, sufficiently hight to permit
of gold exports at a profit on
the face of the transaction. There is.
according to the latest official Treas
ury returns, 1923, 800, 900 of gold in the
United States. of which the Treasury
holds $4,000, 900, and of this, s59,-
100000 is net gold. The national
banks are all we'll supplied with gold
as is shown by the returns of condition
called for on the End inst.
1t is said at the Postoffice Depart
ment to-day that nothing has been
done in the case of Surrender, the
new name for the postoffice at Apo
mattox Court House, and will not be
until the return of the Postmaster Gen
eral, if then, as the application is to
change Surrender to Appomattox, which
cannot be done, as there is an office
named Appomattox G. III. only two OF
three miles of, and that the mails to
and from the two places would conse-
ouently be liable to constant mistakes.
Mr.. McCaull, the republican candi.
date for Congress in the Alexandria
district, was here to-day. He seems to
be perfectly satisfied with his outlook,
and says the treatment he received at
Fairfax Court House yesterday, where
he was compelled to move his stand so
that he would not disturb the demo
cratic speaking in the court house, gain
ed him several votes there.
Mr.. Richard Johnston, Common
wealth's Attorney for Alexandria
county, Virginia, who is here to-day,
says be thinks Congressman Meredith
will be reelected by satisfactory ma
jority. In his county, he says, he knows
several republicans, of whom he is one,
who will vote for Mr.. Meredith for the
reason that he has done as much for
the country as anybody else could pos
sibly have done, and that as he cannot
be defeated, there is 40 use in antago-
nizing him.
The annual volume showing the ap-
preparations made and the new offices
created by Congress, ETC., required by
law to be prepared under the direction
of the committee on appropriations, has
just been completed. Itshows that the
total specific appropriations made at
the 1st and 2nd sessions of the 53rd
Congress amount to 1891, 156 ,005. the
permanent appropriations, SOL, 074, ESQ.,
making grand total of 1892, $50, 6S5.
The new offices created are 474 in num-
Der, at annual cost Of 1854, ZIP, and the
offices omitted and abolished are 923 in
number, at an annual cost of 81 ,235, 1892,
making net reduction in number OF
449 and in amount, 1851, 179.
1t is supposed here that Brigadier
General Ruger, U. S. A., will be pro-
NOTED to the rank of Major General,
vice General Howard, VINO will be re-
tired on the Sth proximo. The Presi-
dent makes the appointment.
Secretary Carlisle has instructed the
q. S. district attorney at New York to
i1s'it' t proceedings against ex-Vice
President Morton for infraction of the
contract labor law.
Among the recent arrivals here is
that of Mr.. Hill of Ohio, assistant SER
geant-at arms of the House. He says
Ohio will only have six democrats in
the next House. She now has eleven.
The loss, Mr.. Hill says, will be caused
by the gerrymander the "abolitionists,"
as he calls the republicans, have made
in the State. He also says that if the
South elects as many democrats to the
next House as she has in the present
one, the North will only have to elect
40 to keep the democrats in control OF
that body.
Frank Aldrich, late sealer of weights
and measures in this District, and
prominent churchman, was placed on
trial in the Criminal Court here this
morning under an indictment charging
him with forging the names of several
people to promissory notes. Aldrich
left town before he could be arrested
and was captured in Detroit after
long absence. Judge Cole of the Grim
inal Court, who lost 81, 800 through the
notes alleged to have been forged by
Aldrich, was the principal witness for
the prosecution.
A small bag of diamonds was stolen
from the top of the bureau in the cham
Der of the wife of Chief Justice Fuller
last week. Three laborers were at
work in the house at the time. The
detectives informed the firm who en-
ployed them of the theft. Yesterday
the bag, with its 81, 200 contents, was
found in the same place from which it
had been taken.
An Oporto, Portugal dispatch says
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