Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, June IA.

sion business, no hofi' .L
been disbarred. N. c. Price OF tins
citv has also been disbarred from prac-
t;cing before the department for de-
mandinr illegal fees in pension cases.
n G. Canaday was appointed post
master at Topeco, Floyd county, Va,
today. vice E. A. Hall, resigned.
vivian Brent, of Maryland, has been
promoted an assistant attorney in the
office of the Assistant Attorney General
for the Interior Department from $500
per year to $3.50 to succeed Emory F.
Best, appt ilted Assistant Commissioner
of the General Land Office. Judge
Brent has been a law clerk in the de-
partment for ten years and will now
be designated First Assistant Attorney.
Major Robert W. Hunter, of Win.
chester, Virginia, has been appointed
an assistant attorney in the Interior
Department at $500 per annum.
Major Hunter was appointed Chief of
the Accounts Division Of the General
Land Office in 1885 and the next year
was made a special inspector of the
public land service, which position he
resigned in 1889. His experience and
marked efficiency led to his present ap-
pointment which is entirely connected
with land matters. The Major was
sworn in to-day.
The attempted enforcement OF
the Edmonds law here has produced
the greatest excitement among q
large number of people here,
tofore supposed, even by their most
intimate friends, to have no conceiv-
able interest in that law. They
say no man is safe and that his reputa-
ton can be destroyed by any malicious
enemy who may report temporary
delinquency to the police.
The new steamer for the line be-
tween this city and Norfolk will leave
her berth at Norfolk next Tuesday
evening, arriving here the following
morning. She will take the place of one
of the other boats until the first of Ju-
ly, when she will commence running
as day boat.
Colonel w. H. Chapman, formerly Of
Alexandria, now an internal revenue
agent In North Georgia, who has been
here for several days on business with
the internal revenue bureau, left to-day
for Atlanta, his headquarters. The
Colonel is held at the bureau to be one
of the most efficient moonshine hunters
in the service.
The Windsor Malone suit has been
before the court here all this week, Mr.
Edgar Allan as counsel for General
Malone and Messrs. Edmund Burke
and Morgan Beach for the Windsor eX-
ecutor and the heirs. 1t is ex.
pected that decree will be made
on Monday next, and Mr.. Allan
says he supposes expects it will exempt
from sale that part of the famous MA
hone lot" offered for the site of a new
government printing office, and provide
for the division and sale of the other
half, which will, he thinks, pay the
Tome mortgage of 500, 900, and one OF
two other mortgages, leaving the Wind
sor mortgage to be paid out of the
other halt, when that shall be dispos
ed of.
The impression on the subject at the
Treasury Department to-day is that nc
call will be made for an international
commission to consider the silver
question.
Among the post-graduates in the law
school of the Columbian University
here was Edgar Allen, jr,, of Rich.
mond, son of the famous Yankee
Allen of that city. He ranked as sec.
ond in his class and is said to be the
youngest graduate of the school, being
not yet twenty-one.
"Flag Day" was not observed here
to any noticeable extent to-day
The U. S. flag was displayed at few
places where it is not seen every day
and few men who were never fought
for it wore it on the lapels of their
coats, but, barring this, the day was no
more than any other Friday.
Mr.. Edgar Allan, who is here to-day
from Atlantic City, where he has been
staying for the last month, when asked
about the different views General Ma.
hone and his ex-friend, the negro John
Langston. take of the question that
will be involved in the next political
campaign in Virginia, said he supposed
IudG WHICH, euO Ocuclal Sudl oIdIt IHt
campaign with the election law az its
sole issue, his ent mics il his own PAL ty
will oppose him by involving other
questions, and that, therefore, the par
ty's strength would be divided, as has
been the case in several preceding
campaigns, and as it apparently will
continue to be as long as the Gen.
eral retains the craftsmanship OF
the State republican committee
He says Colonel Lamb would, he
thinks, be acceptable as chairman to
all the republicans in the State, and
that if he were, the General would be
the power behind the throne, but he
doubts if the General will relinquish
the position.
Notwithstanding the protests of a
Richmond delegation. Commander For
sythe was at the Navy Department to-
day and received orders for the re-
moval of the monitors from Richmond.
1t is stated, however, that nature has
come to Richmond's relief and that
some of the fleet will remain there, as
they are sunk so deep in the mud that
they cannot be dug out even with
dredging machine.
By the new order making the hands
at the government printing Office sub
iect to the civil service law, the present
employees will not he compelled to
stand competitive examinations, but ali
applicants for places there will be COM
PEELED to do so.
NO SEPARATE ScHooLs.-Manitoba
replied in the negative to the demand