Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, June 2S.

WASHINGTON, June 2S.
The department commission to-day
awarded contracts for stationery, car.
pets and miscellaneous supplies for all
the executive departments for the neAt
fiscal year. The prices areslightly ui-
Ger last years figures.
Secretary Pugh, of the Washington
Young Mems Christian Association,
saws that the telegram from Bridge.
port, Conn, to the effect that the Young
Mems Christian Association branches
had decided to "buck" the League OF
American Wheelmen, either misstated
the attitude of the Bridgeport officials
or else they spoke most unwisely.
Secretary Olney expects to leave to-
morrow for his summer home at Fal-
mouth, Mass, which is only few
miles beyond the Presidents palace at
Buzzards' Bay. He will probably re-
main away as long as the President
does.
General P. NJ. B. Young, U. S. min
lister to Guatemala, now here on fur
Tough, says Guatemala is the finest ag-
ricultural country in the world, and that
o. mans work on a farm there will
produce better crop than any where
else in the world, and, what's surpris-
ing, that that crop will have greater
value.
Mr.. S. p. Bayley, jr., and Health
Officer DR.. Woodward of this city have
gone to Atlanta to witness the opera
ton of the garbage crematory there.
Mr.. Bayley is interested in the recent
contract that has been made TO ere
mate the garbage of this city for ST.
900 year.
Prosecutions under the Edmunds' law
have been suspended here. A former
citizen Of Alexandria now resident here,
talking about the law referred to this
morning, and about paragraph he had
read in the GAZETTE, to the effect that
it would drive many people from here
to Alexandria county, said if all the old
men and government employees here,
amenable to if, were to move to Alexan-
dria county, that county would be the
most populous one in the State.
Congressman Crowley of Texas, now
here, says the congressional delegation
from his State stands eleven for and two
against silver.
Congressman Elicit of Virginia was
at the Navy Department to-day to SEE
if the order for the removal of the
monitors from Richmond to League Is
land could not be suspended, but he re-
ceived no encouragement.
Among the winners at the AleXan-
Il 4 tr0o nj r,acfarf1o1r
ing was Jewsharp, belonging to MIR. X.
w. Johnston of Alexandria county.
Mr.. Johnston won quite sum, as the
odds against his horse were s to /.
Kirk McMurtrie, fifteen year old
employee of the State Department., has
been detected in stealing the money
sent to the department. for passports,
and, to hid hise guilt, in destroying the
naturalization papers of the applicants.
Though only twenty months
of President Cleveland's second
term remain, about eighty-fve per
cent. of the Treasury officials are
republicans Among the many
who hail from the Alexandria
district is J Jsah Willard, who came to
Alexandria during the war and was in
the internal revenue service there.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices of Virginia were made
to-day: Dominion, Halifax county, ].
II. Franklin, appointed postmaster,
vice H. S. Waddell resigned Logan,
Spottsylvania county, Mrs. Mary Shep.
pard, vice S. A. Orrresigned; Phoebus,
Elizabeth City county, r. L. Gary,
vice w. F. Larrabee removed; Theo-
logical Seminary, Fairfax county, S. A.
Wallis, vice Jos. Packard resigned.
General Boynton, gallant ex Union
soldier, in talking to day about the now
dead scheme for making national
park at Appomattox, said he never saw
any reason for that scheme, and that so
far as he knows, none of its promotes
took any prominent part on either side
during the war.
Major Chapman, formerly of Alexan-
dria, but for years past an internal rev.
enue agent in north Georgia, has been
transferred to st. Louis.
Among the applicants for the assist
ant naval paymastership made vacant
by the retirement of H. II. Smith, are
A. R. Holiday, of Richmond, and II.
E. Biscoe, son of the president of the
Virginia democratic association of this
city.
1t is stated at the Office Of the clerk
of the .. S. Supreme Court to-day that
if the Circuit Court in New York has
entertained motion for habeas corpus
in the Buchanan case an )peal will ! 9
to the U. S. Supreme Court, which will
not meet until October.
FIRE IN SAN FRANclsCo.-The larg-
est fire in San Francisco in many years
occurred yesterday evening. The losses
will exceed S1,500,0OO. 1t started in
the box factory of Wright, Carrick s;
Williams. Despite the work of the
firemen, it was not long before the
whole block bounded by Fourth. Fifth.