Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. July 8.

navy va ID, after considering their ex-
plantations of the serious frauds practic-
ed in their department. Naval Con-
structor Francis T. Bowles, who has
been at the Norfolk navy yard since
1886, and Civil Engineer A. G. Menocal,
of Nicaragua canal fame, have been
chosen to succeed Fernald and Asser.
SON, who will be given no further duty
but will remain under reduced pay
without quarters on waiting orders.
Little Importance is attached at the
State Department to the charge OF con.
soiracy made against the Consular
Bureau by Gen. Henry Maclver, ex-
consul at Denia, Spain. In regard to
Gen. MacIyer's causes of complaint, it
! i. said at the department that the bond
which the consular bureau required Gen.
MacIver to give was perfectly proper
exaction customary in all such cases,
and furthermore that the requirements
that he should not be allowed to exer-
else consular functions at Denia until
the Spanish government had granted
him his exequator is usual and proper
RI quirement. Gen. Mac1ver has been
frequent visitor to the State Depart
ment lately. He was ordered out of
one room by an official for INDUCING in
boisterous language. He also took
another official to task for not replying
to letter and demanded satisfaction.
Mr.. MacIyer is native of Virginia,
ard an ext Confederate veteran, but was
appointed from the State of New York.
Mr.. Foster has arrived at his home
in this city from China where he served
as counsellor to the Chinese peace en-
yoys in the negotiations to end the
Chinese Japanese war.
Mr.. Hurt, of Mississippi, doorkeeper
of the House, who has just returned
from visit to his State, says the peo-
pie there are for free silver by large
majority, but that the politicians are
not talking as much now as formerly.
In respect of the Senatorship, he says
there are many men who have been
pronounced in favor of silver in the
field, but, so far, only one gold man, ex-
Governor Stone.
People from North Carolina here to-
day say the old combination of the re-
publicans and populists in that State
still exists, and will continue to
do so, certainly until after the next
Presidential election, as the latter are
as keen SET as the former on downing
the democrats"
Mr.. Marshall Hanger, U. S. consul
to Bermuda, arrived here to-day and
will leave for his home in Virginia this
afternoon. He says life is quiet and
delightful in the soft and salubrious
climate of the island in which his tenn
porary lot has been cast and where
mails are few and newspapers scarce.
B. K. Bruce, the mulatto ex-senator
from Mississippi, has just returned
from q visit to his race in the Gulf
States, in the interest of ex-President
Harrison, but finds that Governor
Ayers agents have been there before
him, as they were in 1883. The ex-
Governor thinks that if he can get and
hold the negro delegates from the
South to the national republican con-
vention, in the break that is bound to
take place therein enough may come
to him to secure the nomination, or in
case that fail, that he will be il con-
dition to make deal by which he can
at least obtain leading cabinet position.
A strong effort is being made here
and in other cities to have Miss Key,
the granddaughter of the author of the
Star Spangled Banner, reinstated in the
Office from which she was recently re-
moved for economy's sake. She is the
sole dependence of her aged mother,
and had no other means of support than
her salary.
A well-known resident of Maryland
here to-day saws the: S p-.eos, A. 4. Icaes
will he the democratic candidate for
Governor of that State, State Senator
Hayes for Attorney General, and that
Comptroller Smith will be renominated.
Ali of them are friends of Senator Cor
man, who, he says, is stronger with the
al democrats of Maryland now than
he ever was, and has been made so by
the opposition of the mugwumps and
googoos.
A sure sign that silver received black
eye in the Kentucky democratic con-
vention is the fact that Senator Turpie,
OIL of the three Senators who issued
the call for conference of the friends
of silver in this city next month, has
written a private letter here stating
that he will not be present, snd that
the other two, Senators Morgan and
harris, though written to on the SUBJ
ject, have not as yet responded.
Senator Vest of Missouri and Gov
ernor Oates of Alabama are here to-
day. The former is by no means hope
full of his reelection, and has been con.
siderabiy depressed by the influence
the administration manifested in the
Kentucky convention. The latter says
Senators Morgan and Pugh are head
ing the siiyerites in his State, and that
he is here to get help from the admin
istration, if it expects him to beat them.
Congressman Meredith of Virginia
was h; re to-day, and, as he usually does
when he visits this city, he called at
some of the departments in behalf of
few of the many of his constituents
who want offices and will not quietly
accept refusal.
A Leesburg democrat now here says
the democratic convention of Loudoun
county met in his town to-day to make
arrangements for the primary to nom
mate candidate for the House of
Delegates from that county and for
the floating delegate for that county
and Fauquier. He says Mr.. Speaker
Ryan will be nominated for the former,
ard that it is said Colonel John Scott
of Fauquier will be for the latter.
Mr.. John B. Henderson, son of ex-
Senator Henderson, now of Alexandria