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

Postofice Department officials know
nothing of the reported shortage OF
$3.50 in the accounts of the late post
master Sullivan, Of Covington, Georgia,
who committed suicide at Huntersville,
N. G. Their only information in the
matter is that he committed suicide,
and the postofice inspector in the Gov
ington district telegraphed the depart
ment asking for the names Of the late
postmaster's bondsmen, the amount of
bond, etc., which information he will
use inspecting the accounts of the de.
ceased official, and in putting the Office
under charge of the proper people
pending the appointment of a successor.
Secretary Morton has announced
that sheep and lambs intended for i'm
mediate slaughter may be admitted to
the United States from Canada, when
accompanied by certificates which he
specifies, instead of those provided for
in section 8 of the regulations of the
Department of Agriculture dated Feb
ruary IL, 1895.
1t is currently reported here that
President Cleveland recently wanted
to increase his life insurance, but that
the company to which the application
was made refused it, upon the advice
of its medical examiner. This, of
course, has excited the curiosity of the
quidnuncs In respect of the nature OF
his supposed disease.
Mr.. &. P. Flint of New York has been
appointed superintendent of the Mt.
Vernon Electric Railroad, vice D. w.
Holden, resigned, and will take charge
of the management of that road on the
10th inst.
Major Biscoe has returned from his
successful hunt for his clerk, Smoot,
who robbed him OF $1,000. He says
that with what he received from Smoot
and what was paid by Shoots father,
he has not lost cent, the amount of
his travelling expenses even having
been made good. In view of Shoots
mother and wife, he says, he gave him
forty dollars and got him employment
in a lumber establishment in Michigan.
Mr.. Provence Mccormick, govern
ment timber inspector in the far North
west, passed through here this morn
ing on his way to his home in Clarke
county, Virginia, with his wife, who is
i'll.
Mr.. Pat Mccall, the defeated repub-
iican congressional candidate in the al.
exandria district last fall, has returned
from Petersburg, where he attended
General Mahone's recent "fair cleo
ton" conference. He says the Gen
erals bill, which the conference en-
dorsed, will be the chief issue in the
campaign in his State next fall, that
it is non partisan, and that democrats,
populists, prohibitionists and republi-
cans, all who favor free vote and a
fair count, should give it their support.
a conference of some of the active
members of the National and Con-
gressional democratic committees will
be held at the Ebbitt House here this
evening, for the purpose of taking some
action by which it may be publicly
known that the effort of the Mary
land mugwumps to involve the Presi-
dent in their attempt to defeat the
democratic ticket in that State is un-
authorized and is repudiated by Mr..
Cleveland, who has common sense
enough to know that democrats have
no strength to throw away now, and
that if nothing else, self preservation
alone should besuficient to make them
stick together.
A long argument was made to- day
before the Comptroller of the Treasury
in favor of the payment of the sugar
bounty, which he has heretofore refused
to pay, many people say because of in
structions from headquarters, but he
says because of 8 decision of the Su.
preme Court of the District of Columbis.
A good many people with more MOE
ey-no matter how they got it-than
brains, crossed the Long Bridge last
night to see prize fight. They paid a
dollar for their ride, three dollars ad-
mission, and double price for drinks Of
bad whisky in q close, hot hall filled
with tobacco smoke, and then saw a
man knocked out almost at the first
blow.