Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette


correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON. July 1.
There were three hundred transfers
of clerks made in the Treasury to-day
from one division to another, all in the
classified service, in addition to the
changes announced last week. There
still remain to be made a number OF
promotions, reductions and appoint
ments
The President to-day re-appointed
twenty four of the twenty six postmas-
tiers whose Offices were raised from the
fourth class to presidential with the be-
ginning of the new fiscal year.
Among diplomats who are in posi-.
ton to be Informed regarding the
movements of Russia in the Orient, the
published statements that that govern
ment has modified an army of $4,000
men at Vladivostock, and massed her
ships in the harbor at that port for the
purpose of striking a blow at Japan,
receive but little credence.
A great many Yirginians live or So
iourn here. Three or four of them
meeting on F street about noon to-day,
one mentioned the fact that. Congress
mans fuckers wife had just presented
him with twins. This suggested to an
other that when the wife of Senator
archer of Virginia had done the same
to him, a friend, quoting from Young,
remarked: "Insatiate archer! would
not one suffice?" And then another
said that when q frugal man in his
county was informed by the house
maid that his wife had treated him the
same way, he told her to get his silk
hat, which ne kept in box, muttering
ttthere's go use in my being economi-
CALI
An Alexandria county man here to-
day, talking about the late murders in
his county, said that 10 negroes and
white people from this city ali the law
lessness there could justly be attributed,
and that until the white residents of
the county, who are the tax payers,
shall take matters into their own hands,
he doesn't see how the condition shall
be improved. He said the race tracks
in the county had nothing to do with
the lawlessness there, aud were really OF
great euefit to the county.
Mr.. J. G. Featherstone, statistici IN of
the Agricultural Department for the
State Of Virginia, has been removed,
aud DR.. Mcbride, president of Blacks
burg College, been appointed in his
place. The latter already draws a
salary as State official, Blacksburg
College being State institution. AS a
Virginia law prohibits an official of that
State for holding a federal Office, efforts
are being made to have Mr.. Feather
stone reappointed- Con FRESHMAN Otey
has been here for that purpose, and
Senator Daniel is expected to-day on q
similar mission.
The more the last government bond
issue is talked about, the worse for the
tax payers, but the better for the pur-
chasing syndicate it appears. 1t is
said that history doesn't afford another
instance in which government loan
was ever SO immensely and immediate
ly profitable to those who tookit.
Mr.. S. P. Bayley, jr., who is interest
ed in the garbage contract of this city,
and the health officer of the District
returned this morning from their in
sp .ction of the garbage crematory at
Atlanta. They are by no means pleased
with the Atlanta system, aud will not
adopt it here. They will start at once
on an inspection tour ofthe crematories
a. other cities, their object being to
adopt the best they can find, if any be
perfect. In the meantime the gar
mage will be lowed down the river,
beiow Alexandra, to the Maryland
farmers, who have agreed to take
it and use it as fertilizer. OF the
sinking of the garbage scows anchored
n ar Alexandria, Mr.. Bayley says it was
just what should have been done with
them, and that the Alexandria officials
would have been derelict if they hadn't
Dated the nuisance in the most sum-
mary manner.
The Treasury official statement to be issued
this evening will state the deficit for the fis
cal year 1895 just closed at So, 100000.