Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July 9.

SQ6Q an OrQ6r brdAaloIIAHk 4NnNaa Oou-
structor Bowles and Civil Engineer
Menocal to the New York navy yard
in place of Constructor Fernald and
Civil Engineer Asserson who will 60 to
the Norfolk navy yard. The change
is ordered to take p ace August LIST.
At the semo time he made public a
very lenthy letter sent last night to
',nmmodore Sic; I'd of the New York
yard regar ling the evasions of the
labor regu ations which took place
nder Fernald and Assessor.
Postmaster General Wilson and the
civil service commission have received a
etition from the porters in the railway
mail service requesting that, they be
placed in the classified service with an
opportunity for promotion to clerk
ships. The petitioners state that they
ara commissioned as clerks OF class
one, and have access to ordinary mails
but are only paid as porters.
Henry Clay England, lawyer OF
Rockville, Nd, and a well-known cit
izen, was struck by an electric car on
the outskirts of this city last night and
instantly killed.
German endeavor to compete with
England in the shipment of machinery
10 the United States has become 80
marked lately that ]. @. Monaghan,
United States consul at Chemintz, has
thought it of sufficient Importance to
report to the State Department.
G. F. Moore was appointed postmas-
fer at Bradshaw. Roanoke county, Va,
to-day, vice M. M. Moore, resigned |;
G. G. Chewing, at Chilesburg, Caroline
county, vice T. A. Gatewood. dead, and
D. W. Dabney, at Etna Mills, King
William county, vice P. E. Rice, dead.
People from Charles county, Mary
land, here to-day, say the fact that q
site has been inspected, surveyed
aud selected for court house at La
Plata, will amount to little or nothing
if those who want the court house at
Chapel Point shall agree at their second
conference, to be held next Saturday
at the latter place, TO proceed by injunc-
ton to restrain 1urther action in the
case, and that the ablest lawyers in the
State have given opinions to that effect.
A Loudoun county democrat here to-
day says the democratic committee of
that county met in Leesburg yesterday
and issued an order for district prima-
ries on the 10th proximo to elect dele
gates to county convention to be held
in Leesburg on the following Monday,
August Court, to nominate candidate
for the House of Delegates. They also
ordered primaries to be held on the
10th proximo to elect delegates to q
Joint convention of Fauquier and Lou
doun counties, to nominate a candidate
for floating delegate to the Legislature.
The editorial association of Georgia
who have been on visit to New York
passed through here to-day on their
way back home. Several of them who
were interviewed on the subject express
ed themselves as in favor Of the nomi.
nation of Secretary Carlisle for the
next Presidency, though, from their
protested admiration of Mr.. Cleveland,
it is probable they would favor him il
he be in the field.
People from Alexandra county here
to-day say there is great demand for
houses and lots in that county, and that
some of the houses recently erected
there are very handsome residences.
Among the latter they mention that
Surgeon P. N. Rixey, q. S. N, formerly
of Culpeper, and say that Admiral
Weaver of the navy expresses his in
tention of erecting one like it on one of
the many splendid sites on the heights
in that county. They also snv that Mr..
Palmer, tie new sheriff, md his deputy ,
Mr.. Curtis Graham, have already COM
menced the work of reformation there
Ex-State Senator Pennybacker. OF
Rockingham county, Virginia, whose
father once represented his State in the
U. S. Senate, is an applicant for place
in the Indian or Land service in the far
West, and has the strongest endorsers;
but Virginia is not favorite with the
present administration.
Rev. Willie Mumford, formerly Lieut..
Colonel of the 18th Virginia Infantry,
G. S. a., the Alexandria regiment, was
here to-day, looking as well, and bar
ring his white hair, almost as young as
he did when his regiment was camped
at Chantilly and Fairfax Court House
during the war between the States. He
had heard of the death of the late Capt.
Hooe, for which he expressed deep re
greet, and he inquired about many of
the survivors of his old regiment now
left inAlexandria, for all ofwhom he has
the kindest remembrance. Mr.. Mumford
is now the pastor of two Episcopal
churches in the Severn parish of the
Maryland diocese, between here and
Annapolis, and has most accomplish
ed wife and six children, the girls
among them being req re ,ented by those
who have seen them as remarkably
beautiful.
Among the few visitors in town to-day was
ex. Congressman George D. Wise of Richmond,
who was here on legal business. He says pol
itics are very quiet in Richmond now, and the
Senatorship question rarely mentioned there.
WEDDING DECLARED OFF.
Anna Kerwin, the prettiest and most
popular girl in East Bridgeport, Conn.,,
was to have been married to Robert
Lilesew Sunday evening. but lust 8 few