Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
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hility of an official for q forgery CON-
mitted by subordinate, whether Or
not it could be said to be his act. Judge
read to the jury that part of
his charge relating to this point, and
the Jury again retired. The jury
brought in verdict at 1:35 of guilty on
each Indictment. One indictment
charged Howgate with forgery and the.
other with a Justification of his Official
accounts.
The Secretary of State has designat-
ed Robert S. Chiffon, jr.; a clerk in the
State Department, to proceed to Ere
roum, Armenia, and establish the new
consulate of the United States there.
Erzeroum is one of two consular posts
authorized by the last Congress as re-
suit of the Armenian troubles. Inc
other Office, Harpoot, has been TILED
temporarily by the designation of MIR.
William Dulany Hunter, a consular
clerk. to establish it. Mr.. Chiffon has
been appointed vice consul at Ere
roum in order that he may exercise
consular functions, and he will remain
there probably until the fall, when the
President will make permanent APP
pointment to the position.
Treasury officials anticipate that the
payment of the Chinese war indemni-
ty of 2OO000,O00 taels will result in a
material increase in the market price Of
silver. The present quotation of silver
is 67l cents an ounce, which is an adj
vance of four cents over the quotations
of a year ago. The price anticipates
to some extent the expected rise and is
also the result of the increased demand
caused by the war expenses of both
governments. At the present time
there are not exceeding 100000 ounces
of silver bullion in the United States,
outside of the amount owned by the
government. At the present price OF
silver the amount required by China
would equal about S14S;OO0,00O worth
of bullion.
In court here this morning, in the
case of Windsor's executor VS.. Ford,
the injunction obtained by Ford to
prevent Windsor from prosecuting his
suit against him, was dissolved, the
judge stating that there was no ground
for it, and that he didn't see how it
could have been applied for.
People from New York here to-day
say the social equality law passed by
the republican Legislature and ap-
proved by the republican Governor OF
that State, and the use that is now be-
ing made of It by the negroes, will be
the means of giving the democrats one
hundred thousand majority there at
next falls election, as every white man
in that State, interested in the hotel,
restaurant, theater and bathing bust,
ness there will then vote with them.
A citizen of Charles county, Nd,
here to-day, says the people Of the por-
ton of that county living along the
river bank are talking about appealing
to the courts for a resubmission of the
question of change of the site of the
court house of that county, upon the
ground that when it was submitted
before, only the friends of the change
acted as election officers, though the
attorney general of the State had ex
pressed the opinion that both sides
should have been represented among
those officers.
Mrs. Sallie Hunton, of Virginia,
niece of ex-senator Hunton, and clerk
in the Architects Office, Treasury, was
taken seriously i'll while at her desk
this morning. She was removed to her
home. She called for the Senator, but
he is sick at his home in Warrenton.
J. L. Price was appointed postmaster
at Alden, King George county, Va, to-
day, vice Mrs. M. J. Treakle, removed,
and ]. Y. Tyler, at Cross Keys, Rock
ingham county, vice o. ]. Hager re-
moved.
The rumor is revived that should
Associate Justice Jackson of the U. S.
Supreme Court be compelled by i'll
health to resign, as it is generally sup
posed he will be, his seat will be filled
by Congressman Patterson of his State,
who is now pronounced cuckoo and a
gold money man.
Secretary Carlisle will leave for Buzz
Yards Bay next Tuesday and Secreta-
ries Olney and Lamont soon thereafter.
They will remain there about month,
and if any thing should occur during
that time requiring cabinet action, such
action will be taken there by them and
the President, as they are the three
members of the cabinet to whom the
President looks for the little advice he
accepts.
The State Department will to-mor.
row inaugurate Civil Service methods
in the appointment consular ofclerks by
holding competitive examinations of
applicants for a vacancy in that posi-
ton. About twenty persons will COM
pete and other examinations will be
conducted by board composed of
State Department officers. Consular
clerkships pay $1,000 and 81, 200 only,
but are considered very desirable
places. They are life Offices, and the
incumbents have an opportunity to see
something of the world and to perfect
themselves in foreign languages.
Twelve consular clerkships are allowed
by law.
]. F. Cunningham, a clerk in the
Sixth Auditors Office, Treasury De-
partment, committed suicide this morn
Ing by blowing his brains out with
pistol. He lived in Virginia, near
Falls Church, and the deed was com.
mitted there after he had tied
his horse and was awaiting the an
proach of the train from this city.
Worry over an approaching examine
ton in which he was candidate for
promotion is assigned as the cause.
General Fitzhugh Lee, Collector of Internal
Revenue of the Lynchburg, Va, district, was
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