Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-29
" the federal court room at Harrison
,urg, Va, was signed by the President

burg, Va, was signed by the PRESIDENT
to day.
People from Fredericksburg, here to-
day, say that the!defeat ofState Senator
Little for Commonwealth attorney in
that town yesterday by young lawyer
there named Embrey is indicative of q
general desire among the democrats OF
Virginia to advance the young men OF
their party, and to send the old ones 10
the rear. /,
Herbert L. Walker was appointed
postmaster at Brodnax, Brunswick
county, Va, to-day, vice VIM. Il.
Wright, dead.
Orders were issued to-day reducing
the premium Oh gold bars taken from
the assay Office ct New York from SIG
to Is per cent. This reduction is made
az gold coin in large quantities-S25,
OOo, OOO-has been taken for export
within the last six weeks, and to keep
the gold coin in stock in sufficient
quantities, and to meet the drain, the
gold bars on hand-$32, 0O0, OOO-wouldi
have to be coined. The expense OF
coming the gold bars is more than
equal to the reduction of the premium
charged on them.
The reason the adverse report on
Can't. Fowle's nomination for collector
of internal revenue for the upper dis.
trict of Virginia was not acted upon at
the last executive session of the Senate
was the fact that Senator, not DEM
ocrat, asked that the consideration OF
the report be delayed until some papers
favorable to the Captains confirmation
can be laid before the Senate. There
is no doubt that the adverse report will
be adopted.
People who were at the st. Asaph
race track yesterday evening say the
storm created great alarm and con-
fusion there. The wind blew the
benches and chairs in the betting
room about as though they were
straws, and fearing that the whole
building would fall everybody in it
except the telegraph operator ran to
the restaurant, a more substantial
and brick building, a short distance
off, but the operator took to the
open field as the safest, though the
wettest place. The excitement was
greatly increased by sudden illumi-
nation produced by the lighting of the
arc lamp between the two buildings by
the electricity in the air, which in
dued the belief that the whole place
was on fire.
The Presidents veto of the river and
barhor hill WAS SAINT to the House this
afternoon. 1t concludes as follows: II
believe no greater danger confronts US
as nation than the unhappy decadence
among our people of genuine and trust
worthy love and affections for our gov,
eminent as the embodyment Of
the highest and best aspirations
of humanity, and not as the giyel
of gifts, and because its mission
is the enforcement of exact jus,
tice and equality and not the allowance
of unfair favoritism. hope | may be
permitted to suggest at a time when the
issue of government bonds to maintain
the credit and financial standing ofthe
country is a subject of criticism, that
the contracts provided for in this bill!
would create obligations of the United
States amounting to sixty-two millions
of dollars, no less binding than itt
bonds for that sum.
In the House this afternoon Mr.. Walker O
Virginia made speech in favor of the repub
lican contestant in contested election cast
from North Carolina.
Private letters received here from Congress
man Thorp Of tho Petersburg, Virgins, dis
trict, say that he, snd not Colonel Brady, n
reported, has majority of the delegates Il
The republican congressional convention il
that district