Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. ,.
NJ. NJ. Rogers has been appointed
fourth class postmaster at Alcoma,
Buckingham county, Va, vice \. E.
Hall, resigned.
Postmaster General Wilson has be-
fore him the question of the appoint
ment of successor to Postmaster Ar
mour, Of Memphis, who will soon be
dismissed for irregularities in office, and
war is being waged between Senator
Harris and Representative Patterson,
both of Memphis, each having candi-
date. Senator Harris's son is the as
sistant postmaster, but is not backed
for the vacancy by the Senator, whose
candidate is VIM. NJ. Harrington, a
leading business man Of Memphis.
Representative Patterson fayors the ap-
pointment of Hugh Pettitt, who is OPP
posed BY Senator Harris, who said that
if he were appointed he would hardly
be confirmed by the Senate.
a pension has been granted to Jacob
Cottle, of New Alexandria, Fairfax
county, Virginia.
Colonel John S Mosby is here to-day.
He is engaged in suit before the T. 5.
Court of Claims, his fee for which will
be large. He will be here and in Nir-
GINA until the spring. The Colonel, as
is known 10 the readers ofthe GAZETTE
from his communications that have ap.
peared in its columns, is q gold stand
ard man He voted for Mckinley, and
saws all the democratic office holders in
Sap Francisco, where he lives now, did
so too. The onlv man, he says, he
heard abused on the stump during the
late campaign is the President.
MIR. John 5. Wise, of New York, is
here on business connected with the
contest his brother is making for the
seal in Congress to which his demo
cratic opponent in the Norfolk district
was elected. He says the democratic
frauds ia Virginia at the last election
we're shocking and that he means TO
expose them. Mr.. Wise is also opposed
TO ex.Congressman Bowen OF the Nor
folk district, an anti Lamb republican.
Mr.. Wise has been to Canton.
1t is reported today that Mr.. Han
ma, who is on his way here from Can
ton, will, when he arrives, offer the
Treasury portfolio to Senator Sher-
man, who, if he shall accept it, will
make vacancy in the Senate, which
he, Hanna, can fill.
The report that the President, in his
coming message TO Congress, will take
the ground that the status quO be OBJ
served in the Cuban affair until Spain
shall have had specified time to sup
press the Instruction, is generally
credited at the State Department and
by the conservative politicians here OF
both political parties.
The announcement of the auction
sale of the rare and valuable furniture
of Mrs. May, the mother of Mr.. Fred.
May, in New York, to which city it
mas been sent, is the subject of as much
comment here, where she formerly
lived, as it is in the fashionable society
of New York, from which city she
sailed for Europe last Saturday.
A Southern democratic Senator, now
here, says he can see neither a gold nor
a silver lining to the dark clouds that
lower upon the country. The only
three measures, he says, suggested are
the redemption of the greenbacks and
Urea sury notes, decrease in the in
terest bearing debt, and au increase Of
taxation, but how the two former can
be accomplished, or the latter borne, he
cannot tell, nor does he believe any
body else can.