Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

WASHINGTON, Dec. ~.
This morning Secretary Carlisle tele-
graphed the collector of the port al
Jacksonville that if the Dauntless was
entitled to clearance papers and the
officers and owners made the oaths re-
quired by sections 4197, 419S and 1920,
revised statues of the United States, he
should issue them upon proper applica-
ton. The Secretary did not assume to
decide whether or not the Dauntless
was entitled to q clearance, but left for
the owners of the cargo and the master
of the vessel, together with the collec-
tor to settle the question.
The following changes in the fourth
class postofices of Virginia were made
to-day: Crystal Hill, Halifax county,
Mrs. L. A. Lloyd, appointed postmaster,
vice II. G. Lloyd, resigned; Huntsville,
Appomattox county, Mrs. a. L. Hurt,
vice S. B. Hurt, resigned; Roman, Au-
gusta county, S. c. Neff, vice J. w.
Houff, resigned Vera, Appomattox
county, A. S. Wingfeld, vice w. j.
Turner, resigned.
The late Mr.. Lemon, the rich pen
sion agent of this city, provided in his
will that ten thousand dollars should
be expended on grave and tombstone
for him at Arlington.
Mr. Pat McCaull, the defeated repub-
lican candidate for Congress in the AL
exandria district, was here to-day. He
says he is perfectly confident that he
will be appointed Collector of Internal
Revenue from the upper district of Vir-
GINA. He also says that Colonel Lamb
has no intention of resigning the chair
manship of the State republican COM
mittee, though some members of that
committee vainly imagine the will.
A Baltimore drummer here to-day
says Alexandria, so far as the grocery
and certain other sorts of business are
concerned, has knocked out his city in
all the country bordering the Potomac,
from Washington to its mouth, and in
all of that along the Southern Railway
and it's branches.
Among the visitors here to-day is MIR.
Page Morris. formerly of Lynchburg.
He left the democratic party when Gen.
Malone did, and subsequently moved
to Duluth, Minnesota, in which city he
was elected to Congress last month as q
republican.
A wsll-informed Kentucky democrat
here to-day says Gov. Bradley of his
State is not seriously sick, and that the
prevalent opinion about his proposed
resignation is that if, as is highly prob
able, the legislature be unable to elect
u. S. Senator, Lieutenant Governor
Worthington, who will be his successor
will appoint him.
The House ways and means commit.
tee resumed their hearings to-day, their
session being devoted to the sugar
schedule, the sugar cane growers, the
beet sugar makers and the sugar i'm
porters, each and all urging high tariff
on an article that every healthy man,
woman, and child in the country, poor
or rich, white orlblack, has need for.
The failed Commercial Bank of Sci.
ma, Alabama. according to the figures
given in the Bankers Encyclopedia fol-
| August, 1896, is the principal financial
institution of the place. Its liabilities
| then included $500, 900 capital stock
S3S, 2S6 surplus and undivided profits
$4S7. 572 deposits, and $107, 1873 reds
counts. Its assets we're: Loans and
discounts, $66S, 2S9; bonds and real es
tate, $S2, 118; cash and exchange, 1882
S27. r. M. Nelson, the president, was
| also president of the Alabama Loan
Company with an accredited capital o.
| $40. 600.