Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
rOorrespondenee Of the Alexandria Gazette
WARRINGTON, July /.

WARRINGTON, July /.
A business man of this city who has
lust returned from New York says his
acouaintances there told him that they
never knew harder times, and that they
feared worse were coming. Labor, he
saws. is unemployed and the wages of
such as are at work is very low;
all the carpenters there, ne says, that
are wanted, can be obtained at from 81
to 1925 day. In this connection it
NAV be mentioned that Senator
Daniel when asked today if the people
of his State endorsed his views on the
Cuban question, replied that they were
not interested in that question, and
that what chiefly occupied their
thoughts now is the important and
urgent matter of supplying their fami-
lies with meat and bread.
The following fourth class Virginia
po.smasters were appointed to-day:
Albano. J. II. Cunninghsm; Shaver
Mill. T. I. Shaver; Truehsrt, w. D.
Littlepage.
to-day to refute the charges brought by
the Wise lection of the republicans in
his district against Mr.. Reade who has
been nominated for postmaster at
Newport's News.
Mr.. Hampton Hoge Of Virginia had
an audience with the President this
morning, by previous appointment.
Mr.. Palmer, superintendent of the
Government Printing Office, is of the
opinion that the civil service rules will
soon be so changed as to allow him to
remove democrats and appoint republic
cans to their places.
An effort will be made to remove the
proposed tariff on manganese iron ore
and rock plaster, but the impression is
that it will not succeed.
Senator Wellington of Maryland and
MIR. B. II. Warner Of this city had q
spirited encounter before the Senate
commerce committee to-day, over the
confirmation of the latter's son rs con-
sui at Leipsic. The Senator opposed
it. though he had endorsed the young
man for another place. Warner said
he had helped to elect Wellington,
which statement the latter denied and
asserted that the President had not
dealt fairly with him.
For more than month ell pension cert.f.
Gates issued by the government have been
held up in the Pension Bureau. The snspen-
sion ended to-day, when an immense batch Of
certificates was mailed to the various agencies
The District Commissioners TO day appoint
ed twenty new policemen.
Henrietta B. Gait to-day entered suit for
divorce against Ralph L. Gait.
Solicitor General Holmes Conrad Of Vir.
GINA is. only waiting for his republican sue
cessor to qualify before leaving the Depart
ment of Justice and opening law Office in
this city. He is now the most prominent
southern lawyer here and it is expected that
he will have a large practice before the U. s.
Supreme Court.
Mr. Douglass Tyler of Fauquier county,
Virginia, a clerk in the Interior Department,
who was seriously hurt by street car here
some time ago and was carried to bis home,
has returned, but is still crippled. 1t is ru-
mored that he will sue the rsilrosd company
for $4,000.
Mir John B. Peterborough, of Virginia, has
beer reinstated in his position as special agent
of the general land Office, in Oregon, but, it is
reported, only because no competent republic
Gan had applied for the place.