Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-04
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WASHINGTON, aug. 4.

National bank notes received to-day
for redemption, $313. 594; government
receipts for customs, 1894 ,645; internal
revenue, S254, $50; miscellaneous, sl9,-
OS4.
The Treasury Department has Issued
q circular to customs officers directing
special attention to the provision in the
new tariff act prohibiting the entry OF
articles (which shall bear name or
mark which is calculated to induce the
public to believe that the article IS
manufactured In the United States,
and collectors are instructed to use
diligence in preventing its violation.
Instructions are also given as to the
fling of applications for the recording
of trade marks in the Treasury Depart
ment under section of the new act.
With the arrival in this country OF
the new Peruvian minister this govern
ment has begun to press again for set
Element the old McCord claim
against Peru which has been standing
for nearly twelve years. McCord is an
American railroad engineer from Penn.
svlvania, still living in Peru. During
one OF the revolutions in that country
be was imprisoned by the revolution
ionists and ordered to be shot, and was
only saved by the foreign consuls there
who raised subscription to pay his
fine.
Under q recent decision of the lnte-
rior Department, to the effect that rev.
enue cutters are part of the U. 5.
navy. it is said at the pension bureau
that ex.Confederates who were on such
cutters during the Mexican war are en-
titled to Mexican war pensions.
Col. Ike Hill of Ohio, the democratic
whipper in of the House, says the re-
publican newspapers may say what they
please about Mr.. Hanna succeeding
himself as Senator from his State, but
that Johnny Mclean has finger in
that pie, and will be the next Senator
from Ohio, and that though the demo.
Gratis of that State will be strong enough
to put him there unaided, they will be
assisted, if they should want any help,
By the Foraker crowd, who are any
thing else than satisfied with the course
| of the Hanna-McKinley crowd in their
State.
The Kintz farm referred to in this
| correspondence yesterday as the place
that has been selected by the health de-
partment here as the dumping ground
! for the garbage, nightsoil and dead ami
mails of the district, is near the head Of
Broad Creek, south effort Foot, where
the old Raney and Crawford reduction
plants were located, and where it is
said a new reduction plant will be
erected at cost of $40, 900. 1t is un
derstood that the scows in which the
matter will be transported will be all
tight, 30 that no unpleasant odors will
be emitted from them while passing
Alexandria.
The delegates from Fauquier and
Prince William counties to the Nir.
ginia democratic convention will go in
the same car that Mr.. R. n. Harper has
| engaged for the Loudoun and Alexan.
dria delegates, and it and Mr.. Wizards
car, with the Fairfax delegation. will be
attached at Lynchburg to the train fol
Roanoke.
Mr.L.T. Myers, of Richmond, has been
reduced from his position as assistant
superintendent of the railway mail ser.
vice, to that of chief OF 8 division in the
Postofice apartment, with reduction
of 81 900 in his salary.
The Virginia republicans here, white
and black alike, who have been for long
and weary months waiting to reap some
of the benefits of their last years politi-
cal work, are loud in their complaints
of the ingratitude and partiality of the
administration, and are threatening to
get even at the next election or know the
reason why. The shadows murmur,
but the depths are still, and though re-
publicans of real influence are saying
nothing, those who know them say they
are displeased with the way Mr.. Hanna
| is distributing the patronage.
Ex.Congressmsn Bowden OF Virginia,
the referee selected by the administra-
ton in all differences in reference to
Virginis's share of the federal patron
age, is expected here this evening, but
on what business is unknown, as it is
continued to be said at the departments
that no more appointments will be
made until the Presidents return, next
month, and that then few Virginians
will be remembered.
There is rumor current among Vir-
ginians here, started, howsver. on bolt
ers' authority, that Mr.. Ellyson, in the
coming State democratic convention
of his State will move to make the
nomination OF Major Tyler unanimous,
and that he will expect that the con-
vention will re.elect him chairman of
the State committee. He does not
want to be the candidate for Lieutenant
Governor.
Thomas G. Hopkins, deputy collector
of customs at Baltimore, was removed
to-day. No appointment to the va
cancy has yet been made.
The President has appointed Alfred
E. Holton of North Carolina to be
q. s. Attorney for the Western
disttict of North Carolina, and
Darwin E Hall, of Buffalo Lake,
MIMI, to be commissioner to negotiate
with the Chippewa Indians in Mime
sofa nnder the act of June IA, 1889.
VIRGINIA LAWYERS IN SESSION.
The ninth annual meeting of the Vir-