Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. q.

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON, Aug. q.
Consul General Karel, at St. Peters
burg, in report to the State Depart
ment gives some information concern.
ing wages in Russia. 1t appears, &C.
oording to the report, that the use OF
machinery has caused falling of in
the wage rate. A workman with q
horse is paid one ruble and SIXTY CO.
pecks per day. The ruble is valued at
5l.4 cents and the copeck is one-hun.
dedth part of ruble. A great deal OF
the machinery in use is very crude.
Chauncey M. Depew, General Fitz'
gerald, w. s. Pierce, ]. 81. Schift, OF
New York, and Marion Hughite, OF
Chicago, members of the Union Pacific
Reorganization committee, had a con-
sultation to-day with Attorney General
McKenna relative to- the DEGREES re-
comfy entered In the United States
Courts for the foreclosure sale of the
Union Pacific to satisfy the first mort.
gage and the governments second
mortgage.
The following fourthclass postmasters
for Virginia were appointed o.day: Bel
field, J. r. Everett; Darlington Heights,
Edward Shorter Dry Bridge, ]. B. Mar
tin Hardie, G. @. Perdue; KilmarDock,
g. IL. Cisson Lincolnia, J. B. Carter;
Linville, l. N. Re;nhardt Lowry, Han
na Byrne; Mappsville, NJ. A. Walsh ;
Poindexter, P. g. Perkins; Rixeyville,
W. G. Jameson Saumsville, J. b.
Spioker Springvale, P. A. Stoy Tylers,
W. T. Swift; Union Level, Darthula
Ogburn Marlborough, L. A. Easter ;
West Lynchburg, E. O. Carroll.
Secretary Sherman will make one
speech in the Ohio campaign this fall.
The time or place has not yet been de-
cided upon but will be fixed by the
chairman of the State committee. The
secretary will not leave here until at.
ter the return of the President and
First Assistant Secretary Day. Mr..
Mckinley is expected to return about
September Is. Judge Day will return
the last of next week.
As previously announced in this cor
respondence, the Offices of the two
American consular agencies on the
Isthmus of Panama have been abolish
ed. That is, they have been allowed to
lapse, that now held by Col. Dick Win.
tersmith, of Kentucky, becoming va
can't to-day, and that filled by DR..
Bradley, of Prince William county,
Va, on the 30th proximo. Their duties
will devolve upon the consuls at Pana-
ma and Colon. A republican has al
ready been appointed consul at Pana-
ma, but no one has as yet been selected
for Colon. Among the numerous appli-
cants for the latter position is MIR. W.
w. Ashby, of Spottsylvania county,
Va, but it is reported that Secretary
Gage promised his predecessor, Mr..
Carlisle, that Col. Wintersmith should
have that place.
Virginia republicans here to-day say
there will surely be convention OF
their party in their State, and also, that
among those who favor it are both the
republican Congressman from Virginia,
Gen. Walker and Mr.. Yost. The Ida.
mond four" as the other members of
the executive committee of the Virginia
republicans are called, gave it out, when
they were here recently, that both the
Congressman referred to would abide
by the action OF the recent meeting of
tie State committee, which was against
a convention.
Mr.. Wilson, the deputy commissioner
of internal revenue, reiterated to-day
what he said two weeks ago in reference
to the power of collectors of internal
revenue to remove and appoint their
district deputies, which is, that while
they can remove them on sustained
charges, they cannot appoint their sue
oessors, who must be taken from the
list of those who have passed success
full competitive examinations, or who
are ex.federal soldiers. He said such
was the ruling of the internal revenue
bureau and of the Treasury Depart
uent, and that it would be observed.
Colonel Brady, who has been ap-
pointed collector of internal revenue
for the lower district of Virginia, is
closing up his law business here and
will assume the duties of his Office in
Richmond on the first of September.
He has, at the instance ofthe President,
offered his chief deputyship to Mr.. Will
liam Malone, but he, it is understood;
will not sccept it. To whom the
Colonel will NEXT offer it is not yet
known.