Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorraspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.

The President to-day appolnteo u.
N. Cooper, D. S. marshal for the north
ern district of Alabama; Abraham l..
Lawshe deputy auditor for the Post
Office Department; Patrick J. Miniter
sssayer in charge of the U. 3. assay
Office at Deadwood, S. D.
The Marine hospital service received
to-day the following message from DIR.
Oliphant, president OF the Louisiana
Board of Health, dated at New Orleans,
last night: During the "a hours end
ing at 6 q. IN. to-day two cases OF yell
low fever: two others considered sus'
picous. Summary of cases OF yellow
fever to date IS, one death; type OF dis
ease extremely mild"
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster of Iowa was
to day, on motion of Mrs. Ellen Spen-
Ger Mussey, admitted to practice in the
Supreme Court of the District OF Co.
lumbia.
The President was very busily en-
gagged at the White House to day.
Several members of the Cabinet were
in consultation with him during the
morning, Congressman and other dis
tinguished visitors called and all day
long the ante. chambers were thronged
with Office seekers. Among those who
saw the President were Secretaries
Sherman, Bliss, Alger; Assistant Sec
| rotary Day, Assistant Secretary Roose.
! Welt. Senator Platt, congressman Low
and Hurley of New York, Congress-
man Willis of Delaware, ex Congress
men Waddill and Bowden of Virginia,
Judge A. G. Thompson of Ohio, ex'
Congressman Sulloway of New Hamp-
shire, Bishop Grant of Philadelphia
| and Samuel J. Randall, jr., Of Phila.
deIphia. 1t is learned to-day from ab-
solutely authoritative sources that the
statements published to the effect that
Senator Platt had urged Secretary
Bliss to accept the regular republican
nomination for mayor of Greater New
York, and that President Mckinley
had added his appeal to that of the
New York Senator, are utterly without
foundation. After his visit to the
President Congressman Low of Brook
lyn announced that the appointment of
Silas G. Crofts as.surveyor of the port
of New York had been decided upon
and would be made in a few day 8.
Bishop Grant of Philadelphia and
Bishop Gaines of Georgia are very
much interested in Judson Lyons, one
of the most prominent colored men in
Georgia, and urge his appointment as
Register of the Treasury.
It is understood that an arrangement
has been reached in the matter of the
postmastership of Augusta, Ga, where
by the appointment will 90 to w. ID:
Stallings, white man. 1t ia stated
that Lyons, the negro applicant, will be
given position in Washington.
Secretary Gage left here for Chicago
to day to be gone until about October
10.
General Ransom, of North Carolina,
ex-Minister to Mexico, is here, looking
we'll and hearty, his rest from public
work and his more agreeable occupa-
ton of attending to the duties of his
large plantation having proved highly
beneficial to his health. he says he
spends his leisure hours in reading over
| the old Senatorial debates, such as those
between Calhoun and Clay and Hayne
and Webster, and old novels such as
those of Scott, and regrets that those OF
| the present day are 30 inferior to them.
The remains of the late DR.. Bedford
Brown of Alexandria that were inter
red here yesterday came from that city
wrapped in the Confederate flag and
we're carried TO the grave so wrapped.
It is said that it was the first instance
of the kind that ever occurred here,
aud that Alexandria is the most un
reconstructed city in the entire South.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
present Armor Plate Board has not the
power, even if favorable to a govern
ment plant for the manufacture of ar
NOR plate, to select the site for such a
plant, the members of that board and
others in authority here are being talk.
ed to on the subject by influential peo.
pie, who represent to them that though
| Alexandria has not the material for
such plate, she has every facility for OBJ
tanning it, and that if the plant be To-
| Gated at Alexandria it will not only be
under the very eyes of the Navy De.
partment, but be close to the testing
ground.
The attention of the Treasury
Department has been called to the fact
that the Universal Postal Congress, re.
| Gently in session here, agreed on a
scheme of colors for postage stamps to
be used by all nations in the Postal
Uoion. The color of the two.cent
United States stamp as agreed upon
was carmine, so that the proposed
change to green will not be made.
The President told Senator Plat, of
New York, yesterday, that he consid-
cred him the representative of the reg
| ular republican organization of his
! State, and that therefore his sympathies
are with him, but that he could not in
terfere with the differences in the party
in New York city.
Mr.. Stump, of Baltimore, ex.commis
sioner of immigration, here to-day, says
the quarrels the republicans of his city
and State are having with each other
are not only helping the democrats
there collectively, but Senator German
individually.
One of the cases to come up before
the O. s. Supreme Court at its next
session is that to determine the legal
boundary line between Maryland and
Virginia.
Gen. GUSTS Lee has not only given
SC, 900 to Washington and Lee Univer-
sity, but recently gave tract of land
near the Arlington reservation to the
ThanloOica1 Eeminarv paar laYaDdria