Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-03

dered q decision in which be holds that
calfskins should be classed as hides OF
cattle,n and therefore are dutiable
under the new tariff bill at Is per cent.
ad valorem.
The following fourth.class Virginia
postmasters were appointed to-day: Lee
Mont, F. NJ. Lewis; Rapp's Mill, W. M.
Ackerly.
United States Consul. General Lee, at
Havana, has been informed by judge
of the military court that Fernandez
Cnaquelo, convicted Of rebellion, has
been sentenced to life imprisonment,
I'D that if the sentence we're carried out
il would result in his being sent TO Cen
trail Africa. This would dispose of his
testimony as q witness in the case OF
Gown, an American who was killed by
he Spanish troops. Gen. Lee has adj
iressed note to the governor-general
asking for positive information as to
what decision the Spanish government
has reached in the case.
Mr.. Terrence V. Powderly OF Penn
sylvania, the deposed master workman
of the knights of Labor, to-day took
the prescribed oath and received bis
commission as commissioner general OF
immigration, succeeding MIR. Herman
Stump of Maryland. In answer to in
quiries MIR. Powderly said he had
formulated no particular plans or pol
icy for the administration OF his Office.
He was, however, in favor of strict
and impartial Interpretation of our i'm
migration laws and believed that every
proper effort should be made to keep
out all undesirable classes and to that
end would use means to prevent their
| embarking for this country.
1t is said at the State Department
| that no special commissioner has been
sent by President Mckinley to Hawaii
| as is stated in a San Francisco dispatch,
| and that any person representing him.
self as such has no authority to do so.
A well.informed democratic politi,
| clan from one of the nearby counties
of Virginia, here to-day, says that from
what he learns from correspondence
with democrats in other parts of the
State, his forecast of the Roanoke con-
vention is that the ticket will be Tyler,
Ellyson and Scott, and Senator Martin
as chairman of the State committee.
Capt. Fryer, the builder OF the How
ard Cassard, and now engaged in rail-
road projects in Honduras, has been
here for several days, but will return TO
Honduras some time this week. He says
that is the finest country in the world
and its people the best. He also says
the people of this country. especially
those of New York, are the most ignor-
ant and provincial OF any he knows,
though they vainly imagine they are
the best educated and the most cosmo-
politan.
It is understood that information OF
several felonious assaults upon women
and girls here by negroes has been
concealed by what are called precinct
detectives, with the hope of obtaining
the credit and reward for making the
arrests, but that in every case the cul-
prits have managed to escape, and that
therefore the whole detective force here
may be reorgsnized. and there is some
| talk of the restoration of the ex.chiei
of that force, James McDevitt, to his
old position.
1t is said at the health Office here
that the farm of Mr.. Kintz, several
miles below Fort Foote, on the Mary.
land side of the river, has been selected
as the dumping ground for the garbage,
nightsoil and dead animals of this city.
A republican politician from Prince
Georges county, Maryland, the county
lrectly opposite Alexandria, here to.
day, says the split between the Mudd
and Coffin factions of his party there is
permanent, and in fact that the va.
| carries of the republican leaders in
Maryland since the commencement
of their brief authority have been
80 great that they have driven
The democratic allies back to their old
love, and 80 disguised their own party
as to disorganize aud demoralize it. he
says the election of democratic legis-
| lature and the reelection of Senator
German are now assured, and that he
and many other republicans in the State
will take no part in next falls election.
Mr.. Mclaughlin, the republican ex-
postmaster Of Lynchburg, passed
through here to-day on his way home
from Baltimore. He says there will be
no State convention of his party in
Virginia this year, as from what he can
learn there are only three or four of the
thirty members of the State commit.
tee, which has control of that matter,
who are in favor of such q convention.
BE says Mr.. Agnew makes very eff
cient collector of internal revenue and
is we'll liked by ell who have official
business with him.
1t is now pretty generally understood
here that the reason the President did
not fulfill his promise to appoint Col.
Mosby to a lucrative position in the for
eign service of the government was the
opposition of the G.. A. R. Indeed one
post of that organization in Pennsyl-
vania passed public resolutions protest
ing against the appointment of any
man to q federal position who hsd
"msssacred Union soldiers" But peo-
pie from Richmond here to-day say the
G. A. B. has been invited to hold its
reunion there.
People from Chicago here say that
Capt. Cooke, the populist nominee for
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, was
interested in the exploded scheme for
transforming the baser metals into gold.
A hotel keeper OF this city says mis-
business was never duller than it is
now and that his acquaintance here
in other business tell him it is the same
way with theirs. He said that usually
when the new appropriation bills go