Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Aexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, July 20.

Hundreds of idle negroes are seen
every day near the south end OF the
Long Bridge and at negro resorts IN
this city, but Fairfax county farmer
here to-day says he and some OF his
neiehbors have great difficulty in OBJ
tanning negro hands to plough their
corn crop, though they offer good wages
for such work.
Mr.. Cowden of Vienna, Fairfax
county, is now perfecting scheme by
which dynamite, from balloons sent up
from the Florida coast, can be dropped
upon Havana and other cities in Cuba,
aud upon the camps of Spanish soldiers
in that island, with such disastrous Ell
I, c.s that the succt 50 Of the insurgents
will be assured. ,.
The newspaper report o the effect
hat the State Department has decided
at Waller, the negro ex consul 10
Ia native, and recently liberated from
d French prison, for crime against
no French government, has legal
li,le to large mineral tract in NADIA
ga car, is denied at that department.
The Secretary of the Interior, not
SATISFIED with the $3.50, 100000 an
nually paid for pensions thirty-two
wears after the close of the war, Is
sued orders to the commissioner OF
pensions to-day not to be so rigid 10
the examination of applications for pen
sions, and informed him that the object
of The pension laws was to facilitate,
not to hinder, the granting OF pensions,
An Alexandria county democrat
here to.day says that MIR. Louis b
Machen of Fairfax county will make
the speech nominating Mr.. Cation Tor
Lieut.. Governor at Roanoke. and that
Mr.. Andrew Lipscomb of AlsXandns
county, the Presidential elector for that
district in last years campaign, will
make the speech secondingthat nomi-
nation.
Messrs. Agnew and Brady. the two
Internal revenue collectors in Virginia,
were here to-day. Under the new civil
service rules, they have little patronage
at their disposal, and the applicants
who crowded the latter's Office yester-
day have already folded their tents like
the Arabs and silently stole away.
Under those rules Mr.. Aenew has only
five places at his disposal, chief depu-
ty, whom he has already appointef, a
cashier at Lynchburg, aud three stamp
agents, one at each OF the cities of Al
exandria, Lynchburg and Danville, TO
all OF which he will appoint republicans
in place of the democrats who now ill
hem. 1t is needless to say that the
sew rules are anything else than agree
lble to the many Virginia republicans
who have been expecting positions IN
The internal revenue service in that
State, and they are already expressing
Iukewarmnes5 liz their party's cause.
A prominent Virginia republican
nere to-day, in talking about the treat
ment Colonel Mosby has received from
his administration, says be hears the
Colonel's way to lucrative position
was unobstructed until the G. A. r.,
who are opposed to tye recognition OF
any Confederate, interferred, and
bat their opposition YVES effective.
There is no doubt of the fact that the
President not only informed the
Colonel. but other prominent and re-
liable republicans, that be intended 10
give him good place.
The partial eclipse of the sun was
watched today by the astronomers at the
Navsl Observatory but there was little
scientific in the event owing to the fire
orency of such phenomena. The first
contact was at $50 o'clock, the greatest
obscuration at 1880 The seeing
was good during the first contact but
!u;er was more obscured more or less
by clouds. The usual amount OF popu'
lar interest in the event was shown by
The lumber of observers on the street
watching the eclipse through smoked
! glasses.
Admiral Walker, Captain Carter and Pro.
| fessor Haupt, the new Nicaragua canal com.
mission, held q preliminary meeting at the
| Var Department to day. Before final report
IS made, the commission will make personal
Examination of the canal route and its sur
| ,oundings
State Department officials are very reticent
upon the subject of the objection which has
ben lodged against the reception of Captain
W L. Merry OF San Francisco, as United
states minister to Nicaragua. Costa Rica and
salvador to succeed Lewis Baker. 1t is gath
cred that the objection is preferred by one OF
the three cou otrles TO VIII ch Mr.. Merry is
accredited snd that one of The other two his
supp ,rted it altogether as a matter of courtesy
towards 8 comra 70 in the league which forms
the Greater Republic OF Central America
The objection Itself is understood to ouch
the man and not the policy of this govern
ment in appointing minister 10 combina-
ton Of countries which does not include all OF
the countries included in the Greater Repub-
lie. There arc now two ministers to the Cen
trail American States. 1t may be that here.
after there will only be one.
The President made the following appoint
ments to-day: Church Howe, Nebraska, con-
sui 1t Palermo; Luther w. Osborn, Nebraska.
{ ,nsul general at Apia and Nukua!ofa; John
N. Rufir, Tennessee, consul at Asuncion; A.
H Byington, Connecticut, consul at Naples;
.amuel II. Taylor, Ohio, consul at Glasgow;
Ciustave c.. E. Weber, Ohio. consul at NureD
berg John 1. Bittinger, Missouri, consult
general at Montreal; John Jenkins, Nebraska,
consul at San Salvador; VIM. w Touvelle,
Ohio, consul at Belfast; Wm. P. Smyth, Mis-.
souri,, consul at Hull; Griffith W. Prees, Wis
,onsin consul at Swansea; Urban j Ledoux,
Maine. consul at Three Rivers; Wilbur s
Glass, South Dakota, consul ut kehl; George
II. Jackson. Connecticut, consul at Cognac;
Hugh Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, consul at Ham.
burg Ira B. Myers Indiana, consul st St.
Johns; Benjamin Nusbaum, Pennsylvania
consul at Munich; Johu n. McCuDn, Wiscon-
sin, cous vi st Dumfermine; Michael Burke,
Illinois, consul al Port Stanley and st. Th0m-
as; Edward D. Hinslow Illirois, consul at
stock holm; Hezekiah A. Gudger, Moth
Carollua, consul-general at Panama; James
Johnston, New jersey, consul at Sheffield.
secretsry Long has rejected the offer of the