Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
fCorresuondance Of the Alexandria Gasette.]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.


An order issued to-day in respect OF
section 10 of the new tariff bill directs
that all violations of the section be re.
ported to the commissioner OF internal
revenue, but no seizure shall be made
without specific instructions from him.
The President has appointed Charles
W. Kindrick, of Louisiana, consul 81
Ciunad, Jaurez, Mexico.
J. A. Eggborn was appointed post
master at Eggbornsville, Va, to day.
Under orders of the War Department
Capt. P. II. Ray and Lieut.. Richardson
have started for Alaska. Their orders
are to 20 as far as Circle City, at least,
and make as much of an investigation
of the conditions at the gold fields as
the short time remaining of this season
will permit. They will sail on the 9Th
from Seattle, and the War Department
officials are confident that they will
not only be able to get into the Klon-
dixie region this season but also to
make their exit before the country ID
closed by winter. Upon the report of
Capt. Ray will depend the action of the
War Department in the matter of estab.
fishing q post and military force 10
the vicinity of the gold fields.
A North Carolina democrat here to-
day says that owing to the favorable
season the corn, cotton and tobacco
crops of his State will be exceptionally
fine. but that the failure of the Ashville
bank in consequence of the inability
of those to whom it lent money to pay
their notes, shows the present great
impecunosity of the people.
Mr.. Robert N. Harper, ofthe Virginia
democratic association of this city. has
| just completed arrangements with the
Southern Railroad Company for spe'
cial coach to take the delegates from
Alexandria city and county and Lou
doun county to the Roanoke conven-
ton. This coach will be exclusively
for the delegates and will go straight
through to Roanoke without change.
1t will be attached to the regular train
leaving Washington at S:l2 on the
morning of the 10Th and meet the Lou.
doun delegates at the Washington and
Ohio junction, and those from Alexan.
dria at that city.
An old time professional gambler Of
this city, talking to-day about the bet
ting now carried on at st. Asaph under
the laws of Virginia, said those laws
had broken up the old time fair aud
genteel sports of faro and racing, and
substituted in their places pool selling,
which latter ID system of cheating
from the race tracks where races are
run, to the rooms where pools are sold,
and though some money is lost by it,
very little is made, most of it going to
the railroads and to the telegraph Of
fees.
A well-informed and intelligent cor
respondent of Richmond newspaper
here, who sees many of the politicians
of different parts of that State who come
here, says that from what he can learn
he is induced to believe that Attorney
General Scott will be renominated. He
SAYS the different candidates for his
place are strong in their respective dis
tricts, but no where else, while Major
Scott, not only has his own district, but
has friends in all the others.
1t is understood at the Treasury De-
partment to-day that while nothing has
as vet been done toward remov.
ing the headquarters of the upper
internal revenue district of Virginia
from Lynchburg to Alexandria,
as there is no law nor regulation
to prevent such removal, and as the
business of the Office can be transacted
as we'll in the latter as in the former
city, the removal will probably be made,
as the collector favors it, and that
probably two other similar removals
will be made at the same time, but not
yet.
General Weyler has addressed note
to U. S. Consul General Lee saying
that neither the general government
of Cuba nor that of Matanzas has any
knowledge of the declaration which
counsel for Samuel T. Toion alleges he
made before the chief of police of Ma.
tanZas.
Congressman Walker, of Virginia,
has gone, with some of the other mem
bers of the House, to examine the har-
Dor at Monaco, Cal.
An intelligent bolter of this city, who
has just returned from trip to Rhode
Island and Pennsylvania, acknowledges
the error of his way and says he will
know better next time. he says the
factories, mills and workshops in the
former State are closing or suspending
every week, and that in the latter a
large manufacturer told him no work
was being done at his establishment and
that at the present rate of orders he had
enough stock on hand to last four years.
Congressman Jones, of Virginia, and
Mr.. Lloyd Smith, of his district, passed
through here to-day for the Hot Springs
of Virginia to attend meeting of the
Virginia Bar Association to be held
there on the 4th inst, and will then at
tend the State democratic convention.
The former says the latter will have the
solid strength of his entire district for
the nomination for Attorney General.
They both say they are opposed to the
new. tangled idea of president" for
the University of Virginia.
Colonel Delaware Kemper, consul at Annoy,
| China, under the last administration, left here
this morning for Alexandra, in which city
he will reside
A YOUNG GIRL MIssING.-Frederick
Shottar q resident of Fairfax. reported