Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.

w AS64Nd1ON, aug AO'
The returns for cotton to the Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate an average
condition of 86.9 on August l, as com.
pared with $50 on July L, an increase
of nine-tenths of one point. The aver
age condition August l, 1856, was So.!
aud the average condition on August L
for the last 10 years is 86.1.
The Navy Department yesterday notl'
fed the Cramp Shipbuilding Company
of the acceptance of their offer to sup
ply diagonal armor for the Alabama at
$500 ton, and.invited the Newport'a
News Company to submit proposals for
supplying the like sort of armor for the
ship Illinois.
A railroad man here to-day, talking
about the arrangement the Mount Yer
non, made with the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for the use of the Long
bridge, said it paid $4,000 a year tor
that privilege, besides paying TOR the
track crossings and the signal houses,
and that that mile of track was the
most profitable one on the whole Penn
sylvanis line.
congressman Bowden and Mr..
Morgan Treat arrived here this morn
ing. 1t is reported that the former WILL
be appointed collector of the port at
Norfolk, which Office is now filed by Mr..
Shields, and was worth last year s., O25,
and that TO the latter will be given the
place of marshal of the eastern district
of his State. Mr.. Bowden went to the
Treasury Department on business con-
nected with the plans for the improve
ment to the public building in Norfolk,
and also to the State Department, In the
interest of a Virginia applicant for a
consulate.
Some of the delegates to the Roanoke
convention from the peighboring conn-
ties in Virginia left here this morning
in special cars, which took on others at
Alexandria and other points close by.
Some of them, talking of political atialrs
in their State, said they understood
that Mr.. Ryan, Of Loudoun county,
would have as rivals for the Speaker
ship of the Virginia House of Delegates,
Mr.. Saunders, of Franklin county, and
Mr.. Maupin, of Henrico, the first OF
whom would be chairman OF the State
convention, and the latter, the au
thor of the famous bill that broke up
morse racing, but allows pool selling, In
Virginia. It was also said that MIR.
George w. Graves, democrat, would be
re. elected to the Legislature from Mad
ison and Greene counties, though the
district has republican majority.
Virginia republicans here to-day say
that Col. Lamb will be paid for his in
sistance upon the calling of State re.
publican convention by being deposed
from his position as chairman OF the
State republican committee, by that
committee at its coming called meeting
at Lynchburg, and that Cononel Stith
Boiling of Petersburg will be elected
in his place.
Acting Secretary Ryan of the interior
department decided to day to issue an
official warning to parties who intend
going to the Alaska gold fields, telling
| of the dangers to be encountered aud
the difficulties involved. The circular
will be based upon the information
which has come to the department
since the rush started.
Virginia postmasters appointed to.
day: Laretto, 81. S. Route vice ]. b
James resigned; Mosley Junction, G
S. Wiscott vice E. A. Mosley, jr., re-
moved.
A Maryland democrat here to day says he
has no doubt that Maryland will again take
her place in the democratic column next fall
as nearly all the democrats there who left their
party last year have realized the folly of
having done so and have returned to it, and
that in his county alone three Of them have
been treated as the prodigal son was. The
party, he said, throughout the State is now
reunited, the only kickers being two or three
newspapers that have gone over to the re-
nuhlicAns.