Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandra Gazette

Colonel Mosby is here. He will have
a glass eye adjusted &c the socket Of the
natural one ne recently lost at Char.
next Monday. He and Dir.
Huntington, the great railroad king,
who are personal friends, had talk at
the lat:er's hotel to-day.
The motion for new trial in the case
of Capt. S. 3. Davis of Alexandria vs.
the Norfolk Steamboat Company was
argued in the District Court here yes
terday, but not being completed, went
over until next week.
People from Richmond, here to-day,
say the State board of education has re-
elected Mr.. Shumate, the present gu
perintendent of schools for Loudoun
county.
Race horse people here say there ia
nothing "to" the dispatch from Elkton,
Maryland, to the effect that as the race
track there has been closed, oners have
been made to the proprietors of the
race tracks in Alexandra county to re-.
open theirs, and answers thereto are
anxiously awaited.
Experience here in respect of office
seekers ia to the effect that those who
bring large delegations to back them
are usually successful, while those who
are content TO rest their cases with their
Congressional representatives are just
as usually left in the vocative. Vir
GINA republicans would do we'll to
avail themselves of this information.
Congressman Swanson, of Virginia,
recently received letter from con-
stituent, telling him that be had acct
dental heard tina, bis uame ted bseu
signed 10 petition for the removal OF d
postmaster Ia his district, md asking
him to ind out if it were true, for if 50,
it was a forgery. Mr.. Swanson went to
the Postofice Department to look at
the petition, but was Informed by the
( b assistant Postmaster General that
ne could not noe it, and that nobody ex-
cept Mr.. Bowden would be allowed to
do so.
Democrats who vainly supposed that
hey were protected by the civil service
law are being removed daily from the
departments here and their places CIV
en- to republicans who claim to be ex
Union soldiers, and who do not have to
stand competitive examinations.
A republican U. s. Senator told the
the GAzETTE's correspondent to-day
that though the fact is well-known
that all the people in Cuba with any
real.interest in the welfare Of that island
look with dread upon the improbable
success of the insurgents, he wouldn't
be at all surprised if this government
would be foolish enough to do some
thing that would involve it in trouble
with Spain, and that Mr.. Speaker Reed
had been the only effective obstacle to
such folly; the Senate, said he, is even
more intent upon committing such folly
than the House.
Henry F. Bauer, paying teller OF the
Lincoln National Bank, died here this
morning.
The President to-day sent the fol-
lowing nominations to the Senate ::
Andrew d. Barlow, of Missouri, to be
consul general at the City of Mexico;
Harold s. VanBuren, of New Jersey, to
be consul at Nice; Carl Bailey Hurst
of the District of Columbia, to be con-
sui general at Vienna; Henry Fl. Nor.
gan, of Louisiana, to be consul at
Horgen; VIM. W. Canada, of Indiana,
to be consul at Vera Cruz.
The Senate committee on civil SER
vice to-day resumed its hearings, Cap
tain Pratt, superintendent of the Car
Isle Indian school, continuing his tes.
timony. He criticised the civil service
system in the Indian service, saying
that long as he had been in the work
ne doubted whether he could pass an
examination. w. N. Mailman, super
intendent of Indian schools, followed
Mr.. Pratt. He admitted that only his
conscience stood in the way of his
showing preference to persons of any
particular political faith. Shelby Smith,
compositor at the government print
ing Office. said the trades unions were
not favorable to the system and that
the national union had pronounced
against the system. w. w. White
said he had been employed in the
Treasury Department since 1876 and
that he had been changed every time
the administration changed regardless
of the civil service. He declared tina.
he had never heard of any men in
Office whom the law did protect and
that its only effect was to keep men
out OF Office.
The front of the Boston Variety
Store, located on Market Space be-
tween 7th and Sth streets, fell outward
this afternoon but fortunately with no
serious results, the only one injured
being James Hamilton, a white man,
who was passing the store at the time
and was caught beneath the falling
bricks and scaffolding. His injuries are
slight. The store was undergoing re.
pairs. 1t is owned by Emmons S.
Smith.
On the arrival of the President and
his party at Nashville they will be es.
corted by four companies of infantry
from Fort Thomas, near Louisville,
with the entire regimental band sta.
toned there.
Virginia fourth class postmassers
were to-day appointed as follows
Bremo Bluff, G. w. Smith; Garrison
vile, J P. Garrison; Millboro Spring,
J. r. Cosby; Pratls, NJ. :. Bovmau;
Sycamore Station, NJ J. Keesee; Tim
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