Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-19
WILL NOT MOVE YET.
Troops mt Camp AIger ia Remain
There q Week Longer.

| WASHINGTON, u. c., August 1s.-tSpe
cial.) --Neither the troops at Camp Alge
nor those at Thoroughfare Gap will b
moved Immediately. General Graham. TIL
corps commander, who went to Middle
ton, Pa. the place selected for the mex
Acamp of tho Second Army Corps. yester
day teiegraphed not to send the troops
until he had prepared the grounds. lie
has a company OF engineers at work lay
4 ing off the quarters OF the regiments, bri-
gades, and division OF the corps. This
will take over week, and the troops will
| certainly not move before the latter part
| of next week.
ALLAN's APPOINTMENT DELAYED.
According TO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
raj Boyd. the appointment Of General Ed
gar Allan as United States Attorney Tor
the Eastern District of Virginia Is not
likely 10 be made very soon. He Is not
even certain that it has been determined
upon. Speaking of the matter to-day he
said there was no reason why the present
United States Attorney for that district
should be asked TO resign, and H. ne mas
expressed a willingness to do so tue de-
partment is unaware Of It. Mr.. White is a
most capable and efficient officer. He is
entitled to serve four years from the date
OF his appointment, and unless he desires
TO retire no probably will. This Is the
view fhe Colonel took of the matter, and
no doubt he speaks by the card, as he is
familiar with the matters and details of
the Department of Justice.
MIR. COBBS REPORTED ILL.
of.
vile to the effect that Mr.. Nathan Cobbs,
of Cailands, Pittsylvania county, Va,
who was appointed Consul to Colon to
succeed the late Colonel w. w. Ashby,
was seriously, If not dangerously, i'll. In
quiry at the State Department resulted in
the information that Consul Cobbs had
been heard from within a week, and he
made no mention Of being seriously or
otherwise i'll, but that Consul-General
Gudger, at Panama, had reported that he |
was not in good health, the climate being |
rather trying for him. Mr.. Murphy, Clerk |
N the Consular Bureau of the State De |
)artment, who went down and took |
,harge Of the office after the death of |
Colonel Ashby, and held it until Mr.. Cobbs |
ook charge. said he had personal letter
rom the latter recently, in which he ad-
nitted that he was not in good health, |
,ut did not seem TO think he was in any
LANCER. Mr.. Murphy says this is the rainy
eason there. 1t rains day and night. The
leat is no greater than here, but the cli-
nate is very trying, especially to man
f Mr.. Cobbs's years, he being over Co.
Personal.
Hon. j. Taylor Ellyson Is again in the
lily on private business. He is stopping
It the Metropolitan.
Frank L. Reid, w. p. Reid, of Winston,
7. c., and L. IL. Harris and wife, of Con-
ord, n. c., are in the city. sojourning at
he Metropolitan.
Among the f6urth-class postmasters APP
ointed to-day were the following: NJ. S.
,ratton, vice, G.. F. Eakle, removed, at |
'oier, Bath county, Va: j. y. wilson,
ice Josiah Davis, removed at Meadow
'reek, Grayson county, Va; Andrew
tone, vice ID. ]. Sclater, removed, at
nion Mills, Fluvanna county, Va.
Sarah l.. Hooper has been commits
oned a fourth-class postmistress at
ig Ridge, n. C.-not a money-order
lice.
New offices have been established at
emia. Buncombe county N. c.. Leander
. Davis, postmaster, and at West Ashe-
lie, Buncombe county, N. c., Henry L.
erren, postmaster.
Post-office statistics show that among
fly of the largest offices in the country
ie receipts of the Richmond Office for
ne month of July, 1897, have been $l7,l2i,
nd for July, 1898, $1,000, a decrease of
I15.