Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-26

ternal revenue, with similar rank and
salary. He doesn't care anything about
the money that's in the Office, and he
only wants it for the honor, but he
wants to be a United States Senator
whenever the Legislature becomes re-
publican. Now comes Judge Waddill,
U. S. district judge, but he is not
happy; he wants to 60 on the U. S. Su-
preme Court bench whenever q good
opportunity is offered. l havn't heard
of but ono republican in our crowd who
is satisfied with the Office he holds and
doesn't want to 60 any higher. 1t is said
that Mr.. Joseph Crupper is content to
be postmaster in Alexandria and wish
es to be let alone. He says he is too
poor TO try his hand in the race for
Congress this year. We Bowdenites
are not much of gang for Office hold
ing, but don't throw away good
thing when we can get it. The Lamb.
ties have left off the Office seeking bust.
ness and turned their attention to Sc
curing government contracts, and if the
Spanish war lasts long enough they will
make more money than all the republi-
can office holders combined will get in
ten years, if the party should remain in
power that long. We are going to put
out full congressional nomination this
fall if we can find men who are willing
to run and pay all their own expenses,
and take chances of getting something
back after the election.
A committee of Masons consisting OF
0t1kn Ennrt-
ney, Woods and Singleton will leave
here on Saturday next for Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, to make arrangements
for the proper observance there OF the
one hundredth anniversary of the death
of General Washington, on the l4th OF
December 1899.
| 1t is the general understand
/ ing in this city that the rep.
resentatives of the foreign gov
ernments here in response to in
quiries upon the subject, have been
given to understand that while the adj
ministration will make no initiatOry
move in the direction of place, but, on
the contrary, is intent upon vigorous
! and active prosecution of the war, it
| will listen to any proposal that Spain
will make, and pending the considera-
ton thereof, will not oppose reason
able armistice.
OF three soldiers who got drunk al
} Camp Alger day before yesterday on
F., wood alchol, which they bought nomi-
nally to clean their accoutrements with,
one is dead, and the other two are still
very i'll.
Among to days army orders is the
=, following: Hospital Steward Robert G.
Milburn, 4th U. 5. Volunteer Infantry.
having been tried and found guilty OF
violation of the 3Sth article of war by
u general court martial convened at
Fredericksburg, Va, was sentenced
''to forfeit to the United States twenty
dollars of his pay and to be confined to
the limits of the camp Of his regiment
for the period of two months. The
court is thus lenient in view of the
promise of the accused to totally alb
stain in future"
A republican from the 1st Virginia
district, here to-day, says the common
talk among the negroes Of his State
| now is that they intend to run can
uluhb6S vi butlI OWu III dll SuC NioSAAStc
of that State next fall, and that the one
they have selected in his, is named
! Lee, who halls from Accomac.
Up to noon the War Department had re-
ceived no news whatever from General Miles.
| The last news received from him was when
| he passed Mole St. Nicholas last Friday.
A sporting" man of this city says, now that
the Western Union has closed its wires to any
other pooling room in this vicinity except the
one at st. Asaph near Alexandria, a large at
tendance is there daily and that the proprie-
tors thereof have cinch ard are doing
sure, safe and exceedingly prof able business.
He also says that among the beno:s there he
occasionally sees stray Aexandran.
Secretary Long, in conversation at the
| White House to-day, said the new battleships
to be built would be constructed moro par
| ticularly with reference to speed. The Ore
gon had made wonderful speed in her chase
| after the Cristobal Colon, practically keeping
| up with the Brooklyn, although the lattcr was
supposed to be much swifter vessel. 1t hal
| thus been demonstrated that if properly con-
structed massive, heavily-armed ship is CO.
cable of great speed