Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. q.

WASHINGTON, Oct. q.
Nothing is known at the Navy De-
partment about the reported purchase
OF SANTANA, Santo Domingo, for use as
a coaling station, and it is not credited,
as the United States do not now need
SANTANA Bay, having as many coaling
stations in the West Indies as are
wanted.
Tho following changes in the fourth
class postmasters OF Virginia were
made to-day Glover D. Wilburn at
Cody, Halifax county, vice VIM. E.
Reese, resigned; James B. Maddox at
Compton, Page county. vice Daniel V.
Cullers, resigned; O. T. Mason at
Fields, Mecklenburg county, vice Con.
way G.. Hutcheson, resigned; Della l..
Baird at Gesburg, Brunswick county,
vice VIM. Hut, removed: VIM. H.
Fisher at Harrisvlle, Shenandoah
county, vice Wm. H. Borden, resigned
lula o. Finch at Junta, Franklin coun.
ty, vice Daniel a. Twyman, resigned
The case involving the title to the
Potomac flats will, il is expected, be ar
gued in the u S. Supreme Court this
afternoon.
Among the strangers here to-day is
Mr.. Beck, formerly of Alexandria. He
is just from Boston, where, he says,
business is as dull as it is here, and be
doesn't think it could be duller here If
it tried to be.
Private intelligence here is to the eff
feet that the health of Colonel Bryan
has improved so much that his wife,
who was on the point of starting for
Savannah to nurse him. has beer tele-
graphed by him not to come.
G. w. Lewis, hailing from Montgom-
cry county, Virginia, the colored editor
of q newspaper here, says white repub.
iicans are trying to have his wife, who
Is 8 char woman at the government
printing Office, removed, because he has
supported his race in his State in their
opposition 10 white republican candi-
dates for Congress. He says he had sup.
posed that ringers" might be engaged
in such mean business, but had no idea
until now that white people could get
so low. He says that Jones, the col
ored congressional candidate III the Pc
tersburg district, was induced to with
draw by the promise of place for him
self aud wife, and that his Endorsement
would have as much Influence here as
that of the white republican candidate.
Democrats hero are convinced that
the reports of the intention of sending
more battleships to Havana and of the
ann ~ Df l.t.1 I.
Spain were started for the sole Dur-
pose of efecting the coming election,
and that the last thing Spain is think
ing about is fighting, as she has neither
SHIPS, men nor money to fight with.
Major Mason of Albemarle county,
Va, is here to-day, making arrange.
ments for opening his hotel at Char
lottesville, which he will do next
month. He says politics are very
quiet in his county. He hadn't even
heard that so-called gold democrat
was running for Congress against Rep
resentative Hay: and said nobody else
had, in his neighborhood.
Among the internal revenue deci-
sions published to day were the follow
ing:
The mixing OF alcohol with pop
makes the manufacturer liable to tax
as rectifer and the person selling the
mixture to tax SIS liquor dealer.
Football, baseball and other games
given by local. clubs to which an ad-
mission fee is charged not for profit but
to cover expenses" are not liable for
the war tax.
A receipt given by a depositor to q
bank for money received is not taxable
unless the receipt is in such form that,
like check, it becomes negotiable
paper.
a quit claim deed is taxable, accord
ing to the value OF the property interest
conveyed. a nominal amount named
in the deed as considered for the land
transferred is not accepted as the basis
for levying the war tax.
A manufacturer Of hop beer that contains 1