Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF tbs s.sx&idr's 6sHette.
Washington, June %.

Correspondence OF tbs s.exsndr's 6sHette. Il
Washington, June %.
It WAS freely admitted at the War
Department this morning that the army
in the Philippines would at once be re-
inforced TO the full quota OF 5000
The men will be obtained by recruiting
in the regular way and this work is a.
ready going on and arrangements are
being made to ship them to Manila I'M
mediately. The news from there is OF
a character to Indicate the necessity OF
furnishing reinforcements. The insur.
gents are defeated in every engage
monts as official reports read, but
evidently they will not stay defeat
ed. The latest report from there is to
the effect thai they are gathering near
ly ten thousand strong and are prepar-
ing for an attack on San Fernando.
Riohman Coles, agrioulturisJ and
dalryman, of Woodstowp, N. j., this
morning told the industrial commission
the prices of agricultural products in
his State were lower than they had
ever been 10 his recollection, and wages
were higher. Farming was not as
profitable as it was some years ago.
Truck farmers in New Jersey had sui.
fered very much through competi-
ton in the South, and for the past ten
years the railroads had been giving low
rates and bringing immense quantities
OF fruits end vegetables from that sec.
ton. New Jersey dsirymen also felt
keenly the competition in milk. Tbs
railroads, according TO Mr. Coles,
charged dsirymen as much to haul
their stuff 25 miles to Philadelphia as
they did people in the same business
living 200 miles away. Mr.. Coles in.
sisted that farmers were as much en-
titled 10 protection as manufacturers.
aud he thought protective wall should
be built around this country to keep
out all farm products that in any way
N ght iniure home producers. Labor
was scarcer than some years ago, being
due to the fact that men quit the farms
in order to obtain better wages in the
factories. S. B. Katchum, of PenDing-
ton, n. j., farmer, testified to the
same effect.
The fact is noticed here that though
this government processes to be intent
upon benevolently assimilating the
Filipinos at present, its representatives
at The Hague International congress
yesterday voted against the abolition
of explosive bullets in time of war.
1t is understood here that as soon as
The Presidents recent change in the
civil service rules shall be formulated
by the commissioner of internal rev.
enue and sent to the collector OF the
Alexandria district, in Virginia, six
democratic deputy collectors and about
twenty five storekeepers and eaugers in
that district, will be removed and their
places be filled by republicans.
The personal friends OF General Har-
~ Heth, an ex.Confederate, who has
been i'll at his hume here for some
weeks, say today that his life cannot
last more than q day or two at most,
and may end at any moment.
Quite number of Virginia republi-
can were here today. at their usual stop
ping place, the Johnson Hotel. Among
them were Messrs. Kimberly, CAST,
Treat, Thorp and others. One of them
whose name is not included among
those printed, is By 40 means pleased
wi,h the equal division OF the CENSUS
employees between the two political
parties, and said that if an election were
held tomorrow he didn't believe the re-,
publican ticket in his State would re.
ceive forty thousand votes, even with q
fair count.
Some of the party who accompanied
the army officers to Fredericksburg to
Inspect the battle6elds near that town
TWO or three days ago, have returned.
They rode over all the fields. including
those of Fredericksburg, the Wilder
4ss, aud Charlottesville, and, strange
as it msy seem, say that some of the
earthworks thereof, after all these
years, during which trees whose trunks
are as large as mans body have
grown up liz them, are in good condi.
ton for occupation now. Should it be
determined 10 make national park of
those 6elds, several thousand acres of
land would have to be purchased, but
land, they say, is very cheap there now,
and the price thereof cannot be in
creased appreciatively, as the legisla-
lure of Virginia has authorized the
park company to have it condemned
for their purposes.
An old established merchant Of this city
being asked today about the condition of
business here, hesitated moment and then
replied, We'll. improving-that is, in the as.
signment line" But the bankers here as
tverywh else, say business is booming.