Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENTS OF the Alexandria GaEette.l
Washington. August y.

The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has reversed The ruling concerning
the afixiug OF stamps to pawn ticKets,
which contained clause charging LOT
storage. This has been common Gus
tom of pawnbrokers to evade STATE
laws against usury. The Commissioner
holds tnat the % cent stamp required
for warehouse receipts will not have to
he affixed when goods are pledged I'M
less there is bona tide storage agree.
ment. as in the case of safes, household
furniture or other bulky material.
The Diamond Shoals lightship,
which has been anchored 10 miles oil
Cape Hatteras. has broken her anchor
chains and drifted ashore. The light
house tender Maple has been dispai ched
from Baltimore to pull the lightship of
Though the recent proceedings OF the
Carter court martial were supposed to
be secret, it appears that all in them at
al favorable to the Captain have found
their way into the newspapers.
A prominent Virginia democrat here
today says that of the seventy five
members of the legislature of his State
already nominated or who have Sc
cured the support OF the delegates to
the conventions 10 make the nomina-
ton, all but ten are for Senator Mar
tin, and only FIVE of the remainder for
Governor Tyler, the remaining FIVE be-
ing doubtful.
An intelligent resident of Hampton,
here today, says that when another
citizen of his town was first told that
yellow fever had broken out at the
Soldiers Home, he exclaimed traits, "
but that what he said has proved true,
as it has been discovered that large
uumber OF rats had been poisoned there
and had gone to the well for water and
died in il, and that all the people who
died there had drunk the water of that
well.
A democrat from the Ninth Virginia
district, now in this city, talking to-
day about ex Congressman Walkers
recent visit here said he heard it was on
business connected with the contest he
is making for the seat to which Judge
Rhea has been elected, but that he
might as we'll have staid at home, ss
7verybody in the district knows he was
fairly and legally defeated, and that his
attempt to kill the republican counsel
employed by the contestee would do
him harm with the republican majority
in the next House.
A member of the Wsrrenton Horse
Show Association, here today, says Mr.
John Hooe, formerly Of Alexandria,
has been elected Vice President OF that
association.
Mr.. Frank Hume, on whose land
near Alexandria, the Seventh Day Ad
veDtists held their recent camp meeting,
says the managers OF it told him it was
the most successful meeting they ha0
ever held.
AS the populist; will nominate MIR
RYAN and as the democrats will not
Ike to have to endorse the nominee
of a populist convention, prominent
democrats here are in favor of very
early convention of their party so as to
forestall the populists.
From the way the republican mem
bers of the House, now here or who
nave recently been here, talk, it is plain
that strong effort will be made by the
republicans in the House, at the reor
| gaDization of that body, to destroy the
one man rule thereof established by
Mr.. Reed, and to make legislation sub
ect more than it has of late been to the
members of that body rather than tc
the Speaker.
The prevailing impression on the subject
here now IS that while arrangements are be
ing made for sending q large army to Manila
the President is not at all satisfied with the
prospect there and that while he will threat
en- General Aguinsldo with destruction, be
will at the same time suggest to him that if s
large sum Of money will induce him to dis
band his forces temporarily, 80 that there
may he suspension of hostlites until after
the next republican convention and nationa
election, he has only to state the amount.
Kentucky democrats now here say the pre-
vsiling impression there on the subject is that
the boilers there have parted with them fol
good and will never como back again, anC
also that many republicans there will take nc
part in the present campaign, on account Of
the way in which their party has treated it:
swn Governor, Mr.. Bradley.