Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-24
FRoM WASHINGTON.
[speial Correspondence Of Che ALEXANDRIA Gasefte'
wasr.rrsc rnsa D O.. JulY q. 1891.

Special Correspondence Of the AleTahaTsa 1azeleel
WASHING roa. D. O.. July a. 1891.
Nov that the faes about the Health o.
ecer Of thIs city has stopped, another one
about his chic: clerk has commenced, ena
efforda co!umus of stuff for the local neWs-
naners. DR.. Esmmett, as heretofore etsteo
10 this correspondence, has appointed Mr.
s. P BayIy, IT,, to the place referred TO, as
he had right to do, tut there Ia man
named Crane here who is mad because ne
did not get 1t, and the newspapers mere
favor him. He Ia radical republican, Dns
for all that, 1t Is rumored that Crane wanted
the place Ia order to have better opporeu
uIsy for examining the papers 10 the ONCE IN
reference to Commissioner douglass, 20
whom be Is opposed. Dr.. stone, OF This
oity. has written letter to DR.. Asmmett,
approving bis appointment Of Bsyly and
giving excellent reasons why Crane should
not have been appointed.
A gentleman from West Virginia here to-
day says that though Senator Kenna OF that
State Ia OF the opinion, according to recent
interview, that Mr.. Cleveland will be re-
nominated, If Mr.. Germans name be brought
before the convention the West Virginia
delegation will support him to man. The
gentleman referred to also says that Senator
Kenna Is In very bad health.
Secretary Foster still insists that there ls
a large surplus in the Treasury, but when
people interested In the Indian bills ask him
when those bills will be paid, they can get
no satisfaction. Congress provided for the
about four million dollare, and though that
psrment was due on the first Of this month
end it ls now near the end OF II, not Only
are shey not paid, but the first step toward
the!r peyment has yet to be made, and no.
body can tell when Ii will be. AZ there is
NJ conceivable reason why the bills should
not hs paid, except the best of ell the lack
of the requisite money, Secretsry Fosters
roseate view OF tho condition of the Tressn-
~ is generally supposed to indicate collar
blindness, If not 6 worse disease.
The Baresu of American Republics Is In
formed that en- association called THE
American Colored Mems Mexican Colonial
ton Company" is planning to establish
colony OF negro farmers coming chitt1y
from the States of Mississippi and Tonnes
see, In the State of Sonora, Mexico, and 1t
has arranged for the purchase OF tract CT
100 600 acres about twenty miles south OF
Yuma, Arizona, on the Southern Pacific
Raiirosd, at O pace where the remains OF
the Lerdo Colony. founded by Mr.. q. And
ra6e of San Francisco. still remains.
A macs meeting will be held at Balston,
Alexsrdrie county, tonight OF which pro-
position will be submitted that the county
buy stone crusher aud road-roi!er su0 that
8 road Inspector be appointed TO zee that the
work CT mscsdamzpg tbe roads In thai
county he properly done, il IS expected
thst the people living ssiopg tha line Of the
roads Will haul st Cheap rates The loose stone
on their leDG 10 tie ae3rcst point on the
roads, snd the Dlen Is that :he E0rk o. the
raschiue soel be divided cqnslsy among the
three districts info which The County Is d.
yidea. /: Ia said that nearly eighty lhcu-
sad dolisrs nave been spent on ths rosds
sinGe the 1sv, end they are &c better DoT
than they weye then.
CJl. L @. Washington OF this oisg is be-
Ing geperaiiy o. mpiimented to-day hy south
arm pecole here rpon his recent latte, 10 the
Powha:ap Cub O! Richmond, Virginia, Ia
which the following paragraph OCCURS;
~ am in full sympathy with the stand your
club has taken against the enforced association of
negroes and whites in the street-cars of Richmond
and hope it mskes feeling in the South which
will tske cognizance OF tho fer graver offence OF
prominent Presidential sspirsnt who repeatedly
invited negroes to the White House to meet at
his receptions tho wives and daughters Of tho
southorn congressman whose States bad gener-
oCsy givon hin their votes.
His reference, Of course, ia to e1-Prssjdent
Cievelsnd.
1t ia reported here that some objection has boon
made b = some OF the stockholders in the Rich
mond and Dsnyi lie Railroad Company to the pro-
POSED transfer of the general Office OF that COM
pany from this city to Atlanta, but that all the
lame the transfer wiz be nsde at the eud OF next
month and thst all those employed in The Office will
either have to go with it or else resign. The rea-
son Tor the transfer has not yet been assigned.
Tho loss 10 this city will not be noticed and
tainlT the gsiu to Allan ia will be inappreciable.