Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-04-02
FROM WASHINGTON.

WAsHINaroN. d. c.. April 2. 1921
People from along the line of the Msnas-
sas Railroad, who arrived here this morning,
aay..the negro Bland. who shot and killed
Jim Legg, at Oak Hill night before last,
made no attempt to escape, and says he
only shot in self-defepse. He YVES arrested
| yesterday aud taken to Warrentou, and
committed to jail for trial. They say the
water in the Shenandoah at Rverton has
risen about twenty feet, and that the bridge
hands there were at work oil night 10 keep
Jog the spans from being clogged with Drift
They also cay the MsDsssas road is being re-
laid with the heaviest steel rails, and that
thirty miles of il, commencing aC the l4.h
mile post above Manassas have already bsen
30 relaid, and that the present impression
on the subject ia that the fieightsge Of that
road will soon be largely decreased.
1t is rumored at the Department OF Justice
tc- lay that the new land judges will bs sp-
rointed either this or next week. Judge
Thomas Smith, formerly of Wetrenton, but
now of New Mexico, is strongly backed for
oue Of them.
Up to the hour OF recess to-day nothing
of interest had occurred in the kncaid MUIR
der case, the only testimony taken being
that of the doctors. The court room was
TANNED, and hundreds who tried to enter
we're unable to do go. Il was supposed that
argument would commence this evening.
At one O'Clock to-day water on the wagon
road at Jackson City WAS three feet deep,
and the people 10 the houses there were get
ting ready to move At Georgetown the
water 10 the river had rlsen over the wharves
and was H )odnS lbs warehouses near those
9hasves, The goods in which we're being re-
moved. Tho water in the canal had been
let out for fear Of danger. The B. & o. r
r has loaded the bridge at Earper's Ferry
with locomotives to keep it from being
washed awev.
That the Pfesid ant does not believe the
Itaiau imbsoglio will take serious turn. is
evidenced by the fact that he Is making ar.
rsngements for trip to the South and West,
beginning April 10 b. Visits will be made
to the principal cities in Virginis, Georgia,
Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Ar;z,Da, New
Mexico and California, and probably Wash
ington. TIE party will not atop in any other
southern States than those mentioned. New
Orleans is not moulded IN the route. The
party will number about ten persona.
The following changes in the An class
postoffioes of Virginia were made to-day
EYsnhoa, Wythe county, T. A. Grove was
resigned; Mount Dive. Shenandoah coun-
ty, q. Eberlv, vice S. A. Pitmsn. resigned:
Secretary Blaine was at the Department
of s etc this morning transac!ing routine
business end PREPARED to receive his usual
Thursday diplomatic visitors. There lie
nothing new 10 the Italian situation to-day.
Baron Fave has not yet made an application
for passport nor has the Marquis Impefiali
ecknoRle6ped the receipt OF Secretary
Blaine's letter which was SAINT to bin yes
terday evening Among the f:st callers on
the Secretary were the Bcitsh Minister, Sir
Julian Pauncefote, aud Sir Charles Topper.
OF the Dompion OF Canada, who talked vi b
the Secretary for an hour presumably about
the seal fisheries. reciprocity and other mat
tera now foremost in the minds of Cana
dsns.
The President to-day appointed James Hill, a
negro who lives at Jackson, postmaster at Vicks-
burg, Mss. Hill was noDi mated during the last
session of the Senate, but he improperly OF the
nomina ion being recognized by the republican
Senators they refused to confirm him.
Senator Butler in talking to the GAzETTE's
correspondent this morning about the Italian
'mbroglio, said he was disguised and astonished
at the alb urdity of the course pursued by Italy,
and that il the late Italian minister hero be so
ignorant Of the institutions Of the country to
which no was accredited as not to know where
national control ends and State control begins
here certainly somsbOdy in the Italian govern.
ment ought to know, and that IT no body does,
the government Of that country Is IN very Hi
formed hands.
The first offer of volunteers for service 10 cSse
of trouble with Italy came to hand at this War
Deps rtment to day in the shape of 8 telegram
from 500 mountsineers OF Boulder, Msntaus.