Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-09-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandra Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.

day was received here to-day from
Un.en Indian Agent Bennett concern
ing the Choctaw troubles: Situation
today very critical, two more lnen stir
rendered last night. Being reliably adj
vised at noon to-day that efforts would
be made to take prisoners from custody
of guards, | ordered Indian police to
guard and protect them. AT Eve O'Clock
this afternoon one hundred Jones men,
heavily armed, rode within hailing dis
lance OF prisoners and demanded them.
Nv police warned them that prisoners
were in their custody rs United States
officers and would not be surrendered.
The armed men then rode away to coa-
suit with advisors and leaders. ! have
arranged with railway company to con-
vey these men out OF Choctaw nation
ON any freight train tonight, should
danger threaten or attempt be made to
do these prisoners violence. Over two
hundred Jones men now congregated
two miles south III command Green
McCurtain. They express dissatisiac-
ton with peace agreement made last
Tuesday and declare determination not
to abide by same still hope wise and
conservative counsel will restrain turth
or violence and hesitate to order mill
tary until every civil means in my pow
err has been eXerted and am advised by
Assistant Adjutant General McKeever
that commanding officer Fort Reno di-
rected to furnish military on my order.
Unless armed forces disband tomorrow
will be constrained to order military
aid"
Mr.. Basil Gordon, chairman of the
Virginia State democratic committee,
passed through here to his headquar-
ters at Charlottesville to-day, on MS re-
turn from a visit to the national demo
cratic headquarters in New York. He
saws that from what he saw and heard
in New York, he is not only hopeful,
but is sure the democrats viii carry
that State. He is not so sure about
Connecticut and Indiana. Inrespect of
his own State, nc says the election will
be close, but that with work The demo-
Gratis can ana Will carry it.
Messrs. Mott and Harris, two OF the
republican leaders OF North Carolina,
have come out openly against the re
publican State ticket Of that State, ana
say that by nominating it the republi-
cans have been divided and the demo-
Gratis united, and that North Carolina
is now again a safe democratic State.
From the Alexandria. Va, district, it
is learned to-day that the republican
congressional convention to be held at
Manassas next Tuesday will probably
make no nomination. Only one coun-
ty, Loudoun, has as yet elected dele
gates to it. The Alexandria delegates
will. it is said, be appointed tomorrow
night, and if any of the other counties
appoint delegates. they may possibly do
so tomorrow The object Of the re-
publicans of the district. it is said is TO
do nothing that Will tend to drive the
democratic members Of the third, back
to their old party.
Cen. Mahone's counsel here has Eoti
fled the counsel Of the executor Of the
late d. A. Windsor of Alexandria, that
unless the latter's $4,000 suit against
him he withdrawn ut once, the General
Will bring in an offset claim for lobby
ing bill through Congress by which
certain streets and alleys in lot here,
owned Jointly by Windsor and Malone,
were thrown into that lot, thus greatly
increasing the number ofits square feet,
and consequently its value, and also for
perfecting the title TO a portion of that
lot.
ssA gentleman interested in the Alex
andria and Mt Vernon Railroad, here
to-day, says that an experimental trip
over that road will probably be run by
Monday next, but that though every
thing that possibly could have been
done to get the road ready for travel
by the meeting Of the G. a. r. here, has
been done, yet that object has not been
achieved.
According to the G.. A. r. programme
issued to-day, the grand procession of
;hat organization will take place Tues
day morning, and the grand display of
fire works at monument grounds from
to S o'clock on the night of same day.
The following changes in the 4th
class postoiiices of Virginia, were made
to-day Mallory, Louisa county, I. II.
Mallory appointed postmaster, vice 5.
c. Mallory, dead Return, Caroline
county, c. NJ. Bayne, vice +. l.. Parker,
removed.
1t is reported to-day that the two
daily newspapers here have bulldozed
the commissioners of the District into
an agreement By which the deputy
health officer Of the District. Mr. Bay
ly, son of Mr. S. P. Bayly, Of Fauquier
county, Virginia, will be removed i'm
medately after the meeting of the G.
A. r. Mr.. Bayly will, it is understood,
publish q full statement of his official
conduct in day or two
Pennsylvania avenue is decked with
bunting to-day from one extremity to
The other. Among the buildings most
profusely decorated are those the two
daily newspapers here. Certainly so far
as flags, banners, spectators stands
and plank barracks ere concerned the
G.. A. II. will be amply supplied.
Capt. James Hepburn of Alexandria,
who was badly hurt in the river, near
this city last Wednesday night, and
tol,er 10 Providence Hospital here, was