Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-23
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conyicts, and the sentence IN
another has been committed. Among
those who received pardons were
Richard J. Meaney, sentenced TO
the District of Columbia Jail in sep
TENDER last for assaulting Policeman
Terry. an officer under indictment Tor
shooting q negro during the recent
"Jack the Slasher" scare in this city,
and A. w. Neff, sentenced December 9,
1893. to 80 days in Jail and fine Tor
embezzlement committed in Washing
ton, d. G.
Representative Bailey of Texas says
there is a general demand throughout
the country for the speedy passage OF
bankruptcy bill. Mr.. Bailey's bill is
now on the House calendar. 1t pro-
yides only for voluntary bankruptcy.
When it is called up in the House an
effort will be made to substitute for 1t
another bill providing for voluntary
and involuntary bankruptcy. He be-
lieves this bill will pass the House, al
though number of the members are
opposed to bankruptcy legislation of
any character. These gentlemen, he
thinks, will aid him in again defeating
the Torrey bill, and then oppose his
own bill when the latter comes to be
voted upon.
The telegram received yesterday at
the State Department and supposed to
be from Rio, was partially translated at
the Navy Department oday. 1t came
from Consul General TONNES at Rio,
and as it contained no mention of any
battle or assault at or upon Rio by the
in urgents, it is more than probable
that no such engagement as that re,
ported from Pernambuco yesterday had
occurred. The cablegram, as nearly
as it has been translated, is to the fol-
lowing effect Arrangement has been
made by which foreign merchantmen
arriving at or departing from Rio Will
be assigned to certain points without
the line of fire, where their cargoes
may be received and discharged in
safety, under the protection of the war
vessels of their respective countries. T"
A cablegram has been received at the
State Department from Minister P. NJ.
B. Young, dated Nicaragua, stating
that the Honduras revolutionists are
marching from Nicaragua to Honduras.
The army of the latter country has
been put in motion to meet them. The
cablegram gives no hint of the proba'
BILE outcome of the contest.
Mr.. G. c. Lee, one of the directors OF
the Potomac and Falls Church Electric
Railroad Company, the company that
| proposes to build road from the Aque-
duct Bridge to Falls Church, via Balls
ton, says he thinks enough stock has
alre, d been subscribed for to assure
the instruction of that road, but that
to do so will require some additional
Leg, .tion by both Congress and the
Virginia legislature.
The report that a plot has been
formed by certain cranks in Kansas for
stealing the Presidents children is not
credited here, but, if true, it is said,
it would not possibly be executed, as
the children referred to are, if any
thing, more securely guarded than Mr.
Cleveland himself.
One of the parties interested in the
proposed new ferry line between this
city and Alexandria says if the present
line puts new boat on the river as
good as the Columbia, as it is reported
it will do, his company will not at,
tempt to establish q new line, as there
not enough business for two.
Mr.. Hamlin, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, who has been to New York
to see about the recent alleged frauds
in the customs house of that city, has
returned, and says there is too good
ground for those charges.
A new morning newspaper, "The
Washington Times" will be started
here on the LIST of February. 1t will be
devoted to the interests of the laboring
people. Its proprietors will be joint
stock company, one of the directors OF
which is Mr.. A. A. Lipscomb, who form
erly lived in Alexandria.
The report that the chief clerk of the
register of the Treasury, Mr.. Smith
has resigned, is positively denied at the
Treasury Department. MIR. Smith anG
the regist are not on good terms, and
have not been for long time, as is well
known, but though the former is a pro-
nounced republican, he has been retain
ed all this time, and probably will be
until he shall resign, but he has not YET
determined when he shall do that.
Politics, nor any thing Ielse, except
Christmas and Christmas gifts, are
talked of here to-day. All government
departments were closed at noon
and the clerks thereof considera.
bly, increased the crowds that thronged
the streets, the markets and the shops
BY far the larger portion of the popu'
lation of this city is of southern feeling,
and Christmas is observed here as gen,
orally as il is in any southern city.
The old Ford's Theatre building,
whose collapse caused the death of q
clerks and serious injuries to many
more, and which has since been patch
ed up again by the Government, is now
officially pronounced unsafe for occu-
pancy as a Government Office by the
District building inspector, and Col.
Geo. n. Elliott of the board of army
engineers, and Capitol Architect Clark
@James. T. Williams, of Bailey's Cross
Roads Fairfax county, Virginia, has had
| his pension increased.