Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. Nov. II, 1893.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gszette.l
WASHINGTON. Nov. II, 1893.
Secretary Carlisle to-day appointed
Henry DeForrest Baldwin, Virginia
Dabney and Daniel G. Hawthorne dep
uties in the customs house at the port
of New York.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of State Quin
CIV has been here for the last two days
in consultation with his successor aud
Secretary Gresham, it is supposed with
reference to the consulates as yet un-
disposed Of at least publicly.
Among the strangers here to-day IS
Capt. Jack Hudgins, who was recon-
mended for q. S. marshal for the east
ern district of Virginia by the famous
congressional iunta of his State, and
who was told that after the fall term Of
the U. S. court at Norfolk he would be
appointed. He hears now that other
people are being pressed for the place,
and is here to look after his interests.
He says he is no more to blame for the
loss of his county at the recent election
than the best democrat in New York
is for the loss of that State.
Captain Ridley, Of the Alexandria
ferry line, has gone to New York to
make arrangements for building new
steamer for that line. The steamer
CITY of Washington, of that line, now
sunk at the ship yard at Alexandria,
will be raised and sent to Baltimore for
repairs. 1t may be that her engine,
which is said to be excellent one, may
be put in the new boat.
A man named Ellis Patton, one of
the outside guides at the Capitol, was
arrested to-day charged with stealing
an overcoat from one of the rooms in
that building. Overcoats, watches and
various other articles left in the rooms
there have mysteriously disappeared
recently.
The foot ball players of the Universe
of Virginia are here to-day, and will
play game with the Georgetown Col
lege boys this evening.
The reply to Senator Kyle's resolu-
ton concerning the number and names
of the deputy and special marshals ap-
pointed by J. w. Jacobus, U. S. mar
Shall for the southern district of New
York, at the congressional election in
1892, the respective amounts they re-
ceiVed, and who else received any OF
the governments money expended
at that election, has been sent to the
Senate, but as it is addressed to the
Vice President, it cannot be opened
until that officer shall return. 1t is
said to contain revelations not credita-
bile to at least one of the New York re-
publican editors.
cit is rumored here to-day that Mr..
Cleveland has "backed down" again, as
he had previously done on the tariff,
the southern flags, and the pension ques-
tons, and that it is now given out at
the State Department, in respect of the
Hawaiian affair, that Minister Willis
will only disavow the action of ex-
Minister Stevens, and that if the Ha-
waiians want to recover their govern.
ment, they must fight the usurpers on
their own hook.
At the meeting held at Falls Church
last night to promote the interest of the
proposed electric railroad from the
south end of the Aqueduct Bridge to
Falls Church, via Ballston, it was stated
that the whole cost of the track would
not exceed $4,000, that SIS, 000 had al
ready been subscribed, and that con-
tractor was ready to take the job for 40
per cent. cash Of the remainder in
stock. Friends and another road which
proposes to cross the river by ferry at
Arlington objected, but were sQuelched,
and the meeting adjourned after adopt
ing resolution that the officers of both
companies meet and try to adjust their
differences.
The only change in the fourth-class
postoffices of Virginia made to-day was
the following AT Lexington, Charles
City county, l. n. Waring was appoint
ed postmaster, vice Mary l.. Lacy, re-
| signed.
For nearly two weeks past there have
been almost daily reports to the police
indicating the presence in Washinton
Of dangerous and malicious cranks
whose mania finds its development in
slashing clothing and carpets and other
articles of furniture. Numbers OF
houses have been mysteriously entered
in the night and everything that could
be laid hands on has been found in the
morning cut to pieces. One of the
police force was himself among the VIC
Tins of these mysterious miscreants.
But the latest and most surprising de-
velopment of the slashing mania was
to-day disclosed in the White House it
self. Notwithstanding the constant
presence of the recently increased num-
Der of guards, detectives and watch
men, it is found that the rich silk COW
ers of the chairs and sofas in the green
room have been slasbed, also that deep
lines have been cut into about fifteen
of the best trees in the grounds, some of
which are at the front and the others
at the rear of the mansion.
All of the injured trees are with
in short distance of the house, those
flther away seeming to have no attrac-
ton for the despoilers. A singular
thing about the case is that the furni-
ture and trees that suffered under the
sharp knife of this bold vandal bore
all alike the same mark-an irregular
cross formed of long vertical line,
crossed near the top with a short line
aslant. The trees are young and Wig
orous and will probably recover from
their wounds, but the furniture covers
are damaged beyond repair, and will
have to be replaced with new goods.
Since this affair the guards at the house
have been still further increased and
the privilege of visiting the parlors,
other than the east room, is now con-
fined to the friends of the President and