Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-17
The fact that the

8 telegram IRON Sdpe SHaiico, VI Sihia,
stating that there were no new cases of
yellow fever on the Darpa and that the
patients at the quarantine hospital
were improving. The ballast from the
vessel was discharged yesterday. All
the compartments of the Darpa have
been closed until to-day when the ship
was thoroughly disinfected with sulphur
dio1ide, bichloride of mercury being
freely used.
Secretary Gresham has received 8
cable-message from Minister Baker,
dated Mangua, July 10th as follows
THE Nicaraguan President and minis,
ter of foreign affairs are still in prison
at Leon. A meeting of the cabinet
proclaimed Zavalla dictator. A large
majority of Nicaraguans support the
government"
Oneshundred and nineteen fourth
class democratic postmasters were ap,
pointed to-day, of whom seventy-nine
were in place of removed republicans.
The findings of the grand jury as to
the responsibility for the Ford's Thea.
tire disaster will not be returned until
the latter part Of the week. On ac,
count of the excessive heat Judge Cole
has excused the grand jury. When
they meet again it is probable they will
be ready to make report.
The preliminary hearing in the cases
against the barkeepers arrested in
Charlcstown, S. c., for violation of the
State liauor law, began before Justice
Mil!en this morning. Justice Millen
decided that the case should be post
pended until tomorrow. The hitch was
caused by the error of Assistant Attor'
ney General Buchanan in swearing out
the warrant in its present form.
The funeral of General Kelton, ex
Adjutant General U. S. A and Governor
of the Soldiers Home, which takes
place tomorrow will be marked by per
!ect simplicity. This is in accordance
with the request, embodied in q letter
written some time before his death. In
this letter he directed that there should
be no military ceremonies, and the use
of carriages should be avoided. He de
sired to be buried like an enlisted man
and specified that his coffin should be
the pine box generally nsed in the case
of privates. Services will be held al
the Governors residence in the Soldiers
Home grounds at o'clock this even
ing. The casket will be borne to the
cemetery by six noD-commissioned Oil
GERS of the home.
The financial news from New York
received here up to 9 o'clock to-day
is to the effect that money was loan
ed on call at six per cent, that "A cents
an ounce was bid for silver, and thai
stocks were of, with downward tend
ency.
Il. T. Daniel of Richmond was to-day
appointed chief of the tobacco division
in the internal revenue bureau of thu
Treasury Department.
Congress will meet three weeks from
to-day, but no body, except the hote
and boarding house keepers ex
poets that business here will bt
better at that time than it is now, ant
some of the business men of the city
say it was never duller than it is a
present.
Mr.. Craig, whose term as U. S. at
torney for the western district of Vir
GINA expired on the LIST instant, is here
to-day settling up his accounts with thu
no .ernmeLt. He says there ha!
en- great decrease in Col. O'FerralP'
strength in his section Of the State, bu
that the Colonel's supporters are or
glnized, while those Of Messrs. BuforC
and Tyler have no organization at all
Mr.. Craig says his party has not yet de
termined what it will do at next falls
election, but that its organization i:
pretty well maintained, and that what
ever course its State committee shall
commend wi be pursued.
Mr.. Henry Clews of New York in
letter to Comptroller Eckles recon
mends that national banks be allowed
currency equal to the par value OF thei
deposited bonds, and also to the extent
of seventy-tive per cent. of their surplus
capital.
Many people here are laughing at the
observers at the Naval Observatory
who mistook ray of the aurora bore
alis for the tail of the comet.
An old democratic member of Con
gress from one of the northern State:
here to-day says he places no reliance
in the reports about the deposition o.
Messrs. Springer, Holman and Bland fol
their respective positions as chairmen o
the ways and means, appropriations anc
currency committees of the House. He
is confident, he says, that conservatism
will be the rule both in the formation
of the committees of the House, and IL
the action of that body. So far as the
former is concerned, he says, Mr.. CrisI
would not have been elected Speaker
of the last House except for the three
men referred to.
A resident of Georgetown, here to-
day, interested in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, says he expects to see the
use of mules on that canal abolished
next year, and electricity, by the trolley
system, adopted as the motive power Of
the canal boats.
A passenger from Strasburg, Virginia,
here day, says intelligence reached
there yesterday of the death of Mr.. J
G. Brady, editor of the Virginian and
Ners, of that town.
People from Alexandria county, Vir.
ginia, here to-day, say they are pretty
certain the negro arrested there and
sent to Jail in Alexandria on suspicion
ofhaving killed the old soldier Swift, last
week, is the murderer. They say his
clothes tally with the description Of
those worn by the man last seen with
the victim, and that his account of him,
self has been proved to be utterly false.