Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the AIeXandria dazette.I
WASHINGTON. Nov. 80, 1898.

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siding prelate, and the sermon being
preached by Mgr. Seton. st. Matthews
is the church attended by most of the
foreign legations in Washington, and
several representatives from these were
present at the services to-day. Reg
ular thanksgiving services were held in
many of the churches, most of them be.
ing attended by the congregations OF
several neighboring societies. At the
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church
Mrs. l.. E. SHELTON, OF Brooklyn, n. y,
sang Java Marie" Bach-Gounod, for
the offertory, with violin obligato.
Bishop John F. Hurst, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, preached at
Foundry Church. Archbishop Satolli
presided at the high mass celebrated
at 9 o'clock in st. Aloysius Church.
Rev. Father Gillespie preached, and
Mgr. Sharetti and Rev. Papi were in
the sanctuary. At 5p. m. grand re-
ception will be given in honor of the
apostolic delegate in the hall of the
Noue Dame school, with several ad-
dresses in Latin and English. After
the services Mgr. Satolli and several
invited guests will dine at the pastoral
residence. President and Mrs. Cleve-
land attended services at the Central
Presbyterian Church, where the con-
gregations of the First, Fourth and As
sembly Churches joined in worship.
The sermon was preached by the Presi-
dents pastor, Rev. Byron Sutherland,
who took for mis- theme, "The New
Era" Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland will
dine with Postmaster General and Mrs.
Bissell this evening, other guests being
Secretary and Mrs. Gresham and Sec
rotary and Mrs. Carlisle. This after
noon the football teams Of the Column
bia Athletic Club and of Georgetown
College engaged in a contest for the
championship of the district. This
game closes the season here.
Secretary Lamont has recommended
the adoption of Col. Bachelors sug-
gestion of appropriating the surplus OF
the national cemeteries fund toward
the construction of bridge across
the Potomac from Washington to Ar
lington. The parties interested in the
electric railroad from here to Falls
Church say the people living along the
proposed route of that road will sub
scribe for the requisite amount Of stock
to build it. They also say that Mr..
Campbell, who lives near Falls Church,
has agreed to grade the road and lay
the ties for $4,000 cash and s., 900 in
stock.
An income tax will be feature Of
the internal revenue tax schedules upon
which the majority members of the
ways and means committee are now
working. The details of the plan are
gradually assuming a definite form.
The prevailing opinion on the subject is
that it will exempt individual incomes
and will apply only i'll general way
to inheritances and corporations. The
committee believe that tax on corpo-
rations alone will furnish a consdera-
BILE amount of the revenue needed to
supply the deficit caused by the reduc-
ton in tariff duties. Chairman Wilson
now believes that thirty-iive million
dollars will cover the decrease in rev.
enue from imports, caused by the bill
Just made public. A tax of ten cents
o pack on playing cards has been
suggested, and will no doubt be adopt
ed, as all the majority members regard
the proposition favorably. The COM
mittee have reached no understanding
as yet regarding whisky. 1t is not
likely that the tax will be increased be-
You'd ten cents gallon, with a fair
probability that it may remain un-
touched.
An examination of the pay roll of the
Treasury Department shows that not
ten per cent. of the names on it are
those of democrats.
Ex-State Senator Pennybacker, of
Rockingham county, Virginia, says
that the intelligence he receives from
his congressional district is to the eff
feet that the contest for Governor-elect
O'Ferrall's successorship in the q. S.
House of Representative is between
Mr.. Basil Gordon and Mr.. Smith Turn
er.
Mr.. Callahan, superintendent of the
Norfolk line of steamers, who is inter
csted in the proposed new ferry line
from this city to Alexandria, says the
charter for the company that will es-
tablish ii is already prepared, and that
the application for granting it will be
made as soon as the Virginia legisla-
ture, which meets next Wednesday,
shall be organized. The capital stock,
for the purpose of organizing the COM
pany, will be only twenty-four thousand
dollars, to be subsequently, increased.
The cipher cable message which
Secretary Herbert received last night
from Captain Picking at Rio Janeiro
was translated at the Navy Depart
ment to-day. Mr.. Herbert said it con-
tanned details that he did not care to
make public, but its substance was that
a report had been received at Rio of
revolutionary trouble at Pernambuco.
Messrs. Clements and Nicol, as trus-
tees, yesterday sold eight acres of un-
proved land, near Ballston, in Alexan-
dria county, belonging to the Payne
heirs, to Mrs. Halbert for 81 500.
Governor Mckinney, of Virginia. has
returned to Richmond. While here he
got the Navy Department to allow
Capt. Baylor, who has made the sur
veys of the Virginia oyster beds, to COM
plete that work but he failed to get addi-
tional cannon Tor Virginia's oyster po-
lice boat.
Mr.. Willard, formerly of this city,
but now of Fairfax county, Virginia,
which county he will renreSent in the