Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]
yU,cu1NcToN Dec % 1893.

and forger, was this morning put under
q 50 900 bond, by order OF the police
court, for appearance before the grand
Jury. and in default thereof was COM
mitted to jail The police court justice
in taking this action said that while the
man was evidently insane on one SUBJ
iect. viz, that of writing threatening
letters TO prominent public men, his
mind seemed clear otherwise, and that
his case was not one for commitment 10
an ASYLUM, but he should be sent to the
penitentiary, as it was high time that q
general roundup should be made OF
such people, no matter whether their
tendency was toward socialism, anarchy
or any other disorder. The first wit
ness called was Tice-President Steven
sons clerk, Mr.. Daniels. and he testified
TO the reception Of sundry letters by the
ce-President, wherein DOMAIN asked
for money for transportation TO come
here and tell how John Sherman came
bv mis- millions" Mr.. c. II. Mills, son
OF Senator Mills, land also his clerk,
then told how letter was received by
his father, and his testimony was fol-
lowed by some statements of Inspector
Hollenberger of the police force. The
defendant was next called and recited
his past history from the time Of his
birth in Austria up to the present
time. He was asked if anybody had
instigated him to write the letters, but
he said it was nobody's business but his
own and refused to tell. He
got his idea around New city
and not from the newspapers.
DOMAINS counsel objected to some evil
dence being submitted by Inspector
Hollenberger, but the prisoner said he
wanted every thing known, and the
Inspectors testimony was taken. Judge
Milierthensent the case to the grand jury
During the whole examination, which
lasted an hour, DOMAINS face wore
vacant stare. Mr.. Louis Cuyillier of
Alexandria appeared as counsel for the
prisoner, and says he will apply for his
release on habeas corpus tomorrow.
Congressman Meredith of Virginia
was at the Treasury today on business
connected with the recent seizure Of
fruit brandy in Culpeper and Kappa
hammock counties, in which case Col
lector Shepperd has advised the depart
ment to accept the compromise offered
by the owners-the tax and fifty cents
a gallon, but could do nothing, as the
commissioner was so busy with matters
connected with the failure of the Fidel-
ity Trust Company, which has supplied
the bonds of so many collectors, that he
didn't have time even to talk to him.
At Intermont, Giles county, Va,
John l.. Boggess, was appointed post
master to.day, vice Virginia +. Fizer,
resigned.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Mr.. Duke of Norfolk, an applicant for
the place of U. S. Marshal for the east
ern district of Virginia, the place for
which Capt. Hudgins of Caroline coun-
ty in that State was endorsed by the
famous iunto of the democratic con-
gressmen from Virginia.
The remains of the late a. d. Jones
of North Carolina, U. S. consul at
Shanghai, arrived here late yesterday
evening, and were sent on TO Raleigh
by the night train on the r. Il ID. Il. R.
Three o'clock this evening and the
parlor of the Metropolitan Hotel are
the time and place appointed for the
COMMITTEES of the Virginia legislature to
notify General Hunton of his election
as U. S. Senator to fill out the term OF
the late Senator Barbour. Senators
Mushbach and Fairfax and Delegates
RYAN, Gibson and Willard compose the
committee. Upon to one o'clock this
evening Colonel Gibson was the only
one who had appeared at the hotel,
but it was expected that all would be
present except Senator Fairfax, who is
reported to be sick at his home in LOU
doun county.
Should the weather continue favora-
bic, the work of constructing branch
of the Pennsylvania Railroad from
Jackson City to the south end of the
Aqueduct Bridge will be resumed with
in forty days, and, it is expected, be
completed within the ninety days there
after. 1t is rumored that should the
decision of the court here be adverse to
the proprietors of the Ivy City race
track, that track will be removed to
the south side of the Potomac, and that
the branch railroad referred to will be
the chief means Of communication be-
tween it and this city.
A knowing member of the Virginia
legislature, here to day, gives the fol-
lowing as the slate that has practically
been decided upon for the next Court
of Appeals of his State: Cardwell,
Keith, Mclaughlin, Riley, and either
Morrison or Graham.
The President is expected back to-
day from his trip down the river. A
highly sensational rumor, utterly dis
credited by those best informed upon
the subject, was currant here this even
ing, to the effect that the Presidents
mind has become affected. 1t was
based upon q dispatch from New York
to q prominent brokers' firm in this
city. People who saw and conversed
with him the day before that on which
he went away scout the rumor, and say
the Presidents enemies must be re-
duced to sore straits, when they con-
ceive such absurd ideas.
1t is said at the Capitol to-day that the sub
committee of the House Ways and Means
Committee, to which the internal revenue
schedule of the new tariff bill was referred,
have practically agreed TIC report in favor of a
tax of one per cent. on all individual incomes
over four thousand dollars.
Senator Morgan, who is a member Of the
Senatorial committee now investigating the
Hawaiian affair, says he intends to get at the
bottom of it, if such thing be possible. The
truth, and the whole truth of the matter, he
says, is what must DO obtained.
H1CKs's PREDICTIONS Those who
have faith in Hicks as a weather proph-