Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alezsndris

Thanksgiving day is being generally
observed here, largely as religious
and athletic holiday. The weather
is fine. The Departments and most OF
the business establishments are closed.
The fair weather brought large attend
ance upon both classes of functions
church services in the morning ana
football and horse racing in the after
noon. Regular Thanksgiving Day ser
vices were held in all the churcnes-
The President spent the day at WOOD
Law with his family, having no coih-
many The members of the CABINET,
Who are in the city, dined quietly at
their homes. The football contingent
hold sway outdoors and parade the
at eets, accompanied by bands of music.
F lends of the opposing eleven-tbe
G lumbia Athletic Club and George,
town College, wearing the coors OF
their favorits eleven, parade Pennsfi !
yania avenue and talk the game about
hotel Hobbies. Large crowds attended
the horse races between here and Al
exandria, and many went to New Alex
andria where there was free OK roast
The work in progress on the re,
claimed flats opposite this city,, and
which, from the river, remind old sol
diers of earth works, is the erection o. OF
embankments to hold the silt that Will
be sucked from the river and pumped
on the underground for the purpose OF
raising its height. When so raised the
surface will be leveled.
Col. Lawrence Boyce, ofClarke coun.
ty, Virginia, is here to-day, engaged
with his counsel in preparing papers ioi
the collection of his judgment Of $780,
600 against the Walcott estate in south
west Virginia, to be presented to the
Virginia court now in session at Christ
iansburg
The report of the operations of the
Confederate navy that has been pre-
pared at the Navy Department and Is
now in the hands of the printers will con
tain, what has never before been made
public, the private journal of Admiral
Semmes, ofthe famous Alabama, the first
steamer that was ever used as a pri'
yateer, aud which had to get her sup
ply of coal from vessels that met her by
appointment at designated points in mid
ocean. She and the Shenandoah and
the Florida effected their purpose pref
ty thoroughly and almost destroyed the
merchant marine of the United States
People from Leesburg, Virginia, here
today say the question of prohibiting
the sale of liquor in that town will be
taken on the 18th proXimo, and will
probably be decided in the affirmative
10 which case the new hotel in thai
town will be closed, as its lessee has
notified the owner to that effect. Pro
hibition now prevails in every othel
district of Loudoun county.
People here most familiar with the
subject and more competent O speal
upon it, say there is no conceivable rea
son why any body should suppose
there will be any trouble between
Great Britain and this country in re
spect of the Mosquito affair.
A. Louisiana congressman here to-day
says there will be no contested sea-
from his State, and that all the sugar
planters are after is to have the bounty
secured or this years crop.
And so, after all that has been said
to the contrary by the officers of the
Virginia Jockey Club, racing on The
track of that club will be suspended
after tomorrow. Mr.. Mcintyre, the
secretary of the club, told the GA
zETTE's correspondent to-day that th'
Virginia Jockey Club was governed BY
the rules of the New York Club, ant
that under those rules the race tracl
near Alexandria would be closed TO
morrow evening for the winter. Mr.
Kirk, another one of the managers
said he saw no reason for this, and wa
opposed to it, but that some of thu
others did, and SO it was go. There
is evidently some differcrc e among tn,
proprietors of the track, but what it il
has not yet TRANSFERRED.
A strong effort will be made at th'
coming short session of Congress to ef
feet at least the commencement of tn,
proposed Memorial bridge across thu
Potomac at Arlington. Owing to Thu
large demands upon the Treasury, it i
not expected that much money will b.
appropriated for the purpose, but a
millions have been expended upoI
other government reservations neal
this city, it is hoped that at least some
thing may be done in behalf of a bridge
that will connect the national capita
with the one at Arlington.
Ex-Congressmen Trigg and Buchan
an of the 9th Virginia district are here
to expedite q case in which the latter
is counsel, as he has been elected {
member of the Supreme Court Of APP
peals of his State and therefore can no
act as counsel after the first of the year
when his judicial term will commence
They both say that the democratic de
feat in their district was the result o.
lover confidence"
The decision in the case of Com
nader Smith, U. S. NJ, tried by court
martial here, has not yet been made
public, nor will it be for some time. The
Commander resided in Leesburg fol
some time, but now lives in New York
It is thought he will be aquitted.
Mar, G. Jeffres has been appointed
postmaster at Hallway, Fauquier coun'
ty, Va, vice ]. R. Finch, deceased.
Secretary Thurber is able to report a
still further Improvement in the Presi-
dents health to-day and to say that he
would not be surprised to see him come
to the White House tomorrow. 1.-THE
President is able to come in there will
probably be cabinet meeting.
A dispatch received from Asheville,