Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
TCor.espondence of the Nezandris Gazette
W,eu,SoroN Oct < 1894.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 1894.
Captain Howgate arrived here yes
terday evening and is now confined In
the strongest cell in the city jail-that
from which Guiteau was taken to the
gsllows. District Attorney Birney said
today that Howgate would be brought
to trial within sixty days. Mr.. Birney
has decided that there is no necessity
for arraigning Captain Howgate or for
fixing bail, as he had pleaded guilty to
all the charges against him in 1882, and
as as bail had been fixed at $50, 600.
Captain Howgate will be tried OIL an
indictment which practically covers all
his alleged embezzlemept from the gov
ernment, amounting TO two hundred
and six thousand dollars. The bond in
the old civil suit against him for 81, 900,
that was given by Moses and Rogers,
has never yet been paid. All the money
the Captain had has long since been
expended, and it is stated that for sew
eral years, he was supplied with living
expenses by his family here, and that
it has only been for the last five years
that he has supported himself by his
old book business in New York. Most
of the money he took from the govern
ment, it is said, was spent here before
he was first arrested, upon "fatterers
of the festal hour, the heartless para
sites of present cheer" whose names
may probably appear should the gov
eminent attempt to push his prosecu-
ton to the extremity.
Judgments in the famous suits of the
late Samuel Strong against the govern,
ment were awarded to the amount OF
sixty thousand dollars, but moi ,one cent
of that sum ever reached mis- family,
some of whom are young ladies, the
whole of it being gobbled up by the
LAWYERS. Lawyers here are usually
satisfied with half, but in the case re-
ferred to they took all.
Judge Advocate G., neral Lemly, OF
the navy, will go to New Orleans to-
morrow to purchase the necessary land
for the establishing of the Gulf Navy
Yard at Algiers, Louisiana. The site
was purchased in 1S4S.
There was nothing from Virginia at
democratic headquarters this morning,
and Congressman Goode was the
only Virginia caller. He, as previously
stated in this correspondence, will soon
enter the campaign now in active pro
gress 10 his State.
Senator Ransom Of North Carolina
was here for short time yesterday
He saws his State is ali right and will
lose no Congressman at the coming
election. The democrats there are
making house to house canvass.
Among the strangers here to-day was
State Senator Little of Fredericksburg,
Va. He agrees with all the other dem
ocrats from Virginia that if the demo-
cratic vote in his, the first district, will
come out on the 6th proximo, Congress.
man Jones will be reelected by q large
majority. He says he thinks that in
the adjoining district, the Sth, the
closest county is Stafford, but that with
proper efforts Congressman Meredith
will carry that with the others.
Postmaster Dalton of the House, oil
Indiana, says his State may possibly
lose one of her democratic Congressmen
at the approaching election, but Ser
geant at Arms Bright, ofthe same State,
says she will not. They are both re-
Gently from home.
DR.. Abbott, president of the Mt. Yer
non Railroad, has returned from the
North and was at his Office in the Kel-
logg building here to-day. He says he
is busily engaged in considering the
various plans and patents for under
ground wires, not one of which so far
has been tested satisfactorily. He says
that of course nothing will be
done with extending the road from
Alexandria to this city until the
plan for the Washington part of it
shall have been determined, as the lat
ter is the principal part, both in respect
of time and cost of construction. The
former, he says, can be completed with
in three weeks from the day of its COM
mencement. The Doctor says the Fair
fax street track in Alexandria never
should have been laid, and he doesn't
seem to be delighted with the laying
of the track on the upper part of King
street, instead of up Commerce street
to the Stone Bridge.