Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorraspondence Of the Alexandris Gazette
WASHINGTON. Dec. /, 1894.


Dav. stating that "Chaos reigns in
Pekin. The American Legation in
danger. Need protection" 1t is learn
ed this morning that Minister DENLY
cabled Secretary Gresham a week ago
yerv much the same Information as
,ntained in the quoted dispatch, ant
a,ked that guard be Sent to protect
the legation, which might be rified at
any time by the lawless royer5
that inhabited portions of the capital
CITY. and that dispatch was at once
sent to Admiral Carpenter directing
him to transfer q detachment of fifty
marines from the Baltimore to the Mon
ocacy in order that q force might be at
Mr.. Denby's disposal. If the emergen-
CIV be as great as represented, presuma-
Div the Ministers of other foreign pow
ers at Pekin have sent kilograms to
their governments OF the same tenor as
MIR. Denby's dispatch, for the situation
there must be as serious 10 one Legation
as to another.
General Frank c. Armstrong, assist
ant commissioner of Indian affairs, has
resigned.
Judge Cox to-day issued an order
providing that all the real and person
al property transferred by the Wash
ineton Endowment Association to the
Commercial Alliance of New York
should be sold at public auction, Ihf
distribution of the proceeds will be
made the subject for further order.
In the District Equity Court to-day
Judge Hagne? sustained the demurrer
filed by Hon. Carroll D, Wrg bit, the
Commissioner Of Labor aud Acting SUI
perirtendent of the Census, to the op-
plication for On Injunction filed by
Thomas Donaldson, expert Indian
agent, TO restrain Colonel Wright from
publishing further copies of Donald
sons special census report on the live
civilized tribes of Indians.
The Presidents message will be
ready by Monday. Several Senators
and Representative have expressed
strong desire TO know something of its
contests, but it will be Impossible fol-
them to crafty that desire before the
message is read in Congress. Nor arc
they the only ones to whom the con
tents of the message will be II secret
until it is published, for it is stated
on reliable authority that the only two
members of the Cabinet to whom 1t ha:
been shown are Secretaries Carlisle ano
Lamont. :,
Ex-Congressman White Of New York
is here to day, seeking information and
finding it about the proposed repeal o
the duty on refined sugar. The i'm
preston here is that that duty will be
removed, and that the reduction anc
suspension Of work at the refinerle:
have greatly stimulated the effort to Ell
feet that removal.
MANY of the race horse men have
gone home, and among those who re
main the prevailing talk is by no means
favorable to the Virginia Jockey Club
which, they say, induced them to be
lieve UP to Thursday morning that the
races would be continued. So preva
lent was this belief that many horses
from different parts of the country
were on their way here wher
the suspension was announced. Many
of the horses that were at the
track arrived here this morning by the
Alexandria ferry boats, on their way tc
lneir winter stables. Many of the
others, whose owners don't mind being
outlawed by the New York Club, have
gone to the Jackson City track, OIL
which racing will be continued, and to
which admission will no longer be free
The Virginia Jockey Clubs season is
said by those who ought to know, to
have been a successful one so far as
profits are concerned.
Mr.. J. III. Alexander, of Leesburg, re
quests the GAzETTE's correspondent
to inform the members of Colonel Mos
by's old command in Virginia, that he
wonld like to hear from them by letter
so that he could confer with them about
the time for the proposed banquet to
be given to the Colonel during his ex.
pected visit to his old camping grounds
Letters received here from DR.. VIM.
NJ. Smith, of Alexandria, now abroad.
say he will return some time this month,
and that he and his companion, Master
CORTLAND Smith, have both been
greatly benefited by their trip.
A dispatch received here to-day from
Christiansburg, Virginia, says decree
was ordered by the court in session
there yesterday in the case of Colonel
q. L. Boyce, of Clarke county, against
the Walcott estate, by which that es,
tate will be sold to pay the Colonel his
judgment of 100000.
The whole outfit and charter OF the
garbage company of this city will be
sold on the 10Th inst. As the garbage
is not allowed to be dumped on the
land near the city, and as the farmers
on the river will not take it any longer,
it is now loaded on scows and carried
down the Potomac just offor below AL
exandria every day, and at night dis
charged into the river.
A real estate agent here informed the
GAzETTE's correspondent to-day that
he was in receipt of numerous inquiries
from people in the far Northwest for
land in Virginia, near this city, and
that to-day parties from Wisconsin and
Michigan had been to see him on the
same business. There are thousands
upon thousands of acres of cheap land
for sale on the borders Of the Potomac
o few miles below Mt. Vernon.
DEATH FROM BURNs.-Mrs. Thomas
Russell, patient at Garfield Hospital
Washington, died early yesterday
morning from the effects of burns re,
oa;vod Thursday dine tn her night