Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
rcorrespondenoe Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Nov. 80, 1894.

has received u ulspatCu lioun One io'i
dent of the republic which, in the
minister's opinion, settles the troubles
il Nicaragua so far as the Mosquito
Indians are concerned. The dispatch
states that the convention of the
MOSQUITO Indians at Bluefelds unani-
mously agreed to abandon their claim
TO independence of Nicaragua and to
INCORPORATE themselves in future as
itizens of that republic. 1t has been
known for some weeks that the con.
yention was to be held as the call
was extensively circulated throughout
the Mosquito country. and their action
is regarded as all indication that their
future prosperity and welfare in
Nicaragua depends upon their becoming
a part Of the republic. DR.. Guzman
believe, that the conventions action
will settle forever the question OF the
chiefship of the tribe, and that hereafter
that post will be vacated as necessary
result of their Incorporation with
Nicaragua. :,
Colonel "Lige" White passed through
here yesterday on his way to his home
in Leesburg, this time taking with him
his bride, Miss Margaret Bayne, OF
Philadelphia, to whom he has just been
married.
Among the many applicants for the
place of supervising architect of the
Treasury are Messrs. Charles Terrell
and Glenn Brown, of Virginia, the lat
ter from Alexandria.
DR.. Abbot, president of the Mount
Vernon Railroad, says his road will
soon be in perfect operation not only
from Mount Vernon to the race track
but in Alexandria. The gap in the
line between Columbus aud Payne
streets in Alexandria, he says, will soon
be filed, and then the cars will run
through the entire length of King street
without interruption.
The race men here are III no good
humor at the closing of the season at
the Alexandria track after they had
been assured that it would be con-
tinued. The stoppage, they say, was
due to the orders of the Dryers, who
told those of the managers who are
members Of the New York Jockey
Club, either to close up or send in their
designations. Operations will be re-
sumed about the middle of March.
In the meantime foreign book will be
kept there and pool selling go on.
The pension appropriation bill is al
ready for reporting. 1t calls for ten
million less than last years bill, but
for all that was asked for by the pen
sion Office.
Persons from Fairfax county, Va,
here to-day say that pleuro-pneumonia
affects nearly the whole of the large
herd of cattle on the Hayfield farm, be-
low Alexandra, and that many people
fear it will extend, though the herd il
not allowed to stray.
A large number of both Senators and
Representative have already arrived
here and a quorum is expected on Mon,
day, when the short and last session o.
the 53rd Congress will convene. Most
of them say nothing except the passage
of regular appropriation bills will be
done during the session. But many say
strong effort will be made to re
move the duty on refined sugar
if for no other reason than to make
the republicans, who have de
nounced the democrats for helping the
sugar trust, show whether or not they
too, have not had some of the sugar
pie. There doesn't seem any gooc
ground for believing that either coal OF
iron will be put on the free list.
Mr.. J. E. Clements of Alexandra
county says the work on the Washing.
ton and Falls Church electric road is
progressing. The appraisers of the two
lots of land over which the right o.
way has not been given valued them
at 5000 an acre, but the owners claim
$500, though one of the lots is assessed
at $3.50, and the other at SS3 an acre
1t is said that at the next assessment
for taxes, to be made in January, the
assessor will be required to fix the as
9 .ssment at the owners figures.
The excess of government expendi
lures over receipts for the month of DC
tober was $l3, 600, 900, while for Novem
Der the excess will be about SIS, 600, 600
The excess of expenditures over re
ceipts for the fiscal year ended June 80
1894, was about S70,000,000 or nearly
Sc, 900, 900 month.
The President did not come into towr
to-day, nor did he send for his cabinet
ministers to come to Woodley, so there
was no cabinet meeting again to-day
and his message to Congress on Mon
day will go in without having been sub
mitted to them. Whether his regular
every evening visitor, Senator Sher
man, has relieved them of that trouble
is not known, but is believed by many
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Maxwell's mother died at Cambridge
N. Y, to-day, aged So. He will not
return before the middle of next week
Vice President Stevenson will be here
Monday. His daughter is improving
G. D. Bsher, who was disabled in the foot
ball game in this. city yesterday, sustained &
serious spinal injury. An unfounded rumol
of his death was circulated to day. The Other
Georgetown men who were injured are doing
we'll. The faculty of Georgetown University
hiss decided to prohibit football games in tn,
future.
A Young FARMER K1LLED.-Henry
NJ. Lloyd, a young farmer of Berkeley
county, W. Va, was accidentally shot
and killed by his friend, Ellis Rush, or
IA III