Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Als1andris Gszette.]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 80, 1894.


Correspondence Of the Alsxandris Gazstte.]
WASHINGTON. Oct. 80, 1894.
The annual report of the Governor
of Utah says in regard 10 the Mormon
Church in the Territory that, '.the peo'
pie of the church no longer violate the
laws prohibiting the practice of polyga-
my, Congress has granted them state
hood, and the reasons which in
PEELED the passage of the laws escheat'
ing their prop cry no longer exist. In
the face of these changes 1T would IN
deed be ungracious for the government
to longer withhold this property from
the people who have contributed 1t
from their substance and earnings IN
the DAYS oftheir prosperity. Congress
has returned the personally, valued at
$3.50. 900, and / renew my recommenda-
ton that the realty, valued at S2S5, 600
be also restored to them.
A we'll known lawyer of this city
called at Secretary Carlisle's office
three weeks ago on private business,
but was informed that the Secretary
was engaged in preparing speech he
was to deliver in New York, and beg
ged to be excused. Yesterday, as
Stated in this correspondence of that
day, after short talk with the Presi-
dent, he telegraphed to democratic
headquarters in New York that he
could not not speak there. AS there
is no principle involved in the case,
that he should have allowed himself to
be influenced by the Presidents person
al rancor toward Senator Hill, is cause
of regret to his friends and of ridicule
to his enemies.
All the members of the Cabinet were
present at the regular meeting at the
White House to-day except Secretary
Smith, who has been exposed to the
danger of smallpox in the Interior De-
partment.
The President to-day appointed Jas.
P. Willett, of this city, postmaster OF
Washington, d. c., to succeed Henry
Sherwood, whose commission has ex-
PRED. Mr.. Willett is well-known
halter of Washington and has been
prominent in local democratic politics
for many years.
Among the lawyers in attendance
upon the Circuit Court here for the last
day or two is State Senator Mushbach
of Alexandria, who is counsel for the
defendant in the case of II. 0. Claugh-
ton of this city, VS.. ]. w. Burke of AL
exandria, now in progress.
Another death and an additional case
have resulted from the smallpox cpl
demic which began in the law division
of the Interior Department. William
Owens, employed in the Census Office,
died this morning from the disease at
the pest house. Investigation into the
suspicious illness of Van Buren, Nor
wood, laborer in the Interior Depart
ment, living at Hyattsville, Md, shows
that his case is one of smallpox. Lettie
NTundell, a colored woman whose cousin
died last week from the disease, con-
tracted through contact with an
Interior Department employee, is
reported to have died at Glymont
So far there have been three deaths
and eleven cases traceable to the law
division of the Interior Department,
not counting that reported at Glymont.
The free negro vaccination stations are
still not only crowded, but the streets
in front of them. The pay physicians
were doing a rafting business at dol
lar an arm, when theosophist doctor
advertised to vaccinate for quarter
when their receits dwindled at once.
The Norfolk Steamboat Company is
making arrangements for the new boat
it intends to put on the line between
Norfolk and this city. Bids for it vii
be received next week. 1t will be
built either at Wilmington, Delaware, OF
at Newport's News, Va. II will be larg-
er than either of the two boats now
on the line, will run twenty miles an
hour and will be completed by the first
of June. 1t will be day boat, leaving
here every other morning. The new
hotel at Old Point Comfort which is
expected to be open next February, anc
the new hotel to be built at Point
Lookout will add to the travel of the
line.
The Virginia Jockey Club near Alex
andria will close its gates and suspend
races on Monday and Tuesdayin order
CQaC UnOSo VI us paeEouo WIZ AN0 Al
New York may 90 home to vote.
Lynch, the Mississippian who wa;
fourth auditor of the U. S. Treasury
under President Harrison, and for some
time under President Cleveland, has
just failed to pass the required eXami
nation for admission to practice as a
lawyer in Mississippi.
A democrat from the Sth Virginia dis.
trict, here to-day, says Mr.. Meredith's
majority will be three or four thousand.
Mason, he says, will poll very small
vote in Loudoun and Fauquier counties,
where he has some personal friends
but will get hardly any in the Other
portions of the district, and that he
hears many republicans in Fairfax and
Alexandria counties, confident of Mr..
Meredith's election, deem it inadvisa-
BILE to antagonize him needlessly, as
there are several bills before his com.
mittee in which they and their counties
are deeply interested, and which they
hope to push through Congress with his
assistance at the coming short session
of that body, and who will, therefore,
vote for him and advise others to dc
likewise. He says that Mr.. Round, a
leading republican of Prince William
county, has also come out for Mere
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