Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gszette.l
WASHINGTON. Oct. 5.

WASHINGTON, Oct. D.
Prof. D w. Shea, who has been the
head of the college of electrical en-
cheering at the Chicago University Tor
the past three years has resigned TO &C
cept the chair of physics in the Catho-
lie University of America, IN TINS cry.
where he will be ct the head of me de-
partment of physical science and is ex-
nected to establish college OF electrl-
cal engineering.
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York,
who has been in Washington attending
the meeting of arcbbishops and the SEES
sions of the Eucbaristic Congress, has
gone to Mexico to attend the dedlca-
ton of cathedral in honor of ths Vir-
Gin of Gaudeloupe at the latter place.
Archbishop Corrigan will stop day or
two in New Orleans.
The foundation of the Hancock
monument, on the northwest corner OF
Seventh street aud Pennsylvania ave-
nue., having been completed, and the
necessary derrick having been set up,
the work of erecting that monument
will be commenced next Monday.
1t is said at the Office of the Mt. Yer
non Railroad Company here to-day that
q, t only is the grading of that road,
but the track, completed from the Aque-
duct Bridge almost to Waterloo station,
AMI VIII be produced at once to the
Alexandria Driving Park, to which
point the road to Mt. Vernon is finish
ed. The work of digging the founda,
ton for the power house on -Four Mile
Run, about hundred yards west of
the old Alexandria canal, will be com
menced on Monday. The contractors
for building the road in Washington
will complete their work in thirty days
The company expects the entire road
from Mt. Vernon to B street, In this
city, to be running by the 18th OF De-
csmber.
People from West Virginia, here to-
dsy, say it is rumored in Postmaster
General Wilson's district, in their State,
that the democrats there intend to
nominate him for his old scat in Con-
eress next summer, and that if they
shall he will not decline the nomination.
The rooms of the Virginia democratic
association of this city in the Lehman
building, corner of 18th street and New
York avenue, will be opened for the
year next Friday night, when the regu-
lar monthly meeting of the association
will be held there. The rooms are
large and handsomely furnished. The
rent for them is moderate, only $3.50 a
year.
1t is reported here that there are no
less than one thousand cases of typhoid
fever in this city at present.
Mr.. J. q. Powell, of Fairfax G. H.,
who is here today, says the people OF
his county are not much excited about
politics now, but that he thinks the full
democratic vote will be polled next
month. The republicans, he says, will
nominate candidate for the House of
Delegates, but whether there will be a
republican candidate for the State Sen
ate in that district he does not know.
General Malone at three o'clock this
evening was weaker than he has yet
been and his physicians think the end
cannot be far off.
Private intelligence from Mississippi
here to-day is to the effect that Con-
gresham Money will be the next O.
S. Senator from that State.
The habeas corpus proceedings grow
iug out of the arrest of Capt. Armes,
by order of Lieut.. Gen. Schofeld, act
ing as Secretary of War, came up be.
fore Judge Bradley in the District Su-
preme Court to-day. Col. II. W. Clos
SON, to whose custody Capt. Armes
was placed, made an amended and ex
tended return to the writ issued last
Saturday, and the suficiency there
Of was argued at length by Messrs.
'Ralston and Siddons, Captain Armes's
attorneys, and J. N. Morrison, chief
clerk of the Judge Advocate General.
The question at issue was whether
or not the arrest of Capt. Armes under
the circumstances surrounding it was
legally justified. The petitioners at
torneys contended that it was not, and
Mr.. Morrison agreed that it was. At
the conclusion of the argument. which
occupied most of the day, Judge Bradley
announced that he would take the
matter under advisement.