Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
[C0rrespondence Of the Ae1andria Gazette.

That part OF turkey oeIWeeu Oassouu
and Moush, where Turkish officials are
said to have driven tbs Christians out
oftheir houses and given them to Kurds.
Most of these Christians are Turkish
subjects
The State Department is without
any information about the report that
the Chinese officials have refused to
allow the mixed American and British
commission to make free and COM
plete investigation of the Ku-Cheng
massacre.
In response to request from the
Boston authorities, Acting Secretary
McAdoo has instructed Rear Admiral
Bunce to take the North Atlantic
squadron to that place during the com
ing conclave of the Knights Templar.
The PosoAice Department to-day
made annual allowance for clerk hire
at the following postoffices in Virginia
Hampden, 5000; Newport News, s., 400
Colonel Nat. Tyler, formerly of War
renton, but more recently of this city,
and during the war between the States
editor of the Richmond Enquirer, has
purchased house and twenty acres Of
land at Falls Church, Fairfax county,
for ten thousand dollars.
Lieut.. Price, q. S. A., whose detail
rs commandant at the Virginia Militia
ry Institute has been sent from the
War Department to Massachusetts to
Secretary Lamont for his signature, is
from Iowa, and is not an alumnus oil
that institute, and the detail was at the
sole and special request, in person. Of
Col. Scott Ship, superintendent OF the
institute. This information comes from
the War Depal tment.
A car will be run on the Mt. Vernon
Railroad from the Aqueduct Bridge to
Arlington on Thursday evening, and
on Friday morning cars will commence
running on it regularly. The condem-
nation of land for the line of the road
from the Alexandria Driving Park to
the Long Bridge is progressing as
rapidly as the law will allow, and
plans and specifications for the power
house on Four Mile Run aud
for the over head trolley for
the part of the road in Alexandra
county and on the Long Bridge, and
for the underground trolley in this city
are being hurried with all possible
speed. When the cars on the road
shall be running from here straight
through to Mount Vernon the fare for
8 round trip ticket will be fifty cents
The fare between here and Alexandria
has not yet been determined upon.
1t is thought by some here that the
proposed scheme of uniting the Wash
ington and Georgetown and the Rock
Creek street railroads of this city, and
capitalizing the combined stock al
twelve million dollars will not succeed
and this idea is strengthened by the
fact that the bluff offer Of half d
million worth of the stock of the
Washington and Georgetown road fol
sale by auction. IN New York to-day
was with drawn. The people who OWL
that stock are we'll satisfied with it;
present dividends, but are not sure @
the profits of the proposed combine
and, it is said, if nothing else will pre-
vent that combine, will do SO by lega
Injunction.
General Ransom's reappointment a:
Minister to Mexico has been Locked 70
here ever since the Department Of Jus
tioe decided that there was flaw il
tho first one, and it is expected from
Buzzards' Bay certainly to- day.
Il is reported here that Col. Marshal
Mcdonald Of Virginia, o. S. Fish Con
m IS oner, is i'll with an incurabie d s
ease, and that he has determined tor.
sgn.
A competitive examination for the
Agricultural Departments statisticiar
for the State of Virginia will be hello
here on the 9th, and, on the 2Sth, FOL
positions in the government printing
Office.
Senator Ear lis, who is still here, sale
this morning the executive committee
of the silver democrats is considering
very deliberately the appointment @
the chairmen of the separate State com
mittees of that organization. and thai
when ali shall be selected there will
be meeting of them. He said Con
gresham Otey would be the chairman
of the Virginia committee.