Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandris Gazette
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Correspondence Of the Alexandris Gazette.J
WASHINGTON, April is.
A cablegram received at Washing
ton this morning from Hon. John W.
Foster, adviser of the Chinese peace
D enipotertiaries, announces that ne
will accompany Ii Hung Chang 10
P, kin. The Chinese viceroy and MS
party will arrive in Pekin about May l,
between which time and the expiration
of the extended armistice, on May oth,
there will be a week for the Chinese
authorities to exchange ratltlcatlons OF
the treaty. 1t is not doubted that the
treaty will be ratified and promptly
proclaimed.
Miss Harriet Dugan, who died near
this city, at Rockville, Maryland, re-
Gently, aged about seventy years, it is
found deserved a place in the calendar
ofdistinguisbed misers. She had lived
on the charity of her neighbors for more
than fifty years. After her death her
house was searched and among other
discoveries great quantities of expen-
sive clothing, several thousand dollars
in bonds, and 9 500 SEQ in geld we're III
earthed. No one suspected that Miss
Dugan was other than as she represent
ed herself and her persistent mendl-
cancy excited the pity of charitable
people to such an extent that many
prominent citizens were steady contrib
utors, and it was her practice to call on
her regular contributors for their quota
if they failed to pay up promptly. In
her youth, Miss Dugan was considered
one of the most beautiful women in
Maryland, and her aristocratic bearing
was maintained to the last. She was
connected with some of the old time
prominent families.
REPORTS from an authoritative source
have reached the Agricultural Depart
ment that an unknown insect has at
tackled the watermelon plants OF south
ern Georgia and now threaten to de-
stroy that product.
On November second last, the Presl-
dent amended the civil service rules to
forbid transfers from places excepted
from examinations to places not except
ed. On April 18th last he again amend.
ed the rules to provide that the prohi-
bitiou of such transfers should not ap.
DIV to persons who were appointed TO
excepted places prior to November ID.
The fact that Attorney General Olpey
recently dropped his free railroad pass
in the grounds of the White House,
where it was found and returned to
him, has developed the other fact that
nearly every man holding position of
importance under the government
travels on free pass, and that, too,
though many of them draw mileage.
There is a difference between Mr..
| Dulany, who owns tine lot just south
of Rosslyn, in Alexandra county, and
the Washington and Falls Church and
the Mt. Vernon railroads, which propose
to run their tracks through it to the
Aoueduct Bridge. The lines as located
converge near the north end of the lot
and therefore cut it into three parts,
but Mr.. Dulany wants the conVergence
to take place before they enter it, so
that it will be divided only into two
parts.
There need be no doubt about Gen
eral Fitz Lees acceptance of the place
to which the President appointed him
Yesterday. as the appointment was
made upon the receipt of private
note from the General to Secretary
Carlisle, requesting him to inform the
President that while not an applicant for
the position, he would not decline it if
offered to him. This note was shown
to the President yesterday and the APP
nointment' was made out at once. II
is stated that the President had pre-
yiously heard there would be fight
| for it between the two Virginia Sena-
tors on one side and Governor OFFER
rail- on the other, and that he gladly
availed himself of the opportunity to
nip that fight in the bud, and to the
satisfaction of large number of the
people of Virginia.
The daily receipts at the Treasury
continue to be less than the expendi-
lures, and this months increase of the
public debt will, it is estimated, be not
less than eight or nine million.
There is no telling what valueless
things often sell for. A well
known citizen of Leesburg, Virginia,
here to-day, received 1915 for two old
postage stamps of 1915. Postage stamps
issued at Alexandria between 1912 and
1S4S are worth in this city 500 each.
Judge r. w. Hughes Of the U. S. dis
trict court for the eastern district of
Virginia, who came over here yester-
day from Alexandria, where he had
been called to act in the case of Des-
mond, arrested for robbing the office of
the Alexandria Ferry Company here,
returned to Virginia last evening. The
Judge thinks General Malone will
never again cut much of figure in
Virginia politics.
An Alexandria county man here to.
day says the negroes there are organic
ed into clubs for the approaching county
election in May, and that they offer
their support to the different candidates,
not singly, but as clubs, the pay 10
be contingent ON their ability to carry
the county or their respective districts.
Mr.. John S. Wise, formerly of Vir-
ginia, but now of New York, has been
employed by the Norfolk Pilot, of which
Rev. Sam. Small until recently was edi
tor, as counsel in the libel suit brought
against it by Mr.. Massey, superinten-
dent of the public schools of Virginia.
The War Department to-day ap-
proved the line of the Mt. Vernon Rail
road as located through the Arlington
reservation.
A Treasury Department circular authoriz.
ing the landing of steamship passengers at
New York after the hour of sunset was issued
this afternoon.
A LIVELY SURGEONS ANT1cs.-An eight