Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Orrespondeuce of the Alexandria Gazette.

WASHINGTON, aug. ~.
In the mail received this morning at
the State Department was a dispatch
from Minister DENLY stating that on
July z, at Tung Chou, a town about 13
miles from Picking, the Rev. D. q.
Sheffield, an old and highly respected
American missionary, was attacked by
a crazy native carpenter and his
brother, and severely cut with q knife.
They were arrested, and, at the date
Mr.. DENLY wrote, were in Jail awaiting
trial. Mr.. DENLY added Tho matter
will create 8 great stir in China, but is
absolutely without foreign political sig.
nificance."
In the absence of information from
Mr.. DENLY, the statements published
in London papers that the British and
American commissioners are practically
prisoners at Kucheng cannot be con-
firmed. The statement is not believed
here.
The Treasury Department has de-
clined to admit free of duty the clothes
and sword of the Duke Of Wellington
worn by him at Waterloo, and Napo-
leon's hat and sword worn by him on
the same occasion. The intention OF
the importers was to exhibit them in
this country for pay.
General Ransom reached here last
night from his North Carolina home.
He had q long interview this morning
at the State Department with Acting
Secretary Adee regarding the peculiar
position ia which he has been placed
by the assistant attorney generals de-
clsion, that his appointment to the
Mexican mission was unconstitutional.
Mgr. Satolli and the several members
of the Papal legation in Washington
will 60 over to Baltimore tomorrow to
unite with the Catholic Club of that
city in its reception to Cardinal Gibbons
upon his return home from Rome.
Mgr. Satolli does not expect to make
an address on that occasion. He will
return to Washington after the recep-
ton. On Thursday next, the Mon
signor will start for ST. Paul.
Acting Secretary McAdeo to-day an
nounced the names selected for the
three gunboats under construction at
Newport News, Va. One will DO call
ed the Nashville, q the Wilmington,
and the other the Helena.
The matter of the protest against the
maintenance by the Benedictine
monks at st. Vincent's Abbey, Beatty,
Westmoreland county, Pa, of the
brewery established by them some time
ogo, is still under consideration by
Mgr. Satolli, the Papal delegate. A
satisfactory issue of the affair is said, at
the legation, to be assured; that as
soon as the monks can dispose of the
property they will do SO.
State Senator Little of Fredericks-
burg, Virginia: passed through here to-
day on his way to Capon Springs He
says he has no idea of abandoning poll
tics at the expiration of his term ia the
legislature of his State, but that then
he intends to try to obtain the demo.
cratic nomination for Congress in his
district.
Among those the value of whose
property in the fashionable residential
portion of this city has been impaired
by the proposed use of q building
therein Tor q negro school is Mr.. Boyd
Smith, formerly of Alexandra. The
District Commissioners have sanction
ed the use of the building for the pur-
pose referred toagainst the earnest pro-
tests of the property owners 10 the
neighborbood, but the latter, Mr.. Smith
says, have determined to seek relief
through Injunction by the court.
Ext Congressman and present i'm
migration commissioner Stump, of Bal
timore, here to-day, says the democrats
of his State will have q pretty hard
fight next November, but he thinks
they will win, as the character of the
opposition will make them put forth
their every effort.
Mr. Myers, the expert Treasury ac-
oountant, has returned and is again at
work, tryingt to ascertain, not the exact,
Tor that Is impossible, but an approx
mate amount of the shortage in the
accounts OF Mr. Spofford, the Congress.
sional librarian. It ia said here that
the President will not act in the case
until the report ofMr. Myers shall have
bsen made.
The public statement of Mr.. E O
Benedict, the personal friend of the
President, and who has recently return.
ed from q yachting trip with him, that
he will vote against the democratic
party unless 1t shall declare emphati.