Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the A~lexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON. Aug. %.

INOA HAD4l1lso IO1Ss
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WARRINGTON. Aug. %.
1t is common talk on the streets here
to-day that the Pre- sidential bee having
entered Secretary Olney's ear, is buzzil 6
there furiously, and that the vigorous
American policy" recently developed
by him in the Chinese, Cuban and Wal
Ter casesis the result, and has been
adopted IS q means ofstrengthening him
with the jiogo members of his party as
a Presidential candidate. 1t is we'll
known at the State Department
that the Chinese matter could
not be- in better hands than
Minister Denby's; that a forcible at
tempt to enforce the payment of the
Mora claim was entirely unnecessary,
and that France is completely justified
by international law for her imprison-
ment of Waller, the negro ex-consul to
Tamatave.
Not a line has been received at the
State Department for more than a week
from Mr.. Charles DENLY, q. S. Minister
at Picking, and it is reported that he
has procrastinated with regard to the
instructions SEM him concerning the
investigation into the Ku-Cheng mas
sacre. The State Department is dis
satisfied with MI. DENLY course, and it
is said he is In danger of being recalled
if he cannot furnish a satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of his failure to make ar
engagements with the Tsung.li' Yamen,
or board of foreign affairs, for the grant
ing of full authority to the American
commissioners on the Ku-Cheng board
of inquiry to freely investigate all the
circumstances relating to the massacre
Attorney General Harmon to-day
telegraphed Gibson Clarke, United
States District Attorney for Wyoming,
to apply to the United States courts for
writs of habeas. corpus in tho cases of
the Bsnnock and Shoshone Indians un-
der arrest at Evanston, Wyoming.
The State Department to-day recsiy-
ed a ~cablegrsm from Mr.. Eustis. stat
ing that upon the return of the French
minister for foreign affairs to Paris he
and AIR. Eustis had come to an under
standing regarding the designation OF
deputies to be sent to Clairvaux and
see Waller, who is confined at that
place. Mr.. Newton B. Eustis. the
second secretary, and Mr.. Alexander,
the counsel of the embassy, has been
delegated by the Ambassador, and all
necessary orders issued to ensure their
access TO the prisoner.
The failure of Mr.. Eustis, Ambassa-
dor to France, to notify the State De-
partment that he has taken advantage
of the permission granted by the French
government to visit ex-Consul Waller
in the prison where he is confined, is
said here to be viewed with much con-
TERN by the officials, and that his con-
duct of the Office at Paris is not salts
factory to the administration.
MI. Eckels, Comptroller of the Cur
rency, accompanied by his wife, will
leave New York by the City of Paris
Wednesday next for a trip to Europe.
As the President, the Secretary of the
Treasury and most all the other chief
officials of the government are on sum-
mer trips, MI. Eckels very naturally
thinks he can 60 too. Ofcourse all the
absentees continue to draw their full
pay.
1t is understood that DR.. Arthur
Snowden, formerly of Alexandria, but
for several years q pracLiciDg physician
10 this city, will, with bis family, soon
move to Montana.
Another million and quarter in gold
left the vaults Of the Treasury to-day
for shipment to Europe.
The %irrepressible C conflict was
manifested here again to. day ut the
corner of 7th and E streets, when an
Italian and a negro cut and slashed
each other to the great interest of q
large crowd of spectators the fight at
tracted.
The case of L. w. Spear, of New
Alexandria, charged with obtaining
money on false %pretenses, was called
in the police court of this city this
morning, but was postponed until next
Friday.
The Mr.. NJ. M. Ball who died here
yesterday was a first cousin of the late
Col. M. d. Ball of Alexandria. He
was from Fairfax county, Va, was a
member of his Cousins cavalry COM
pany that was captured in Alexandria
at the commencement of the war be-
tween the States, and succeeded him
when he was made colonel of the
regiment.
The officers of the Mount Vernon
Railroad made a trip over the part OF
that road between the Aqueduct Bridge
and Arlington this morning in q car
drawn by horse power, and found that
the work of constructing the road had
been done according to contract, and
was therefore satisfactory. The work
of constructing the bed of the road
through the Arlington reservation, on
the route to Waterloo station, on the
Washington and Alexandria Railroad,
was put ont TO contract this morning.
There is q heavy cut on this section.
Attorney General Harmon was in Washing
ton to-doy en.route from Nantucket, Mass,
t, White Sulphur Springs, Va. At that place
he will join his family and spend the remand
or Of his vac ton, returning to Washington
about the middle of September. Mr. harmon
has spent three weeks with his brother hunt
ing and fishing.
FARMERS INSTITUTE.