Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandris Gazetto]
WASHINGTON. April II.

(OorreBpondence Of the AlexanorlS dazeIpc-J
WASHINGTON, April II.
Secretary Carlisle to-day designated
W. b. Bailie chief deputy to take
charge of the internal revenue ONCE d.
Lynchburg, Va, and TO act temporary
as collector of internal revenue Tor tne
9Th district of Virginia until the vacancy
caused bv the death of Collector Shep-
nerd is filed by appointment. MT.
Railie was in charge Of the Office
dnrinp the late collectors illness.
J A. Reynolds was appointed post
Master at Charlemont, Bedford county,
Va. to day, vice w. R. Woodson, re-
signed. u,uo1s,,
Ex-Cougressman Jeremiah HARRISON,
colored, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, has
b.en disbarred from practice. before
the Interior Department for violation
/, { the pension laws. He was sentenced
t, years imprisonment and fined
IS 900 by United States District Court
of Arkansas.
A pension has been granted to Richard
Weaver of Alexandria.
Official advices received here to-day
from Japan indicate that an under
standing has been reached between the
Japanese and Chinese plenipotentiaries
and the news of the definite conclusion
of peace may be expected at any mo-
ment. The exact particulars of the
proposed terms of settlement could not
be learned, but it is understood that in
response to the urgent and repeated
requests of the Chinese plenipotentiary
for an abatement of the demands origi-
nally made, the Japanese plenipoten-
tiaries have granted important conces-
sions.
The case involving the title to the re-
claimed flats of the Potomac OIL this
city will be commenced before Judges
Bingham, Hagner and McComas on the
22d instant. About forty lawyers are
employed in it, The Judges want the
arguments submitted in writing, as II
they be oral the hearing will last at
least month.
Mr.. Joseph w. Field of Alexandria
county, who was assaulted on the
Washington and Alexandria turnpike
night before last by unknown parties
and knocked from his horse in the road,
where he was found some time after
wards in an unconscious condition, is
living i'll at his home near Ballston, his
physician, DIR. Golf, says, suffering from
confusion of the brain.
Mr.. G. M. Fox of Minnesota has just
bought of Mr.. Wexford Redman, 80
acres of land two miles south of Falls
Church for 81 400.
1t is expected that resolution in
favor of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver will be introduced at the regu-
lar monthly meeting of the Virginia
democratic association of this city to be
held tonight, and that it will be adopt
ed by large majority.
The members of the Virginia Uni
versity Alumni Association of this city
expect to have grand time at their BAN
uuet at Page'shere, next Monday night,
in celebration of the anniversary OF the
birthday of Thomas Jefferson.
Fairfax county people here to-day
say that at the democratic primary held
there yesterday, there was only one
contest for county office, that OF com
missioner of revenue for the lower dis
tant, and for that Mr.. ]. n. Ballard,
the incumbent, an ex-Confederate, was
renominated.
The superintendent of public schools
of Alexandria county, here to day, says
all those schools will have holiday next
Monday, Easter.
Major Selden, proprietor of the Met.
ropolitan Hotel, of this city, returned
this morning from Cuba, where he and
his wife have been for the last week or
two. The Major says he heard little or
nothing of the reported insurrection in
Cuba, and that the few he did hear talk
about it, knew nothing definite of land
spoke of it in the same way as, when a
boy, he used to hear people at his
home in Virginia speak of reported ne,
gro instructions in distant parts Of
that State. The Major says he saw
nothing in Havana, from game chickens
up to horses and women, that equaled
those of this country.