Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-22
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Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
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oceanic service for the fiscal year was
81, 173, SOL. The amount estimated as
necessary for the next fiscal year is
S2,O3O,000 The report recommends
free ships.
The troops of cavalry from Fort
Myer, under command of Captain
Craig, were to-day ordered to attend
tie funeral of Senior Thedim, the late
mister from Portugal. The troops
will escort the remains from the house
to the church and from there to the
t mporsry place of interment.
The Commissioner of immigration
has prepared a bill to be submitted to
Cungress for the suppression of the Ital,
ia ''padrone" system.
The annual report OF the Chief Of the
Bureau of Navigation shows that the
number and tonnage of vi merchant
fleet for the year have been nearly sta
tionary. The report recommends tree
ships and free material for building
ships.
The following changes in the fourth
class postofices of Virginia were made
to-day Amos, Floyd county, Mrs. N.
L.. Shelor appointed postmaster, vice
l.. NJ. Shelor, resigned; Verdon, Han
over county, c. 81. Lowry, vice ]. L..
Blunt, removed.
Congressman Meredith OF Virginia
met a large number of market people
from his State and Maryland in the
lobby of the National Hotel here TO-.
day and after listening to their com.
plants OF the attempt of the District
| Commissioners to drive them and their
wagons from the places they have so
long occupied on B street, went to the
Office of the Commissioners and laid
those complaints before them. Mr..
Meredith talks very plainly of the
| course the President pursued in re.
spect of the recent elections in Mary
land andKentucky and says an opposite
course would have saved both those
| States. He says MIR. Cleveland C; n
never be elected again except as a re.
publican candidate.
People from Nelson county, Virginia,
here to-day say that Capt. ]. w. Foster,
formerly of Leesburg, but who now
| lives in that county and is largely ill.,
terested in a soapstone quarry there,
has struck a bonanza and is rapidly &C
cumulating a large fortune, the quarry
having proved an excellent n and be
ing in receipt of all the orders it can
conveniently fill.
At a meeting of the Confederate Vet
erans' Association of this city which has
three hundred members, last night, q
| resolution was adopted pledgipg each
member to give n dollar to the estab-
lishment of Confederate memorial hall
here. Major r. w. Hunter of Virginia
made some appropriate remarks UPON
the death of the late Colonel Melon
aid, whose great grandfather was kille7
in the Revolutionary war, whose grand
father was killed in the war of 1912,
and whose father died of wounds re-
ceived in theswar between the States.
A Culpeper county democrat here
to-day says Judge Grimsley Of that
county is a candidate for the demo
cratic congressional nomination in the
Alexandria district and that his friends
say they are already confident that ne
will 90 into the convention Wi'hapracti
cally solid vote from Culpeper, Orange
and Louisa counties and probably half
| of that of Fauquier; he also says that
Colonel Gibson has lost many political
friends by abandoning the democratic
party and that many democrats who
voted for him at the late election say
they will never do SO again. he also
says the prevailing feeling of the demo-
Gratis there is unfavorable, to express it
in the mildest terms, to President
Cleveland, and, what is not strange to
some people, that a petition was re-
Gently in circulation in that county, for
signatures, to Congress praying that
body to pass q force bill.
Wall street made another whack at
the gold reserve in the Treasury to-day
ana got five million for export to-mor
row. Business men are beginning to
anticipate another financial panic.
Large numbers of race horses and race
| horse men have arrived at the race
tracks in Alexandra county during the
last few days, and the attendance at
those tracks has increased so much that
| ten books are now kept at each of them,
aud the proprietors say that with a o
! tinuance OF good weather they now
hope to make up the loss they have
sustained during the early part Of the
fall and summer. 1t is rumored that
| some Northern race horse men, in spite
for the action ofthe tracks referred to
in adopting a rule intended to prevent
horses and horse men from leaving
those tracks to go to theirs, will do what
they can to influence the Virginia legis-
lature to break up both the tracks in
Alexandria county, and that others will
try to induce the legislature to break
up the track near Jackson City, but
not the one near st. Asaph, but that f
one of those tracks shall be closed,
the other will be also.
TIE general assembly of the Knights Of
Labor to-day adopted a resolution prohibibit-
ing the election of the general officers of that
organization for more than two consecutive
terms, put a boycott on John Wanamaker, in
doIsed a petition for ifftage in the District of
Columbia irrespective Of color and sex, and
decided to hold its next meeting in Roche ster.
A we'll known Virginia republican here to.
day says McKin'ey's asenls have been at
work in his State, and il looks now as if Vir-
gininia will send a Mckinley delegation to
the national republican convention.
The MISCELLANY" ON GENERAL
LEE.-"Miscellany" is the name of a
little magazine, or booklet, the first
number of which has just been issued
by Mr.. Thos. D. Bailie, of Buena Vista.
The following from the Miscellany,
in regard to General Fitzhugh Lee will