Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandris -Gssotte]
MAcuINcrnN March 3

On the lighthouse ten1er eio-
let for the sounds of North Carolina.
He was accompanied by DR.. o'RelilS'
his physician, Commander George ~
f. Wilde. naval secretary Of the llgnt-
house board. and Commander BenJa-
min p. Lambeltoo, inspector OF tnis
iiobt .hous.. district. The cruise OF the
VInl-t will cover about the same terli'
torv as was covered on her former trip
with Mr.. Cleveland. The trip Is ike
" TO last for week or ten days. AS
soon as he got Congress "ott his hands,
and before half the members OF that
body had left the city, he sailed away
at the governments expense.
Lewis D. McKisick of San Francisco,
Cal, has been appointed special as
sistant q. S. district attorney for the
northern district of California, to pros
ecute the claim of the United Safes
against the estate of ex-senator Leland
Stanford.
An examination of yesterdays calen-
dar of the Supreme Court of the United
States shows that it disposed of IS cases,
81 by opinion and by dismissal. This
is by far the greatest record ever made
by the court in one day. Some of the
cases were of great importance, one of
them, the Bate refrigerating patent
case, directly affecting greater volume
and variety of interests, than any deci-
sion made since that of the famous
greenback case. The court will have
presented to it for consideration before
it adiourns finally for the term in May,
a number of cases involving questions
of great interest to the profession
and people. Among those that are set
for argument this week are the follow
ing: To determine the constitutional
ty of the income tax law, to settle the
rule of distribution of assets of bank,
the State of Texas, boundary dispute;
the Choctaw Indian Mckee cases in
volving attorneys fees, and the white
cap cases from Alabama. Next month
the case of Capt. n. NJ. l.. Johnson vs..
D. b Slyre, from the Eastern district
of Virginia will be argued. This in.
wolves the power of military or naval
cou,t5 martial 10 punish for crimes
committed near the jurisdiction of civil
tribunals.
Senator Ransom's influence secured
the election of Mr.. Cox of his State TO
the place of Secretary of the Senate. 1t
is said at the Capitol to-day that though
there may he no other changes in the
organization of the Senate next Decem-
Der, there will be one in the Office refer
red to.
Mr.. Frank Hume. of Alexandria
county, but whose business is in this
CITY, received a dispatch from Yale
College this morning, stating that ais
second son, Robert, who is student al
that college, had APPENDICITIS. If the
diagnosis be correct, the patient is in a
dangerous condition.
The Court of Claims to-day decided
that the negroes in the Cherokee ma
ton are entitled to participate in the
distribution of the money derived from
the sale of the Cherokee lands, and
that too, though they were slaves, or
runaways who had paid nothing for
coming into that nation.
A good deal of government money
will be spent at Fort Myer, Alexandria
county, during this spring and the com
ing summer. The improved grounds
wi be extended, the barracks enlarged,
a large hall erected, and accommoda-
tions made for a whole regiment Of
cavalry.
General Gilbert Meem, formerly
of Shenandoah county, Virginia: who
h been here for some time, is now a
resident of Seattle, Washington, and is
N applicant for the postmastership OF
th"t city.
Colonel Jobe, of Charlestown, West
Virginia, has become the lessee of the
renovated Bslvedere Hotel of this city.
Congressman Jones of Virginia will
leave tomorrow morning by the Poto
mac boat for his home in the Northern
Neck. His opposition to fraudulent
pensions has saved the country many
thousands of dollars.
1t is the impression at the State De-
partment to day that the existing gov
eminent of Colombia is unable to cope
with the revolutionists by whom it is
now being assailed.
Before he went away this morning,
the President reappointed nearly all his
nominees who failed of confirmation.
among them Mr.. Marbury, U. S. dis
trict attorney for Maryland.
Washington and Lee College in Nir-
ginia will get the ST 500 appropriated
by Congress for its benefit next week
Congressman Tucker went TO the
Treasury Department this morning and
was promised that the red tape work
would be completed by that time.
The engineers of the Washington and
Mt. Vernon electric railroad are en-
gagged to-day in locating branch of
that road from near Waterloo station,
on the Washington and Alexandria
railroad, to Arlington.
Capt. ]. R. Purcell, an old time Vir.
ginia democrat from Prince William
county, who was an applicant
for the place of recorder of deeds of
this city, which was given to Taylor,
the Kansas negro now being exposed
in the District court, was among the
strangers here to-day. He sold one of
his pointer dogs at the recent New
York dog show for $3.50.
The Spanish government has given assur-
ances that tie American citizen, Jose Maria
Aguirre captured with other rebels in Cub1,
as well as two other Americans among the
prisoners will be tried by the civil tribunal.
All revolutionists who are Spanish subjects
will be dealt with according to martial law.
During the present revival of interest
in Napoleon there has been some con-
fusion as to the use of the names of the