Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-17

ly for comfort, and there Was no Heoo'
sity for undue speed. 1t was com,
posed of but two cars, that next 10 .ns
engine being the private car OF senator M,
Brice, which being needed III IA"
York was nut onto this train for STEADY
lug purposes. Idaho left this
Senator Dubois, OF ldaho, ae's TN, ms
morning for Cleveland 10 atlenu .ne
II ationai republican league conventl 'sil
H. said he expected to do all nc coulu
TO secure the adoption OF resolution
fsvoripg free coinage, for he believed
unless the republican party took strong
srounds along this line it could not car.
~ single State west of the Missouri
liver and would hardly be able to car
ry Illinois, Iadiana. or Ohio.
Tae case of Waller, the negro ex-
Consul at Tamatave, now in prison at
Marseilles, still hangs fire, but 1t Is
likely that something definite will b.
done in q short time. Langston, Wall
cr's Attorney, and Bray, Walters step.
son, saw assistant secretary Uhl of the
State Department this morning aboutthe
case. 1t is presumed that they were
sent for. 1t now appears that the oil
cial status of Mr.. Wetter, the present
consular representative of the United
States at Tamatave, is in an anomalous
condition. He has not recognized the
Hovas, the native government of Mad.
ayascar, as the reigning authority, and
they have accordingly refused 10 grant
him his exequator or formal recogni
ton. The French authorities have
likewise been backward in recognizing
Mr.. Wetter aud altogether his position
is most unsatisfactory one.
Minister H. NJ. Smythe OF Tazewell
county, Virginia, has arrived here
fresh from the republic of Hayti with all
"his bushing honors thick upon him."
He likes Hayti, likes its President,
Hyppolte, likes the government there,
which he esteems as the one best
adapted for the country, and is him.
sell Individually and III all other re-
spccts persona grata" in a degree that
mast be eminently satisfactory to both
Presidents Cleveland and Hyppolite,
the Departments of State of Doth re-
publics and TO all other persons con-
cernei. Seriously, Minister and Con
sui Geue,al Smythe appears to have
established very warm relationship
with the government of the "black re.
public" And his friends claim that this
is wise diplomacy on his part. Ifany-
thing. they say, is to be accomplished
on be half of the interests of this gov
eminent in its dealings with Hayti, il
can belbest done through white, and
not negro minister, particularly if the
white diplomat be Southern ex-slave-
holde~, with appreciation and knowl-
edge OF the negro character, such as car
be had alone from actual contact and
personal experience with him and all
his surrounding. The white Americans
in Hayti as we'll as the whites Of other
countries are said to have been much
gratifed at the change OF policy which
sent q native Southern white man to
represent the United States at Port-au-
Prince and it is not likely that in the
future there will be departure from
this policy. But President Hyppolit"
has not afforded his friend, Gener. ]
Smythe, the interestng spectacle-once
so common in that country of shooting
down two or three hundred of his ne
gro subjects, merely by way of a whole
some example in the interest Of law
and order. In fact there appears to
have been no occasion for sometime
past for calling for any such "bloody d.
version" as the most perfect peace, the
Minister says, prevails everywhere,
with the present government firmly
fixed in power, and not revolutionary
or rebellious indication to be found on
the Island. Minister Smythe will call
at the State Department tomorrow, and
in few days will 60 to his home in
Tazewell county for a sojourn Of q
month or two. His health has suffered
somewhat from the climate, but not to
any serious degree.
The papers in the contested con-
gressional election case of Thorp VS..
McKenney, from the Petersburg district
in Virginia, were opened in the clerks
Office of the House this evening, in the
presence of the counsel of the parties
to the case, and such of them as are
wanted for reference were selected for
printing.
The taking of testimony in the Alex
andria county contested election, in JEFF
ferson district, was concluded to. day.
1t is stated here that the allegations of
the contestants in respect of fraudulent
registration were not sustained.
IT General Malone be as successful
in all his laws suits as he was to-day
in that brought against him by the ex
ecutor of the Windsor estate, he will
still be on deck. As anticipated in this
correspondence of last week. decree
was issued in court here here to-day,
against the protest of the executors
counsel, which makes the Windsor
claim the last one to be paid out Of the
proc IDS of the sale of the famous
"Mahone" lot.
Nothing is known at the Office of the
Mount Vernon Railroad in this city OF
the reported purchase and completion
of that road by the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company.
A gentleman from Fredericksburg,
Virginia, here to-day, says the council
of that town will tonight agree to sui
NIT to the voters thereof proposition
to subscribe So, 900 to the construction
of railroad through the Northern
Neck, and the same amount to the e1-
tension of that road to West Virginia.
but not until its completion.
Southern Railway securities ad.
vanced here to-day in consequence of
the recent arrangement for coast ter
minus at Norfolk.
Robert Phillips and r. Davis, iron
workers. while fixing o cornice on a |