Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-31

trading centre. Jeddan, neHr ""
mort the British consul and vice-consui,
the Russian acting consul and tne ne
French consular secretary are reported
ia have heen shot. the British vice.
consnl beipg killed and the others
nonn1ed IS the principal trading
mort of Arabia and is situsteo on ths
Red Sea halfway between ouez anu
I.lrn At this time of the year IL Is
divided with NJ, C pilgrims, it being
,mt Is miles from that city and the land
ins place of or at proportion ofthe 1907
Ni, Mohammedans now gathering to
ouch the famous sacred stone of the
NJ ccan temple. The name of the port
Is more frequently written DJlddah, or
J, dda. The place contains the reputed
tomb of Eve and is said TO be one o!
the cleauest places in the East. From
he time of Mohammed down to the
.eginning of the present century the
city was ruled by an Arabian governor
called the "She esf" 1t is now under
Turkish go, eminent and the Ottoman
Porte will no doubt be held to a strict
accountability by Great Britain, Rus
STA and France for the attack on their
consular representatives.
1t is said at the Treasury to-day that
Secretary Carlisle will not cancel his
engagement 10 speak at Louisville, Ky.
In few days he will 60 back to Ken
lucky and make the last of the four
speeches for which he was originally
booked. =.
The impression is growing in diploo-
matte circles here that some understand
ing will soon be reached by Russia and
Japan which will permit Russia to eX-
tend her Siberian railway through
northern Corea in order to secure an
outlet at the seaport Of Port Lazereh.
The Comptroller of the Treasury to-
day decided that the Assistant Post
master of the House of Representatives
could not assume the powers and au-
thority of the duly elected postmaster,
Lycurgus Dalton, recently deceased.
The question came up on an inquiry
from the clerk OF the House, and that
the Clerk of the House must now
make contracts for the hiring of horses
and wagons for the delivery of the
mail of the House.
Nothing of interest was done at to-
DAYS session of the tenth annual con-
vention of the association of American
physicians at the Army Medical Mu-
scum in this city.
Speculation in the executive depart.
ments as to Mr.. Gresham's successor
has developed cabinet slate which
iran. fers Attorney General Olney to
the State Department; Postmaster
General Wilson to the Department OF
Justice, vice Olney, and Acting Secre-
tary Uni of the State Department to
the Post Office Department vice Wilson.
These, of course, are simply specua-
lions, but the sources from which they
originate suggest that they may be put
out as "feelers' to elicit public senti-
ment. 1t is also said that as Mr.. Car
Isle is by no means favorite with the
bankers he may be transferred to the
State Department.
G. R. Skillman was appointed post
master at Conklin, Loudoun county,
Va, to-day, vice ]. r. Conklin, dead.
Mr.. Walton Harper, formerly of Alex
andria, but now of Orange county, Va,
passed through here to-day on his way
home from tour through Egypt and
the Holy Land. The party with whom
he travelled escaped assault, but only
by reason of the large guard by whom
they were protected, the party just
ahead of them having been attacked
and plundered by the Desert robbers.
A well.known old ex-Confederate
now resident here says he can't keep
up with the age. He says the war
is over with him. and he does not nurse
the spirit OF revenge and would not
harm one hair of the head of any ex-
Union soldier, but, for all that, he would
not have gone to Chicago and gushe1
and slabbered over the men who,
brave and generous as they may be,
came South and waged an aggressive,
needless and unboly war upon his peo-
pie, and inflicted death and destruction
upon all he held most dear.
Judge Tebbs of Loudoun county, Va,
was among the visitors here to-day. He
is reported as saying that while Mr..
Ryan will have some opposition both for
denomination and re. election to the
Legislature, he will have little or no
trouble in efecting both those object. !;
also, as saying that he is in favor OF
Judge McCabe for the Congressional
democratic nomination in his district.
Congress makes no provision for the
burial of members of the Cabinet, and
it is reported here that while the Pull
man Company supplied the requisite
cars, and the B. & o. r. R. the motive
power, the President paid all the other
expenses of the late Secretary Ores
hams funeral out of his own pocket.
The contestants in the Alexandria
county election case went from here to
Alexandria to-day to attend to some
preliminary business in connection
with that case, which has to be done
within ten days after the election. The
counsel for the contestants are Messrs.
of this city, Moore of Fairfax
county, and Armstrong of Alexandria;
those for the contestees are Col. F. l..
Smith and Mr.. ]. NJ. johnson of Alexan-
dria, and Mr.. Edmund Burke of this
city.
The counsel in the Thorp. McKenny
contested election case has been mott
fed by the Clerk of the House to be at
his room in the Capitol on the 18th Of
June to open the papers filed there in
that case, and that in the Yost-Tucker
case, to be at the same place on the 18th,
for the like purpose.
An intelligent gentleman who has
just returned to this city from a bust.