Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

No decision i5 expected from Comp
troller Bowler in regard to the pay
ment of the sugar bounty claims for
some time, probably not before the re-
turn to the city of Secretary Carlisle,
which will be about the first of Sep
.ember. The general impression is
that the comptroller will take the po-
sition that his action has already indi.
Gated, viz !, he will decline to approve
the warrant for the bounty. and the
case will have to go to the courts for de-
termination.
Apprehension at the State and Navy
Departments over the safety of Ameri
can missionaries in. China has been
greatly allayed through the receipt of
several official dispatches containing
reassuring information, leading to the
belief among those officially concerned
that native outbreaks against foreigners
have ceased for the present at least.
Minister DENLY has secured promise
of redress for outrages in the past and
future protection of American mission
aries; and Rear Admiral Carpenter
has taken action looking to the relief
of the anxiety of Americans in the Chi
nese seaports by providing adequate
means of suppressiug any further out
break.
Work on the governmental exhibit
at the Atlanta Exposition has now
reached the installation stage, and
about twenty-five carloads have been
forwarded from Washington. Twenty
more are expected to go this week.
There will be an independent showing
| of the achievements by women in the
field of invention, and it is said it will
be great surprise.
Solicitor General Conrad returned
this morning and resumed his duties as
Acting Attorney General in the alb
sence of Mr.. Harmon.
Intelligence from Leesburg here to-
day is to the effect that Mr.. John F.
Ryan will be renominated for delegate
from Loudoun county to the Legisla-
ture without practical opposition by
the democratic county convention that
meJ there this evening. The county
primaries were held last Saturday and
in nearly all Il Q districts Ryan dele
ates were chosen. A Virginia lawyer
who has just returned from the meet
ing of the Virginia Bar Association at
the White Sulphur Springs, Va, says
that after talking with number Of
democrats there from different parts
of the State, he thinks Mr.. Ryan will
have no opposition for reelection to the
Speakership to the House of Delegates.
A gentleman here to-day, who spent
yesterday at Culpeper, says the coDgre-
CATION assembled in the Episcopal
Church there yesterday morning was
thrown into state of great excitement
lay the faintiug in his pew, from the ex-
cessive heat, of Mr.. L. P. Nelson, one
of the most prominent citizens of that
town. The rector hastily left the
pulpit and went to the sick mans as
sistance with pitcher of ice water, by
the use of which the patient revived
sufficiently to be carried home.
It is pretty we'll conceded here now
that as Dir. Whitney says no man would
refuse a Presidential nomination and
that no man ever got such thing
against his will, the only reason for
Mr.. Cleveland's not being the nominee
next year would be the refusal of the
convention to offer it to him.
A private letter was received here
yesterday from Col. Mosby, stating
that he will not be able to attend the
reunion of his old command to be held
at Marshall, Va, next Wednesday, but
that he will be in Virginia next month.
People who bought cotton previous
to Friday last have made large profits,
| 90 ,;roo ,bof 5ota tha ,,r;oa If fhot or
ticle has advanced forty-two points.
A Virginia republican here today
says the only newspaper in Virginia
that has seen into the real object OF the
election bill prepared by Gen. Malone,
and endorsed by his late conference al
Petersburg, is the GAZETTE, which has
said that the main feature of that bill is
the one that, if adopted, will make the
General bigger man than ever in his
own party, as he will have the sole
power of nominating every republican
candidate in the State.
SIR. Flint, the new superintendent of
The Mt. Vernon Electric Railroad, ar.
rived here to day, went over that road
with the president thereof, DIR. Abbot,
and will assume control thereof to-
morrow.
1t is not expected that the silver con.
ference to meet here on Wednesday
will be largely attended.
Baltimore democrats here to-day say
the attempt to induce the President to
Call off the cleveland democrats" from
their opposition to the regular demo.
cratic ticket in Interstate was failed, as
did similar one last fall in the case of
New York, but that the democrats will
elect their ticket all the same.
Mr.. POWELL of the Fairfax (Va) bar
il here from attendance upon the re.
cent meeting of the State Bar Associa-
ii a at the White Sulphur Springs
He says Mr.. Moore'a paper on criminal
trials seemed to strike the audience as
q sort of modern revelation, and the
/ older members of the bar were set to
thinking by his practical suggestions.
| he also says that as he passed through
Richmond he tried to buy seven and
, u quarter sized hat, but failed to do SO,
as the shopkeepers there told him
there were not many big headed men in
i that city now.
! A cablegram has been received an
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