Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
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The mail received at the White
House to-day from Gray Gables con-
tanned pardon for Edward ]. Critten-
den of Kentucky, a grandson OF the
late distinguished Senator from Ken
lucky, convicted of stealing mail mat,
ter containing money and sentenced
June %, 1894, to eighteen months in the
Ohio penitontiary. The President IN
pardoning Crittenden says that though
his offense is one which ought not TO
be lightly dealt with, I have with some
hesitation concluded to pardon him
upon the recommendation of many
citizens of the highest character and
standing. on account of his youth, and
because with his family surroundings l
am led to believe the punishment ne
has already suffered will insure his
good behavior in the future and
answer all the ends of justice"
Consul Seymour at Palermo. Italy,
writes the Department ofState that the
propensity of some shippers at that port
to ship to the United States worthless
fruit and to draw against the shipments
has reached such q point that the
steamship agents, in order to secure the
payment of their freight, have placed
INSPECTORS on board to see that no fruit
is shipped that would be rejected by
the consignee.
The Denver Wheel Club, seventy.
eight strong, visited the White House
to-day. The club is on its way to AS
bury Park, N. j., to attend the bicycle
races, after which it will make an ex-
tended trip through the East.
The President to-day appointed Al
phonso Latchford postmaster at An
napolis junction, Md. This office be-
came presidential on July LIST.
Professor Greene, of the University
of California, has resigned his profes:
sorship in order to accept the chair of
botany at the Catholic University in
this city.
Assistant Secretary Hamlin has ask
ed Tharp and Bond, the New York con-
tractors for the iron work for new
postofice here, for an explanation of
their delay in not complying with their
contract. Unless the explanation is
satisfactory the contract will be declar-
ed forfeited and the American Security
Company, their sureties, will be called
upon to complete the contract.
| An Alexandria county democrat here
today saws the contested election case
in his county will come up again be-
fore the court of that county on the 4th
Monday in this month, and that as it
seems that not Irregularities, but only
frauds, will invalidate an election, it IS
probable the decision will be in favor
of the contestees, as otherwise 30 fraud
ulent ballots must be proved to have
been cast for Johnston, and Al for
Hume.
The county of Mecklenburg was to.
day taken from the lower, and added
to the upper internal revenue district
of Virginia.
Ambassador Ransom will leave here
, tonight for North Carolia, and, after u
short stay there, will return to Mexico.
1t is said that exCongressman Yoder
resigned the presidency of the Inter
1 state democratic club of this city, for the
, reason that while the majority of that
, club being oficeholders, are gold men,
he is for free silver.
The strike on the Anacostia street
railroad is still on, and all the strikers
5 were discharged this morning.
Prof. II. E. Biscoe OF Pontiac, Mich,
is here on a visit to his father, Ma
jur Biscoe, formerly of Virginia, but
now of this city, and president of the
Virginia Democratic Association here.
General Malone who is still in the
, city is said to express good deal of in
terest in the approaching convention of
Petersburg, which, it is said, will repre-
sent the various antaonnieIlc elements
to the democratic rarty and called os-
tensibly in the ilterest of fair elections
in Vircin;a. This convention meets in
the c;3y where the tissue" is said
tc nave first made its appearance in
Il the State. The form and size of the
ballot were not unlike kiss verse, and
could be concealed within the folds of
the regular ballot, and when shaken out
might be counted for the candidate
whose name it bore. Its introduction
was during the contest of Jorgensen,
republican, and Hinton, democrat, for
Congress, and while General Malone
was chairman of the congressional COM
mittee, and as such il control of the
Hinton campaign. So much violence
was charged by the republicans that
General Grant sent a company of O. S.
troops to Petersburg on election day
and the Attorney General directed a
session of the q. S. District Court Judge
Hughes) to be held for the day in order
that offenders might be promptly ar
rested and dealt with. The impression
here is that the General is about to re-
open active political business at the old
stand and that the democrats of Vir-
ginia may look for season of incessant
hostilities lasting until after the next
Presidential election. 1.-THE republicans
shall permit him, as he will doubtless
| desire, to select their twenty-five dele
gates to the nominating convention, and
they should be found obedient to his
will, there would be no difficulty in his
! making a most excellent bargain with
one or more of the Presidential candi-
dates. Such bargain as might excite
a renewal of the hope of his going into
the cabinet as the Southern representa-
tive in that body. But it is by 70
means certain, as was said by we'll i'll
formed Virginia republican who is just
from the State to-day, that the twenty
two delegates referred to will be in
any such obedient frame of mind. They
would hardly echo, he said, the once
familiar words of Mr.. John S. Wise,
"Lead on master, I'll follow thee.n They
would more likely, he said, be found
hustling on an independent line, each
man for himself and the ID for the
hindmost. AL the leaders and ex.ofice