Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Aug. q.

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Correspondence of the Alexandria Gnzette.l
WASHINGTON. Aug. q.
A real estate agent here says he has
been prevented from selling two tracks
of land in Alexandria county recently
by the groundless and scandalous at
tacks made upon that county by some
of the newspapers of this city.
A dispatch was received at the State
Department this morning from Minister
Denby, to the effect that the Chinese
government has complied with the re-
quest of this government for athorough
investigation of the late race riots IN
China.
A resident of this city named d.
O.Connor swan from the Chain to the
Aqueduct bridge, a distance of three
miles, yesterday evening, in forty-hve
minutes.
Kentucky democrats, we'll informed
of the condition of their party in that
State, here to-day, say that with the
republicans, the negroes, the Cleve-
land democrats, the gold bugs and
the A. P. AS. against them, the fight
the democrats will have next Novem-
Der will be a hard one, but that they
will be led by bold and brave men, and
that the people of Kentucky always
stand by such men.
A resident of this city who has just
returned from a visit to Berryyllie,
Clarke county, Virginia, says the peo-
ple there are amused at a fake story
that seems to have gone all over the
country, to the effect that a white man
here had shot a negro assailant
there, and b.ing informed by tele-
graph that though the latter was
dying in Jail, if he would come back
and identify him there would still be
time enough to lynch him. He says
nobody has been shot at or near Berry
vile recently, no wounded negro is in
Jail there, and that there is no conceiv-
able foundation for the story.
AS the steamer City of Richmond was
leaving her wharf here this morning
with a large excursion party on board
she collided with the coal schooner
Murray Vandiver, tearing away some
Of the %latter's rigging and having her
own bow stove in to some extent, but
not enough to prevent her from pro-
ceeding on her trip. There was great
excitement on board both the steamer
and the schooner, and when it was dis
covered that one of the coal hands on
the latter was missing, it was deemed
certain that he had been knocked or
fallen overheard and been drowned. A
large crowd of his race Immediately
assembled and his body was dragged for
from the wharf, the schooner and the
police boat. But when the next ferry
boat from Alexandria arrived the frat
passenger to walk ashore was Izell, or
Israel Teel, the imagined dead man. His
hand was hurt by the collision, but he
had grabbed hold of the steamer as she
passed, clambered aboard of her and
been taken as far as Alexandria, where
he took the ferry boat back to this city.
General Ransom was %reappointed U.
s. Minister to Mexico to-day. 1t was
supposed at the Judiciary and State
departments that his reappointment
would have been made on the day bis
first appointment was decided to be
defective, and why it was postponed
so long il q matter Of some curiosity
at both. It is stated at the Treasury
that Mi. Ransom will lose one month
and 81 days pay as Minister to Next
CO at ST., 500 q year, that being the pc
Rod intervening between Auditor Hol-
combs opinion in his case to the date
of his reappointment, unless Congress
shall order otherwise.
A cablegram received at the State
Department this morning from Minis
ter Terrell, at Copstantinople, contain
ed this gratifying information "The
Porte gives emphatic assurances of Sc
curity for American citizens at Tarsus."
Another star, the forty-ifth, is to be
added to the U. S. flag. The new star
will represent Utah and the order for
it's addition to the national colors was
issued by Secretary Lamont today.
The star will he placed to the right of
the fourth row from the top. The or
der for the addition of the star is &C.
companisd by mi changing the size Of
the %colors, Heretofore the standard
has been six feet by FIVE. The new or
der makes the regulation size five feet
six inches by four feet five inches. The
order provides for the new colors to be
issued to all infantry, artillery and the
battalions of engineers and also for new
standards for all cavalry. The new
flags will be very handsome. They
are to be made Of the finest American
silk and their cost will be quite con-
siderable. Utah will not attain State
hood until the fourth day of next July
but all the flags hereafter contracted
for and issued will contain the star
heralding the admission of that terri
tory into the union of the United
States.
Secretary Carlisle has returned from his
summer trip and wss at his desk in the Treas
ury Department this morning.
SPEECH REsToRED-A remarkable
case Of hypnotic cure has been effected
in New York within the past week.