Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alesandris Gazetts.]
WASHINGTON, April IL.

Nathaniel CurZon. member Oh aii
nent from Southport, England, ard
M;es Mary Letter, the daughter
~ Mr. I. II. Letter, of Washington,
Sn-,n.r,v of Chicago. The ceremony
viii he performed at noon at St. Johns
EniseopaL Church. Mr.. Curzon arrived
IN New York on the Majestic to-day.
He was accompanied by his brother,
Mr. Francis Curzon, his sister, Lady
Miller, and his best man, LORD Lean
ington. They were met by Mr.. joseph
Letter. the brother of the prospective
bride. and his cousin, Mr.. Remington
TIE entire party will come here at
once and while here will be the guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs Letter. Mr.. Curzon
is thirty-six years old and is the eldest
son of Lord Scarsdale The family
estate, Kettleston, is situated IN the
north of England, near the town OF
Derby. Here, one hundred and fifty
wears ago, one Of the ancestors OF
George Nathaniel Curzon entertained
DR.. Samuel johnson and his biogra-
pher, Boswell. The Scarsdale resi-
dence formed TO some extent the model
upon which the White House at Wash
ington was built. The estate of Ket-
tleston has been in the possession OF
the Scarsdales for more than two hun
bred years. Miss Letter is not only
very beautiful! girl but she is brilliantly
educated and has enjoyed for several
wears the advantage Of extended tor
eipn travel. MIR. and Mrs. CurZon al
ter q short wedding trip in this country
will make their home in Lemon.
Postmaster General Wilson left
Washington to-day for Richmond, Va,
where he will attend banquet to-mor.
row night given by the University OF
Virginia Alumni of which institution
he is graduate.
The U. S. Supreme Court to-day de-
MED the application of Robert w.
Buchanan of New York for writ OF
error and supersedeas. The decision
was read by Chief Justice Fuller.
Buchanan is under sentence of death
for murder, and unless Gov. Morton
interferes Buchanan will be electro
cuted on Monday next. After the court
had announced the decision, the attor-
ney for Buchanan Immediately began
the preparation of a statement for pre-
sentation this afternoon to the British
Ambassador to the effect that Buchanan
is British subject; that he has been
sentenced to death; that his trial was
not conducted according to the consti-
tuition of New York and of the United
States; that the courts have failed to
give relief. and the ambassador is urged
| to lay the matter before the President,
in order that further delay may be had
| until the claim of unconstitutionality
can be investigated. This is regarded
as an obviously forlorn hope. Great
Britain, it is said, never tolerates inter
ference by other countries with the due
course of law las witness the case OF
Mrs. Maybrick) and never interposes on
behalf of her own subjects convicted OF
crimes except to ask fair trial before
the courts.
S. A. Wallace was appointed post
master at Yancey Mills, Albemarle
county, Va, t;-day, vice M. W. Wal
lace, deceased.
Attorney General Olney filed a brief
in the United States Supreme Court
to-day upon petition for rehearing
of the income tax. The opening para
graph of the brief says: THE United
States respectfully represents that if a
rehearing is granted it should cover all
the legal and constitutional questions
involved, and not merely those as to
which the court are equally divided"
He calls attention also to the fact that
if this new exposition of the constitu-
ton announced in the opinion Of the
chief justice is to prevail as to the tax
ing power OF the government, 1.-THE
United States has under previous in
come tax laws collected vast sums of
money which, on every principal Of
Justice, it ought TO refund"
People here interested in B. & 0. r.
r. shares are low down to-day, because
that road passed its dividend. Its
stock fell at once from So to 5l4, and
already there is talk OF q receivership.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Judge h. W. Hughes of Virginia; also
Judge Morrison of Bristol, the demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in that
district last fall.
Only one application for the place of
internal revenue collector for the upper
district of Virginia was on file at the
Treasury Department yesterday, that
of Major John Opie of Stanton. To-
day there are four more, those of P. F.
Brown of Blue Springs, ]. B. Goode, of
Bedford City, NJ. NJ. Rogers of Roam
oke, and ]. ]. Jameson of Alexandria.
1t is reported here that there will prob
ably be fight for the place between
the two Senators from Virginia on one
side and the Governor on the other,
and that as General Fitz Lee takes the
part of neither, the President may offer
it to him, if informed that he will &C
cept it. Mr.. Joseph 81. Nelson, for
merly sheriff of Fauquier county, Va,
was an applicant for the Office when
the late Capt. Shepperd was appointed.
He says his old papers, he supposes,
are at the White House, where the
President can see them if so disposed,
but that he will not make second ap-
plication.
Congressman Meredith was here to-
day. Some of his Office seeking con-
stituents met him as usual on his ar
rival at the depot, and with some of
them he went to the departments, but
with little or no success.
The civil service commission has
given the veterinary colleges boom,
having recently made diploma from
them prerequisite for appointment as
Inspector of salt and fresh meat.
DR.. McGill of Leesburg, Va, passed
through here this morning on his way
home from Ne1son county, Uo zBbara