Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
rcorresponaence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Aug. %.

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rotary ofthe Navy, to day and protested
against his order of yesterday, sending
tho US. Marine Band to Philadelphia to
participate in the Laoor Day celebra-
ton there. The Washingtonians said
that they had contracted some time
ago with Professor Fanciulli, the lead
er of the band, to play here for their
organizations on Labor Day. They had
not brought the matter to the atten-
| ton of the Department as Professor
Fanciulli had assured them that the
band would play here. AS 0 as
they learned that the band had been
ordered to Philadelphia they came to
present their claim. Mr.. McAdoo told
them that the only request received
by the Department for the services OF
the band on Labor Day had come from
the Letter Carriers Association of Phil
adelphia, and that knowing nothi, 6 OF
the contract of the Washington lsvor
organizations he had granted it. The
probabilities are that the order will
stand and that the band will go to
| Philadelphia. There is a chance. how
| ever, that the band may be divided, a
section remaining here and a section
| going to Philadelphia. A question as
| TO whether this can be done has arisen.
| Il is claimed that the order of MIR. Nc
Adoo directs the band to go to Phila-
| delphia and not a portion of it.
The Treasury Department is inform
formed that the Belmont-M Morgan syn
dictate to-day deposited Sl,5OO,0W in
gold in New York in exchange for
greenbacks. This raises the Treasury
gold reserve to $101, 100000.
Attorney General Harmon, who came
in from the White Sulphur Springs,
West Virginia, yesterday, returned
there to-day.
Secretary Carlisle expects to remain
here now. though it is possible he may
60 to Kentucky and make some
speeches in the State campaign. Those
in his confidence say he thinks the
democratic State ticket will be elected
In Kentucky.
It has been practically determined at
the Navy Department that aluminium
is not an available material for use in
| salt water.
A Virginia trucker, here. to-day says
times may be better in the North, as
the newspapers say they are, but that
they never were worse In his country.
On his crops, he says, he makes little
| or nothing, the middle man getting all
| the profit. When he sells at home, he
says, he must do so at a very low price,
and for cash, for if on credit he is never
paid, and he can hardly blame the pur-
| chasers, as they have no money.
Messrs. S. G.. Brent and Leonard
Marbury of the Alexandria bar we're
here to-day on business relating to
| General Estes's insurance company
| that recently failed in their city. Mr..
Ben. Austin, the ex-clerk of the Alex
andria County Court, now in Canada,
was one of the Generals clerks when
he was an officer in the federal army
during the war between the States.
The recent signal victory of Senator
Quay in his own State is generally sup
posed here to presege his election as
chairman OF the national republican
committee, which is by no means agree
able to the few Harrison men here, as
he is anything else than an admirer OF
the ex-President, who would be satis-
| fed with being a second-termer.
People from the neighborhood of Ar
lington here to day say the a on the
Mount Vernon road that runs from the
| south end Of the Aqueduct Bridge to
| Arlington Is we'll loaded on every trip
it makes.
z standing puzzle to many people
here is how the negroes of this city get
money enough to enable them to char
ter two steamboats, nearly every day to
carry them on excursions. They say
that though they work every day in
the week they can't afford any thing OF
the sort, and how the negroes, who
don't work, contrive to do so is what
they ear not understand.
The supervisors of Alexandra county
have ordered q heavy cut to be made in
Wonders Hill, on the river road TO
Falls Church, and the contract for the
work has been given to Walter Beach
at 14l cents a cubic yard.
The report in the Spoford shortage
case. it is said, has been completed, but
i il will be shown TO no one except the
President.
Postmaster General Wilson has &C.
| cepted an honorary membership in the
Greeubrier (W. Va Hunting Club to
which ne was recently elected. This
is s famous organization and owns q
magnificent preserve of $1,000 acres at
the headwaters of the picturesque
Greenbrier river.
Mr.. Josiah Quincy, Of Boston, an
ardent admirer and close personal
friend of the President, now here, says
Mr.. Cleveland will not be a candidate
for reelection.
General Ransom arrived here last
night, and bright and cary this morn
ing appeared at the State Department
where he took the oath of Office before
a notary public to enable him to re-
assume the duties Of the Mexican mis-
sion. Mr.. Ransom's suspended salary
Will be resumed from the date of the
oath. It transpired to-day that when
the question of Mr.. Ransom's right to
hold the Office of Minister to Mexico
was raised in the Treasury D partment,
he at once forwarded his resignation to
the President, in order that the latter
might not be embarrassed. II is under
stood that both the President and Mr..
Ransom believed that the appointment
az Minister to Mexico was not compile
ted until the latter accepted the posi-
ton and qualified, which was not done
until after his term as Senator had ex-