Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gszette.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. 90.


Department from Mavroyeni Bey, the
Turkish minister to this country, indi-
Gates that the reported attack on St.
Paul's College, an American institution
at Tarsus, Armenia, was erroneous,
and was based on nothing more than q
trivial incident. According to the
minister's account, which was furnish
ed him by his government, some
Turks quarreled with servant en-
ployed by Prof. Christie, formerly of
Baltimore, Md, who is connected with
the school, and the servant was attack
cd and beaten by the natives. Mavro-
yeni Bsy says in his statement that the
offenders have been arrested and will
be promptly punished.
The Secretary of Agriculture will, in
all probability, ask Congress, in his an
nual report to amend the meat inspec-
ton laws so as to give the Bureau OF
Animal Industry the necessary authori-
ty to inspect and exercise control over
the products of. horse meat similar to
that now exercised over those of cattle
and swine. The preparation of meat
of this sort on the large scale recently
developed in the Northwest calls the
attention of the department to the
necessity of an inspection not less rigid
than that now placed upon meats of
other kinds.
The Postofice Department to-day
made the annual allowance for clerk
hire at Manchester, Virginia, of 81, 500.
A Charles county, Maryland, repub-
lican, here to-day, says the cleveland
democrats" in his State are fighting
in the air." German, he says, conced-
ed to Rasin, the democratic leader of
Baltimore, and not Rasin to German,
and that as the property holders in the
State, as a general thing are opposed to,
reassessment, most of them. republicans
as we'll as democrats, will support the
democratic ticket, either openly or
covertly.
Though the law of Virginia express
ly prohibits the shooting of birds before
the LIST of September, pot hunters from
Alexandria are now bringing large
baskets full of them here and selling
them to the hucksters in the market.
Arrangements are being made here
by those who propose to attend the
dedication of the national park at
Chickamauga on the 10Th and Goth
proximo. Forty Governors of States
have expressed the intention of being
present with their respective stats on
the occasion. Governor O'Ferrall OF
Virginia says he and his staff will at,
tend if possible.
A lawyer here familiar with the case,
in talking to-day about the famous
Kidwell Bottoms suit, said the law was
clearly in favor of the claimants, and
the only thing that induced him to
think the decision would be in favor oil
the government is the far reaching con
sequences that a decision in favor Of
the claimants would have.
Commonwealth's Attorney Alexan-
der of Loudoun county, Va, will pass
through here tomorrow with his fami-
ly on his way to San Diego, Gala, their
future home. His resignation of the
Office he now holds will not take place
until the 31st inst. It is said that the
OK sergeant of Leesburg, Mr.. B. F.
Head, who is the chairman of the DEM
ocratic committee of Loudoun county,
will soon move to San Diego also.
The meeting of the Irish Catholic
Benevolent Union of Canada and the
United States now in progress in this
city has amended the constitution of its
society by providing that one of its vice
presidents shall be woman. The
meeting will probably adjourn tonight.
Cars are on the Mount Vernon Rail
road to-day between the Aqueduct
Bridge aud Arlington, and will COM
mence to run regularly between those
points tomorrow. The motive power
will be that of horses until the power
house of the road on Four Mile Run
shall be completed.
An Alexandria county lawyer here
to-day says he has been engaged in a
COW case, one of the parties to which
asserts that the cow he sold belongs to
breed that never goes dry, and that
the mother of the one he keeps never
had calf. So that COWS as we'll as
goddesses are not generated.
1t is reported on the streets here
that a great deal of the money of the
failed Farmers and Mechanics Insur-
ance Company of Alexandria went into
the bucket shops of this city, that Sen
ator Hawley and ex-senator Mander
son were paid monthly for the use of
their names, that at the instance of Mr..
Clauehton, the counsel OF the company,
all the papers in its Office were removed
on the night of the day on which its af-
fairs were placed in the hands of re-
ceiver, and that though it sent out q
circular on the 18th of August stat
ing that its assets amounted 10
1854 900; on the 18th, when the receiver
took hold, the only assets amounted
to the Office furniture. In view of the
fact that the only connection Alexan.
dria had with the concern was that it
had an Office there, and that all the
people interested in it live in this city,
many people think it strange that
while the newspapers of this city de-
nounce almost every thing else that
happens in Alexandria, they have little
or nothing to say of the matter refer
red to.
It transpired to-day that Mr.. Spot
ford, Congressional Librarian, yester.
day deposited with the treasury of the
United States $4,000, as he had pro-
posed some days previous, to settle the
discrepancy in his accounts as librarian
and register of copyrights. The amount,
it is said, was placed to his credit, but
the payment is not accepted as settle
ment of the matters in controversy.