Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gszette.l
WASHINGTON, May IS.


WASHINGTON, May IS.
Mr.. Andrew Lipscomb, prominent
LAWYER of this city, and resident ot
Alexandria county, counsel for one OF
the hrick yards in that county, went
~. ~ Alexandria to-day to consult
,n;th al F l.. Smith. counsel for the
p p.,n Railroad Company III
that city, in reference to Tue llle INA, Iha'
of company to the bed OF the olu AZ
audria Canal. which 1t bought at lne
Gale thereof some years ago.
private note received here to- day
avs that Col. II. D'B. Norris, prom
nent civil engineer, and the builder OF
two railroads in Central America, wss
stricken with paralysis at his home
near Marshall, Fauquier county, Va,
last Sunday, and is now lying at the
point of death, having been unconscious
from the first. He was in this city last
Thursday, apparently in perfect health.
1t is understood that the verdict or
the court martial in the case OF Sur
geon Kirschner, Z. s. NJ, tried on
charges preferred by ex-Admiral Mesd :,
is mild reprimand.
Mr.. Frank Hume says the grounds
upon which the recent election in JET,
ferson district, Alexandria county, Will
be contested, are that people who
1--we in Alexandria and in this
CITY voted there, that the crowd
lstead of being forty yards away
f.om the polls were so close to II
that Free Methodist preacher named
Peverill struck at the constable
in the booth, and that peopl ;
entered the judges room while
The vote was being counted, BRING
ing whisky with them and giving
it to two of the judges against the pro-
fest of the other one. Commonwealth 5
attorney Richard w. Johnston, one
IF the contestees will not only de-
fend his election, but will contest
the election in the other two dis
tricts of the county and has engaged as
his counsel Col. F. l.. Smith and Mr.. j.
NJ. Johnson, of Alexandria, and MIR.
Edmund Burke, of this city. The con
| ,estants in the Jefferson district in adj
dition to their other counsel, have en-
gagged Mr.. Walton Moore, OF Fair
fax c. H.
The congressional committe appoint
ed to inquire into the condition of the
surviving victims of the Ford's Theatre
disaster to-day completed its work aud
adjourned until the meeting OF the next
Congress. Some seventy of the suffer
ers were examined and directed to GO
before the medical examining board oil
the Pension Office, who will determine
the extent of their injuries and upon
their report the committee will make
recommendations to Congress.
Congressman Turner and Meredith of Nlr'
sinia are here to day in the interest OF some
of their constituent. Senator Martin from
their State is expected heie this evening
General Fitz Lee was expected here to-day, t.
Join the ex-Confederates who left here Thu;
morning to attend the dedicatory services al
the Confederate monument in Chicago mex,
Thursday, but he didn't come this way, hav-
ing gone via Louisville, where he spike last
night
1t is reported that Congressman w. A. Jone:
OF Warsaw, Virginia, is connected with the
silver organ Just started in New York.
1t is ssid that 125 clerks will be dismissed
ON the Pension Office on the 31st insta Al
a Id the clerks in many of the divisions thereo
are in such trepidation that little OF no bus.
ness IS being transacted in the bureau.