Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

FROM WASHlNGIUN.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON. Oct. &c.
The registration officers of Mont
gomery county, Maryland, which adj
Joins the District of Columbia, have
been sued by B. H. Warner, of this
city, to show cause why his name
should not be placed upon the registra-
ton lists. Warner asserts that he made
Montgomery county his legal place of
residence in 1892, and, although he has
since been absent at times on business
and pleasure, spending his winters in
Washington, he has never abandoned
his home there. The registration Off.
cars decline to put his name on the rolls,
on the ground that ne had not been
q resident of the State for year. Mr..
Warner claims that he is Disseminated
against because he is republican.
Crosby S. Noyes, who has been on the
registration lists in Montgomery coun-
ty, Md, for several years, says he was
this year served with notice that he
must show cause why his name should
not be stricken from the books. Mr..
Moves says 'I answered the summons
and answered the allegations made that
I was not entitled to vote. There is
no question that the election officers
are doing all they can to prevent repub-
licans from voting"
All Souls (Unitarian) Church, of this
city, is casting about for successor to
Rev. Rush r. Shipper, whose resigna-
ton was recently accepted. Invitations
have been issued to several gentlemen
to occupy the pulpit temporarily dur
ing the remainder of the autumn and
coming winter with a view of install
ling one of their number as pastor.
The President to-day pardoned Will
liam Robinson convicted in the District
of Columbia of HOUSEKEEPING on the
ground that he had been imprisoned
eighteen months, eleven of which he
had spent in the prison hospital, and
that he required surgical operation
which could not well be done in the
prison.
A cablegram was received here this
morning announcing the sudden death
of heart disease and pneumonia of the
wife of Ambassador James B. Eustis, at
the residence of her son-in-law George
Eustis, at Lagore, near Dublin, Ire
land, this morning. Mrs. Eustis had
gone to Ireland to be in attendance
ut the confinement of Mrs. George
Eustis, the Ambassadors daughter, who
married her cousin of the same name.
Mrs. Eustis was the eldest daughter of
the one time cotton king Buckner, of
New Orleans, her brothers being prom
inent residents of that city. Three
children survive, the eldest, Newton,
being second secretary of the Embassy
at Paris. She was famed for her beauty
and brilliant attainments and up to
few weeks ago was in excellent health.
A report received at the Department
of State from the U. s. Consul at Kama
gawa, Japan, gives the population of
that country in 1894 at 100000. Ad-
ding Formosa, which became a part of
the country by the late treaty with
China, the population is estimated at
$4,000, 900.
E. A. Dudley was to-day appointed
a fourth class postmaster at Fagg,
Montgomery county, Va, vice ]. T.
Walters, resigned.
Among the visitors here yesterday
was Mr.. Ryan of Loudoun Co. He was
the Speaker of the House of Delegates
of the last legislature. He is again the
democratic candidate for the legislature
in his county. will be elected without
any serious opposition, and it is under
stood from Virginians from various
parts of their State, will again be Mr..
Speaker. Mr.. Ryan's name is also in
Guided in the list of possible candidates
for the next democratic congressional
nomination in his district.
A case involving the ownership of
Sharon, a valuable estate in Fairfax
county, Virginia, will come up in the
supreme court of the District of Co.
lumbia at the November term of that
court.
Mr.. ]. E. Clements of Alexandra
county says there will be no regularly
opposition to the democratic
legislative PICKET in that county, and
that Mr.. May will not only get all the
democratic vote there, bat also 8 good
many republican votes.
The Virginia democratic association
OF this city at their meeting last night
determined to attend the democratic
meeting at Laurel, Maryland, on the
night OF the 3lst instant, when Senator
German will speak. They also urged
their Maryland friends to do all thew
could to SECURE the election of the dem.
ocratic ticket.
A Charles county, republican here to-
d ~, says his county was once republic
gan but is so no longer, and that the
democrats will carry it at the coGi;ne
election. BE says the negroes there
are on the "make" now, and that the
democrats haYe all the money they
want. Then, toe, ne says Mudd, the
candidate for the legislature,
is not popular with his party.