Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Ale1andris Gazette.
WAnr1NrcrnN March %.

WASh1NG1ON3
Consul Mathews, at Para, Brazil, in a
report to the Department Of State says
there are splendid opportunities Tor
American enterprise in that part OF
the world. The city not only COM
mands the commerce ofnorthern Brazl
but through the tributaries OF the Ama-
ION is reaching into Peru anu boIi.ia;
aud is securing a large portion Oh VIC
trade east of the Andes. Americans,
he saws. have a monopoly of the trade
in .fo1r lumber and kerosine, and they
should be supplying all the cotton
Gods instead of only a very small por-
t;on. A small ice factory now operates
in Para and sells its product for 90
cents per pound. A large factory that
could supply ice st one cent per pound.
would pay abundantly.A steam Laundry
and a hotel are also much needed. He
saysif American merchants would es-
tablish wholesale distributing houses
there, with an American banking house,
40 that drafts on New York could be
made as reasonable as they can be had
on London, and granting the same
terms as are given by other countries,
a result most favorable to our country
and people would ensue.
No official confirmation of the report
that the captain of the Spanish gunboat
Condo de Venadito, which fired upon
the American steamer Alliance, has
been relieved of his command. has been
received here.
The will of the late Fred. Douglass
was filed with the register to-day. 10
his wife he leaves the house situated near
this CITY with all of its furnishings and
also his writings, books, pictures, pant
inps. horses, carriages, etc., $l0,OOO IN
U. S. bonds, and $4,000 in money.
To his daughter, Rosetta Sprague
and to his sons Levin, Frederick,
and Charles Douglass, the remainder OF
his property, each to receive an equal
share. which, says the will, will amount
to about S15, COO each. The will bears
the signature of but two witnesses, and
the laws of the District require three.
The validity of the will is likely to be
questioned.
Paymaster Webster, U. S. N, sus-
pended by Commander Folger of the
Yorktown for in~toXication, has been
tried by court martial, acquitted and
restored to duty by Rear Admiral Car
penter.
Acting Secretary Hamlin and I'm.
migration Commissioner Stump heard
arguments at the Treasury Department
this morning in favor of the diamond
cutters who have recently come to this
country from Holland to engage in
their trade, which isa new one here.
The labor organizations here demand
that they be sent back, and say that
permission for them to remain will tend
to reduce wages.
An Alexandria county land agent
here to-day says the nonresident land
owners of that county have at length
become tired of their holdings, and that
all of them between Four-Mile Run
and the Long Bridge have divided their
tracks into three or four-acre lots n
are putting them on the market.
A rumor is ahoat here to-day to the
effect that the U. S. Supreme Court
will render its decision in the income
tax case next Monday, and that if ii
shall, the decision will be adverse to
the constitutionality of that tax, and
that therefore an extra session OF Con-
gress will be necessary in order to raise
the requisite revenue. Some of the
best constitutional lawyers in this city
who heard this rumor said it couldn't
possibly be true.
Senator Daniel is in the city to-day,
on his way back home from New York,
where he has been on private business.
He is looking we'll and hearty, and, as
stock raisers say, has taken on flesh"
since Congress adjourned. He says
there is nothing of high political con-
sequence going on now either in New
York or in his State, and thinks the
| country wants a rest from politics.
A Loudoun county democrat here to,
| day says the democratic primaries will
be held in all the districts OF that coun'
ty Saturday week, and that the nomi.
nees will be elected without any diff
Guilty. The candidates for the nomina.
| ton for Treasurer are James C%aruthers.
William Gaines and &c. Vandevanter,
and for that for Commemorative AT.
torney, are j. II. Alexander and Ed,
Garrett. These are the only two offices,
he says, for which there will be any
| contest.
1t is reported at the Treasury Depart
ment today that the sixty-four women
on what is known as the "Bullion ROLF
| there will certainly have to "walk the
plank" as there is no provision for pay
ing them any longer.
People from Alexandria county here
to-day say that judging from the talk
there now, it would be supposed that
| the offices to be filled at the May cleo.
ton were both highly honorable and
lucrative. They say meetings are being
held nightly with reference to nomi'
nations, and that no two residents o.
the county can meet without having
some words on the subject. They
likewise say that already the candi-
dates are being applied to for campaign
supplies.
A large excursion party from New
| York and Connecticut went from here
to-day to Mount Vernon, via Alexan.
dria and the Mount Vernon Railroad.
Most all the Mount Vernon visitors
now go by this route.
A large number of prominent West Vir'
ginia lawyers are here to day, engaged in the
| case of the West Virginia Land and Improve
ment Company VS.. Laidley, which involves
the title to nearly all the lots in the town OF
Huntington.
u,;tad States o~fic;als in San Francis.