Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-17
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

Harve, France, in answer to numerous
inquiries from this country, has made 9
report on motor-propelled vehicles,
Bicycles and tricycles, he says, are pro
PEELED by small petroleum motor
The weight OF the entire machine is
considerably under one hundred
pounds, and the price is about $3.50
The rider, after starting his motor, pro
pels the machine with his feet until the
motor is working, after which he drop:
the tresdles. On mounting a hill the
rider can assist the speed by gearing w
the pedals again. For the propulsion
of ordinary carriages not connected witt
permanent motors a kind OF "steam
horsen is used. These small steam
engines have tubular boilers and coke Is
employed for fuel. No steam,
smoke or noise is produced 81
any time. The prices of such yenlcies
vary from 81 800 to $500 according 70
the size. AS solid smooth roads are
quite essential to the successful use OF
the French system, it will belnecessary,
DIR. Chancellor says, before this system
can be proftably applied in the United
States, to bring the roads to the condi'
ton of European highways. In France
all carriages pay an annual tax, from
$3.50 to $3.50 according to their seat.
ing capacity. Bicycles pay $l.9S and
no vehicle is allowed to 60 on the road
until the tax is paid. As there is
want generally felt and universally
acknowledged, for better roads IN
America, he asks if an income from
such source would not effect the much
needed Improvement.
Postmaster General Wilson to-day
returned to Washington from his home
Charlestown, w. Va. Tonight he will
leave for Chickamauga.
A Virginia democrat here today at
ter three weeks visit to New YORK
saws the way the successful combina'
ton of Cleveland democrats and repub-
licans has acted on the liquor question
there has made that State as safely
democratic as il ever was before, and
that well-informed republicans there
already concede that their fight must
be a losing one.
Senator Stewart says the report thai
Mr.. Newlands, the great silver leader
has given up the cause of the white
metal is entirely incorrect, and that ht
has it so from Mr.. Newlands himself
he also doubts the truth of the repor
that all the democrats in the next Con
gress will vote with the republicans fol
the retirement of the greenbacks.
No credit Is given here to the revived
report of an extra session Of Congress
| for the excellent reasons that the Pres
ident does not want any more of Con
gress upon his hands than be is forced
to have, and that if any more gold b.
| required, he has the power to issue a
many gold bonds as he may deem re
quisise.
Among the visiting Virginians her
to day is Colonel Cab. Maddux. HI
says he has recently been to the fair
and horse shows at Leesburg, Culpep
or, Berryville and Winchester, ana
| that though the former lisa "dry" town
the appearance of the fair ground Their,
st the close of the day reminded him o
| 8 battle field, by reason of the numbe
of motionless men lying there, while @
none of the others, all of which arr
"wet, did he see single drunken man
At Leesburg, he says, it seemed to hin
that those drank who never drank be
fore and those who always drank ther
drank che more. BE says the nomination
Of Judge Patterson, Governor y Ferrall's
old partner, for the legislature in Rock
ingham, looks to him as though tn,
Governor has not got the Senatorial
bee out of his bonnet; also that no mat
ter how strong the Virginians may b.
for silver, they are stronger for Cleve
land; and finally, that the toney horse
racers having withdrawn.from the Alex
andria county tracks, fair racing may
now be expected there.
What most strikes the observer as hs
strolls along the business streets of thi:
city is the anxious expression on the
faces of nearly all the men he meets. They
look as if they had bills to pay without
the money to pay them, or that though
their rent is due their pockets are
empty, or that though their neigh
bors are getting their winter;
supply of coal, their impecunious con
dition will not permit them to do so
But if the same observer should go in.
to the back rooms fthe banks, all the
faces he would see would be wreathed
in smiles and beaming with the assur.
Rnce of large and safe profits.
Several days ago the Treasury De.
partment invited proposal for S27, 900
District of Columbia 3.65 per cent.
bonds. Bids were opened to-day and
that of Harvey Fiske & Sons of New
York at 112! fiat was the highest and
will be accepted. The price obtained
is considered excellent.
Attorney General Harmon and Sec
retaries Herbert and Smith will leave
for Chattanooga tonight over the
Southern Railway for the purpose of
attending the dedication of the nation
al military park ut the battlefield of
Chickamauga.
The protest fled with the State De-
psrtment by Mr.. Paige, one of the at
torneys in the Mora case, against the
acceptance Of the money paid by Spain
minus the interest, will have no effect
upon the action of the State Depart
meut.
Now that Washington has seen, presums-
bly,, the last of the heated term, and the de.
lightful autumn weather has begun, an early
return of the diplomatic corps and others, who
have been absent sill summer, may be ex-
pected.
ARnY'oF THE TENNESSEE. twenty
seventh annual session of the Society of the
Army OF the Tennessee began at Cincinnati,
o.; yesterday. with an unusually large at-
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