Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette.
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via Market Lake.
Indian Commissioner BroaOnang:
On the 9th instant met Sheriff
Hawley near Rexburg returning from
Jackson's Hole whittier he had been to
ascertain if any of the settlers had been
killed by Indians. He stated that none
of the settlers had been molested by the
/ ,dians, who are supposed to be en-
camped at point about 40 miles from
the settlement in a practically impreg-
nable position. There is no doubt that
large party of Lemhi Bannocks nave
Joined the other Indians at HoDack's
Canyon.
Captain Robley D. Evans, command
or Of the cruiser New York, who has
inst returned on his vessel from the
naval celebration at Kiel where he
showed Emperor Wilhelm how quickly
an American warship could prepare for
action, is in Washington. He called on
Acting Secretary McAdoo and Admiral
Ramsay at the Navy Department to.
day and told them any number OF good
stories about the Emperor.
George Maxwell, examiner in the U.
S. patent Office, who was arrested IN
this city about a month ago for vio-
lating the Edmunds anti-polygamy
law, has, at the request of the commits
sioner of patents. handed in his resig-
nation which has been accepted to
take effect the last Of this month. His
case caused much notoriety in Wash
ington. He was discovere d living with
female employee in the Postoftice de-
partment by detective named Proc
tor, whose espionage upon the pair was
generally condemned, and which re-
suited in trial of Proctor before the
District of police officials, which has
not yet been concluded.
A yachting trip of prominent gov
eminent officials and friends has been
arranged which will include a cruise
on the Great Lakes, the races at PUTIN
Bay and other places of interest. The
! party will consist of Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Maxwell, Public
Printer Benedict, A. w. Machen, Su
penintendent of the Free Delivery
System, Postofice Department, Henry
Lorenz, Commissioner of the United
States Court of Claims, w. M. Bellman,
secret agent of the Postoffice Depart
ment.
People who have recently been al
Buzzard's Bay say the Presidents sum-
| mer house there is strictly guarded on
both tbs water and land sides by mem
bers of the government detective ser
vice, and that, unless previous arrange
ments have been made with Mr.. Thur
Der, it is impossible for any one to Oh
tain admittance.
A Northern man, experienced in
such bushes, has been appointed
superintendent of the Mt. Vernon
Electric Railroad, vice MIR. D. W. Hol
den, resigned, and will assume the
management Of that road during the
next ten days. The line of that road
from here to Arlington, via the Aque-
duct Bridge, will have cars on it making
hourly trips by the 23rd proximo, and
that to Alexandria, via the Long
Bridge, the officers of the road say, will
have cars on it, making trips every
quarter of all hour during the next
ninety days.
Most of the members of the national
bar association in this city will attend
the meeting of that association to be
held at the Virginia White Sulphur
Springs esrly next month.
Mr.. Pat McCaull, the republican can
didate for Congress in the Alexandra
district last fall, who was here to-day,
says he will attend the Stree vote and
fair count" conference at Petersburg
next Thursday to which General Ma
hone and Mr.. Hobson have sent invita-
lions to all the prominent republicans
and populists in the State. Whether
the conference is to be held in the Gen
erals house or in a public hall is un-
known, as the invitations to it do not
state; they merely asking that accept
ance or declination be sent to Captain
Asa Rogers.
People from Culpeper county, Vir-
ginia, here to-day, say the crops there
are better than they have been for
many previous years, the appearance
of corn crop being phenomenal They
also say that among the democratic can
didates for the Legislature there is Mr..
Richard Lewis, who was member OF
Mosby's command; that he is making
an active canvass, and that he stands q
good chance of success.
Mr.. Lacey, of Alexandria county,
Virginia, here to-day, says the people
of that county don't see how the decis-
ion OF the contested election cases in
that county could have been otherwise
than it was, and that if the contestants
had consulted the wiser of those who
voted for them, no contest would have
been made. He also says that the tes-
timony educed proved that the MAORI
ty of the race track people voted for
the contestants.
A North Carolina democrat here TO-
day says that as Senator Butler from
that State is pronounced low tariff
and free silver man, he cannot unite
with the republicans in the reorganiza-
ton of the Senate next December, and
that those who know him best believe
that having obtained the object of his
ambition, he will be disposed to so act
as to regain the esteem of his neighbors
which he lost by leaving the white
mans party in his State.
OFF INTO THE SEA.-A train bearing
400 Japanese soldiers, who landed al