Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette ]
WASHINGTON, March %.


The President to-day granted appli..
cations for pardon to Frank Adams, OF
Kentucky. sentenced in January 1879
to two wears in the Reform School OF
the District of Columbia for stealing
money from registered letters. ana 10
Jacob Eller. convicted in the Washing
ton notice court of keeping an unli-
c nsed bar aud sentenced in December
1894 to 80 days in Jail and 500 hne, anu
in default, to 80 days additional lmprlS'
onment. Adams is very low from pull
monary complaint, and Eller is also In
had health and his family need his as
sistance.
The people of California are about
n make an elaborate exhibit of Cali
fornia products in the various Euro
nan capitals. Mr.. Walter E. Won
j hansen, who is in charge OF this
work, has just sailed, and will be fol-
lowed by upwards of fifteen car loads
of the various products of California,
consisting chiefly of fruits and wines.
The exhibit will be displayed in Der.
lin for two months, after which other
capitals. including Brussels, Paris and
London, will be visited for the same
length of time. Quite a force of peo-
pie will accompany the exhibit-the
men in the uniform of the California
naval brigade; the women will be
dressed after the fashion Of the Quak'
eress.
Mr.. R. W. Bailey of Albemarle coun-
ty. Virginia, an old race horse man,
has bought the stable of Col. Embrey
of North Carolina, and has employed
the famous jockey John Waters, VINO
has heretofore ridden the horses OF Mr.
G. W. Mettenger.
The ex.Confederate ladies here, who
supposed they had good ground for
Directing to the action of the Confed-
crate Veterans association Of this city
in respect of the sons of Confederates,
now that the latter have been admit
ted to membership of the former, are
perfectly satisfied.
Mr.. John S. Carter of Syracuse, n.
y, passed through here yesterday on
his way to Saltville, Va, where, if he
finds things agreeable, he will estab'
lish an extensive creamery. He is
backed by plenty of capital, and, If
he shall determine to commence opera
tions, will do large business.
People from North Carolina, here to-
day, say that since the fusion legisla
ture of that State adjourned, and the
fear of its possible action thereby been
dissipated, business of all kinds in that
State has improved.
An old time Virginia horse racer
here to-day, who attended the races at
the St. Asaph track yesterday, says
every thing there was conducted "on
the square," and that he was gratified
both at the appearance and behavior
of the large number of people present,
and at the manner in which every thing
was managed. He says it was more
| like the old time race tracks than any
he has visited in recent years.
The Belgian government informed
the State department to-day that the
discriminating duties against food
products, recently imposed, have been
repealed by royal decree.
NJ. II. Doran was appointed post,
master at Norman, Culpeper county
Va, to-day, vice E. L. stringfellOw,
dead.
A well-known democratic Washing
tonian to-day, abiding to a cut in one
of the morning newspapers. represent
ing the difference in the scene at Gov
ernor O'Ferrall's recent luncheon as
described by Mr.. Darling and by the
Governor, said there was nothing
strange about the whole affair, as the
| Governor is a great admirer Of Mr.
Cleveland, and as it is by no means
improbable that on his next visit to the
White House he would meet there the
negro recorder of deeds for the District
of Columbia.
The Society of the Alumni of the
University of Virginia of this city will
give banquet on the 18th proximo, al
which several of its distinguished mem
| bers who hold prominent offices here
will deliver addresses, and when the
subject of the erection of memorial
arch to the alumni OF the University
WHO lost their lives in defence of Yir
ginia, in a prominent spot on the
grounds of that institution will be con
sidered.
Mr.. ]. B. Pioda, the new Swiss Min.
lister, was formally received by the
President in the blue parlor Of the
White House at noon to-day. After
the minister had presented his creden'
tials the usual complimentary remarks
were exchanged.
While the cost of the construction Of
| the Mt. Vernon railroad from the Alex.
andria Driving Park to the north end
of the Long Bridge, and of its branch
from Waterloo to the Aqueduct Bridge,
will not be more than forty thousand
dollars, that of the part from the Long
Bridge up 14th street to Pennsylvania
avenue will be sixty thousand 9 mile,
or about one hundred and fifty thou
sand as the trolley will have to be under
ground.
There is rumor current here to-day
to the effect that the President is not
overly pleased with the brashness his
Secretary of State has of late exhibited
in respect of some of his communica-
tons with foreign governments, and
has suggested to him the ACCESSIBILITY
of moderation.
News of little civil var in Arabia
reached the State Department to-day
in a report from Archibald Mackirdy,
q. S. vice-consul at Maskat, who
in his report says: Yesterday Sheikh
Abdallahbin Saleh came here from
Sharkiyeh accompanied by about 400
men on supposed friendly visit. Dur
ing last night he took possession of the