Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette


WASHINGTON, July "a.
Several inquiries have recently been
made at the Treasury for large quanti-
ties of Columbian half dollars. 1t is
presumed the intention of inquirers is
to procure them for sale at the Atlanta
Exposition. At one time these souve-
mir coin commanded twice their face
value but under the law the Treasury
has to supply them at par for gold. 1t
can exercise no option as to the
quantity to be exchanged, and the run
on them has been so great but rev
thousand are left.
Fire which was discovered shortly
before six O'Clock this morning de-
stroyed the building of the Young
Mems Christian Association on New
York Avenue, near the Treasury De-
partment, together with all its con.
tents. The fire spread from the rear of
the Y. M. G. a. building to the building
occupied by G. G. Bryan as grocery
store, and thence to James B. Lambie's
hardware store. Mr.. Bryan's grocery
stock, valued at $4,000, will probably
be total loss. 1t is fully insured. Mr..
Lambie's loss will be confined to hard
ware on the top floor. The Y. NJ. G.
A. building was insured for $35, 900 and
is total loss, even to tbs bathrooms
attached to the gymnasium far in the
rear. Mr.. Charles Young, member OF
the association, was on the scene in
Time to secure box of papers, which
include all the records, Charles Hop
kins, of Truck A, had his hand badly
cut by flying glass. The Columbia H.
surance Company of this city, is the
chief loser.
In dispatch to the Department of
State, Consul Belief at Rheims, France,
describes new process for preserving
fruits. Impressed with the powerful &C
ton OF alcoholic vapors on the mould
which generally appears on the fr,ints
in a damp atmosphere. M Petit the
discoyereT OF TIC ,o process, experiment
90 with TEN, with the the result that
! rears and apples taken even when
they were beginning to decay, and
kept in an atmosphere saturated with q
vapor of water and alcohol, showed no
signs of mould after several months,
while fruits in every particular identi-
cally similar, stored in the same condi-
lions, but not exposed to the action OF
alcoholic vapors, were entirely cover
ed with it. The consul thinks the pro-
cess deserves the attention OF fruit
growers in this country.
Indian Commissioner Browning this
morning received dispatch from
Agent Teter stating that serious con-
dition of affairs existed among the
Bannock Indians and urging that troops
be sent to the scene of the trouble at
once. Orders will be issued this after
noon, directing General Coppinger.
commanding the department. of che
Platte, to send body of troops to the
Jackson's Hole country to compel the
Indians to return to their reservation.
Notwithstanding General Hamp.
toms denial of his statement to the eff
feet that Mr.. Cleveland would be NOM
mated and that all the Southern DEM
ocrats would vote for him, it is well
known here that he did make it, and,
what's more, not only the other friends
of the President, but his enemies also,
say the same thing.
One of the Alexandria county race
track people here to-day says he
wouldn't be surprised if the New York
Jockey Club should remove the ban OF
outlawry from all those who apply
therefor, horse owners as well as
| Jockeys, and that it may do so
at its meeting to be held tonight. He
says 1t is by no means strange that
such applications should be made by
people now at the Alexandria county
tracks, as the purses at the Jockey Clubs
tracks are four and FIVE hundred dollars,
while at those in Alexandria county
they are only one hundred.
T. J. Taylor, the man who killed his
wife here upon discovering her infdel-
ity, and who would have been hanged
therefor ne1t Friday if the President
had not yesterday committed his sem
tence to imprisonment for life, was
born of respectable parents in Fauquier
county, Virginia, but has been living
here since he was nineteen years old
His counsel is now preparing for him q
card thanking the people of this city
for the efforts they made to save his
life.
Mr.. Grinder, through whose brick
yard the line of the Mt. Vernon Rail
road, from the Aqueduct Bridge to Ar
lington, runs, was awarded So, 900 to-day
by the commissioners appointed by the
court to condemn right of way. Mr..
GrinderIwas represented by counse], sand
the railroad company by its attorney,
Mr.. J. r. Cation, of Alexandria. Mr..
Grinder is not satisfied, but the railroad
company is.
Northern capitalists have experts en-
gagged in prospecting for marble in the
upper part of Fauquier and in Warren
counties. The "signs" SO far are good,
and if the deeper borings substantiate
surface indications, the freight receipts
| of tie Manassas branch Of the Southern
Railway will soon show large increase.
A runaway couple, L. B. Bishop,
gaed twenty, of Richmond, aud Miss
Blanche Buford, aged sixteen, of Peters
burg, arrived here by the early train
from the South this morning. They
were married at the Metropolitan Hotel
and returned by the eleven o'clock
train.
The national banks of Washington,
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