Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gszette.]
WASHINGTON, July 3.

Race horse people here to-day say
that though the attendance at The
st. Asanh and Alexander's Is
land tracks is not ss large now
as it We. a month or so ago, it
is still large enough to be profitable.
They also say that racing will be con-
,inued on ! 9th during the summer and
fall, but WI be suspended during the
hard winter months.
Senator Roach of North Dakota. now
here, and an intelligent newspaper cor
respondent of this city who has just
returned from an extended tour through
all the extreme Northwestern States.
unite ie saying to-day that both the old
political parties 10 all those States are
united in 1avcr Of free silver, and that
shat has lately occurred in Kentucky
..nd Colorado doesn't change the con
,iitions.
Amoug the Virginians here to-day is
Mr.. Marshall Mccormick of Clarke
county, {. member of the board Of visi-
tors of the University of Virginia, a
meeting of which he has just attended,
and at Which DR.. J. A. Harrison OF
Washington and Lee University was
ap pointed to the chair of Romance
languages and literatures, and Mr.. w.
H. Pafkensoo, late adjunct professor OF
modern languages at the University OF
Virginia, 10 the chair of Germanic Ian
cuages and literatures. The salary OF
Mr.. Garcett, Professor of English (,
was reduced from $4,000 to $500.
Professor Schele do We're, late of the
chair of Modern Languages at the Uni
versity, is in this city, and is an appli-
can't for position as translator in the
State Department, with, however, 1t is
reported, poor chances Of success.
Senator Stewart said to-day he thinks
Senator Black burn of Kentucky is al
ready defeated for reelection, as the
administration has the most perfect or
ganization in the Ozark and Bloody
Ground, he ever saw, and that the re-
cent democratic convention in that
State was completely in the hands Of
federal oificeholders.
1.-The new steamer Newport News ofthe
Norfolk line, will commence running as
a day boat on that line tomorrow, and
has large number of her s,aterooms
already engaged for the round trip, one
of the most delightful that can be made.
As proof Of The excellence of the boats
of this line The fact is noted that since
the n IMPORT News was built the Wash
ington and the Norfolk have been over
hauled, and that after four years and
three months of daily use, eight days
ouly were required to put the former,
and only two TO put the latter, in COM
plete repair.
Willis l.. Moore, republican, local
f,recaster OF The Weather Bureau, will
lie appointed to-day TO succeed Prof.
Mark w. Harrington as chief of Wea-
ther Bureau, who was removed Ivy the
President.
By a general order issued last night
b General Albert Ordway, command
err of the National Guard of the District
of Columbia, the National Fencibles, q
crack military organization and the
winner of several valuable prizes in in
terstate militia drills, has been disband-
ed. The reason assigned for this ac-
ton is that the company has fallen be-
low the mark upon inspection and dur
ing the recent encampment the numer-
ical strength of the company was be-
low the standard.
The Acting Secretary of State tele-
graphed the United States consul at
Valparaiso to investigate and report OIL
the killing in Peru of an American cit
zen, l.. D. Howser. An answer has
been received stating that Mr.. Howser
was murdered and robbed when on his
way to pay the miners employed by
the company with which he served as
paymaster; that the murderers have
been arrested, and that judicial in
vestigation is proceeding.
Col. Abner Taylor, ex-member OF
Congress and leading member of the
Farewell Chicago syndicate which
built the Texas State Capitol aud re-
ceived in return several million
acres of State lands, recently address
ed letter to Secretary Morton crit
Ching his order for the admission OF
Mexican cattle over the Texas border
without obstructive restrictions. Sncre-
tary Morton has given out reply in
which he INDUCES in some very sar-
castle comm ants upon Col. Abner lay.
lor and his associates.
The Bureau OF Navigation has receive pre-
iminsry returns, showing that 692 steam and
si' vessels were built and dOcumented in the
United States duTiog the last fiscal year, COM
pared with IT'S steam and sail vessels during
1894. Among the notable additions of the
yelr is the "Newport News" the new steam
or recently built at Newport's News Virginia
and now running on the Potomac.
According TO dispatch Of May 18th last
to the Secretary of State from Minister Den y
at Pekin, the exact amount of the war indcr,-
nifty to be paid by China to JAPAN under the
provisions of the Shimonoeski treaty, amounts
TO 285, 100000 Mexican silver dollars.
The North american Reuie,O for July
has been received from It's publishers
in New York. Its contents are: Feni-
more Cooper's Literary Offences, by
Mark Twain; Contemporary Egypt, by
Frederic c. Penfeld, U. S. Consul Gen
eral to Egypt; Thirty Years in the
Grain Trade, by Egerton r. Williams (;
How Free Silver Would Affect Us, by
E. O. Leecb, late Director of the Mint;
Wild Traits in Tame Animals, by DR..
Louis Robinson; The Disposal of
City's Waste. by Col. Geo. E. Waring,
Commissioner Of Street-cleaning of the
city of New York Personal History OF
the Second Empire, by Albert D. Van
dam; "Coin's Financial SCHOOL, and Its
Censors, by w. II. Harvey. author OF
"Coin's Financial School )" Degenera-