Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexsndris Gazette.]
WASHINGTON MAY 3

c0mpaDyS ONCE III DaAtilioio v.
dly. Hon. John K. Cowan, secretary,
aud others of the syndicate controlling
m,iorltv interest in the property,
we're present. The minority, compris-
ing very nearly one-half interest IN
The whole. was represented by Mr.. John
Y Popham, of Virginia. The meeting
was an agreeable surprise to the MINOR
itv. aud ended with entire satisfactio
to all parties concerned. Messrs. John
n. aud John r. Popham were elected
on the board of directors, consisting OF
five members, and Mr.. j. n. Popham
was also chosen on the executive, or
managerial committee, of three. The
report of the President, John B. Nc
Donald, of Baltimore, showed an ex-
penditure of one hundred and fifty-ive
thousand dollars sold) in the develop.
ment of the enterprise, and the final
readiness of the company TO begin i'm
mediately the transportation of tie
Maganese ore to this country. The
cost of Transporting the ore has been
arranged for at the price of three dol
lars per ton.
Mr.. Coquillett, an entomologist OF
the Department OF Agriculture, has re-
Gently returned here and reported upon
mis- examination of the watermelon
fields in southern Georgia. The black
bug which was thought to he damag-
ing the plants proves to be plain, or
binary beetle.
J. W. Wright was appointed post
master at Osceola, Washington county,
Va, to-day, vice Gardner Grant, re-
signed.
The Postoffice Department has re-
ceived reports that the anti-lottery law
passed by the last Congress has been
most effective in breaking up that bust
ness in the United States. Postoffice
Inspector Dice at New Orleans reports
that two agents, l.. A. Guardian and
D. NJ. Slocum. representing the Louis
lana Guarantee Loan Company, the
Louisiana Grand Lottery Company,
the Louisiana State Lottery Company
and the Honduras National Lottery
Company all of NewOrleans, were pre-
vented by this law from continuing the
business and both were indicted. In
the case of Guardian he was found
guilty. of one offense and has been in-
dicted over one hundred times at vari
Gus places. He recently filed an aft.
davit to the effect that be was no longer
in the lottery business. Several indict
ments have also been secured against
Slocum who will be brought to trial
during the fall term of the court.
The State Department and also the
Nicaraguan Minister at Washington
are still without advices from London
as to the British acceptance or decliDa-
ton of Nicaragua's proposition to pay
the indemnity in London, contingent
upon a withdrawal of the warships
from Corinto. The announcement that
Lord Kimberley had agreed to the com
promise on Tuesday last was undoubt.
9 lily premature and could have had nc
basis of fact. Great Britain is waiting
to formally receive the proposition from
Mr.. Medina, the Salvadorian Minister 10
France and England, who is acting in
this matter for Nicaragua. Mr.. Medi-
ma, at latest advices, was in Paris, and
was probably in that city when the
telegram from President Zelaya reach
ed him yesterday. Under the most
favorable circumstances he could not
reach London and personally communi
cate with Lord Kimberley before to-
day and for this reason no definite in
formation is expected before tonight
and possibly not for several days.
Secretary Carlisle, it is stated, will
enter the Kentucky campaign about the
18th of this month and deliver two or
more speeches at points yet be to select
ed, in favor of sound currency. He
will not return from Kentucky until he
attends the Memphis, Tenn, conven-
ton, but will spend the intervening
time in Kentucky in consultation with
his friends. Comptroller Eckels speaks
tonight in Detroit, Mich, on sound
money, and Secretary Smith is in
Georgia also in the same interest. Civil
service reform is booming.
Much qualification is expressed at the
State Department over the reported &C
quiescence by China in the treaty Of
peace with Japan. AS the ratfcations
of that treaty have to be exchanged at
Che Foo before May Sth and as that
point is at least four days journey from
Pekin it is regarded as strongly proba
BILE that the treaty, duly signed by the
Chinese Emperor, is already on its way
to the appointed place of ratification.
The japanese Emperor ratified the in.
strument more than week ago. Little
Importance is attached at the depart
ment to the newspaper reports of Rus
sia's possible interference. 1t is pre-
dcted that Russia will not be heard
from again in connection with Japan's
attitude. So far as the United States
without reserve that no European al
lance against Japan will cause this
government to enter into an agreement
with England or any other power to
offset it.
The pupils of the Roanoke female
academy called at the White House to-
day and were allowed to look at all the
public parts of that building. Theywere
disappointed at not seeing the Presi-
dent, but he didn't come to town TO-
day.
An Alexandria county man here to-
day says there was only one white man
among the delegates at the republican
county convention there yesterday, one
named McGhee, of the Arlington dis.
trict. The convention nominated John
SON for Commonwealth Attorney, Wi.
bert for Treasurer, Costello for Sheriff,
and Holmes, negro, for Commission
er of the Revenue. He says rs the ne
groes have majority in the county, all
the nominees, with the exception of