Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-27
FROM. WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]

Captain Beat y, of Fairfax county,
Virginia, here to day, talking aoouO
Mosby's command, of which he was
Gallant member, said that while he was
sorry for any mans death, he could noS
help feeling that General Clusters late
was retribution for his cruel, unwar-
r,nted and unnecessary slaughter, in
= Ia blood. seven Confederates, near
Front Royal, in 1864. The names of
the men were Anderson, Lodge, White,
Rhodes, overly, Carter and Jones.
TIE first four were shot, the last three
hanged. They were prisoners in the
hands of about dozen OF Clusters
troops. Four of their comrads, Thomas
Ioss, Harry Hatcher, Albert Minor
aud Fountain Beatty, attempted to res.
cue them, and charging into their guard
released them, but before the pris-
ouers could secure mounts whole
tr .op closed in around and RECAP
lured them. The rescuers were specta-
tors of their death from distance OF
less than four hundred yards.
An Alexandrian here to-day says he
hears that some of the people of this
C ~ are talking about the now obser-
vance of law in Alexandria county, but
that he never hears word about the
disregard of law III Fairfax county, and
yet he has personal knowledge OF case
in which men living in that county
not only hunt on posted land, but
actually make practice of cutting
wood on it and carting it to Alexandra
for sale.
The board of revision of the Pension
Bureau has, by order of Commissioner
of Pensions Lochren, been abolished.
The board was appointed several years
ago to adjudicate pension cases in ac-
cordance with the act of June 9th,
1890, known as the dependent pension
act. The seventy employees who COM
posed the board will be distributed
about The various divisions of the bu-
reau.
81 am inclined to think" said the
Spanish minister, Mr.. Dupuy de LONE,
this morning, "that since the publica-
ton of my statement the other day,
that Cuban news by way of Tampa and
Key West could always be discredited,
that the people who have been writing
these dispatches may have adopted the
expedient of dating their inventions at
Havana
William johnson was appointed post
master at Ocean View, Norfolk county,
Va, to-day, vice w. l.. Brooke re-
signed.
Officials at the Treasury will not de-
py, indeed they will not even talk
about, the rumor to the effect that in
stead of paying for the last issue of four
per cent government bonds with for
eign gold, as they promised to do, the
foreign bankers who took that loan,
paid for the most of it with Anne. lean
gold drawn from the Treasury in re-
demption of Treasury notes.
Congressman Meredith Of Virginia
was here to-day. He went to the Post
Office Department aud stopped pro-
posed change of the postmaster at
Richardsville, Culpeper county, and
obtained promise that new postofiice
would be established at Hunters, in
Fairfax county, a short distance below
Alexandria. Mr.. Meredith says Mr..
Thornton of Prince William county
couldn't be induced to run for the Vir-
gnia Senate, and that he, Meredith,
supposes Mr.. Mushbach will be re-
elected, if he wants to be. He also says
he has no doubt of Major Daniels re-
election to the U. S. Senate.
=. The would-be but neverwill-be Gov
ernor of Alabama, Capt. kolb, the ia
nous populist, passed through here
this morning on his way home from
New York. He still thinks he was
elected Governor of his State, but that
his supporters were cheated and bull
dozed.
Congressman Elicit, of Richmond,
will be here this afternoon.
The Charles county, Maryland, peo-
pie who are not satisfied with the re-
cent decision of the question of the
charg.. in the site of the court house Of
that county will hold conference al
Chapel Point next Saturday.
The silver men here to-day don't
seem to lie at all disheartened by the
result Of the Kentucky convention.
They say that convention was bought
and paid for by the "gold bugs" but
that the whole people Of the State can
not be purchased. They also say the
reported business boom is gotten up in
the interest of the gold bugs" and that
the people are worse off now even than
they were this time last year, that there
are eight thousand empty houses in
this city, and that beggars here are
more numerous than ever. They also
say that temples" of the Silver
knights will be established in Alexan-
andria and Danville next Week, and
one the week following in Richmond,
which will be the headquarters of the
organization in Virginia.
A private dispatch received here to-
day says that Ambassador Ransom
will be at the White Sulphur Springs
tomorrow.
Race horse people here say that the
proposed racing at Behring'S, near this
city, will not injure the tracks in Alex
andria county, as most of the attrac
ton at race tracks now is the foreign
book, which will not be kept at Ben
nine's.
Mr.. w. w. Mccullough, formerly of
Virginia, who had large lumber bust
ness mere, died of appoplexy at his res
idence in Bladensburg last night.
Congressman Livingston of Georgia,
who for his resolution for the arbitra-
ton of the English claims against Ven
ezuela was invited to visit the latter
country, has just returned. He says
h IS visit was as private citizen, and
W $ very agreeable one. The feeling
for the Monroe doctrine is very strong