Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gszette.l

Hung Chang on April /. 1t required
the payment by China and Japan of an
demnity of 800, 100000 imperial taels
s433, 100000. Lii Hung Chang claims
that Japan only spent $15O, 1000 in
the prosecution of the war, and says it
is impossible for China to raise the sum
demanded either by taxation or loan.
The Cairo apartment house, on q
street near Sixteenth, has been robbed,
it is supposed, of large amount OF
money, and the detectives are at their
wits end TO know who did the work.
The river and harbor reports for the
past wear have been submitted to the
Secretary of War; They contain but
little of any general interest, however,
as. owing to the failure of Congress to
pass a river and harbor appropriation
bill last session, there was practically
nothing 10 be done along this line of
work. The reports from Virginia are
practically the same reports that were
submitted last year, WITH exactly the
same recommendation as to The contin-
uauce of work on projects already un-
der way.
Secretary Herbert received cable
gram last night from Commander
Davis of the cruiser Montgomery which
has been at Colon since July LIST au-
nouncing that the Nicaraguan Canal
Commission had completed its exami
nation of the Panama isthmus and that
the ship would sail in few hours for
home via Key West,
A formal petition has been presented
to the civil service commission by the
fremen in all the departments in
Washington requesting that they be
placed under the protection of the civil
service laws. The petition has been
referred to the President.
People from Richmond here today
say the silver people there are making
big fight, but are unorganized. They
are talking of forming league but no
one seems anxious to take the lead. At
present these people are spending most
of their time in talking. The anti
silver men are also unorganized.
A dispatch received in this city from
Norfolk says the special sent out from
that city stating that near Wacha-
prague, Va, Tuesday, q sailboat COD
tanning thirteen people was calsized
and six of them-one man and five
women-were drowned, was a fake
pure and simple, there not being word
OF truth in it.
General Scott Ship, the military
commandant of the Virginia Military
Institute, is in the city. He will spend
several days here. Col. A. B. Andrews,
vice-president Of the Southern Railway,
is also in the city. His headquarters
are at the Raleigh.
The governments monthly report on
the condition of the crops shows cotton
improved little. 1t indicates q yield
of wheat 100000 bushels less than
last year, but if present conditions are
maintained the corn crop will double
that of a year ago.
On Saturday and Sunday Bishop Van
de Vyver. of the diocese of Richmond,
accompanied by the clergy of his juris
diction, will assemble at Georgetown
University and unite in spiritual
retreat. Rev. J. .Havens Richards, S.
j., president of the university, will con-
duct the retreat and preach to those
participating in the same.
The lighthouse board, has made the
following official announcement: "The
published statement that the expert
ence with the temporary boring frame
plant constructed year ago on the
.nter Diamond shoal, off Cape Hat
ttras, N. c., has been in any way dis
copragipg to the establishment ola per-
ment light there, was unauthorized by
the lighthouse board, and is contrary
TO the facts"
Helen Douglass, widow of the late
Frederick Douglass, yesterday filed
petition in probate, asking the court to
advance to her s., 900 out of the assets
of her deceased husbands estate. The
final settlement ofthe estate cannot be
made before May %, 1896, she said In
her petition, and she asks for the
above amount to cover living expenses.
No members of the Washington
Lodge of Elks or any of their relatives
or friends were hurt in the Casino Ca
tastrophe at Atlantic City last night.
Comptroller Bowler of the Treasury
has returned from two weeks visit to
the Massachusetts coast.
A new postoffice has been established
at Difficult, Fairfax county, three miles
northeast of Fairfax, with George D.
Lee postmaster.
The strikers on the AnacoStia street
car line, through the officers of the
Protective Street Railway Union, have
deter mined to test by legal procedure
whether or not President Griswold
can permit his cars to remain idle with
out invalidating the charter Of the COM
pany.
The monitor Amphitrite went to sea
from Fort Monroe this morning to test
the force of the blast from her big guns
while firing. Four sheep were taken
aboard which will be used in the ex-
pertinent.
The receipts from internal revenue
to-day were 1854, 457; from customs
$S43, 523, and miscellaneous sos, 1850.
Heavy gold payments on government
account at San Francisco have caused
in the last two days loss of 1855, 600
in gold and have reduced the Treasury
gold reserve to $107, 213,000.
The vacant assistant paymastership
in the navy has brought forward sew
eral Virginia applicants. Among them
are Major Briscoe's son and the late
Captain Ham Shepherds son. Mr.. "A.
r. Holiday, of Richmond, was an ap-
plicant before when the vacancy was
filled by the appointment of New Jer-
sey man. Virginia haying already
three out of the possible seventy in the
service is not likely to be considered in