Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Alexandria aszette.l

Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gszette.]
WASHINGTON. Sept. II.
Surgeon General Tryon of the navy
is pushing repairs and extensions of the
naval hospitals at Norfolk, Va. At
Norfolk large extensions are being
made and modern appliances, heating
ADD veutilating, &C., are being put in.
Tn old section of the hospital, which
hs. not been used since the war, is be-
ing put in perfect order and will make
valuable and roomy addition to the
buildin..
The Treasury gold reserve to-day is
officially stated at $97, 612, COS, subject
to an addition of $1,000. 900 not yet
taken up in Treasursr's books.
Attorney General Harmon returned
to-day from Ohio and resumed hia
duties at the Department of Justice.
Since it is learned here that Senator
Gray spent good deal of his time in
London with Mr.. Bayard, it is believed
that his feeling in favor of third tel m
for Mr.. Cleveland is entertained also by
the u. 8. Minister to England. That
Mr.. Gray did not wait until hs reached
America before expressing the feeling
referred to is well known to several OF
the passengers who came over with
him on the same ship and to whom he
talked with on the subject.
Emmett c. Combs was to-day appoint
ed postmaster at Council, Buchanan
county, Va, vice Jasper P. Smith, re-
signed.
Secretary Carlisle while saying he
does not anticipate the necessity for
new bond issue when the foreign syndi-
cate shall be relieved of their contract
to maintain the one hundred million
gold reserve in the Treasury he doesn't
hesitate to say thatif such necessity
shall arise he will order such an issue.
Moneyed men from New York, who
have been here to look at the situation,
have gone back under the belief that
there will be an issue of new bonds
soon after the LIST of October, when the
contract referred to will expire.
The effect Of the shot OF the Krag-
Jorgensen rife which killed Private
Thomas Coffey, the deserter, at Fort
Sheridan, Illinois, is exactly what has
hem expected by the ordnance officers,
aud not the Opposite" as stated in the
dispatch from Chicago, regarding the
DISCUSSION of the affair at Fort Sheri'
dap. Data on file in the Ordnance
Bureau here shows that in an expert.
u ent with skull filed with matter to
represent its normal condition it was
found that cracks extended in all di-
rections from the holes of entrance and
exit. This was just what happened in
Private Coffey's casa.
II ia reported here that an offer OF
sixty thousand dollars has been refused
for the tract of>land in Alexandria
county owned by the late F. r. Wind
3Or..
Acting Attorney General Holmes
Conrad has decided that there is no law
to prevent Americans from subscribing
to tho fund for the support of the Cuban
insurgents.
DR.. Sewers of WArrentop, who has
been here to interest the State Depart
,nent in the case of his brother, sugar
p anter and resident of Cuba, who has
ueen arrested and threatened with
oanishment from that island for SYM
pathizing with the insurgents there,
went home this morning with the
proniis that every thing possible should
be done 10 his brothers behalf.
A negro Methodist conference is in
progress here now in one of their
churches in the, southern part of the
city. One of the speakers this morning
on the school question, which was
under discussion. talked good and plain
common sense, and if his race would
act as he thinks, the negro problem
would soon be settled. He told his
hearers they did not respect each
other and therefore could not re-
spect themselves, aud that man
who did not respect himself could
not expect respect from other
people. They should, he said, look
at the RrouLd where they had to
walk, and not at the ky to which they
could not fly. They were not the in
tellectusl equslscof the white man yet,
and it would be q miracle if they were,
and as sense always told, it was absurd
for them to presume to be the white
mans equal yet awhile. If they be-
hayed themselves aud acquired sense
aud money they would respect each
other, and then white people would re-
spect them.
An Alexandria county man here to-
day says the people of that county
doh'6 want the;race tracks there broken
up, as now that the brick yards are
idle. they afford about the only en-
ployment there is in that county.
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