Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-23
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WASHINGTON, May %.
u. Johnson said this morning that
,f.rv 4 Dodge Gail Hamilton) had
= .ac.,ed point where within the next
f.,v bonrs there must be some decided
,.h.sre or the other. For two days her
condition has been practically IN.
changed. but this morning she is, if
possible, weaker than last night.
Anon the cadet appointments to
tie West Point Military Academy
made to-day was that of ]. F. Maynard,
tHonaker, Va, alternate.
Beverly F. Payne, vice consul at
Monrovie, Liberia, reports to the State
Department under date of April 11th:
that the Danish steamship Horsa, ar
rived at Monrovia on April 7th, after a
voyage ofeighteen days from Savannah,
Ga, with 1917 colored Immigrants from
different parts of the United States.
The Horsa was chartered by the Inter
national immigration Society of Birm-
ingham, Alabama. The vice consul say s
the government of Liberia will have to
provide for them.
At the State Department it is said
that while it is not correct that dipo-
matte relations between China and
japan have been actually resumed, it
is true that every indication points TO
their being formally resumed within
the next fortnight.
People from Alexandria county here
to-day say the negro majority there
had everything its own way at the
election, polled its full vote and elected
the republican ticket by large ma
jority.
Mr.. Andre Louis Dagger, Consul in
this city from Sweden, Norway, and
Denmark, died suddenly of apoplexy at
Asbury Park, New jersey, this morning.
Mr.. Bageer was a well-known patent
attorney of Washington.
According to advices received by the
Marine Hospital, yellow fever prevails
on both sides of Mexico, prevailing al
Vera. Cruz and an epidemic at Mazatlan.
Both are in direct communication With
the United States.
According to letter received from
Senator Ransom by friends in this city,
under date of May 10th his illness as
reported in days dispatches is not of
an alarming character. His condition
is not at all serious. He is improving
and is staying at the hot springs at
Topo Chico, four miles from Monterey.
Notwithstanding the CAB of the board
of trade and two of the newspapers OF
this city to the contrary, so far as the
jurisdiction of Alexandria county over
Alexander's Island is concerned, the
race horse people there need give them
selves no Immediate concern, as it was
learned by inquiries at both the De-
parlment of Justice and the office Of the
District Attorney here this morning,
that nothing had been done even to-
ward raising such question, let alone
investigating and determining it, and
there is no telling when there will be.
The St. Asaph and Alexander's Is
land race track people here have
not as yet determined what they will
do with the petition of the race horse
owners at their tracks to exclude-horses
from tracks subject TO the New York
Jockey Club and the Western Turf Con-
gress.
A young man from Richmond made
arrangements at the Metropolitan
Hotel this morning for being married
to young lady of this city in one of
the parlors of that hotel at noon to-day,
hut as the time approached the young
lady's courage failed, as her parents
opposed the match, and she was fearful
OF the possible result OF disobeying them.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Judge Hughes of the US. court for the
eastern district of Virginia. When
asked about the gold brick case in his
State, of which he had been asked to
take cognizance, he said that that was a
matter for the State courts, with which
he could not interfere.
During the next ten days notices
will be sent to ali the contestants and
contestees in congressional contested
election cases to appear in the Office of
the Clerk of the House at the Capitol
and witness the opening of their pa pers
Full time will be allowed them for do
lug so.
The Virginians here are very much
provoked at the assaults made upon
their State by the board of trade and
two of the newspapers of this city, rela-
tive to alleged offenses committed in
Alexandria county, and are contem-
plating some concerted action in re-
spect thereof. They say there is more
gambling, of the very sort complained
of, and more other offenses of all kinds
committed here in one day than in
Alexandria county in a whole year,
and that people who live in glass
houses should be the last to throw
stones.