Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
of the Alexandra Gazette

w. u. mOScley, IcSiSuSu, mChOioi
Halifax county, ]. R. Darlington, vice
r. A. Bennett. resigned; Whiterock,
Bedford county, W. &. Graves, vice
A. II. Rorer, resigned.
The President has appointed VIM.
w Russell, of Maryland, secretary of
70 United States Legation at Caracas,
Vonezuela.
The Spanish minister has received a
cablegram from the Spanish consul at
Nassau, New Providence, announcing
that the flibusters caught on the Island
of Inagua and taken to Providence by
British man-of-war, as stated yester-
day, have been indicted and will be
tried November 21st. These prisoners
who we're landed at Inagua about a
month ago, from the steamer Delaware,
are the same men that were tried at
Wilmington, Del, and released there by
the U. S. authorities. The minister
also received this morning a dispatch
from Pensacola informing him that the
u. S. District Attorney at that place
had refused to surrender to their al
legged owners the arms and ammunition
found on Lost Key, August 31st last,
until ordered to do so at the next ses.
sion of the U. S. District Court.
1t has been found necessary in order
to install the new electric light plant in
the Capitol before the meeting of Con-
gress to work more than eight hours
per day. Architect Clark under whose,
supervision the work is being done,
fearing that he might get into trouble
if he directed the lsborers to proceed,
consulted the District Attorney on the
subject and was informed that he would
be justified in going ahead with the
work under such conditions as to en-
sure its completion before Congress
meets. So the eight hour law is in
allegiance for the time being, that sufi-
Gent light may be thrown upon the
proceedings of Congress when that body
is in session.
W. n. Fairless of Portsmouth, an
ex-master mechanic at the Norfolk
navy yard, but removed some years
ago by the authorities of that yard, is
candidate for the postmastership of the
House. He says his cause has the sup
port of Congressman Walker of his
State and of several other republican
congressman from the South.
The Mount Vernon Railroad Com
pany has been disappointed concerning
the date at which their cars will be
running into this city. They conf
IDENTIFY expected that Christmas would
be that date, but they now say it will
be some months later. Their work,
they say, could have been completed
in time, but that that of the
Pennsylvania Railroad will not
be. Their power house, with good
weather, will be finished and in
working condition in three weeks,
and their track in this city, in two, but
there is no use in hurrying either as
the Pennsylvania Company will not
have its track in condition for their
cars much, if any, before spring.
The republicans of this city are to
have grand jollification meeting here
tonight. Among the speakers will be
Mr.. Bradley, the newly elected repub-
lican Governor of Kentucky, and J. NJ.
from Virginia.
Mr.. Whitney's public and explicit
announcement that ne will not accept
the democratic nomination for next
Presidency, strengthens the impression
here that the national democratic con-
vention will be compelled to renominate
Mr.. Cleveland.
Ex-Congressman Heard, of Missouri,
now here, says there is no hope for his
party next year, nor will be again un-
ill the present occupant of the White
House shall be out of politics. Mr..
Cleveland, he says, is the cause of the
present condition OF the party, and that
it will be impossible for it to improve
until he has ceased to be q factor in
its affairs.
Among the visitors here to-day is ex-
congressman John S. Wise, once of
Virginia, but now of New York. He
says Ted Roosevelt has busted things
in New York; broke the toy, but didn't
know how to mend it. The people OF
that city, he says, will drink when they
want to, and that there is nothing in
the Constitution nor the ten command
ments that prevents them from doing
so. He says he sincerely hopes that
things in his party may not so arrange
themselves as to effect the renomina-
ton of Mr.. Harrison, for whom he has
no love.
The military authorities here have
noted an appeal from the decision of
Judge Bradley in the case of Major
Ames, q. S. a., for writing an alleged
improper letter to General Schofeld,
and it will come up before the supreme
court of the District next week.
Mr.. George G. Gorham, who was
secretary Of the o. S. Senate under the
Malone combine, is candidate for the
same position now.
The company here owning the vul-
canizing works in Alexandria, who
have been hoping for some time to sell
those works to Northern dyeing and
printing company, have been disap-
pointed in effecting such sale. The
works were erected with the promise
that they would receive enough orders
from railroads TO keep them constantly
at work, but when they were ready,
the railroads wanted them not only to
buy the timber, but to accept as pay
their notes at II, is and "a months.
Such a proposition could not be enter
tanned, with money as scarce as it nowi..
Congressman Meredith was here to-
day, on similar business to that which
always brings him here, trying to get
government employment for some OF
his constituents.
The actual gold reserve this afternoon