Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

The Postofice Department has dis.
ciplined some of the letter carriers in
Baltimore for alleged dereliction OF
duty. As q result OF the investigation
carried on by postofice inspectors seven
of the carriers have been suspended for
periods ranging from five to fifteen
days.
w. W. Kettel, the Pittsburgh suicide,
was a clerk in the Record and Pension
division of the War Department.
There seems 10 be soma melo-dramatic
mystery behind his death which can
not be cleared up here at present. he
left the Office several days ago On 8
seven days leave, but, so far as can be
learned, without having acquainted
anyone of the purpose OF his vacation
or destination. He was to have been
married last week, and had failed to
appear at the appointed time.
A cablegram has been received at the
State Department from Minister
Thompson at Rio de Janeiro stating
that an agreement of peace has been
signed by the federal government of
Brazil and the Rio Grande revolution
lists.
Secretary Lamont returned to Wash
ington last night and to-day resumed
his duties as Secretary Of War.
1t is publicly stated at the Navy De-
partment to-day that Lieut.. Lee Hol-
combe, U. S. n, was put off the South
ern Pacific Railroad train at Ogden last
Saturday, on his way to San Francisco,
for travelling on a railroad ticket he
bought from q scalper, and that he had
to wait until he could telegraph to
Washington for money.
Six hundred thousand dollars in gold
were Withdrawn from the Treasury to-
day for shipment TO Europe.
AT least three thousand idle negroes,
men women and children, spent sew
eral hours to day in following a negro
band that was advertising itself ny
marching through the streets of this
city. A Maryland farmer who saw them
said every one of them could get con
slant employment at fair wages on farms
in his State.
Race horse men here say that Mr..
Wood Martin, the judge at the 81.
Asaph race course, has severed his con-
nection with that track.
The Newport News, the day steam
er on the route between Norfolk and
this city, will make her last day trip
for the season on Sunday next. After
that date she will relieve temporarily
either one of the night boats on the
line that may require repairing or re-
painting.
General Ransom left here yesterday
for his home in North Carolina, but is
expected back in a day or two. He
does not appear to entertain q doubt
of his resppointment as Minis
ter to Mexico. though it was expected
ut both the Judiciary and State depart
ments that he would have been reap.
pointed the day after the President
was informed of the flaw in his COM
mission.
The grading of the roadbed of the
Mount Vernon Railroad through the
Abingdon reservation has been almost
completed; the work will then be pros.
ecuted through the intervening three
brick syards, to Waterloo, where the
road will join the Washington and AL
exandria Railroad. The company will
have at its Office here tomorrow, or
next day, q large number of electric
railroad engineers engaged in drawing
plans and patterns for the under
ground trolley work on l4th street in
this city, the iron for which will be
ready by the 18th of October, and the
contractors say they BAL have it in
place within thirty days, by which time
the railroad officers say the road from
the Alexandra Driving PARK to Wa
terloo will be completed.