Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
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Correspondents Of the Alexandris Gssette.]
WASHINGTON, March 81.

.
Secretary Gresham announcing his de-
parture from Washington which reach
ed the secretary this morning, is under
stood to be brief almost to the point OF
curtness. 1t contained no reference TO
q leave of absence or OF depar-
ture. but under yesterdays date SIMPLY
stated that he intended to depart Tor
Honolulu. leaving Secretary Hastings
in charge of the Hawaiian Legation.
The note is said by those familiar with
dinlomatic communications OF its class,
70 have been remarkable for its omis-
sion of the customary courteous eXpla-
nations and absolutely unique in fall
ing to announce whether his govern.
ment had or had not given him leave OF
absence.
Postmaster General Bissell said to-
day he will relinquish his duties on
THURSDAY. April 4th, when Mr.. Wilson
will Immediately take hold. MIR. Bis,
sell will remain in Washington until
about May 1st, as the lease on his K
street mansion will not expire until
that time, and his Buffalo residence
will not be vacated until the same date.
Official advices this morning indicate
the possibility of a coup d. etat IN
Spain before the close of this week.
While Premier Canovas as we'll as the
ministry associated with him are in
full sympathy with the movement to
suspend the constitution and try the
offending Madrid journalists by a court
martial, the government finds a major
ity of the chambers against this meth
cd. and is powerless to move IN the
matter. 1t is believed that the Queen
will within a few days issue a decree
dissolying the chambers and that this
will be followed by a coup d. etat on
the part of the military, which will re-
suit, for the time at least, in a practical
dictatorship. This movement, it is be-
lieved, will be-headed by General Cam
sssa who reflects the prevalent military
hostility to the editors of the Madrid
papers which recently SO severely critl-
cised the army and the navy.
President Cleveland has awarded the
captain of the British steamer Durham
City a pair of marine glasses with q
suitable inscription in recognition OF
his services in rescuing the crew OF the
American schooner Alice T. Boardman
last October.
Acknowledgements Olney gave a din
ner party last night at his residence in
honor of the counsel engaged in the
Debs case before the Supreme Court.
Those present were G. S. Darrow, Ly-
man Trumbull and S. S. Gregory, oil
Debs's counsel Edwin II. Walker. AS.
sistant Attorney-G General Whitney, OF
U. S. counsel, and Chief Justice Fuller
and wife and Secretary Lamont and
wife.
1t was rumored among race horse
men here this morning that the St.
Asapn people would join the Western
Turf Congress, which permits foreign
books at the track, and at an early date
would commence daily races. The
Jackson City people secuted this rumor,
saying 1t could not be true, as both
tracks are now making money, whereas
neither would, if the present alternate
day arrangement be broken. Col. Cab.
Maddu1 was in good spirits to-day, say
ing he had won $1,000 on two of his
horses, Ella and Sir Alfred, at Jackson
city yesterday.
Applications from all over the South
are received daily at the Capitol for
copies of the law increasing Mexican
pensions from s. to $12 a month. There
is no such law. A bill to that effect
passed the House at the last session
and when it reached the Senate was
referred to the pension committee OF
that body, of which Senator Palmer, of
Illinois, was chairman, and OF which
only two Southern Senators were mem
bers, Messrs. Camden, ofWest Virginia,
and German, of Maryland. In that
committee it was pigeon holed, and no
report on it was ever made.
A paragraph in this correspondence
of yesterdays date about the plums
the defeated cuckoo congressman have
received mt the White House failed to
state that when a reelected Virginia
congressman, who was not a cuckoo,
appliedd for one of those plums for a
working democrat of the Territory in
which the office is located, the Presi-
dent didn't hesitate to tell him that the
defeated cuckoos referred to had be
taken care of.
L. F. Kellam was appointed post
master at Princess Anne, Princess Anne
county, Va, to-day, vice D. w. Capps,
resigned, and G. w. Gibson at Rescue,
Isle of Wight county, vice Smith Wat
kins, resigned.
1t is understood at the State Depart
ment that the statement in the British
ultimatum to Nicaragua, that mo citi.
zen of an American republic" should
be a member of the arbitration COM
mission, was not intended to apply to
the United States, but to the minor re-
publics of Central and South America.
1t was stated at the Office of the
clerk of the House this morning that
the testimony Of the contestant in the
contested election case of Hoge VS..
Otey, from the Lynchburg, Virginia,
district, had not yet been received
there, and that as some has been taken,
it must be held up somewhere and by
somebody, but where and by whom, it
is not known.
John NJ. Langton, the negro ex-con-
gresham from the Petersburg, Va, dis.
trict has taken charge of the case of
Waller, the ex-negro consul at Tama-
tave, before the State Department, and
was there on that business this morn
ing. He says Waller is a citizen of the
United States and is not r%ightfully in a
Madagascar prison.
YADKIN VALLEY CLAIMs.-Messrs.
E. D. J. Cross, Frank P. Clark and
John a. Thompkins, who represented
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