Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. June %.

CCorrespondence Of the Alexandra Gazette'J
WASHINGTON. June %.
Clemency has been denied by the
President to Henry FL. Farmer, OF Vlr,
cinia, convicted of violating the postal
laws and sentenced in May, 1896, to
two years in the Kings county peniten-
tiary, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The President has made the following
appointments G. Max Manning, OF
Georgia, to be secretary of the United
States Legation at Monrovia, Liberia;
to be consuls, Geo. e. Kedzie, of Mexi-
co, at Durango, Mex; Geo. B. Ander-
son, of the District of Columbia, at
Antigua, West Indies, and Paul Wis
sike, of Texas, at Managua, Nicaragua.
Paul Wissike, of Texas, whom the
President to-day appointed as consul at
Managus, Nicaragua, will succeed q
man who never reached that post. On
June 10, Charles II. Wills, of Mary
land, who had served the United States
in a consular capacity in Nicaragua,
was appointed as consul at the place
named. A few days later dispatch
from La Plata, Nd, said that MIR. Wills,
who was 70 years old, had been stricken
with paralysis and would probably not
recover. The State Department waited
for news of Mr.. Willis illness, but none
came, and the President, believing that
he would not be able to serve, practi-
cally decided to appoint Mr.. Wisslke.
Before making the appointment, how
ever, a telegram was sent addressed 10
MIR. Wills at La Plata, asking If he
could assume his official duties. The
answer came from the telegraph
operator at La Plata. He said that he
could not deliver the message as the
Wills homestead was outside the town,
and added that Mr.. Wills had died from
the paralytic stroke. The appointment
of Mr.. Wissike was made accordingly.
A lounger on Pennsylvania avenue
saws that at least half the men car
rying umbrellas, he meets in the daily
walks, are negroes, and that among them
ne recognizes some he has seen unload
ing coal boats at the wharf, in the hot
sun, without hat and bare backed.
Among the visitors here to-day is Con-
gresham Elicit of Richmond. Hesays
the democrats of his city are democrats,
and will vote the democratic ticket,
and that the democrats have more
things to fight for than the currency
question. He says he expects thirty
thousand Confederate veterans in Rich
mond tomorrow.
Mr.. Babcock, chairman of the House
District committee, and committee
of the knights of labor, called at the
office of the Metropolitan street rail
road this morning for the purpose o.
trying to have some of the recently
discharged employees of that road rein
stated.
The Washington and Mt. Vernon
Railroad people here say the reason
their cars don't make better time
between here and Alexandria Ia the
number Of stations at which they have
to stop, but that Notwithstanding that
the people Of Alexandria want to have
that number increased.
A large number of people left here
this morning for Richmond and more
will leave this evening and tomorrow
The demand for tickets at the 9Th street
depot was so great that the supply was
exhausted early in the day and large
requisition for more had TO be made
upon the central Office.
A member of the Virginia democratic
association of this city, who was at the
rooms of that association last Friday,
saws that MIR. Anderson, who is q can
didate for the democratic congressional
nomination in the Alexandra district,
like Governor Bob Taylor of Tennes-
see, is an accomplished musician, and
that when he is tired of talking he can
entertain his audience with delightful
music on the piano.
It Is the general impression at the
State Department, that so far as this
government is concerned, Spain will be
allowed to settle her affairs with her
Cuban insurgents in her own way, and
in her own time, and that that time
won't be long.
The delegates appointed by the dem
ocrats of the District of Columbia to
the Chicago convention will meet to.
night, and of the six. five it is said will
declare for free silver at 16 to 1. A
prominent local democratic politician
here says the mechanics, the builders,
the merchants and the lsborers of this
city are for free silver, and that if the
feeling of the democrats of the rest of
the country on the currency question
be reflected by that here, the nominee
of the Chicago convention will certainly
be free silver man.
The postoffice at Blackstone, Virgin
ia, was to-day relegated to the fourth
class grade by reason of decrease in
its receipts.
People from Alexandria county here
to. day say magistrate in that county
was reused up late at night recently by
a constable who wanteda warrant for
an arrest, but that when he came down
stairs the only charge he could hear
against the offender was that he had
"dopednand given his victim knockout
drops" He looked through all his law
books, but could find mention of no
such crimes, end was in sore distress
about making olt the warrant, until
the constable happened to say that the
knocked out" man had been robbed Of
$3.50. This relieved him, and the war
rant was made out at once for robbery.
The United Ststes Court Of Claims adjourn
ed to-day for the summer vacation, to meet
again the third Monday in October.
Mr.. John Herreshof, the famous blind
designer, had Rn interview With Secretary
Herbert this morning s5out the construction
of the 10 torpedo boats authorized by Con-
gress 1t is understood that MIR. Herreshot