Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON. June II.

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Secretary Olney this morning receive
ed cablegram from Vice Consul
Knight at Cape Town, saying that
John Hayes Hammond and the other
reform leaders had been released.
They were fined f25, 900 with no bail
ishment.
G. w. Browning was appointed post
master at Irwin, Goochland county,
Virginia, to-day, vice Helen Lively, re-
signed.
Ex-Governor McCreary of Kentucky,
member of the House foreign affairs
committee, had talk with the Presi-
dent this morning on the Cuban ques-
ton. He says there is not word OF
truth in the report that the President
will issue proclamation on that ques-
ton as soon as Congress shall adjourn,
and that the President says he will
take no further steps in that matter
until he hears from General Lee, and
not then, unless it agrees with his own
/ ieas.
The full text of the treaty between
this country and Great Britain provid-
ing for the settlement Of the claims
presented by the latter against the
| former on account of seizures of Berlng
sea sealers, was made public to-day.
Congressman Jones of the Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, district, who was in Rich:
mond yesterday, says it is supposed
there that Mr.. Ellyson will be re.elect-
ed chairman of the Virginia democratic
committee, and that if so he is assured
that he will serve.
Now that Mr.. Gee has been nomi-
mated for Congress by one wing of the
republican party in the Petersburg,
Virginia, district, bis record, as feder-
al officer in Alaska, is being examined,
and it must be confessed that there are
things in it of which he cannot be
proved.
The u. S. vessels Maine, Raleigh and
Amphitrite are to be locked at the Nor
folk navy yard.
The generally prevailing opinion at
the Capitol on the subject to-day is that
the platform to be adopted at st. Louis
will straddle the currency question and
leave it 80 that gold men may advocate
it in gold States, and silver men in silver
States, but that it will be unsatisfactory
to neither, and that the question has
reached the condition in which it must
be definitely determined, as all classes
of people are tired of the long existing
uncertainty.
State Senator Maynard of Ports
mouth, Virginia, who is candidate
for the democratic Congressional nom
ination in the Norfolk district is here
to-day. He is not free silver man,
aud once favored the nomination Of ex-
G oyernor Russell OF Massachusetts, for
President, but he is utterly opposed to
any boiling at Chicago.
Major O. E. Hine, of Fairfax county,
Virginia, who is here to-day, seems to
be pretty confident of receiving the re-
public nomination for Congress in his
district. Mr.. Mccall, however, who
was here last week, is equally as conf
dent of his being the nominee.
During the war between the States a
brother of Jim" Dulen of Prince Will
liam county, Virginia, was shot and
killed while prisoner, with his horse
lying upon him, by a federal soldier.
Jim" SWOTe Oh HIS, DlOtucI > Col pSO
that no federal soldier who fell into his
hands thereafter should survive; and
he kept his word, and it is said that at
least fifty of them fell before his pistol.
Among them was son of Governor
Parker of New Jersey, whose remains
his relatives have never been able to
find. "Jim" has now gone to his &C,
count, but it is said by people from
Prince William county now here that
negro who lived near Manassas
knows where young Parker was buried,
and if he can be found, the remains will
be sent to New Jersey.
At silver headquarters here to-day it
is stated that of the delegates already
elected to the Chicago convention over
six hundred are pledged to free silver.