Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-16

the owner of Addison Heights, IN
Alexandria county, near this city, had
his leg amputated above the knee, in
Baltimore this evening, in consequence
of a diseased bone below that joint.
Congressman Otey, of Virginia, will
introduce bill providing that mutt
LACED coin, now not receivable at the
TIE ,sury, shall be received there at its
intrinsic value.
The House committee on elections,
in the contested election case of Booze
vs. Rusk from Baltimore, will report in
favor of the contestee. This will keep
the delegation equally divided, so that
if the Presidential election be thrown
into the House, the vote of Maryland.
owing to the self called cleveland
democrats" will not count. Had the
decision been otherwise. the vote of
MARYLAND, in the contingency referred
to. would be cast for the republican
candidate.
J. G. Thompson was appointed post
master at Denmark, Rockbridge conn
ty, Virginia, to-day, vice Mrs. l.. M.
Davidson, resigned.
1t is reported by Virginians here that
in case State Senator Mushbach OF AL
exapdria shall not be q candidate for
the democratic congressional nomina-
ton in his district. Mr.. Louis G. Barley
of Alexandria will be.
The Alexandria county race track
people and their counsel will meet here
TO day to perfect their arrangements for
testing the Maupin anti.racing law.
Senator Pritchard, republican, OF
North Carolina, says he will offer
substitute for the PETER bill providing
that S1OO, 900 out of the arrears of pay
and bounty due the estates of negro
soldiers in the war between the States
be appropriated for the err ction of
national memorial home for aged and
infirm negroes here, by which all of
such arrears can be distributed among
the negroes of the respective States &C
cording to their negro population.
Judge Hughes of Virginia, who has
been here for the last two or three days,
left this morning for Richmond.
The President and his cabinet were
to-day invited through Senator Bacon
of Georgia to attend the coming demo
cratic convention of that State.
Captain Asa Rogers, secretary of the
republican committee of the State OF
Virginia, says Mckinley is the first
choice of the Virginia republicans and
Morton second. If this be so Colonel
Lambs chance for a cabinet place has
gone without glimmer.
c. 3. Balm was to-day appointed, at
the request of Congressman Tyler, stem
ographer and typewriter in the office OF
the naval construction at Newport's
News, Virginia, with pay at the rate
f SO 26 day.
Tnere are now FIVE applicants for the
postoffice at Franklin, Virginia, the
two latest being R. ]. Leary and G. W..
B. Cobb.
The claim of the United States to the
territory known as Greer county, TO
which the State of Texas also made
claim, was affirmed by the decision OF
the Supreme Court of the United States,
announced to-day by Justice Harlan.
The decision settles a controversy
which has been waged by the State and
federal governments for many years.
The territory in question is situated in
the southwest corner of Indian Terri
tory and comprises about million and
a half acres. This is the case in which
General Edgar Allen, of Virginia, has
been so long employed in as govern
ment counsel.
DR.. and Mrs Curry were both at the
Capitol to .dav in behalf of the ladies'
society for the preservation OF Virginia
antiquities, trying to induce the apprt :
ations committees of that body to in
clude in any one of their bills provis
ion for preserving Jamestown, now in
danger of being washed away by the
floods in James river.
Both the President and his wife have in
creased in weight very much during recent
years Mrs. Cleveland it is said, now weighs
nearly two hundred pounds, and the Pres;-
dents girth has been enlarged two inches ard
| a.haf in the last year or two.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
to day an invitation to attend tho erection IF
a statue on the battle field of Sharpsburg on
the 18th of next September in the presence
of survivors of the armies Of the Potomac and
of Northern Virginia
In the House to day Mr. Tylor presented
tho petition of the board Of trade of Ports
mouth. Virginia for public building in that
city, bill for which he hal previously intro
duced and which he hopes to have favorably
reported.