Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
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Correspondence OF the Ale1anurla OaIelte'J
WASHINGTON, Nov. l.
Commercial Agent Hamilton, at
Morrisburg, Ontario, in report to the
State Department, says the change 10
the tariff Law OF the United States has
for the present necessarily stopped
trade. The agent says one OF the largest
lumber dealers told him that the -
rate on lumber had checked business.
Mr.. Hamilton adds: Reciprocity is the
cry of the Canadian"
Chief Willis l.. Moore, of the weather
bureau, has issued the following special
election day weather bulletin and fore.
cast A storm of marked energy lie
central this morning in western Ten.
nessee. Radiating from that center it
embraces the whole Mississippi valley
and the region eastward to the Atlantic
ocean with dense cloudiness and heavy
rain. The storm center will pass to the
northward of Maryland on its easterly
course, causing heavy rain to continue
at least until the forenoon OF Tuesday
10 that State, but with probability OF
clearing during the day; muddy roads.
The comparative statement OF the re-
ceipts and expenditures OF the govern
ment shows that he total receipts for the
month of October we're S24 ,391, Ais and
the expenditures sS3, 701 ,512, making the
excess Of expenditures over receipts ior
the month So, 0,097, and for the four
months of the present fiscal year
s3S, ,010. The receipts from Gus
toms during October amounted to
S9.713,4 94, as compared with 81, 1885,
1873 for October, 1896, and the receipts
from internal revenue sources 1854.
S72, gain of $25l ,7l6 over October
last year.
When the President returns court
martial will be ordered to try Captain
Lowering, the officer who has recently
been subjected to court OF inquiry at
Fort Sheridan for alleged abuse of Pri.
vate Hammond. Considerable import
ance attaches to the trial and army
circles are greatly interested in it.
Referee Bowden of Virginia was
here last Saturday, to have some fourth
class postmasters appointed in his State
and to see about the free delivery Of
mail at Newpors's News, which will, it
is now supposed, be postponed until the
18th inst.
The Rosslyn Improvement Company,
composed of Alexandrians. are build
ing q station house on their land at
Rosslyn for the falls Church and Wash
ington Electric Railroad.
The Virginia democratic association
of this city, whose headquarters are in
the old billiard room OF the Metropoli-
tan Hotel, up to noon to-day, had issued
certificates of transportation to about
one hundred Virginia democrats who
will vote at their homes tomorrow.
About half of them live in Fairfax
county, and their transportation is paid
for by Mr.. Joseph Willard, of that
county; the remainder vote in the other
nearby counties, and their certificates
enable them to buy halffare tickets.
About one hundred Richmond voters
sojourn here, but only two of them
have, SO far, applied for tickets. None
of the Virginia Office holders here, of
whom there are many, are among those
to whom certificates have been issued.
Virginia republicans here to day say
the vote of their party in their State
tomorrow will be exceedingly small,
as the negroes there vote for either
Office or money, and az neither is being
offered now, they wont take the trouble
to go to the polls.
It's expected that treaty or conven.
ton betwee en- the United States, Russia
and Japan will be formally signed and
executed at the State Department dur.
ing the present week, carrying out the
proposition before the Behring Sea con.
ference for suspension of pelagic seal
ing.
Governor Pengree, of Michigan, hav-
ing made some objection to receipting
for the temporary loan of the U. S.
Yantic for drilling purposes for the
naval militia of that State Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt has telgraphed to
him that if the vessel be not receipted
for at once she will be ordered back to
Boston.
In the q. s. Supreme Court to-day
an opinion was announced by the Chief
Justice in the various cases of the
GAPACoo SUuphuy dSsluSb
the State of Virginia, involving the lie.
gality OF the State statute providing
penalty for overcharges by common
carriers. There were five cases, ali APP.
pealed from the Supreme Court of the
State by the express company. The
judgment OF the State court was against
the express company and to.day's opin-
Ion affirms this judgment.
Mr.. j. w. Thompson, one Of the Oldest sud
most prominent business men of this city,
and once largely interested IN the Potomac
river steamboat business. was supposed By
his friends to be dying this evening
republican ey.member of the Maryland
legislature, from Charles county in that State,
here to-day, says the State will 60 democratic
to morrow, and offered to bet money that his
county would certainly do So st. Mary's
county, it is also said, will go the same way.
In Prince Georges, it is said, good deal of
money will be spent By rich republicans do.
ing business here, and for that reason the vote
in that county is doubtful.
Attorney General Fitzgerald Of California
to-day submitted q motion to dismiss or af-
Erm ia the case OF ~ u: r. Durrant. This case
is AN appeal from the decis..ccn OF the Ca!ltor-
nis Circuit Court refusing writ 2f hateas
corpus. 1t involves the proceeding agains.. !
Durrsnt for murder.