Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorrespondence Of tbs Alexandris Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.

Guatemala, and will be appointed soon
after the election in Kentucky.
President Mckinley to day received
DR.. hansen, the Arctic explorer, IN the
blue room of the White House: With
him were four members of the Cabinet,
Secretaries Sherman, Gage, Long and
Wilson. DR.. Nansen was accompanied
to the White House by the Swedish
minister.
The statement is reaf1irmed by OIL
Gals at the State Department that no
publicity of the Woodford instructions
or of SPANS answer will be made at
Madrid or Washington, until after the
assembling of Congress, and 1t Is gen.
orally believed that the two govern
ments have reached an understanding
as to holding back The letters for the
present.
Becauce of the protests of the labor
unions, which fear the competition OF
the Marine Band, the Secretary of the
Navy has revoked the permission
which he gave the organization some
time ego to go to Chicago to furnish
music for the horseshow next week.
The War Department has at last
communicated with the 9TH Infantry,
which ep Atlanta dispatch reported to
be wandering around in the Georgia
mountains beyond reach of communi-
cation. Late yesterday afternoon word
came to the department that the troops
were on their way from Cnatta-
nooga near where they had been camp.
ed to their home station at Fort Nc
Pherson near Atlanta. At the time OF
report they were marching somewhere
between Calhoun and Kingston, Tenn.
A telegraph order was at cpce sent to
the latter point to await the arrival
there of the troops, to take the train
Immediately for Nashville where they
are set down as one OF the attractions
during the closing hours OF the exposl'
lion.
aAccording to the report of the Com.
missioner of the Land Office, made pub
lie to-day, the only public lands now
left are in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho,
Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan. Mime
sofa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Da.
kota, Titan, Washington, Wisconsin,
Wyoming and A..ssaka.
A resident of Leesburg, Virginia, here
to-day, says that though that is a dry"
town, no less than twenty-five arrests
We're made there yesterday for viola
tons of the liquor law. Liquor is drunk
there, he says, as much as ever, but
neither the town, county, nor State de-
rives any profit therefrom.
The Virginia democratic association
of this city will commence issuing to
Virginia voters certificates for one fare
round. trip tickets 20 all points 10 their
State or Friday night. such tickets to
be good until the night of the Sth
proximo.
Alexandria county people here TO-
day speak in any thing else than COM
plimentary terms of Secretary Alger for
saying he will treat no more with the
Washington and Falls Church Railroad
as long as Mr.. Philips, the superinten-
dent, is az the head of it, They say the
government uses private property in
their county without due process Of
law, but that when they ask the poor
privilege of running a county railroad
through an unused part Of the Airing
ton reservation, or to permit county
railroad to cross the Aqueduct Bridge,
he avails himself of bis official position
to crafty his personal feelings against |
an officer of that road, though, by doing |
so, he Inconvenience great many |
people of this city as well as of their
county.
MIR. Cleveland wove the shirt in the |
matter of the sale of the Union Pacific
Railroad, but as the time for the sale
approached, such fuss was made about
the contemplated robbery, that Mr..
Mckinley was scared into rejecting
it, and no matter what the disappointed
plunderers may now do, the matter will
be laid over until Congress shall have
had time to act upon it.
Among the visitors here to-day is MIR.
w. II. Beck, who formerly lived in AL
exandria. He has just returned from
a visit to Pennsylvania, where he has
some material interests. He says bust
ness in all the upper part of that State
is very much depressed and that the
prospect for speedy improvement is by
no means bright.
w. l.. Davis was to-day appointed
postmaster at Champlain, Va.
Mr.. Evans, the commissioner of pen
sions, has been instructed to the effect
that no ex.Confederate employees in
his bureau must be promoted. The G.
A. r. is dead against "rebels," and
what it says goes with Mr.. Mckinley.
The Treasury Department has taken
up the question of removing the Office
of the collector of internal revenue for
the upper district of Virginia from
to Alexandria, and of course
the people of the former city are urging
all the objections they can to the pro.
posed change. and have telegraphed
for Senator Daniel AMI Congressman
Otey to come here and do what they
can to stop it. 1t is just as natural,
however, that Alexandrians should
favor the change, and strong delega-
ton of the business men of that city
might have no little influence in effect
ing decision in their favor.
To.day's proceedings in the couven.
ton of the German order of the Black
Knights developed into seemingly
hopeless tangle over the question of
settling the life insurance part Of the
new constitution, 1t was probable this
afternoon that the whole matter would
be referred to the special convention in