Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-23
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Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazetse.l
WASHINGTON. Dec. %.
United States Consul Taylor, at
Glasgow, has furnished the State De-
partment with copy Of a circular or.
der issued by the Associated and
Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners
of that city, prohibiting the handling Of
imported prepared joined work. The
consul says that as the society includes
all of the mechanics in that line OF bust
ness in Glasgow, the order must ef-
factually stop importations OF this pre-
pared work, the greater part OF which
comes from the United States 10 Large
quantities. The contention of the
Scotch workmen is that the foreigner;
who make the joined work are paid
much less wages than themselves.
No report of the action OF the com.
mander of the battleship Maine in firing
upon schoouers at the entrance of Key
West harbor, as reported in the news
dispatches this morning, has yet reach
ed the Navy Department. Officials say
that the Maine was assigned to stop
suspicious vessels for time in place Of
some of the revenue cutters which had
been Withdrawn temporarily for re
pairs, and it is not assumed that Capt
Sigsbee has exceeded his authority in
the matter.
Government officials say that the
mission of David Lee, negro from
Mississippi, who is said to be on bis way
10 Washington to seek the aid of the
United States in securing redress
for the murder of five members
of his family by white caps,
necessarily must be failure.
At The Department OF Justice it is said
that under no circumstances could the
United States become party to any
proceedings of this character against
the Stale of Mississippi and it is said to
b, doubtful whether the State itself
could be sued ror damages under the
circumstances, and certainly not with
out its consent.
Mr.. john Mclean of Ohio, now here,
says Mr. Hanna will be defeated if the
democratic members of the legislature
shall remain solid; and he is disposed
10 think they Will. He advises them
TO unite with the anti-Hanna republi
cans in the organization Of the legisle-
.ure. and thereby to obtain some OF the
Offices and secure Mr.. Hanna's defeat.
At the State Department it is init
mated that the chance for any reciproc-
ity treaties is exceedingly slim, az fol-
eign government are not favorably dis
posed to this country any how, nov,
and as the Dingley tariff bill has re-
s.ricted the importation of their prod
ucts to such articles only as cannot
we'll be dispensed with.
The holiday Of the clerks ADD other
employees in all the government de-
pnrtments will commence at noon to-
morrow and last until Monday.
The failure of two banks in Philadel-
phia this morniug, one national bank
with deposits amounting TO nearly two
million dollars, has increased the feel
ing of business depression here, and
dread is expressed of others followine
its example in other cities of the East
Its president is the leading gold bolter
in PeDnsylvauis.
Mr.. Scott of West Virginia, the new
commissioner OF internal revenue, is
expected here on the 9th and will as
sumo the duties of mis- office on the LIST
OF January. After his arrival the Yir-
gnian republicans say they hope the
federal offices in their State will be
disDosed of.
For soma years past Mr.. Wybert, the
Feasurer OF Alexandria county, who
lives in Arlington district. near this
city, mas had on mis- farm buck and 9
doe. Recently e neighbor who had
taken some liberties with the buck was
alta cked by him and in defending him
self be broke the deer's neck. a day OF
,wo ago the doe, being chased by doRs,
escaped by jumping from the Chain
Bridge to the rocks below and making
aer way into Maryland.
a pension was granted to-day to the
widow Of Knud Knudsen, soldier in
the late war, the back pay of which az
gregates over 81 900. The man was a
native OF Norway and was married to
the woma1 who now gets the pension
in April, 1855 Knudsen emigrated to
this country in 1861. enlisted January
9th, 1862, in the Wisconsin Infantry,
and died on October 18th, 1868
In connection with allowance of the claim
the Pension Office makes the following state
ment: "On August 81, 1894. thirty-one
years after the soldiers death, the widow,
who has never left Norway, applied for a
pension. Under the p csent laws che has
title and the claim must be allowed, granting
arrears of pension from the date of the sol.
der's death, making the first pay ment amount
to between four and five thousand dollars"
The internal revenue Office in Alexandra
is to be supplied with new safe, bids for
which were advertised yesterday
% confident are the democrats of gaining
the next House of Representatives that aspi.
rants for the various offices thereof are al.
ready springing up among them. Mr.. Rich
ardson of Tennessee and Mr.. Bailey of Texas,
candidates for the Speakership, and Col.
Isaac Hill VI Ohio. who still speaks of the re-
pubicans as ''abolitionists," has already com.
menoed canvass for the position of sergeant
alarms.
The French in Egypt.
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