Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-18
FROM WASHINGTON,
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WASHINGTON. Nov. IS.
When the committee of Virginia Ma
sons, who called upon the President
the other Gay to invite him to deliver
the address at the centennial annivers.
airy of the death of Washington. had
executed their mission. the Presi-
dent said he had been initiated as q
Mason in Winchester. which town was
sometimes in the possession OF the
Union forces and sometimes in that OF
the "Confederates At this Senator
Daniel bowed very low, and smiling,
said he was gratifed that he had not
used the word rebel" "Oh no." replied
the President, also smiling, "You don't
c.tch me saying anything like that
now.n To those who remember the
President as he looked when member
of the House, his haggard appearance
now is distinctly observable.
Many race horse people here say they
are not at all surprised at the proceed
ings that have been instituted against
the racing at Bennings by parties inter-
ested in other tracks near this city on
which racing has been suspended by
the prohibition of betting. They say
the betting a / Bennings is larger al d
more general than it was at either
Alexander's Island or at St. Asaph,
and that the only difference is that
at Bennings the bookmakers have the
whole thing in their hands, while the
bettors have nothing in theirs. They
also laugh at Mr.. Wight, one of the
District Commissioners, who, at the
new court house celebration in Alex
andria county last Wednesday, alluded
to the alleged law breaking in that
county, but who has nothing to say
against law breaking in his own BALL.
wick.
Mr.. Colin Aud Studs, the efficient,
accommodating and popular passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in
this city will be married on the 29th in
slant. His bride will be Miss Maud,
the handsome and accomplished daugh'
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William E. East
ham OF Nashville, in which city the
wedding will take place.
a resident of lower Maryland here
to day says the conduct of some of the
negroes in Prince Georges, Charles and
St. Mary's counties of that portion OF
his State, has become 80 bad that
it has almost reached the UNDESIRABLE
stage, and that it would not be at all
surprising to him if the recent proceed
ings of the white people of North and
South Carolina were repeated there at
an early Gay.
Ex-Graud Master Workman I. V.
Powderly's effort to force the Knights
of Lsbo. into a receivers hands re-
ceived set back this morning. Henry
A. Hicks, general master workman,
and John w. Hayes, secretary and
treasurer of the order, presented an af-
fadavit in court in which .hoy stated
that thew we:o obliged to attend con.
yention Of the Knights and prayed for
thirty days time for making formal an.
swer to Mr.. Powderly's charges and
claims. They swore that the District
property Of the order, house on 3
street, would remain as it is now until
thew return and that they would take
with them on their western trip no pa
pers or documents except such records
needed at the convention which they
would return. Asto Powderly's claim
against the order, they asserted that il
could be proven excessive and illegal
aud when all accounts are Strengthened
up, it will be found that he owes the
knights more than the Knights owe
him. The thirty days time was grant
ed them against the protest of Pow
derly's attorneys.
The remains of the late Miss Sallie Steven
son, whose death has been previously no.
ticed in the Gazette, were, escorted yester-
day by Col. Willism Selden and MIR James
Taylor, the latter her nephew, to FTedericks.
burg. where they were inferred. The de-
:ased was daughter Of Carter L. Stevenson
o. fredericksburg prominent member of the
old Virginia bar, and sister of the late An
drew Stevenson, four times Speaker of the
q. S. House Of Representatives and Minister
to England, and cousin of the late J. W. Ste,
venson .. S. Senator ard Governor of Ken
lucky.
seuotor Fairbanks, president of the Ameri
can part of the Canadian commission, said to
day that good progress is making with the
treaty subjects and there is assurance that the
commission would result in settlement
large force will be sent as soon as possible
to the Philippines, to Gaia and to Porto Bico
The Phi ippine question was discussed at
the abinet meeting to-day, but in the alb.
sence Of official advices from Paris no action
was taken.