Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
TOorrespondenoe Of tho A!exsndria Gazette.
Washington. August %

Washington. August 80
Testimony was taken here today be-
fore Justice L. l O1eal to be used 10
the Injunction Gaze of the Falls Churcn
Railway Company against The Nit: Yer
non Railway Company, MIR. J. Il
Clements representing the former, and
Mr.. 7. r. Cation the latter. The case
will be tried On the 3lst inst at Ma
nassas before Judge Nicol in chambers.
The old story that Captain Oberlin
Carter's (O9erlin, from the famous
negro college in OLio) conviction would
involve several other people, some Of
them prominent, in serious trouble, is
revived today by The threat of the Cap
tain to peach upon all his pals and car
~ them to the penitentiary with him
if the President shall approve the find
ines of the court martial in his case.
A prominent and rich resident of this
city told the Gazette's correspondent
today that for several years he and his
family had stayed at home during the
summer, and had enjoyed better health
and had been more comfortable and
had more pleasure than during any
they had previously spent at the
fashionable summer resorts, either
at the seaside or in the noun
tains. His home is in high
part of the city where the breezes
reach him, no matter from what quar-
ter they blow, the market is better
than he can fad anywhere else, and he
is blessed with an old time Virginia
cook who has been with him for years.
Some people, he says, may find pleas
ure at beaches or springs, but he pre-
fers home every time.
Intelligence from Cuba received here
today is to the effect that yellow fever
is spreading there.
General Davis reports from San
Juan, Porto Rico, that he has ordered
another election at Adjuntas, because
the election adjourned for breakfast at
noon, suspended the election, and took
the ballot boxes with them. There was
no fraud intended or committed, but
the proceedings were pronounced ir.
regular.
The great monastery being built by the
Franciscan Order of Monks is now nearing
completion, and the order expect to occupy
the same about the middle of September. 1t
is being built on the lines of an old Italian
monastery of the tenth century, on the beau
ttul hill on which the old McCeney mansion
stood. and due east from the splendid build
ings of the Catholic University at Brookland.
The site is one Of great picturesque beauty,
taking in wide scope of territory, and the
village and famous dueling grounds of old
Bladensburg and hills where Commodore
Barney made his Intellectual efforts to stay
Britains advance on the national capital ara
brought into full view III: 1oJect OF the
good monks 10 . extend in this country by
teaching their order The building includes
a large chapel and numberless rooms for the
use and comfort of its occupants. There are
subterranean passages leading to vaults or
cstacombs fashioned after those in Rome and
Pars When completed only males will be
allowed to enter the main building, so adj
vantage is now being taken by the daughters
of mother Eve to satisfy their curiosity re.
garding monastery, of which wo all have
read so much and know SO little, before the
doors are finally closed to them.
Though tho government has recently sold
several large transports, it is now sadly in
ueed, that is, it is so said at the War Depart
ment, ofsuch ships for the purpose of carrying
the Large army it proposes to SIND to the Phil.
'ppines, but which it is asserted cannot reach
there now before the new year.