Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
special Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.

Courts OF Justice OF tle house OF delegates.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandra Ga1etteI
WARRINGTON, D. c., Jan. II, 1884.
Mr.. Wilson, member of the Agricultural
Committee Of the House, was on the floor of
that body this morning with wooden buck
ct containing specimens of thelungs of cattle
affected with pleuro- pneumonia. They were
taken from cattle said to have been brought
here from Virginia, and which were bought
BY the direction ofthe Commissioner of Agri.
culture and slaughtered, for the purpose Of
showing the members of the House the char
acter of the meat upon which they unin-
tentionally feed, and to hurry up an appro.
priation for stamping out the cattle disease
throughout the entire country. The speci-
mems exhibited the condition Of the lungs in
the first. middle and final stages ofthe disease,
and the sight of them was by no means con-
ducive TO an increased demand for beef, as
it is said that upon the first indication Of
the disease the cattle are hurried off to mar
ket.
A contribution of 81 900 to the conscience
fund was received at the Treasury Depart
ment to-day from relieved man in New
York
Intelligence from the Bloomingdale Insane
Asylum is to the effect that General Nc
kenzie has improved, but that his improve.
ment is not thought to be permanent. His
restoration to bis command is thought to be
impossible, and General Merrett and Colonel
Stanley are most prominently spoken Of in
connection with the promotion.
Judge O'Ferrall, the contestant for seat
in the House from the It'll Virginia district,
was on the floor Of the House this morning
An exception was made in his favor when
be was allowed by the Elections Committee
to print the papers in his case; and when
it was learned by the committee that though
Judge Paul had resigned three months be.
fore the meeting of Congress, all of them,
republicans as we'll as democrats, seemed to
conceive the idea at once that Governor
Cameron, by failing to order an election,
thought as most other people did that there
was no vacancy, and that Judge O'Ferrall
was entitled to the seat. The Judge says
that if the Elections Committee accepts bis
figures, his district alone will supply half
the votes requisite to unseat Capt. John
Wise. Judge Garrison says his district will
supply two or three thousand more. In
talking about the recent lynching case in
Highland county, Judge O'Ferral said that
the murdered man was Vermonter, that
the man with whom be had the difficulty
was Malone officer whose nomination was
so unfit that the democratic Legislature had
rejected it, and that the lynchers were COM
posed entirely of Mahoneites.
The two young men who tried to pass
raised check here yesterday, were ex-pages
Of the House, George Adamson and J. c.
McCreedy by name. The House is bad
school for morals. The youngsters had &C
quired expensive habits, and having been
discharged, and having no other means to
raise the wind, resorted to the one which
has brought them to trouble.
Postmaster Windsor, of Alexandria, to.
day sold three fine brick houses on Corco-
ran and 18th streets in this city to Mr..
Slack, capitalist, for S24, 600, as an invest.
ment. Mr.. Windsor at the same time pur-
chased six lots near Dupont Circle, for
SIG, $50 cash, upon which next Spring, he
will erect six fine houses. Mr.. Windsor
has also commenced the erection of five
houses on 18th street, near Corcoran.
The House Committee on Expenditures
in the Department of Justice met this moro
ing with closed DOORS Mr.. Brewster Cam
eron was expected to appear before the
committee but had not done so up to two
o'clock to-day.
Senator Sherman says he knows that there
lature who WiI not vote for Mr.. Payne, and
that that number will be so enlarged by
Tuesday next, when the election takes place,
that Mr.. Payne will be forced to withdraw
Democrats from Ohio say that such talk is
all bosh, that Payne will receive the united
democratic vote, and be elected, and that
he stands on the Virginia tariff platform.
The House Committee on Public Build
inps and Grounds has the appointment of
the House restaurant keeper At meeting
of that committee this morning -Murrill, a
negro. received five votes, and be
other candidates one each. The five5votes
for Murrill were those of Southern men.
The full committee not being present, an
other vote was postponed until next Tues
day. ..,..sr .~:-a,,. ;, -,-..ssf ID !,
Congress has provided for the erection of
q public building at Abingdon, Virginia, but
Wytbeville and Marion want it, and Gener-
al J. A Walker, Of Wytheville, is here to
see if he can not have its location changed |
to his town.
The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
agreed to the Mexican treaty this morning,
and it will be confirmed by the Senate next
week, before the expiration of the time al
lowed for that purpose.
A report was sent from here last night to |
the effect that Mr. Hewitt, of New York,
when be introduced his resolution in the
House requesting suspension of execution
in the case of 'Donnell, he went over to
the republican side and asked q republican
to object, and that that not being
done and the resolution having been adopt
ed, he called that night upon the British
Minister, apologized for introducing the res
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