Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-29

Congress- Postmaster Button, of Lynch.
burg, was wise in resigning his position, for
his re. nomination also would have certainly
been re-rcjected.
The recent official and expensive investi-
cation OF the grave charge that clerk in
the Treasury Department was a minute too
late a! hi desk on two occasions, and the
letter Of the head of the bureau in which
the accused is employed, accompanying the
report of that investigation, in which the
absurdity Of the whole affair was presented
in its most ridiculous aspect, will probably
put stop 10 such foolishness in the future
The Investigation, it is said, was made upon
the order of the chief clerk Of the Treasury.
A bill Is now before the commerce COM
mittee Of the House providing that from
and after its passage the customs district of
Yorktown, in Virginia, shall comprise ali
the waters aud shores from the point form.
ing the south shore of the mouth of the
Rappahannock River along the coast of the
Chesapeake Bay to Back River light; thence
to Thimble Shoal light; thence to Sewall' )
Point; thence to Pig Point thence along
the south shore of the James River to a
point on tho peninsula formed by the James
and York Rivers, opposite williamsburg,
south bank of the York River, SO as to EN-.
brace in the said district, in addition to the
ports heretofore included, Hampton and
Newport News, in which Newport News
shall be the port OF entry and Yorktown q
port of delivery, and that the district Of
Norfolk and Portsmouth shall comprise all
the waters and shores within the State OF
Virginia southwark Of the district Of York.
town, rs hereinbefore described, and not in
cluded in thu districts of Yorktown, Peters
burg and Richmond in which Norfolk and
Portsmouth shall be the sole port of entry
| and Suffolk and Smithlield the ports of de
| livery.
Among the strangers in the city to day i:
Mr.. Ryan, member Of the Virginia House Of
Delegates from Loudoun county. He is
just from Richmond. He says the proposed
extra session OF the Virginia legislature viii
| meet some time between the first and the
| middle Of February, and that when it shall
meet it will make no compromise OF the
State debt, but will stand hy the Riddleber
ger bill. lie says the Governor is stili no.
ceiving letters in the Cluverius case, bu
that the impression in Richmond is thai
Cluverus will be hanged
The remains Of the late Gen. Logan viii
| lie in State in the Senate chamber from
noon 10 morrow until noon Of the following
day, WHOM the funeral services will be con.
Quoted. \ large nun Der OF people vii
| view :hem.
The death of Gen. Logan has induced .
general Investigation Of the early history o
Illinois, and the result is that many forgot
ten things have been brought to light
among them the fact that President Lincoln
was a! one period Of his life q raving ma
Mae anG iii confinement
The money TO pay the award of the cour
Of claims under the French spoliatiou iii
has to he appropriated in each case by
special bill By Congress Awards in six O
such cases have already been referred to th,
House Judiciary Committee, which has re-
ferred them TO a committee of one-Mr
Tucker. The claimants are naturally aux
ious that Mr. Tucker should report upol
them rs soon as possible.
1t Is said ut the State Department that Rev
DR.. Curry, Of Richmond, now u S. minister t.
Spain, complains that his plain American clothc
do not secure him the same Difference that tn
gorgeous apparel of other foreign ministers and O
Spanish officials secures for them on public occas
ions hut that he has bstn informed that lie mus
stick to the same pattern OF clothes he is used t
at home.
There is no truth in tie report that r. L. Fryer
Of Albany, y. Y, Secretary Mauuing's brother.in
law, has boon offered the Austrian mission. Nj
+. We is conducting profitable lumber bushes
Mt Albany, and could not afford to accept an,
foreign mission.
Senator Ransom, Of North Carolina did not q
homo to spend tho holidays. He was detaine,
here by the illness of his son, who's, condition to
day Is by no means favorable
The president took ride Yesterday cvenin
and vas at his desk in his office to-day ate ndin
to his usual business During his late indisposi
ton he was never too sick to cat 1t is said tina
tho most of his sickness results from the full graf
hcatlon of his appetite and his failure to take th
exercise that such habit requires
Some of the friends of General Logan now 81
that it was the republication Of Grants lcttc
about him, during the pro,tiaton incident to hi
sickness, that WAS the cause Of his DEATH