Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-02-25

route. The House resumed the considera. |
ion of the bill to build the Hennepin canal.
The House Ways and Means Committee
to-day agreed to report favorably bill al
lowing imported packages to be forwarded
to inland towns and have the duty paid
there. In the Naval Committee motion
was made to reconsider the vote by when
the committee yesterday agreed to report
adversely on the proposition to allow the
engine of one of the ships of the proposed
new navy to be bought abroad. The Com.
rnittee on Territories has agreed to report
ip favor of creating the Territory of OKLA
homa out of the Indian Territory.
A private dispatch received here to-day
saws that Mr.. Phoebus, the proprietor OF the
Hypeia Hotel, at Old Point Comfort, died
suddenly there at six o'clock this morning,
of heart disease. His estate is worth about
half million. The hotel will be carried
on for the present by Mr.. Crittenden,, the
manager. There are about six hundred
guests there now.
Mr.. Wise made an unsuccessful attempt
to reply to Mr.. Brady's Norfolk navy yard
speech late yesterday evening, but will, ne
saws, have better luck on Saturday next.
He says he will corroborate every statement
he made in his former speech.
The parties engaged in raising the Han
cock fund have written letters to most OF
the rich members of Congress, Representa-
tives as will as Senators, asking them for
contributions to that fund, but as yet have
met with rather poor success.
General Malone will give the most luxu-
rious dinner of the season to some OF MS
| Senatorial colleagues at Chamberlaln's this
evening The markets of the country have
been awaited of to supply the delicacies
The prevailing impression about the ecu,
cational bill ia that while the Senate will
pass the Blair bill, there will be such a
souabble about it and the Willis bill in the
House that neither will pass that body
The latter bill seems to tied up in the House
Educational Committee.
The nomination of tho postmaster at Col
umbus, Ohio, had been confirmed, but at
the instance of Mr.. Sherman, whose letter
to that postmaster suggesting q promise
that the republican clerks under him would
not be removed, that confirmation has been
reconsidered.
| The Senator's who went to Detroit to
speak Mt the celebration of the 22d there
have returned. They say they saw Senator
Jones there, and that he is 'clean gone" on
a lady Of that city, and also that if he per
sists much longer he will probably win her
and that there is every probability he will
persist. as he sees nothing irregular in his
present course. He will, like Antony, give
up the world for his sweetheart. His son
is with him. trying to induce him to come
back to Washington, but his efforts are il
vain, though he has several times got him
almost as far back as the railroad depot.
A Virginia republican in this city say:
that ex. Marshal Watts, of his State, prom
inent Mahoneite, when here recently, sale
that the party opposing the democrats il
his State would never again consent to be
led by General Malone, and that the Gen
eral would not >be the chairman of the mex
State republican committee of Virginia.
A gentleman from the lst Congressiona
district in Virginia here to-day says tina
Mr. Stubs, now member of the Lesisla
turc, will be candidate for the next Con
gees in that district. and will get the tenn
perance vote.
Among the visitors at the Capitol to-day wa
Mr. F. A. Reed of Alexandria, who had an inter
view with Mr. Brock inrdge, of Kentucky mem
Der of the House Ways and Means Committee, OF
the subject of the proposition now before tina
committee to reduce the duty on Cuba sugar i'm
ported in h"gshcaas, rs q means to revive tn
shook industry in this country.
The Legislature Of Maryland has appointed ]
NJ. Donnan and A. g. Seldncr, of Virginia, com
| missioncrs of deeds in Virginia for the State o
| Mary land