Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexs. GAzErTEl
WASHINGTON. D. O.. Jan. 2, 1885

FROM WASHINGTON.
| Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzErTEl
WASHINGTON. D. O.. Jan. 2. 1888.
To-day was observed here as general holt
| day 30 far as the federal and district offices
are concerned, and as partial one by most
| of the first class stores. Calling, however,
| was by no means as general as usual. The
most noticeable feature of the Presidents
annual reception was its unusual smallnese.
It commenced at II o'clock, wnea the men,
bers of the Cabinet called. They were fol-
lowed in the order named by the Diplomatic
Corps the Judiciary, Senators, Representa-.
tives Commissioners of the District of Co.
lumbia, officers of the army and navy, the
regents of the Smithsonian Institute, the
heads of bureaus, the soldiers of the war Of
1872, of the Mexican war, the e. A. r.,
among whom were several colored men, the
Society of the Oldest Inhabitants, and then
such other people as wanted to shake the
Presidents hand. 1t was expected at the
White House that the throng would be
larger than on former occasions, but, on the
contrary, it was strikingly smaller
Congress will reaesemble on Wednesday.
Already several Of the members who went
home to spend Christmas have returned,
among them Mr.. Wise of Virginia. All the
committees of the House have been com
pleted, and will be announced the first thing
on Wednesday. The Blair bill is the regu.
lar order of business in the Senate, but it ID
expected that Mr.. Blair will give way to
MIR. Sherman, who will call up his resolu-
ton referring the Presidents message to the
finance committee, and on it make high
tariff speech, which will probably be the
commencement Of a debate on the subject OF
the tariff that may consume the remainder
of the week, ii not longer. 1t is reported
that in the cast Of House committees MIR.
O'Ferrall will be chairman of the committee
on Mines and Mining, Mr.. Wise of that on
Manufactures, and MIR. Hemphill of that on
the District of Columbia.
g. II. Burgess, of chmond, has received
an appointment in the Government printing
office, at the instance Of Representative
Wise.
A democratic member of the Maryland
legislature. here to day, says ex. appointment
clerk Higgins, of the Treasury Department,
will be elected clerk of the lower house of
that legislature when that body meets next
Wednesday, and will be SO elected in order
to chow the administration that the Mary
land democrats want no mugwumpery and
pretended civil service reform In theirs, and
hold fast to the good old democratic doctrine
that the party laborer is worthy Of his hire.
The New Year came in with bright and
beautiful day in Washington. The sun
shone warmly in an almost cloudless sky,
and with the exception of ice covered side
walks in the early morning, which made
walking little difficult, the day was all that
could be desired. The White House was
the main point of interest to the official
world and the public to-day, and long before
the beginning of the Presidents annual re-
hol lod
the White House grounds. The reception
began shortly after II O'Clock, the members
of the Cabinet and their families, the Diplo.
matte Corps, Senators, Representatives and
q large number of other persons being pre-
sented to President and Mrs. Cleveland.
Alexandrians here to day say there is consider
able ice in the river between here and their city,
but that the only place where it forms any OBJ
struction is at Geisboro, the fork of the channel
The ferry boats, however, make their regular
trips and are only delayed from ten to fifteen
minutes.
Collector Robinson and deputy collector Lam
bert, of the Alexandria Customs House, have an
appointment with the Secretary of the Treasury
tomorrow, to if the recent order for reducing
the customs force can not b, modified so far re-
lates to Alexandria. Under the order referred to,
Inspector Moore. of Alexandria, went out of of
fee to-day.
Mr.. w. ]. Belts, of Northumberland county,
Virginia, who has been waiting here for some |
time past for position in the life saving service,
having been told at the Treasury Department that
upon presenting certain papers he would be ap-
pointed, has become Disguised with Office seeking |
and gone home, after taking the trouble and ex-
pense of getting the required papers, when he
went to the Treasury to present them he was di-
rected to different rooms and was told either that
nobody knsw anything about the place he was
seeking or else that they didn't have time to con-
slider his case
According to the official report of Professor
Swenson, just made to the commissioner of Agri-
culture, sugar can DO made in Kansas from sor-
ghum Just as cheaply as from cane in Louisiana.
In the urgency deficiency bill that viii be in
troduced in Congress, the Virginia items are $685.,
600 for the completion of the public building at
and $4,000 for that at Lynchburg.
A story is ahoat here to the effect that mascu-
line woman recently obtained admission to Sens-
tor Blackburns lodging room, while the Senator
was bathing in thereof closed by curtains,
and taking her seat and drawing her knitting re-
fused to leave until the Senator had promised to
get her an Office.
note picked up in rural postotice in Ten
nessee read, Dear -: The reason didn's lsf