Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-06-01
From Washington.
Of the Alexis. GAZETTE.

Spe cisl Correspondence OF bhe hioA"' VhHHAi H'J
WASHINGTON. D. c., Juoe l, 1855.
Tn the Senate yesterday, on motion OF MIR.
Voorhees,, the bill for the relief of Laura ~
Maddox, widow and executrix or Joseph d.
Maddox, previously reported -favoraoiy oy
the Committee on Claims, was taken up ana
passed without opposition. The benz hclary
of the hill is resident of Alexacdria. ana
the claim is for large quantity OF tobacco
seized by the government at the close OF the
war. The bill now has to run the hard
sanntlet of the House. In the House yes
terday Mr.. Hopkins, of Virginia, presented
petition of the manufacturers aud bankers
of Lynchburg, Va for the immediate repeal
of the tobacco tax. Mr.. Lee, of Virginia,
presented petition OF citizens OF Fairfax
county, Va, for the passage OF law against
the sdulteration Of food.
Wednesday last was the day appointed
for the consideration of the Blair education
al bill by the House Education Committee,
but not o single member OF that committee
was present. Another meeting Is set tor
Wednesday next, when, it Is understood TO-
dsy, some action will be taken on that bill.
From North Carolina it isearDed to day
that even if Blaine be before the national
republican convention, II OF the y dele gates
to that convention from North Carolina Will
bs for Sherman, and that if Blaine be not
before the convention, the North Carolina
delegation will be unit for Sherman.
Senator. elect Barbour was at the Capitol
to-day. He says that the delegates to the
national democratic convention from his
State have commenced to arrive here, anG
that all of them who intend going by the
Pennsylvania route will be here by ten
a. m. to. morrow at which hour they VIII
start for St. Louis. Some, he says, Will go
by other routes. While at the Capitol to-
day Mr.. Barbour was told that Virginia
republican here had said that as be had de-
feated the republican party in his State
when united, he Wouid have little or no
difficulty in defeating it now that it Is
divided.
Representative Browne of Virginia says
| the generally expressed hope of the repuo
| lican members Of the House who have talk
ed to him on the subject sthat the division IN
the republican party in his State may anu
will be healed previous 10 the national
election. Mr. Browne Says he hears OF sew
eral candidates for the democratic congress
{ sional nomination in his district, amoug
/ them his brother, Orris Browne, but that
| he has no idea which of them will be selected.
| The Senate to-day, after the morning
business, included in which was the pre-
sentation of petition of John Pope Hold
nett, who signs himself the president and
founder of the United Labor League, "for
permission to carry deadly weapon On his
person both day and night to protect him
| from assassination by the hirelings OF the
late board of public works Of this city," took
I'D and considered, with the intention OF
passing it oday, the Indian appropria.
| ton bill.
The House to day, after some time spent
on the bill 10 give General Sheridan the
rank and pay of General, resumed the con.
| sidera,ion of the Mills tariff bill The
| Sheridan bill was passed with but few mega
| tive votes, among them those OF Dlessrs.
Kilgore, of Texas, and Oates, of Alabama.
| Chief among lis democratic advocates were
Messrs Breckinridge, Of Kentucky, and
| Cox, Of New York, The latter saying he well
| remembered the time when, as boy, Gen
eral Sheridan was the driver Of q water cert
| 10 Il .nesville, OHIO. As the bill was passed
without call Of ayes and noes, MIR. Oates
| stated that he wished to have 1t recorded
that he voted no. The bill having preVi
ously passed the Senate, was eDgrossed and
signed ard sent to the President at once, SO
as to have it approved. and the General be
apprised Of its having become law Is early
az possible as ne il not expected to live
| throughout the day. Duling the debate Mr..
| Mason, Of Chicago, rose snd asked to be ex-
clsed from voting, and, amid calls for he
regular order from the democratic side,
cried out II shall not vote on any question
until this bill shall be passed"
Chairman Houston, of the anti.Mahone
wing OF the republican party of Virginia,
was at the Capitol to day, on his way North.
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ex.representatives Brady and Libby, of his
wing of his party, and was introduced to
several of the prominent republican mem
bers of both branches of Congress. He is
represented as saying that his wing of his
party is in excellent condition, and that
delegates from that wing to the national re-
publican convention have been elected In al
the districts Of the State except the 1st and
fifth.
Among the strangers in the city to day is U. s.
Marshal Scott, Of the eastern district OF Virginia
| He is on his return from the government penten-
| tiary in New YORK. to which he carried U. 5.
| soldier, named Reynolds. of Fortress Monroe, con-
| victed of stabbing cOmrade.
Representative O'Ferrall, from Virginia, is
quite indispo:ei at his rooms in this city.
A dispatch has been received at the War De-
partment from Gen. Cook to the effect that there
was no foundation for the recent report of an In
dian uprising at Oelrick.
A dispatch received at the State Department
this morning says all foreigners entering Alsace
Lorraine from France, from and after to-day, Will
require passports signed at the German embassy
| in Paris.
HANDLING WAsPs.-It is fact not gen.
orally known that if one holds his breath,
wasps, bees and hornets can be handled
with impunity. The skin becomes sting
proof, and, holding the insect by the
feet and giving her full liberty of action,
you can see her drive her weapon against
the impenetrable surface with force that
lifts her body with every stroke, but let the
smallest quantity of al: escape from the
lungs and the sting will penetrate at once.
1 have never seen sn exception to this in
twenty FIVE years observation. I have taught
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