Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-16

90 The House Distric. ofColum.

t;ons to 5000. The House District ofColnm-
bis committee agreed to report favorabiy
hill for the Anacostia street railroad.
In the Senate to-day bill was repoftgo
fayorably for light house at HOLLANDS Is
land Bar, near Hedges Straits, chesapeake
Bay also bill for erecting battery 0! .Io
Kennon patent guns on the oanhs VI tno
Potomac not more than twelve miles pe.o"
Washington. A bill was introduced festor.
ing John c. Fremont to the RANK OF Malof
General in the army.
AS previously stated 10 THIS corfespouuu.
ence, Senator Ingalls, Will MAKE no iultno 81
.ha. node hnt ON Sunday next be will pub
Lab o Ieitsc in which he will reiterate with
no. every word he uttered in the
snaech referred to. He will say that while
be does not impugn Hancock's galantry
dur;nr the war. he does censure his course
after the war, when he aud all the other
Northern democratic, in order to win the
0rebelr vote. became the slaves of the
"rebeln power as they had done before the
war, and that the South now rules !3 thecou
try as it did prior to 1860. He Will say tnao
the tail doea not wag the dog, Out Inc uos
the tail, and that the Northern democracy
Ia M more Than the bair on the tip end Of
the dogs tail.
The Virginia republican congressional
delegation met yesterday evening to select
tha Virginia member of the republican con
qrsssionnl campaign committee. All the
seyan members of the delegation were prea
ent There were no speeches, and but littie
talk and after one ballot and q session OF not
moro than ten minutes, thu meeting ao
iourDed to reasonable at some time not YET
dasionatsd. No selection was made, as tue
resnlt of The ballot was tie, Senator kid.
dleberger and Messrs. Yost and Brown OF
the 9th district voting for Mr.. Bowen, ana
Messrs Bowen, Gaines aud Browne OF the
lat district voting for Mr.. Bow n, who dia
not vote.
Some of the Massachusetts people VINO
started from here yesterday on the steamer
Corcoran for Mt. Veraon, but were iorceo
by the ice to stop at Alexandra and hlre
hacks to carry them the rest of the way, tell
sorry tales Of their discomforture. Ihey
say the road was terrible; that some OF the
hacks broke down, and some got lost; that
thew thought at times they would never get
safely back TO Alexandria, and that in order
to do so some of them had to walk and some
take passage 10 country carts they met On
the road.
The new bill for paying the claim against
the government which Virginia has trans
| ferred to tho Mt. Vernon Avenue Assocla'
ton will be introduced into the Senate by
Mr.. Daniel. The bill contains no reference
10 similar claim By Maryland; provides
that no claim of the government against
Virginia shall be an offset, and that the
money shall only be paid as the work on the
| nronosed road shall be completed and ap-
proved Big the Governor of Virginia, the
MAJOR of Alexandria aud an engineer OF
the War Department. 1t is estimated that
the full amount Of the claim will make the
road. A committee appointed by the as
ISOLATION will appear before the Claims Com
mittee of the House next Tuesday and ex-
plnin to the members thereof the aims and
purposes of the association, aud urge them
to withdraw the report they have made and
substitute for it one in accordance with the
new bill.
Services in memory of the late Emperor
| William were held at the Concordia Luther
an Church here this morning. The decora'
tions Of the church were of the simplest
character. The altar walls were draped IN
black and around the pulpit were banked q
profusion of white flowers. The services
vera conducted by Rev. DR.. Mueller, pastor
of the church. assisted by the Washington
Saengerbund, singing society composed Of
Germans. The President attended the SER
vices, accompanied by Secretaries Bayard
Fairchild, Villas and Whitney, and Postmas.
ter General Dickinson. They were mes al
the door of the church by Baron Won Zedt-
wiz, the German charge d'Affairs and Dr.
Mueller and escorted to seats Immediately
in front of the chancel. The seats back Of
them were occupied by members OF the Dip
lomatio Corps and other invited officials
Hon. George Bancroft and Judge ]. c. Ban
croft Davis were among those present. Mr..
J. It. Lee, of the State Department. MR.
Gomez, of the Brazilian Legation MIR. Du
Bose, of the Spanish Legation, and MIR
Spring Rice, of the English Legation, acted
uehers. The main portion of the services
including memorial address by DR.. Muel
Ter were conducted in the German language
The pastor, however. made brief eulogist'
ic address in English, and several English
hymns were sung. The exercises lasted
about TWO hours.
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