Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
W,c11TNf.ToN August 1.

WASHINGTON, August 4.
The House to-day eliminated the Chi
cago fair appropriation from the sundry
civil bill and sent that bill back to con-
ference committee and then took up and
considered bill to appropriate y, 9Vo,-
900 to the Chicago fair, and agreed 10
take a vote on ii ut one o'clock to-mor-
row. The probability now is that ms
bill will pass, though, as Mr.. BAILEY sal"
in his speech to-day, the only difference
between it and the original proposition
is that it is petit, while the former was
grand larceny. ...,,o. :,
vestirated the charges Mr.. Watson, the
Farmers Alliance leader in the House,
hrounbt against that body, to the effect
that it permitted drunken members 10
reel through its aisles and discuss grave
questions with impunity, VIII DO pre-
sented tomorrow. OF course the re-
mort will declare that there was no
foundation for the charges, but 1t is not
known whether it will be in favor OF
censurins or expelling MIR. Watson. !,
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Hunton had
read a letter from Mr.. Daniel stating
that ne could not comply with the re-
quest of the Vice President to return TO
Washington, as he was in attendance
upon a sick member of his family ut the
Sweet Chalybeate Springs.
The following changes in the 4th
class postoilices of Virginia were made
to-day: Midvale, Rockbridge county,
A. ]. Conner appointed postmaster wee
I'D. Campbell, removed; Newman $
Hanover county, +. z. Crow vice W..
C. Newman, resigned.
Senator Colquitt's condition is some
what improved and his family now eX-
pect to remove him 10 his home in
Georgia next Wednesday. He is still
unable to use his right arm, but the
paralysis in his leg has almost entirely
disappeared. 80,
Prof. Asaph Hall of the National OBJ
servatory is making nightly obscrNa-
tons of the planet Mars and her satel,
lites. He said this morning that ne did
not understand why there should be
such general popular interest taken at
this time in the opposition of Mars. Ii
was true that astronomers everywhere
were taking advantage of her nearness
to the earth to make observations with
view determining several matters OF
doubt such as the exact orbits OF her
moons and the inclination of her axes,
but no special phenomena have been
observed and none are expected. The
results of the series of observations now
in progress will be worked out mathe-
matically within the next two or three
months, when anything Of interest Will
be made public.
The directors of the Washington,
Alexandria and Fairfax Railroad and
of the Washington and Arlington Rail-
road. both of which roads are now ap-
PLYING for permission to cross the 70
tomac by ferry boats at Analostan Isl
land, will confer to-day and try to
reach an agreement by which their re
spectiye plans may not be antagonistic.
Congressman Meredith and ex-State
Senator Moore of Fairfax county adj
dressed the democrats at the Haymar-
ket picnic yesterday.
People from Leesburg, Virginia, here
to-day, say that General Field, the third
partv's candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency, will be there next Monday Au-
gust COURT and make q speech. 1t is
expected that he will be answered by
some straight-out democrat.
The indications to-day are that the
present session Of Congress will close
during the current week.