Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Mr,cur>-crON Iu1y

WASHINGTON, July {.
The motion for a new trial in the case
OF Charles Didszoneit VS.. the Il. " ID. Il.
R.. in which verdict for 81 200 dam
ages was rendered some time time ago,
was argued in court here this morning,
MIR. Linden Kent for the railroad COM
panv and Mr.. Edmund Burke for the
plaintiff. The motion was dismissed
and judgment awarded the plaintiff Tor
the full amount of the verdict.
The following changes in the 4th
class postofIices of Virginia we're made
to-day Burgess, Dinwiddie county, ).
A. Thornburgh appointed postmaster
vice C. L. Adams, dead; lvanhoe,
Wythe county, G. NJ, Seeley vice r. a,
Grove, resigned; Marengo, Mecklen-
burgh county, Elizabeth NJ. Rose vice
T. j.. Bennett, resigned.
The Senate judiciary committee be-
ING unable to agree upon report on
the anticipation bill, and being DESTROYS
that some action should be taken on
that bill at this session of Congress, re-
ported the bill back to the Senate this
morning without any recommendation.
4 majority of the committee are OPP
posed to speculation in food, but they
could not formulate Il bill for that pur-
pose that would be void of objection.
The House judiciary committee has
ordered a favorable report TO be made
on the Williams resolution providing
for Congressional investigation OF the
Homestead trouble.
Among the cadet appointments for
admission to the Military Academy in
1899 are the following from Virginia
G. w. Helms and J. NJ. Cox, alternate,
of the 9Th district, and c. H. Miller and
Rees Evans, alternate, of the 9th dis
trict.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day
transmitted to the Senate an estimate
of So. 900 necessary to carry into effect
the law recently enacted granting sc
DAYS leave Of absence annually to the
EMPLOYEES of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing.
The conferees on the naval appro-
priation bill reached an agreement this
morning, one additional line OF battle
ship will be provided for, but no tor
pedo nor gunboats.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Hunton III
troduced the old bill for returning to
Theodore iced of Alexandria the
money he paid for a house and lot in
that city and for q tract ofland in Fairfax
county, Virginia, belonging to w. n.
and j. H. McVeigh, bought as aban-
doned property during the war between
the States.
Having been informed by MIR. Speak
err Crisp that no further filibustering
would be allowed on the mere refer
ence of the free silver bill, the anti-sil-
yer men in the House allowed that bill
to be referred to the coinage commit
tee to-day without objection. That
committee will meet at 8 O'Clock to-
morrow morning and report it back to
the House in its present shape as soon
as possible. The ants say their forces
have been increased since the bill was
in the House before, and that they are
certain they can defeat it. 1t is rumor-
ed that Nh. Cleveland's influence has
been exerted to prevent his party from
adoptins measure to which he is OPP
posed and against which they declared
in their recent national convention.
The Senate committee on commerce
to-day reported favorably the bill for q
ship canal from Philadelphia to New
York.