Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette ]
WASHINGTON, Nov. p.


Senator Kenna's condition was much
improved this morning. Dr. Chiffon o
West Virginia has arrived here, having
been telegraphed for at the request o
DR.. Sewers, who wished TO consult witt
him. Dr. Sewers does not regard the
Senator as being out Of danger yet, but
says he is mending as well as can be
expected.
The President to-day appointed Man,
ming NJ. Rose of Ohio 10 be ASSISTANT Al !
Commissioner of the General Lana VI,
flee. He is the present cnief cier n, %
The office. Wm. c. Anderson. OF en-,
nessee, the present chief clerk OF tn Int;
contest division, will be appointed to I'LL
tn vacancy caused by the promotion OF
NJ Rose.
Rumors are current here to-day from
New York to the effect that while Pres
ident- elect Cleveland is III favor OF an
extra session Of Congress, he thinks IL
would be wise 10 postpone it until the
fall. Democrats here, whose reputa-
ton for wisdom is national. and who
acquired it before Mr. Cleveland was
heard OF outside of his own State. say
and that the people are in no mood to
be triiled with any longer; they have
voted twice in succession for tar III re-
form. and they want q chance TO Try It's
effects nj once and before they are call
ed upon TO vote for members ofanother
Congress. as will probably be the case
if the extra session be postponed until
next fall
II is said here that Mr.. Blaine's re-
cent illness resulted from anoth'aracute
attack of Brisht's disease, from which
he has been suffering for more than
two years: that he WAS extremely Ill Tor
time. and that. though now better, he
may have another attack at any mo-
mcnt.
Leave ofabsence for three years has
been granted to Civil Engineer Peary
in order to permit him to prosecute his
explorations in Greenland, at the re-
quest of the Philadelphia Academy of
Sciences, under whose auspices Mi.
Peary's expedition will be conducted.
During these three yeats Mr. Peary
will receive leave pay which is two
thirds OF full pay, and Will be - 500
per 3nntim III ms caSe.
The return to the rule against Judge
Paul OF the L. s. court for the western
district of Virginia, 10 show cause why
Carrico. Il L. :. deputy marshal, charged
with murder, sh ollld moi be remanded
to the State courts of Virginia for trial,
was presented in the L. :. Supreme
Court This morning. Attorney General
Of ,,Ot J.
uary the 2$i was set rs the day for
argument.
A prominent Virginia lawyer here
to-day says lie heard the argument III
the Supreme Court of APP 'eals of Vir-
ginia al Richmond last week Tor new
trial in the Phillips murder case. from
Alexandria, and that he RAJ ely heard
an ADLER one, or one in whic L all the
conceivable points in the case were sci
forth more lucidly and better en- Icliated
to produce the desired effect. We says
only four judges sat on the case, so that
the State will only have TO get t.T'o toi
| the application to be refused, and thai
he thinks if the remaining one had heel
present there would be no doubt thai
Phillips would have another chance FOL
his lie.
Republicans here say that Sen.n
tor Quay finding that chairman Carter
OF The national republican committee
was in a hole several weeks before. the
election played a sharp game on hinl, by
which he got no less than $50, 900. Tney
say Quay went to New York and de
handed the sum specified, which he said
was due on the election Of 1855, and
that Carter positively refused to give il
to him. Quay then returned TO his
hotei and prepared two interviews with
himself, the oist of one of which was
thai for the republicans everything was
lovely and the goose hung high, while
the other foretold just such result as
| occurred. These were shown to Carter,
Who was told that one or the other
would be given to the press that day,
| and that he knew the terms upon which
The selection could be made. The check
for $50 600 was made out at once, and
the former was published, us all remem-
ber This is the story that is atloat
here.
II. l.. Sutton was to-day appointed
postmaster at Balston. Alexandra
county, Va, vice Mary L. Neitch, re-
signed.
1t is reported to-day at the Pension Office
that the annual report OF Commissioner Raum,
to he presented 10 Congress, is almost ready
and that it will ask for an appropriation OF no
| less than the immense sun of one hundred
AMI eighty million dollars Tor The next fiscal
you.
Mr. Foster. Secretary of State to-day took
the unnecessary trouble of denying report
that this government is negotiating for the
annexation OF the Sandwich Islands.
o., c.. a.