Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-05-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May 10,


WASHINGTON, May 10,
Judge Blodgett, of the L. S. District
Court, has been appointed assistant T..
S. counsel in the Behring Sea arbitra-
ton, and and will resign his present Of
flee.
The President and Mrs Harrison are
expected to arrive in Washington Oh
the lighthouse tender Jessaminc this al
ternoon at o'clock.
Gen. Schofield received a telegram
from Gen Stanley this morning saying
that a small band of Mexican revolu-
tionists had crossed the Rio Grande into
Texas in the vicinity of Fort Ringgold,
and that he had sent troops in pursuit
of them.
The seat in the U. S. Senate that was
occupied by the late Senator Barbour
has been taken by Senator Mills Of
Texas. Mr.. Balbour's will is in the
hands of Mr.. John w. Burke, of Alex
andria. 1t is reported here that ne di-
vided his property equally between his
surviving relatives.
Only three of the Virginia members
of the House went to Richmond to at
tend the Virginia democratic conven-
ton. Messrs. Jones, O'Ferrall and Wise.
The inspection of the proposed route
of the entrance of the Norfolk and
Western and B. & o. railroads into this
city from the west, to have been made
this morning by the House and Senate
District committees, was postponed I'M
til tomorrow because the members of
the Senate committee could not 60 to-
day.
The republican Senators, in caucus
this morning, decided to abolish the of
flee of executive clerk of the Senate, and
to entrust the duties ofthat office to the
Secretary of the Senate.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Butler of
South Carolina made strong speech in
opposition to the bill to repeal the COM
pulsory pilotage law.
The Senate commerce committee to-
day agreed to make an adverse report
on the bill for q second bridge across
the Hudson river at New York, the
bridge which Senator Hill favors.
The House naval affairs committee
to-day heard arguments i'll favor of the
transfer of the revenue marine to the
naval service. Among those who
srokc was General Eppa Hunton.
The belief at the Navy Department
is that Admiral Walker will soon be as
signed to duty in Washington as chair
man of the Light House Board, and
that Admiral Greer, who holds that
office, will be placed in command of
the fleet participating in the Columbian
Naval demonstration.
John NJ. Anderson, United States
consul general at Cairo, Egypt, died
there yesterday.
Among the strangers in the city to-day. but
not together, are ex Congressman John S.
Wise. formerly Of Virginia, and Collector
Brady of that State. The former says he
thinks President Harrison will be rcnomi-
mated. When informed that Mr.. Brady was
here. he said he supposed the recent republic
can convention in Virginia hadn't left enough
of that gentleman to be travelling about.
d. II. Dawson was appointed postmaster ut
Virginia City, Wise county, Virginia, to-day,
vice W. c. Harrison, resigned.
In the House to-day Mr.. Meredith intro
duced bill to increase the pension of Pat.
Clarke. of FauQuicr county, Virginia, Il McXi
can war soldier, now stone blind and eighty
years of age.
Private dispatches received here today say
that of the % delegates elected by the Georgia
democratic convention yesterday, IL are
Cleveland and 8 anti Cleveland, though of
the former are said by their friends to be I'M
certain: that of the % elected in North Caro-
lima, Is are anti-Cieveland, and of the Is
elected in South Carolina all arc anti Clcve-
land. Out of the 24 elected by the Virginia
convention to-day 13 are nti-Cleveland.
AT the census investigation to-day WIN.
Hardcastle testified that a great many changes
were made in the census bureau soon after
the democratic majority in the House was
elected