Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-04-23
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Ventilation of tho Senate Chamber-M
Pollard Sues Newspaper.
TFrom Our Regular Correspondent.


WAsHrNoTos, ID. c.. April 22.-Experts
are busy at work examining into tne ven
tllation of the Senate chamber: There
have been numerous complaints by sena-
| tors about the foul air which they have 70
breathe. These complaints have several
times of late been fully ventilated on the
fIoor-an advantage, by the way, wnlcn
thew have had over the chamber itself.
To-day before the Senate met o couple
of experts were testing the capacity OF the
| four ducts by which AR IS pumped into ,ne
Senate They used thermometers IN their
work. A number of senators who were on
hand were much interested in the little
machines, They bear pretty big name,
| but they are very simple affairs. Said
Senator Sherman, who was Of the interest
ed lookers-on: Il have frequently read
about thermometers. and have heretofore
| been of the opinion that they were very
complicated scientific Instruments. 1 am
surprised to find that they are really but
the wind-mills of the children mounted
over registers" =.
Yes said Senator Plat, OF Connecti-
cut. about everything resolves itself
down to the simplest things when we get
at first causes. Your present astonishment,
| Sherman, reminds one of the spirit OF 20
gret with which ex-senator Ingalls, an
| nounced his discovery that the ar brake
suction which he used to employ. az q boy,
| in raising heavy stones by means OF
string and circular piece of wet leather.
He felt inclined to kick himself for not
doing what the inventor OF the air-brake
| has done, and thereby reaped large har-
vest of dollars"
coLLIDED WITH A NEWSPAPER.
The agent of the Omaha World Herald is
| in the city upon business the mention of
which will much interest Virginlans. lie
| is here in the interest of the Nebraska
newspaper mentioned, which has become
| the defendant in libel suit which O lady
we'll known in Virginia has instituted
against it. The lady is Mrs. Natalie Pol
| lard. who was the wife of the late Ed
| ward A. Pollard, who wrote the his
| tory of the Lost Cause" 1t appears that
| Mrs. Pollard has been travelling through
| the West on lecturing tour. She col
| lided with the Omaha newspaper. wnicn
| printed story concerning her when she
| kept hotel in this city some time In the
| early seventies. Other matter OF similar
| character was also given to the western
| peopIe. Mrs. Pollard's libel suit against
| the newspaper is for $50. 600 damages. The
| accent is here to get information to back
| up what the paper has said.
PASSED THE SENATE.
| The Senate to-day passed the following
| hill. which was introduced some days ago
| by Senator Daniel:
Re Il enacted by TIE Senate and House of Re-
,resentntices of the United States Of America
| IN Congress assembled, That the Secretary OF
the Treasury be, and he is hereby. autho,
rized and directed to pay to the College o.
William and Mary, IN Virginia, the sum OF
Sea o0O ont of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated to re-
| imburse said college for the destruc
ton of its buildings and other property
DESTROYED without authority by soldiers
of the United States during the late war
nroyided. that no money be so paid except
mon accounts of such destruction ant
the damage caused thereby duly verified
| and proven.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, il
hack IN Washington. He has been. hom
Ealing n rest. which his physical well
being demanded. He is getting bette
each day. and Is able to be IN attendance
unon the sessions of the Senate. He Is OF
the way. his physicians say, to q complet'
recovery from his recent attack OF facia
paralysis, He looks about as well
ever, it taking pretty close, scrutiny o
his face to discern any traces left there b,
his recent attack.
POSTAL AFFAIRS.
Fourth-class postmasters were appointed
ta-day as follows:
Vjreinia-T. Hawkins, Doran, Tazewel
comfy. rice X. X. Gillespie, resigned; +
Ransom, Tower Hill, Appomattox county
rice j. johnson, removed. 81,
North Carolina--W H. Ellison, Merri
mon. Carteret county, cice L: +. Carraway
ramoyed: G. G. Hendricks. Progress, Ran
| dolnh county, oice q. G. Hendricks, re
moved. s. Letters, Straits, Csrteret coun
tv, rice j. Chadwick, removed; I: 7
| Thonason, Zeb, Rowan county, u,ce II.
| Leutz, removed.