Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-04-09

and thought he could have happy ano
one there, and would nave hao
IL ell his neighbors had been Vlrginians.
But thew were not, and he bad oeen saut
d., appoin ed, and 90 he Ia Weil'hlsposeu
man and likes to get along quietly, &c mas
determined to sell his properly near Eali'
Church and GEEK home some wnere eise;
Il Ia reported here thai OF the com ptohise
which has been Effected Det"een tue ia~-
vera 10 The case of the broken private osnks
in Warrepton and in some OF the other towns
10 the northern part of Virginia. the depos-
Tors. instead OF receiving dollar for dollar OF
their deposits. will only receive thirty cents
on the dollar.
People who arrived here on the Manassas
train this morning cay both the Allegheny
aud Blue Ridge mountains are covered win
snow. the latter to the depth OF four lno5e7,
but that that which fell In the Valley be-
tween, and on this side Of them. melted as
soon as 1t fell. They also say that large
horse shoe mandatory has been establish
ed and went into operation at Srasburg yes
terday. -,
Another session of the House was held
last night for the purpose OF passing private
pension bills, but again was the execution Ct
that purpose frustrated. At the previous
Friday nights session Mr.. Cobb was arrest
ed by the sergeent.at-srms and brought be-
fore The bar of the House for absenteeism.
The excuse he then offsred was that he had
no pension bills to look after, and was not
Ioterestsd In them, bus that hereafter he
would be present whenever they should be
brought up, and would carefully examine
eyery one Of them. Last night Mr.. Cobb
| vas On hand, and as soon Rs the frat one
was brought up he rose and consumed
whole hour in opposing tina whole system.
His eeoh provoked Mr.. Smith OF Illinois
| TO reply, and bis speech and interruptions
consumed another hour. That left bat
| aarter OF an hour OF the session, which was
consumed oy Mr.. Kugore, so that the whole
| session went by without the passage OF
single pension Dill.
| News was received at the Navy Depart
mept this morning that Lieut.. Hethering-
ton,U 8. N who killed Cover Robinson, On
Eoplishman, at Yokohama about two
months ago. has been acquitted by the Con.
snlar Court at Yokohoma before which he
was tried. Heuherington shot and killed
Robinson, q prominent member OF the En-.
oIish colony, because the latter had been %.
duly intimate with Mrs. Hetherington.
The House to-day passed resolution au-
thorizlpg the State of Wisconsin to place in
the s,t taary hall Of tie Capitol statue OF
Pere Marquette.
The Alliance members of Congress held q
conference last night at which the aali-
| abandoned pre- act Of Starting nstlonsl
thi party orgau in this city was revived.
and il was determined that the publication
of the paper should be commenced az coon
az practicable, with a capital OF $4,000 Of
which one. fifth, 1t Is said, was subscribed.
! a report ia current to the ff.ot that Mr..
Nettletop, Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury, who has not shown up we'll In the Ellis
Island affair, has resigned, but 1t Ia doubted
al the Treasuary Department
The Baum Ivsstigation to-day only made
mora patept the fact that fraud and corrnp"
tson OF all kinds psryede he pension bureau
Congressman Cooper, whose reputation
R,um has tried to smircb, was present, ana
Informed the comm ee that he had been
absent and had only heard OF Reum's at.
tempt through the newspapers. He asked
to be heard next week. Cooper is one OF
the prosecutors.
| A great flourish OF trumpe.s has been
msde 10 come quarters about 40 alleged
almost uDat imous report OF the house eiec-
tons COMMITTEES in favor OF turning OCT tne
0oUOCfatlD C0uteS6o III D JUL eSSoo oiSo.ie"
case from New York, snd giving his eeat to
his alleged fairly elected republican contest
SIT. The facts OF tae case as narrated TO
the GAzETTEs correspondent by member
OF the ,tiops committee are as follows:
Tho committee is composed OF fifteen MEM
bsrs, nine democrats and elk repub-
licaps. All the latter, Of course, are
in favor OF the republican and three
of the former havs sad they are. Oh
The renal log ak democrats three are in favor OF
the democrat and three have not expresae1 an
| opinion, though it il confidently believed that
they will agree with the latter and also that one
| of the three who at fist agreed to sign
the majority report will withdraw his
name, so that as previously stated in this cor,
re pondencs, the majority report viii bs tust,
! by Fix republicans md two democrats, ard the
mid ority by seven democrats. 1he minority re-
port has zen presented aid it shows that the
| democrat is fairly entitled to the scat. hat he
/ will retain it is confidently expected ~ thoae
| most familiar with all the circumstances Oh the
ctss.
The char yes Of ineficiency and msladministra-
ton recently preferred agsinst Mr.. Owen, super.
intendent Of Immigration, by Assistant Secretary
Netteton, are to b, Investigated 81 the Depart
| ment
J 3. Conklin was to-day appointed postmaster
at Conklin, LoudoDn county, Va, vice E. n. Ut
esback, resigned
The Rhode Island Election