Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-02
FROM WASHINGTON.

OIuCrS were lSSltc1 ny iiiS NdN. III
partmont to-day delac!Iing Commodore
J. :. sSkerrett from command of the
Washington navy yard and ordering
nina to assume charge of the Pacific sta
ton about January 10th next. Com
modore George Brown, now in com
mand of the Pacific station. is said TO be
DESTROYS of again taking charge Of the
Norfolk navy yard, and as the term OF
Commodore Weaver, the present COM
mander, will expire january 10th, it is
probable that his wish may he gratiiied.
Speculation is already rife among naval
officers as to who will he the next com
mandant of the Washington navy yard.
Captain Howell, it is reported, is slated
for the billet.
Congressman Wike of Illinois was at
the Capitol to-day. He is one of the
congressman who understands what the
people meant by voting as they did last
month. He is in favor of an extra ses-
sion of Congress, and also ofthe passage
OF an income tax by the present House,
and says he feels confident that the
House will send such Il bill to the Sen
ate before the close Of the session.
Mr.. Edgar Alien, recently of Rich
mond. but now Of this city, and an as
sistant C. :. attorney general, will start
for Texas tomorrow on governmental
business and be absent for two months.
In the meantime the suit of Windsor vs..
Malone, in which he is counsel for the
latter. will remain in allegiance.
That the wide-awake business men of
this city have their eyes on Alexandria,
is made apparent by the fact that some
of them have already bought property
there. One of them Mr.. c. +. Nor
ment. has recently bought three houses
there.
Judging from the way several promi-
ncnt and influential democratic Sena-
tors. with whom the GAZETrE's cores
pendent has recently talked on the sub
iect. expressed themselves, ii IS hardly
probable that the tax or state banks
will he removed, ana some OF them
wonder how such plank ever got into
the democratic platform. They don I
believe that the government can constl-
tutionally use the taxing power Tor
any other than revenue purposes, but
the national bank system has worked
so well, and is So safe to depositors, that
thcy think ii better 10 leave well
enough alone
The officials of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway here confirm the state
mcnt that a new steamship line has
been organized TO operate between
Newport's News and Liverpool. They
sax six iirst-class vessels will be put on
the line nj cost of over -, 900, 900.
The company will be known rs the
"Chesapealle and Ohio Steamship Com
panv Limited" and the capital will be
furnished Jointly by American and En-
clish investors with majority OF the
stock in the hands of the Chesapeake
and Chic Railway Company Among
the directors are President NJ. L. In
Gals and Wee President Decatur AK
tel. of the Chesapeake and Ohio.
Secretary Charles Foster said this
morning he did not think the death of
Jay Gould would make any appreciate
difference in the financial markets, in
asmuch as The effect had been already
practically discounted, and as his son
George could be depended on TO pur-
sue safe and conservative policy IN
the management of his fathers estate.
There Was, in his opinion, no possible
danger of a financial panic. Another
Treasury official said this morning that
the bears III Wall street might attempt
to profit by Mr.. Gould's death, but
were not likely to accomplish any more
than they did in similar attempt to
bear the market on the occasion OF Mr.
Vanderbilt's death.
1t is said here that the Washingto-
mans who bought the Pioneer Mills
and old foundry in Alexandria have
already put $4,000 in that property,
and that in short time they viii COM
mence the work Of vulcaniZing wood
there on a large scale
The death of Mr.. Gould did not affect
the stock market here i'll the slightest
degree. 4 southern democratic mem
Der of the House when informed Of Ii
this morning said the time had been
when the death of the owner of SO
much money would have unsettled
bonds and stocks considerably but that
there were too many other rich men
now for the death of any one of them TO
produce the faintest ripple.
J. VI. Langston, the negro Exon
gresham from the Petersburg Virginia.
district. vino lives here, says the cause
of the republican defeat not only in the
district referred to, but in the whole
state, is comprised in one word-Ala-
hone.
Two Virginia republicans, Messrs.
/ CAST of Norfolk. and Wood Of Wash
ington county. were here Yesterday.
The former was laughing at the fact
that Corrisan, negro, got more votes
than Bowden for Congress III his dis
trict. The latter said nearly all the
negroes in his district voted the demo-
cratic ticket. and that the republicans
there were without form. and were
consequently void.
Congressman Meredith of the Alex
andria, Virginia, district. continues
very i'll nj the residence of DR. OSmun
on 10th street in this city His disease,
rs previously stated in this correspond
ence, is erysipclas of the head. He has
been i'll with it for eight days. was UNI
conscious this morning, and his physi-
clans ut noon to-day say he is "a very
sick man..
Probably the sickest man in the
country at the result of the recent
democratic victory is Secretary Eikins
of the War Department. He had set
his heart on being U ;. Senator from
his State and, it is said, he spentno less
than 100000 to effect that object, and
then was signally defeated.