Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-11

been given an asylum AT tne consuia'S
mill this government takes up the case.
Although no official statements as 10 Sec
,.tary Csresham's action can yet be OBJ
famed. th-ra are reasons 10 believe that
nrompt redress will be demanded. 1t
; said that every principle of interna-
ional law has been violated by such
Punishment.
Communication between Washington
and the South, which has been sus-
pended for three days because of biz
suow drifts between this city and AL
exandria, Va, was opened up tbs
morning, and trains are now running
with some degree of regularity.
Trains from the East are also arriving
with slight delay, and the New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore papers
reached Washington atthe usual hour
this morning for the first time since
last Thursday. Beyond a tenacious
blockade on the Frederick branch oil
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad that
system was in better shape this morn
ing that it has been since the storm be-
gan. The road is open to Phlladel-
phia and New York, ard trains are ar
irving and departing several hours
late. Trains from Pittsburg, Cincin-
natl and the West are arriving irregu-
larly. The Pennsylvania AID the
Southern railroads claim TO have over
come the embargo, and the Norfolk
and Western is hopeful of getting its
trains out and in within twenty-lour
hours. Pennsylvania and Southern
trains are arriving and departing at
from three to four hours behind the
regular schedule.
Assistant Secretary John NJ. Rcy-
nolds of the Interior Department has
ruled that ifa soldier, pensioned for deaf
ness, walks alongside a railroad track
for the purpose of making short
cut" from his home to another part OF
the city and is struck by a car and in
iured, the injury is primarily due to his
own negligence and only secondarily
and remotely, if al all, to his deafness,
A private letter has been received
here from Miss McLanahan, who, with
her parents, is passenger OF the La
Gascogne, The letter states that they
had changed their original plan OF sail
ing on the unfortunate North German
LLOYD steamer Eibe and would en-
bark on the French liner.
The President seut to the Senate to-
day bulky package of documents in
response to a resolution calling for in
formation about sealing in Behfing Sea.
The Postcflice Department received
kilograms this morning from superin-
tcudent5 of divisions throughout The
country, stating that the mail trains
were moving along the various routes
and behind schedule time. The block
AIDE is about broken and the depart
ment thinks that within few days all
mails will reach their destinations
promptly.
MIR. Call again this evening essayed
the vain task of calling up the Florida
lottery bill in the Senate, but was shut
off by the postofiice appropriation bill.
Mr. Blackbur saying the session would
only last three weeks longer and. that
it would be necessary to use every
moment if all the appropriation bills
are to be passed by that time.
Old Virginians here say that in oil
their weather experience nothing
eaualed that of the latter part of last
week. People were here to-day from
Fauquier and Loudoun counties who
h ave been trying to get home since last
Thursday night. Among those here
were party of Leesburgers who being
unable to get home from the Point OF
Rocks. came here to go there by the
Leesburg railroad, but found that as
tightly blockaded as was the carriage
road from the Point to Leesburg. Mr..
Callahan, superintendent OF the Nor
folk line of steamers, says there are ice
packs from six to ten feet thick at in
tervals all the way from here TO Indian
Head, but that with another dey like
this his steamers will attempt 10 open
ie route.
The bondholders of the Union and
Central Pacific Railroads have offered
to pay the principal of the Indebtedness
of those roads to the government,
amounting to sixty-one million dollars,
and then to run them without the gov
ernment's interference. The PROPOSE
ton is now before the House Pacific
Railroads committee, and it is said may
possibly be accepted, on the idea that
something is better than nothing.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Hill offered
resolution declaring that every
dollar of the money of this country
must be as good as gold dollar, and
authorizing the President to take the
necessary steps to have in the treasury
gold enough to redeem every dollar
sent there. 1t went over until to-
morrow, Mr.. Stewart'inciting smile
by saying that by that time he would
have few remarks to make upon it.
Mr.. Stewart Immediately afterwards
offered resolution that the President
has no authority to buy gold for any
purpose, which also went over unit
tomorrow.
The House today was engaged III
the consideration of the legislative, and
the Senate in that of the postoffice APP
preparation bill. The prevailing i'm
preston on the subject is that not only
the railroad pooling and the Nicara-
guam bills are as good as dead, but that
nothing else will be done during the
remainder of this session except the pas
sage of the regular appropriation
bills. The ways and means committee
of the House will hold called meeting
this evening to consider the Presidents
gold bond bill, but no body expects
that any thing will come of it.