Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-30
into formidable shape and would win

great victory.
Colonel Marshall, Parks of Norfolk is
here to-day with bill already pre-
pared which he Mill have presented to
Congress, and the passage of which he
will urge, that provides for complete
line of iuland navigation from Nor
folk 10 Florida, and for which only
about thirty miles of new canal cutting
will be necessary.
It is rumored here to day that Con-
gresham Strong, of Pennsylvania, one
Of the combine that differed the House,
is extremely i'll with pneuponia at At
lantic City.
Tue building of the two new battle
ships at Viewpoints News will be COM
menced at once, and the force en-
ployed there be greatly increased; IN.
deed the ship yard there will be one OF
the largest in the world. Several gun
bouts are already in progress of construc-
ton there and several large merchant
ships will be built there during the year.
Senator Daniel of Virginia has been
put on some of the most important
committees of the Senate, and his col
league, Mr.. Martin, is very well salts
fed with the positions assigned him,
aud, as new member, he has done very
yell.
Congressman Walker, of Virginia,
Las appointed C. w. Goodell, young
LAWYER of Marion, Smyth county, in bis
district, to the clerkship to which he
and all other congressman are entitled.
Race horse people here to-day say
they understand that agents of the
New York Jockey Club have been to
Richmond to urge the legislature to
prohibit racing in Alexandra county,
for the benefit of the track that club
intends to open at Bennings, near this
city, next spring. They say that the
money the two tracks in Alexandria
county have expended on their i'm
provements and in purses, in wages,
to their employ ees, nd the feed bills
has amounted to hundreds Of thousands
of dollars, and also, what was not
generally known before, that fewer
crimes have been committed in
the county since the commencement
of racing there than in the preced-
log similar period. They say that
race tracks, can not be supported unless
there be betting, and that uoless there
be rice tracks stock farming wall be
abandoned. They say that if only one
of the trscks 10 alexandria county be
suppressed, as Governor O'Ferrall rec
ommends, the other will be also, as the
members of the legislature could not
afford to manifest such reckless preju
dice; and also that if as suggested the
recing season be restricted TO thirty
days, fifteen each in the spring and fall
it may as we'll be prohibited entirely, as
the receipts Of such limited season
would not support any track.
On the war question, the impression
at the Capitol to-day is that Venezuela
and Great Britain will come to some
agreement about their boundary line,
and that, therefore, as provided for III
the Presidents declaration of war, this
country will be let out of the scrape in.
to which it was led by the President.
Senator Daniel says he doesn't think
either the tariff or the bond bill will
pass the Senate, not only in their present
shape or with amendments. And such
seems to be the general supposition.
The tariff bill, it is reported, will be
amended by providing for the coinag
of the silver seigniorage, and the bond
bill by providing for the free coin
age of silver, neither of which can gel
through both houses.
T. c. HUMPHREYS was Apo nted post
master at Berkeley, Virginia, to-day.