Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-18
IF Miss n. Augusta Howard, presi

Miss Frances E. Willard, Mrs. Russell
SAGE. Mrs. Elizabeth e. GranDis, Mrs
J. Ellen FostersMrs. II. Slocum. Mrs.
Annie Jeun-ss Miller, Mrs. Mary French
Sheldon, DR.. Jennie de Ia u. Logger
Mrs. Lille Devereau1 Biake: hes.
Annie Ford Eastman. Rev. Anna now,
ard Shaw. R-v. Caroline J. Bartlett ara
Mrs Laura Curtis Ballard. The open
ING session began with prayer and this
Vas foIIowed BY. the Introduction OF
nresidepts and delegates Of organic.
hons forming the National Councit-
THE presentation of greetings from TIE
National Council of Women of Canada
AID the greetings by fraternal delegates
from organizations not in the council
came next on the programme. and the
2 lion concluded with the triepnial sd-
dress of President Mary Wright Sewall
The United States Court OF. Claims
TO day dismissed the case OF Robert c.
Friend VI. the United States for $4,000
damages for want of juridictioD. The
c4=e involved damages done TO Farrais'
leland in Henrico county, Va, owned
by Friend. by the government in filing
M the s'Dutch Gap Canal" and thus
cutting off Friend from the only outlet
he bad for transporting his produce to
market. =,
The Sundry civil appropriation bill
as reported TO the Senate this afternoon,
authorizes the issue OF SlGO,OOO,W0 OF
treasury certificates to meet the current
expense Of the Treasury; approprlates
money for the Blaine properly, IN
Washington, and fixes the interest OF
Mrs. Blaine at $50, 600. The vote on
the proposition to pay the bounty on
domestic sugar for the crop of 1884 was
lie, and will depend on the vote OF
Mr.. Cullom, OF Illinois.
The sundry civil bill appropriate7
SIS, 900 for light house at Lower Ce-
dar Point on the Potomac.
The District Commissioners to-day
reported unfavorably on the bill to ex.
tend the lexington and Soldiers Home
road.
In the House to-day Mr.. Van Voor
his of New York tried to get through 9
pension bill for q womap, on the ground
that she was a nurse during the war
But Mr.. Jones of Virginia, who is al
WAYS on the lookout for such schemes
objected on the ground that the woman
was not nurse, but the wife of cook
This provoked Mr. Van Voorhis SC
much that be said the man who would
harm a woman was wretch
State Senator Little of Fredericks
hurp nassed through here Yesterday OIL
his way from New York, where he mac
been on business connected with the
transfer Of the charter for railroad
from Fredericksburg through The
Northern Neck to Chesapeake Bay
from the original incorporators to The
Northern capitalists who will build tint
road. Under the contract they mus
commence the work within six months
from the 1st instant and complete i
within two years.
Mr.. George G. Wedderburn was
the Capitol to-day in the interest of thu
bill allowing foreign exhibits for the
Ba 'timore fair in 1897 to be admitted
free If duty. Mr. McMillin, ofthe Hous'
ways and means committee, who hs
the bill in charge, promised him to re
port it to day or tomorrow.
The President and Secretary Gresh
am are doing all they can to induce tn
Senate to pass the House bill to re
move the difierential duty on sugar
but it seems to-day IS if their struggle
will be vain.
Dispatches from New York to-da,
say that gold was held at quartz
per cent. premium there. Treas
ury notes, which are redeemable il
gold here, can not be found, and green
backs. which can only be redeemed il
New York, are being sent there by thu
thousands.
Cranes Creek, Va, is reported as I'm
worthy of Improvement by the Secre
tary of War, as the cost-S29, 100
would be more than the limited inter
ests would justify.
Jesse Oliver was to day appointed
postmaster at Great Falls, Fairfa,
county, Va, vice II. o. Coonwell, re
moved
The sundry civil bill, as reported to
the Senate to-day, appropriates Sl2l,
600 for new government printing OF
fee on the site now occupied by the
printing Office stables.
To show that the House committee!
on ways and means and banking ant
currency have no idea that any further
attempts at financial legislation will be
attempted at this session, it is only nee
essary to say that both those commit
tees have determined to hold no more
meetings.
When house page asked Mr.. Mar.
shall of Virginia to write his name in
an album to-day the Virginian said, 'cer
tainly, but why you want the names o.
the members of this Congress, in view
OF what it has done, is more than car
tell"
The steamer Washington, Of the Norfolk
and Washington line, reached her wharf at 3
o'clock this morning. She is the first arrival
up the Potomac river since the river froze
over, and broke her way through the heavy
ice She reports the Ice heavy in the Chesa.
peake BAY and Potomac river. Her sister
ship. the Norfolk, left here yesterday on be
way to Norfolk and will undoubtedly get
through all right Tugs belonging here be-
gan WIN yCotoiuaJ 'VS'oA o SuohuoA e4Aioe6n
the ice from this city to the bay.
The bill to increase the tax on beer is pre-
sumably dead.
1t is rumored to-day that Mr.. Carlisle and
Mr.. Bissell will soon retire from the Cabinet.
There seems TO be no doubt as to Bissell but
the difficulty as to Carlisle is where to place
him.
The bill to put the officers of the revenue
service on the retired list was defeated in the
House to-day by one vote.