Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, February Is.
,r.sspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette


Toilet Art Company, and the Nine.
Caroline Marion Art School of Brook
Ign, n. Y. This concern advertised TO
give work to persons at home but after
securing money failed to keep its con-
tract.
Nothing has been heard at the State
Department about the condition of
affairs at Seoul, Corea. The report
from Yokohama that United States
marines have been sent to Seoul has
not been confirmed to the Navy De-
partment.
In the vote on the silver substitute in
the House yesterday evening the
Virginians we're recorded as follows :
AYES, Messrs. Jones, Mckinney, Mere
dith, Olney, Swanson aud Walker.
Noes, Messrs. Tucker and Turner. Not
voting, Mr.. Elicit, sick.
]. A. Moses was appointed postmas'
ter at Chap, Appomattox county, Vir.
GINA, to-day, vice ]. T. Moses, re-
signed.
People from Culpeper here to-day
say that Mr.. I. S. Johnson. of that
place, will certainly be candidate for
Congress in that, the 9th Virginia dis
trict, on silver platform, unless
either one of the old parties shall de-
clare for free silver coinage.
Astute republicans here from New
York to-day say that Governor Morton
of their State already has two hundred
of the delegates to the next national
republican convention in his favor, and
that when the convention shall meet,
Mesars. Platt and Quay will so ar
range matters that New York, and not
either Maine or Ohio, will claim the
Presidency for her own.
Mr.. Yost, the contestee in the cleo
ton case of Yoat vs. Tucker, closed the
argument in that, the last of the Vir-
GINA contested election cases to-day,
before House elections committee No.
3. Disinterested listeners say his speech
was better calculated to affect crowd
than committee of lawyers, sitting as
judicial body, considering legal ques
ton. Reports in none of the Virginia
cases are expected until at least week
after next, if then.
Messsrs. Hume and Clements of AL
e1andria county were at the Capitol to-
day in the interest of the proposed
memorial bridge across the Potomac at
Arlington. They are urging the House
commerce committee to report i'll favor
of the Senate bill for that bridge, with
an amendment providing that the APP
preparation specified in that bill be used
for the construction of the bridge, in
stead OF for plans, borings and esti-
mates, which have already been made
and are now in the War Department.
Though Virginia revels in free schools
and cheap newspapers, her people,
Judging from the mail Of her Congrea'-
men, have not yet learned that the SEC
rotary OF Agriculture did not buy auy
seed, and consequently hss none for
distribution.
Mr.. w. W. DUNCAN, formerly Of
Alexandra, il large property.holder
at Rosslyn, near the Virginia end Of the
Aqueduct Bridge. He says since the
Pennsylvania and electric railroads
have been running there, the place pre-
SCENTS every evidence Of activity and
progress, and that land there that a
few years ago sold by the acre, is now
held at from ten cents to one dollar
foot.
A private letter received here to-day
from Judge Witt, of Richmond, states
that Congressman Elicit, OF that city,
recently 80 ill that his death was ex-
pected, is now now entirely out of dan
ger and is far on the road to perfect
health.
Race horse men here say they under
stand that the Alexander's Island PEG.
pie having gotten even on their outlaw,
don't care whether the Maupin, or any
other bill shall pass the legislature,
and have taken no steps nor gone to
any expense whatever to influence that
body in respect of horse racing, and
that whatever it may do will be mat
ter of Indifference to them.
A communication was received at the
House to-day from Secretary Morton
requesting the allowance of a director
in chief of scientific bureaus and in
vestigations," with a salary of Sc, 600
per year.
The Senate committee on foreign re.
lations practically agreed to-day to at
tempt to bluff great Britain into polio
ing the North Pacific ocean by threat
ening to report in favor of bill provid-
fir the e1terpation of all the fur seal
herds in that ocean.