Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-23
proposed school at Warwick, in this
county, for the purpose of preparing
young men for those institutions, be-
comes the more apparent,
he more apparent.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. March %.

In the senate yesterday ml. MaI oiu
introduced a bill to pay Samuel Fitz.
hugh, executor of Henry Fitzhugh of
Sherwood Forest, Stafford county,
Virginia, SIT, 1915 tor stores taken by
the federal army; also one to pay Cham
berlin, Dulany and Scott, OF Richmond,
the remainder of their bill for the erec-
ton Of lighthouse in Massachusetts;
also one to confirm the quit claim of
Thomas Yates to square OF ground IN
this city; also one to pay the heirs OF
Mrs. Mary Ann Lee of Virginia, $2l7.-
223 for wood taken from her land; also
one to pay the Potomac Steamboat
Company the amount of the damage
the steamer Excelsior sustained from
collision with U. S. vessel in Hamp.
ton Roads. Mr.. Chandler introduced
bill appropriating $4,000 for the cree
ton of statue to Commodore Maury
in one of the public squares of this city.
A resolution of the city council of jack
sonville, Florida, was also presented,
approving the action of General Fitz-
hngh Lee in Havana.
Colonel Christie, well known to the
lawyers OF Alexandria, has just return
ed FROM Switzerland, to which country
he went on legal business. He says he
didn't see cuspidor while absent, and
is induced to think the abundance of
such articles here is conclusive evil
dence of the highest civilization.
President Mckinley this morning
granted respite to four men who were
to have been hanged at noon today at
Sante Fe, N. Nj. A telegram directing
stay of execution for ten days to en-
able the President to examine the case
was sent to the United States marshal
there. The condemned men were con-
victed of murder. President Cleve-
land gave them respite of two months
which expired to day. A flood of tele-
grams for and against further respite
has descended on the White House
within the past few days. 1t is claimed
that the case has political bearing.
The crowd of Office seekers who came
here at the inauguration has perceptibly
diminished, and as the money those
who remain brought with them is de-
creasing they are leaving the hotels
and finding quarters at cheaper board
ing houses, and to the great grief of
their friends and acquaintance are
seeking to borrow small sums from
them in order to proloug their stay, in
the hope that bad as the prospect is at
resent, perseverance may induce for
tune to smile upon them in the near
future.
Word has just reached here from
Covington Kentucky of the death there
recently of w. w. Cleary, whom many
here with recollections war times will
recall with great satisfaction. He enter
ed the Confederate army at the out
break and served with Kirby Smith
with distinction. He was afterwards
selected to go with Messrs. Thompson,
Clay and Sanders to Canada in the Ca
pacity of secretary, and, when after the
assassination of President Lincoln and o
honus was put on the heads OF. those
gentlemen, his name was put down on
The list, the reward being $4,000.
Among the applications for Office
filed to-day is that of P. II. McCaull, of
Brandy Station. Va, for collector Of
internal revenue of the upper district
of Virginia.
Major Love of Fairfax Courthouse
was at the Capitol yesterday with o
bill to increase the pension of Mrs.
M.jor Vedder of that place. AS Con-
gresham Rixey of his district is sick,
he got Mr.. Otey of the Lynchburg dis
trict to introduce it in the House.
Colonel Lamb, chairman of the Vir-
GINA republican committee, will see
the President by appointment to NOR
row in the interest of Mr.. McCaull, who
is an applicant for the position of inter-
nal revenue collector for the upper dis
trict of Virginia.
Congressman Swanson of Virginia is
among the list of those who will speak
to-day in opposition to the tariff bill.
Nothing the democrats in the House
can do will be able to prevent the re-
publican majority in that body from
passing that bill on 3lst inst, for the
House has already adopted rule to
take vote upon it on that day, and
that rule is rs Interchangeable as the law
of the Modes and Persians. Mr.. Swan
son, it is said. would have been appoint
ed member of the ways and means
committee of the last Congress in the
place of the late MIR. Crisp and at the
latter's request, except for the fact that
the Speaker wished to compliment MIR.
Boatner during the short remainder of
the latter's term as member OF the
House, but that term having expired,
Mr.. Reed remembered the request re-
ferred to and conferred the compliment
upon the Young and able Virginisn.
Attorney General Scott of Virginia
was In the y. S. Supreme Court room
to-day, waiting for q case to come up
in which his State is interested, involv-
ing the right Of agents for the sale of
articles manufr ctured in other States to
bring them in Virginia and sell
them there without such license
rs is required for the sale of arti-
Giles manufactured in Virginia, and
which case was expected to come
up to-day. Major Scott being ask
ed about his chances for. renomina-
ton, said he thought they were favor
able. The only objection, he said, that
he had heard was being made against
him, was that he did not take an active
part during the late campaign. But
that could amount to little as
though he supposed it was his
duty to devote his whole time
to the States legal business, he
did take day off during that cam