Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-12-22
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Gpeci:.! Correspondence Of the AIe:oa. Gazette
WASII1EuTON, u. c., Dec, %, 1879,

w ASnINOIOISi IL Vs. DSts lOiS'
Giles IL. VGd3u hss been eppcirtod post
master at Galveston. Pittsylvania county. Va,
vic, Alotz, II. Tsrjy. rtslgEed John A.
Coleman al Crow Spring, Chesterfield county.
vico John Dunu, resigned Hrs Lucy d.
Gordor, at i?rokenburS, SpotlsyIVsnis county,
vico Mrs. Lucy NJ. Massey, and James NJ.
Mccoy, at Long Dale. Acgany county, vice
j. i. JchGson, resigned.
The dose CT their owe medicine the radicals
have had to take 10 Maize has made them d,
lirious, anu those who reside or ore 81 burning
hero arc vowlrg vengeance not only upon thCsa
TEo administered tho pill, but upon all who
thlrk the treatment was iu5iiGablo under tho
circumstances. The radicals evidently now
know how it is themselves, but as yet cannot
delgl;cly answer tao numerous questions that
arc put to Them with rcieronce 10 what they
ere going to do about it.
Three cases oil smalpt. arc 10 tho Jail here.
| where Two hupdrCd prisoners aro canGntd. and
tour cases arc reported 1T tho Navy Yard.
ihnro was great excitement about tho police
and orimnal courts this morning when tho an-
| nOuEccment wss made and etrict orders
Wtr0 ISSUED th&t LClthcr prsoatrs, guards,
bor turkeys st the i'll, ror anybody
within tho walls oil that prison DO allowed TO
come cut without special permits. The disease,
| it Is said, was brought there by negro tramp
from LyLchturg. who WIS seut 10 tho smallpox
hospital, but escaped, and is still ut large.
Tho Howard Nj. Hutchirs, who has boon
appointed Collector oil internal Revenue for the
81 DlstricS OF Iowa few months ago, was rec
ommt n5iGg fire and sword policy taWard the
! constituents Of tho men who are to say wheth-
er or not his appointment shall BIO confirmed
Parties irtm Florida arc here NEGOTIATING for
| the purchase of the steamer Msry Washington.
The owners Of the boa: ask SIS, COO for her.
1t coat $SS5 coo to build her few years ago,
| fer sho is comparatively rev boat. Ittho sllo
| is made she will be run 90 the Same river upon
| which the steamer Arrow, that was also Po.
tomac river boat, is now running.
Intelligence was received ct the Treasury
Department this morning TO the effect that
James ID. Austin had been arrested at CouI Gil
Bluffs. Iowa, with oouatelf.t 500 Iotcs 10 his
| possession.
Governor Holiday is in the city to day. and
though extremely reticent to familiar friends
| from his own State, is said to take gloomy,
but unfortunately true, lock at the condition of
| affairs in Nireina.
Among tho twenty negroes who arrived hero
last Thursday night from North Caroline, co
route TO Indiana, which State is to bo repub
llcdnizad By SUCH onigrants, is ons man who
started Oh his way with plenty Of money, but
his wife, who held the purse, get separated
from him somewhere GA tho way and has gouo
Oh ahead. !caTlpg him without cent and do.
| pendent upon the charity CT the WashiDgtonisns
Tor food and lodging uatil the radicals can rails,
| the rtQ alslto amount to s>rd him and the rest
| OF the gang to their destination, which they
have promised 10 do sometime this week.
The national bank notes received OF tho treas.
| nry during tho week ending on Saturday for
| redemption amounted to SG9S, coo. The amount
| received during the corresponding week last
year was 81. lO3. 000 The U. S. bonds do.
! posted Tor circulation withdrawn this week was
S1,o7S. 500; the amount deposited was S..
| 36l 600.
Mr. Gitti5es. nephew of thu r,cootly do.
! ceased millionaire Of Baltimore, who has boer
| dootkecpcr Of tho reporters gallery Ct the
House toE some years past, has been removed
b7 General Fields. and his place givon to Mr..
| q. Is. Mann, OF Towsontowp. Md. An effort
| will be made to iEc'ude this Office among those
at the dispo:al of tho Speaker
y model CT StOry's plan fer tbs WASHINGTON
monument, is on exhibition IN ouo CT tho COM
| nlttcc rGoUs Of tho House,
In talking with old Louisiana sugar plan
Ter Saturday mor0iug abou. tho probable action
oi CoDgrtsj this winter % the sugar tariff, no
remarked to your correspondent that tho re
fucrs hsd that business in hand now, and that
whatever will be do1o will DO what they want
done. lie mentioned that when he Was !ais-
Ing sugar before tho war bis gross rcooipls
Vccc $3.50 head on every one ct his negroes,
and though northern man he would saw that
his Saves were nor, healthy. more moral and
happier than any enual number OF neprocs
now TO be found 10 tho country
Nothing IL going on at tho Capitol nov
| though lew members of tho Elous, and feVcr
| Sooa.0r5 arc seen thor, attending to their cor,
resDondcnco. Sirco tho session began Senator
| Garland, WHO is said to bo tho NEST popular
man 10 the body. has warn q sui. of Arkansas
jeans. Senator kukwood, OF Iowa, tho fairast
republican in the BODY, is Marylandcr. MIR.
Ferry and tho Vice President arc bachelors,
aud tho latter wealthy Presbyterian and
llbiral subscriber to some oil tho funds Of that
Church, his check for thousand dollars being
always seen among the aanaal contributions TO
that OF foreign missions. flo doesn't seem 10
DO happy uan aud lila frionds say he seems
disposed TO look On the gloomy sid, OF life
hat IL Of his own lilo