Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-31
FROM 5S.fSEE.YGTOF.
Special Correspondence Of the Alera. Gazette.
WASHINGTON, d. G., July 81, 1879


tlopa! Board If Health 10 day from Memphis
state that twelve uew cssss Of yellow iever bave
occurred there since the las: report. D,spatche:
| from Pot! Eads to tie same eff &c state that il
is peffcc''v tcal.ly there, hat diGinfec:aot;
have been used. diich,s opened, filth removed
end qlavautiue established aea1st NcE O. Leans
aD1 oter infected pcrs.
No Charges have yet baen f5rmsliy presented
al the War OH, o rait $! young Finley. Senator
B1,e Dcphew, One Of the lev % eu.eaants
10 be army, recently appointed from the South,
and who. IN snbstqueot conversation, remark.
cd that he had got the appolrtment uotwith.
standing The lac: 0! bis be!1g REBEL but the
| feeling against him is very bitter 10 s;alwart
quarters. sod the probability now is that bis
appointment will be revoked, especially az the
private Secretary Of the S: c:etary Of War was
beard TO sag this morning that if Finley hsd
made aby such remark be ought 10 be bounced.
10 cJDvtrsa!ioD Will! Dcs. Garrett aud
Ashford. two Of the leading physicians of the
city, 10 day they beth agreed that hs regards
ccarllness AID sanitary condition Washington
Is much better ttf this !ban fur maDy previous
seasons, aud that the fuss about the KidRe,l
bottoms Is altogether unnecessary, as the ms
On those tl.ts IS 90 greater iu amount aud no
III re 'lu'eut 10 lIs effects now than it has been
tor many years pas. Dr.. Garrett said there
Was DO yellow fever 10 tho city. srd none had
been here this summer, and that if case should
come here from Memphis or ATTY other city,
The dIsess, would DOT spread, as none Of the
cocdlous requisite fer lis prevalence exist
here.
Sir. ". L Eatws Sc, druggist CT this city,
lcrDcr!y OF AIeZaudria. who Wss parhIyzed
scme time since. Is get;log worse evary DAY,
and his death at aDv momeDt would not Sur.
prl>e his friends DOW. Mr.. Eotwisle, his wife,
his Wlte's ultc., and lis colored cook, all who
live 10 The house be occupies hav, been psra..
bz:d within year, aad lhoush Mr.. E1tYisle's
case IS The ouly one 70 which immediate fatal
consfq !enc' arc expected, the nife ard per
maneut rloIVeIy OF m0te Of the others is auli
cipa'eo. 1t would seem irJm The iact that all
ire occupants CT .he house have beeo similarly
elected ltst there Is somelh iog ahout the prem
lses Wtl:n las Ir0du.ed the evil effects, and
"blcN cartill tX,mllallon might detect,
me talS mere among southern Tepu ans is
10 the effect that change 10 the federal an.
p1ibtmtuts 10 that seoiioa will trjbaby De
made. nnd that 100 at 20 dstaot day. and that
'his change WI! also apDy 10 tbs p);icy here
81 I: adopted OF making few appointments
iI0I' he South 10 Positions cut OF that section.
ard The Sc lev baglOg little h5nar and small
eno!Um*nS attached TO them. TIE change il
Is said will lave reference to appointipp men
OF political itfl leDc, 10 The federal offices 10
the South, aud 10 The sppoinImeut of more
men trom That secilJo TO positions out of it.
I'D 10 otbc 5 that arc Ct least more lucrative
than those hat have heretofore been dtl.d GU,
TO them. Iii sid fer icstaIcs tia! The places
gwen 10 Col. Bal, to Gel. Mosby, aud TO Mi,
Il. II. Garter. all we'll kuoWu ia AItylu.
di'a, srJ worth comparatively little, and
iri b2sct wish SO uuch DAGGER from say.
a.e>, as 10 the c,:c IF CJlouel Ball ia
Ajax; So much peril from revculionists and
disc Csc. as 10 the Case Of Maj # Carter al Paua
GOA, atd so maoy anLoyaGc"s and ccon venleuces
iivD the bird best cailag heatheus as ia the
case OF Col. Mosoy tm)ug tie Chinese, that
a Me at home CO b2ro Competence Wcu'd be
!6hnl!cIy preferable snd that Co.. Mosby really
does c0ut, N pIa'e sigrcg and returning to this
C ua'r5 sometime during the wioter.
An tXclIIug runaway occurred here this mcrn.
leg. Ihe htrac attached 10 20 ten bugpv,
Itit stanclng on u Sheet started eff ct furious
gait. lie entered Perus5 vania Av,cuc at
len;h street, AID the tHJrts made by people
90 that 'aoroushtare to step him by ruunlpg
10 front OF blu aod shaking TIER hats at
Elm ony ltc;ess,d his tD:ed. He dashed 10
The Av-Lue scsIterilg the vehicles and pedes
'TA's he m t III very direction and produ,lrg
great * lteHent uutii be approached tho COT
ncr .: ftu7tc2nIh street., az which poiot
col "a u.s.: g mjcd In the buggy from betiad
ano, lu"p'pg up'n his back, St I'D tho BRIDE
ana brought him 70 an abrubt tal This
o1u'aSeou' tvat was prp'aaded by the crowd
That Vas attracted TO TIL, correr by tn, tx:ite
nCnt.
10 show The way in which toe rtcent dis.
charge Ct yornr Nlc. Johcston, for shooting and
Si'i'og ueir1 nan "ho Was II bling his orcnsrd,
IS locked upcu by the ecercts cf Al,xsrdria
c}uniy, II may oe ucnlicusd that che OF them
WAC was here 10 day, 10 tsikiog 5b.u: the mat
ter, said 'Ligg,r 90 more bud DOW"