Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-09-20
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Special Correspondence Of the AIeca. Gazette.
WAsuINGTOS. y. C., Sept. 60, 1879.

n AoHlNGICN, ". u, Dept. ~, loi''
TIE Seog.csai ctmIi;teG 10 Investigate tie
charges OF bribery and 21riCy!lal against Sen
ator Icg.ti5 Ct T. .8ssa, nii! }DneEcc l;s HoIk
next week, probably ID Topeka. but es tho agent
Of the Associated Press ic tiist city ID radical
AID gives rali:ai lu: to al! The political mat
tiers that he sta,:S, ar ct!ot; will DC made TO
irdace tie committee to prosecute It's erquirles
at Law,csca. l. WAS supposed BY many oil the
democratic Senators previous to the adjourn
ncut OF Tie las! session that the c:largcH against
Mr.. lngails could not DO sustained, but The
proof has been so strengthened since thea that
report recommending lis expulsion would not
| b, surprlalDg.
Judge j. w. Ashhy, t3Incrly Of lI1lsy, but
| now pracc!ng attorney 10 this city, and ono
| Ct the coursc! IN the lI!rsy cave case reaelVed
q dispatch this morning Stating that Judge
Byrd OF the 18th judicial circuit of Virginia had
| rendered decision confirming the title Of
Campbell and S.cbtirs to the llrsy Cavc
property in Page oou1iy, Va.
A letter rec: aged hcro from Barksdale, who
killed Dixon 10 Yaz1o, Mississippi, states that
be shot aud killed Dixon because he had sian.
dercd and abused both lis sister and his moth
er, that politics had ro!hipg 10 do with the
| affair. and that lad Dixon recovered he would
| have shot his, again at tho first opportunity,
| and would have rutsGtt him to lilo ends of the
world 10 have killed him. aa ike Garth ia not
large cntuEh fer him and tie man WHO had
| falsely, bastiy AID rDaliciluslY attempted TO
| Willy lis mother aud iniuro Ito fair nGmo Of
| his iEDCcynt sister.
1t was stated 10 this correspondence: yestcr-
| day thet The SrcGchca Mr.. Hayes is now max
| lOg "a tic iTts( were prepared Tor him and
received tie approval Ct tie CGbicet b.: lore he
left with ihlED. 1t tas since been asccrtaincd
| that they BlrC prepared By Mr.. Sherman for
bis own use, but that sshCn The programme for
his campaigning vas Interrupted, 10 turned
them over 10 Ills Chitt. eho is now reciiug
them to admlIIDE audiaInas.
lhtIo wea lncc;inS Ct tao joint executive
committee OF The democratic party 10 this city
| last Thursday, as ahn1uGCtd IN this c1rrespon.
dencc OF that day. In order that the readers
| OF :hc G5zette may understand lis character
| they era informed HAT there il ra.ional dem.
ocratie committee, coUss ing ci IS members
| oEe irCm each S:a!(; then there il congress
slonal committee, consisting CT ~ members,
| composed of rIGmlICrt Elen 10 and cut OF Con-
greFS. " tnoao t@o committees 10 members
| CT the first ard { members OF tho latter consti'
| tIte the Jrt executive committee that met
hero last week, which manages all affairs con.
Eectci with tic raTig. The officers ore Hon.
W. ii. BalLuM Ct C0Gnccieut, chairman; Gen.
| ID. S. Walker OF this city, secretary, snd j. G..
Thompson, c:u., Ct OHIO, treasurer. The
meeting on Thursday was tie first meeting of
tie committee siuca last March, and wss called
| hv ,ha s,cr.,aro IN G;scos, NJ ,nnl;oo hrs;onso
that had accumulated sire, Inst datc, ard also
with srHcIs! r.is!&rcs 20 The Ohio campaign.
Mr.. Mckcprcy. caa:imsn Of the executive
committee CT Ohia, w2s iavi;ed to attend the
meeting, aud w&a rrcscst ANA All! before the
committee tic tXlCs C2;Gi;ion Il tho canvass