Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-27
FROM lKASHLNGY ON.
Special Correspondence of the Alera. Gcse

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WASHINGTON. y. G., OFT. 81, 1880.
Tho subject Of grating Iqa1r liocrsos here
is now tho principal topic of looa! talk. OF al
tho restaurants only two have 80 far obtained
lc,nscs to sell liquor. Tho law SASS that the
signatures Of & majority Of tho property o@nels
on both sides ri tho street 90 tho tqaaro shall
DO required to obtain l:c,aso, and many OF the
restaurant Keepers, 10 consequence OF tho TEN,
pcraao, clan,or DOW raging, lind it impossible
TO obtain c;lat num5er. Mr.. Maynard. who
represents tho government. has refused to sign
Abuer's application, ind as the government is
the solo prop.r!y owner on the square opposite
Abucr's it 10 probable no will have to close bis
establishment. or, OF any rate. its b street on-
franco. hIr. Schulz. who represents tho gov.
crpmuut op tbs block above, this morning signed
the application Of Schwiug !; Clarke. Iha op'
position to tho liteIse is SO great that MI VIM.
Morgan, who, BY the BY, is En- old AleXandrlap,
has resigned lis position az ono OF tho l!canse
board.
A dispatch received hero this morniog from
the editor of the Now York Clipper, tho great
sporting paper, says reports sent by the asso-
ciatcd Press abou. tho betting thore are untrue !;
that bots are even that both the State and tho
city democracy sr, united, and that Now York
is safc for the democrats.
Postmaster Mckenzie. of Alexandria, was IN
the city to day. lie says that he is opposed
to Msjor 8. ?. BsYly, the republican candidate
for Congress 10 bis district, because ho docs not
think him the proper man for tho place; that
no understands that the MLj II is betting on
Barbour's election, and that no (Mckot zle)
isn't scared bit ct tho efforts tho toHpath or
footpad5 or any other sort of club arc making
to turn him out of lis Office on account. of his
opposition to Bayly.
All tho departments present bare, lifeless
and deserted appearance, their occupants, after
being pluudered out Of large portion OF their
salaries, having been sent off to vote either
legal or fraudulent, it matters not which, radl-
cal tickets ut next Tuesdays election.
The seton Of the national republican ccm.
mi;teo in Withdrawing the republican congress.
sioual candidates 10 Virginia is the So! jsot of a
good deal of comment here this moroiog, and
tho general impres sion about it is that
the rumor that the republicans arc going to
abandon the presidential contest in tho Stale is
all CANNON. and that The reoompepss they arc
TO recsve for the support they give to tho Ma
honite candidates for Congress will be either
tho votes of the Mshorites for the straight Gar
field electoral ticket, or certain help to Garfield
to DO rendered him by tho Malone electors, il
elected. 10 case sush help shall be required to
make up the 1S5 electoral votes necessary to
secure GarGeld's election. Colonel Jones, one
of tho prominent orators of the Mabonites, was
here yesterday, and did not hesitate to say that
Hancock Was already defeated. Can there DO
O democrat in Virginia who, with all this star
ing him the face, will go to the polls and vote
the Mahone ticket
A letter received hore this morning from u.
s. Senator Johnston. Of Virginia, says that Mr..
Trigg. the democratic candidate for Congress
10 The oh District of his Stato. stands pretty |
fair chance of election.
Mr.. +. f.. Corbett, deputy collector Of the
port of Alexandria. was hcre to-day. and while |
here eslled at the Treasury Department and
Informed tho Assistant Secretary that bis |
5ffice was ct the disposal of the Seoro
tsry, as be would uoder no circumstances
vote for Msjor Bayly for Congress-, and that if
Mr.. Sherman thought that loyalty to tho re-
publican party implied tho support of Major
Bayly, he didn't.
The Southern people may es we'll be prepsr-
rs themselves to rcundsreo tho miseries OF
provincial government if Garfield be elected. for
10 plen has been more deliberately Termed
y tho radicals than ono By which the
,eopla of those Southern States ia which
be votes aB counted by the proper oficers ].