Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-07-19
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Special Correspondence Of the Alera. Gazette.

Special Correspondence Of the Alerd. Gazette.
WASHINGTON. d. G., July 10. 1880.
The fJiiowing charges in The Fireioia post
Offices were msde to day: j. 3. Wood, Sd.
poicted postmaster at F.iral, Augusta county,
vice J. 3. King, r,sis Ded. The following of.
fees were established LarkiDb Fsc:ory, Mad.
ison c5uoiy, With J. Ii. LnkIs es postmaster
Clrlogton, Buckingham ooun:y, with +. |.
Carilcgtcn IS postmaster; Ssamc, Campbell
c,uEy, With q. s. Collins as postmaster; Bush
Park, Cumberland c5ua!y, With A. L. Rober.
s,n as postmts:c!; Dundee, Bedford county,
with ): NJ. Crouch as postmaster, and Monte
beilo, Nelson couoty, Nth j. p. Harris IS post
naStlr.
A dispatch from New York rtc iVed here 10
day says case OF yellow fever is reported at
Memphis, tha! OF drummer from New Jersey.
hcurirers at the cfhco ct tho National Board
| OF llsslih 10 this city r, infhms that no such
rapoi! has reached there.
The receipts at the Treasury to day from
| customs were $497 con ; itcm internal revenue.
$Ci9. $50. The national bank notes received
| there Tor redemption amounted to $l2l 0C0.-
| a rrlVsts 1ctter received hero to day from
New Haven says that MIR. Cball!s Atwattr, who
wss the grccnbuck candidate Tor Governor Of
Connecticut at the last cleo len, Hc,9iog up.
wards OF 9 900 votes, the lsrgcs! number ever
received by candidate Of that rarIy 10 that
Stale, has comc ont tquarely for Hancock and
English, and that tho Hancock b,om 10 Con
neeilcat is on 90 Increase.
A gentleman from Georgia, who has Just
ret c1ed here, confirms what has heretofore been
said IN this correspondence about General
Gordon's rc,lgoiog his scat 10 the United States
Senate. lie says tho General was heavily in
| tcresld in mlno, and was 10 danger Of being
sWanped by rs Encouragement, when some
capitalists Of New I ok agreed TO relieve him OF
his difficulties acd supply the money for carry
] ing on the work ii he would eSrec to civ, it his
personal supervision, and that at tho Same imo
| he was offered the position Of solicitor for rail
ioid at yearly salary Of $40 600, AID that as
his family had long wanted him ct hone he
agreed to accept both propositions OF onc,. With
regard to tho Generals SUCCESSOR lex Governor
BioWp) he rays he i5 tho Baptist popo Of
G!orgi, that he has built fifty Baptist churches
in that Slate ; has given $50. 900 10 the Baptist
! UoiVersty at Nashville; that the whole CT North
| Georgia is subject to his Commands; that IS
tho result! OF his appointment Governor Co'qait
who is c.ndldste fer re election, hos s: cared
his il d1elc,, and will in oonstqaetc, be re-.
elected by a large MT otity, aud that tho el, c.
tioos for tho LEGISLATURE already show thst Scaa
ter Browns appointment by the Governor will
| b, confirmed BY the LEGISLATURE ueys winner.
A young 500 of Mr.. Charles Price, druggist
Of this city, but formerly CT Alexendrie, fell
from hc step Of SD 10, wagon last Saturday aud
broke both bones Of his leg at 6i(f,rcot plao,s.
Too t,ther Of tho suf.rer is a son OF cx.Maycr
plic,, of Alrxandris.
The uatursllsm of tho negro was strikinely
| illustrated 90 one Ct the Alexandria ferry bea's
| this morriog, during talk between two preach
ers of that race upon the relltiots existing bo-
tween pastors and their congregations, by the
following rtmnk which one Of them was heard
to make, when [ goes to new church |
| looks about for bread and meat, and if don't
| sec any, that church don't suit m,." The
ether one observed the rules of oopveutionsisu,
| ard replied that 10 dtciding whether or not to
accept c charge he never even thought of SUCH
| material Thugs as meat and bread, let alone
allowing tuoh thoughts to ithuenco him.