Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-04
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Special Correspondence of the Aleza. Gazette.
WASHINGTON. D. G., O,t 4. 1880.
The receipts at The Treasury to day from Gus.
toms amounted to s6l6.5s3; from internal
rcvctue, $500 57l-ovar million and quar-
ter; and still MI. Garfield says the tariff on
sugar ADD salt and blankets and most everything
that poor people uss shall nat bs reduced
The National Board Of Health received o
dispatch from Key West, Florida. this morDing
stating that one gcbulee case OF yellow fever
| had last bsen announced there. The board
doesn't anticipate any spread of the disease, es
the season is too far advanced for il 10 set sDy
foothold now.
Not only all tho clerks Tut every other man
who CAD nut radical ballot in a b:x 10 lodi
ana erd Ohio have been ssrte for those States,
| tho money r(q0isite for their expenses beiGg
euppied By the republicans. i ho clerks arc
allowed ten days holiday. Reduced fares arc
obtained through The Influence OF prominent
radicals With the different ia ltoad companies.
| Superintendent Curly, of the free delivery
service. is DESTROYS Of extending that service,
and will ask on extra appropriation OF $500 900
for that purpose at the next session OF CooRress.
| ID. d. Lum, tho eX.ss,stant sccrelarY OF the
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assertion that Mr.. Weaver has sold out to the
radicals is denied by Mr.. Weaver. informed
your correspondent this morning that he cjuld
prove every word he had said that when MIR.
Jones was appointed 6paroial agent CT the com.
nittee Mr.. Durant would have nothing moro
| to do with il; that j ones has never made any
rercrt of tie money he hrs COLLECTED end dis
tursed that Weaver had teleGrapbed JONES
to serd 81 900 10 him 10 Alabama. stating in
the dispatch that if they msde coed showing
there they would be 10 q condition to make
large COLLECTIONS and that Weaver had told
Gibson. Of The New York Sun, that be had
gotten rettotr Of $40, 900 for assisting the 70.
| null ca,s. aud Was 10 receive SIS OCO more.
| lie also showed ns letter from MI. Jewell.
chsirmsu Of the republican national execatv,
committee, telIiog hin 10 come 90 to New York
at bis iJeEelps) Expense.
Senator Wal!scs's sou was 10 the oily Last
| night. be ssys that bis istber is coLGlsns
that Pennsylvania will 20 democratic, that
Blaine acknowledge Gn6eld' defeat when 10
| philadelphia. and that Don Csmsron hss DO
| hand in the fight and has gone 70 California
| for no other purpose but 10 get out OF 1t.
Letters received here from various pcrliors
| Of Virginia represent the prospects Ct the
democrats there es very favorable. 1t Is SAID
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psid their cspitation tax aud that all of them
will vote the straight republican t'cke'; that
greater per c,ntsge of them have paid their tax
ia Petersburg than anywhere else 10 the State,
! owing tothe exertiors ofJorgenssD, the repub'
lcsu candidate for Congress 10 that district,
| bat that oven there their vote viii be oom-
psratiys.Y small, though as the MahonItes are
stronger there than anywhere else they will
! probably GARY that ciy; that Caroline county,
in the Richmond DISTRICT, will give 500 mslorlty
tor Capt. George y. Wiss, tho democratic
nominee fer Congress, and 10 shcst ssat the
democracy will sweep the Sta:e and staoa c
| good ohaucs Of carrying even the black disrls:.
Mr.. Shober, tue assistant clerk of the Senate,
has returned, aud says the talk about there be-
ine any DAGGER OF North Carolina is ell bosh,
IS North C.ro!ioa is just as safe tor Hancock
So Alabama,
j, L. Greasy hes basn spptiaied postmaster
OF Robertson's, Bsdfogd county. Va, V;cs J.W.
Robertson. resigned
The republican congressional ss1plign com.
mittee, whose heac q1srters are here and Who
have been 10 favor of tho puu of 10 fight for
tie electoral vote of Virgins so that votes for
Garfield could be traded for votes for the re-
pabiicap candidates for Congress. we're cousid.
ersbiy uopplussed by the crcu lar OF the national
,cutiee somuoiLtes in New York ordering q
vigorous clmpsigu fo' tho ELECTORAL vote OF that
State. but as the latter eomnittse is conducting
the campaign the former has to give way. but
they do it With bad grsc' aud say both the
congressional and presidential tickets 10 the
State ale l3st IN consequences.
A dispatch was lacelyed at tho Treasury to-
day from Georgia. statiug that Indictments
had BEEN found against thirty eight illicit disc
Nm nj Ia
recent assault upon Deputy Collector Stuart.
Messrs. Blaine and Coakiiog say that illicit dis
tllers eonduot their operations With impunity
10 the South. but surely this oiu't DO ST.. chen
thirty eight of thea gre thus brought up with |
q turn at ono time.
All the preparations snd arrangements tor the
graBd agricultural display to take plass here to.
morrow have been made. ADD the parade viii, |
il is said. exceed anything of The kind prsVi-
ously seen 10 this city.
Mr.. Speaker Randall hes appointed Watson |
Boyle, son of the later Msj or Boyle, we'll known |
during the wsr ss provost marshal at Gordons-
vile. hs private secretary. vice young MI. |
Tucker, deceased.
Rev. Dr.. Ballcck. chaplain of the Senate
aud pastor of the Uoion Presbyterian Church
of Alexandra, hes rented houss 10 this city |
and will occupy it 10 short time. The Doc
tors congregation refused to asaspt bis resigua.
lion, but the Pfesbytery to which hs bslopgs
will dissolve the connection at its next meeting.
and tho Doctor will then reside here. He will
not take up bis residence here, however,
until after the election for while heis in no con
reiyable sspss Q party mao. and has not voted
for many yea,s ia deems the sucoess of tho
democratic party ct this tipe so necessary TO
The defeat OF ssctiopalsm and the restoration
Of pesos and smily between all seoloop Of the
country, that he will remain 10 Alexandra un.
ii after the election 10 order that he may cast
. ballot for the national ticket.
NIX Walter. q we'll digger at Buffalo. N. T.,
ell to the bottom of . deep we'll the other day.
md was impsled BY largo stick, which went
through bis body. coming out at bis ;
back, but got out without assistance and was