Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-12
FROM WASHING7 ON
H,ecial Correspondence Of the Alera. Gazette.

S,oecial Correspondence Of the Alera. Gazette.
WASHINGTON. D. O., Oat. II. 1880.
The Jackson Democratic Association have
engaged The Rtole first floor Of tho Imperial
Hotel rJf to nigbt Dispatches will BIO received
thtr. f:cm the three States in which elections
arc Lti5g held to day and DO displayed to the
public. a democratic meeting will also be held
there, at which may prominent democratic
orators will make speeches, among them Holmes
Coral, Ct Winchester. and George Walker, Of
Alexandria. Judge Stuart end George Mush-
bach, e.q of Alexandra, have also been It.
Yited ant will speak il in tho city.
The receipts at the Treasury to day from Gus.
toms amounted to $34s 40l; from inuroa
Icvenae, $503.7Sl.
Nothing is being done at the departments to-
day, nor 10 feet OF any of the other pit CTS about
the city 10 which news il generated, everybody,
whether chiefs or subordinstes, being engaged
either 10 tslkiup or lhiIk king about tho q ions
cow in progress. Tho prevailing feeling
among beth democrats spd republicans seems
to bo ono Of anxious doubt, end the hfst dis
patches are awaited on both sides with fear a5d
trembling. Natural a5d artificial braggarts sre
prccaiui0g their vapotiOgs 10 the hotels and bar
rooms, but discreet ptople are bidiog The rec,p
ton OF the returns sod pbllosophicaly detsrm
ing 10 content themselves with the news what.
ever it msy be. Il. John ELLIS who has Just
returned from stamping tour in lndlaDa and
Ohio WAS at demo cratic headquarters to dav and
says that the former State is ''ccck sure" for
tho democrats, aud that the latter is dcbatable
with seven congressional districts dim;oralo
beyond n doubt, and Two with Odds that way.
Up 10 this hou:, y. n., not a word has come
over the lines as far as this City about the cleo
lions from either Of the States in which they
arc being held.
By tho recent death of Captain j. nj. Sttuart,
postmaster Of the u. 8. Hous, of Represents.
ti7cs the vacancy 10 that of, will be filled by
The assistant postmaster, judge NoWllo, uolll
tho fret Ct mex. December, when CoDgres3,
biing In SESSION. WILL elect postmaster.
Dir. Jcrgensen, the republican msmber OF
Congress from the black district 10 Virkioia,
returned from thst State yesterday. bat. after
long conference with Mr.. Hubbell, chairman
of the republican congressional campaign COM
mittee, started i'm uediatelY tor New Y rk, 1t Is
surmised, TO do what he can toward inducing
the republican national executive committee TO
revoke their order Tor an aotlvo campaign Tor
the presidential ticket 10 Virginia.
n. Nj. Mahood, of Virginia. superintendent
Of tho stationery room OF tho House ct Repre-
snntatives, is i'll at his looms 10 this city OF q
ieaae Of tho respiratory orgars. OF which his
physicians Thick thero is hut little hops OF his
permanent recovery.
Suaopo things arc always occulinG 10 this
city, bu: obo ii the rsngest WIS marriage
that took Ilace hero l,st Saturday, when the
principals, very gontcel looking oouple, 60.
c)mpaued By a clergyman, oil from Penns5 Iva
MIA, Hho Ea1 come TO the city with an excursion
party assembled to the Top Of tho domo OF the
Capitol, and With nothing above then, save tho
black Goddess of Liberty with her lack TO
Virginia. and with hu:dfc1s of feet onicug
them to Jump back 10 the erouod below, were
mado orc flash acclrdcg to tho forms Ct the
Presbyterian Church, 10 ne ple3eDoa OF sin'
gle win,ss laberor about tho bulldog.
Maggie Mitchell is flying hero 10 empty
hous:s.
Many persons 10 this city havo been iosited
to attend tho grand democratic barbecue to he
siven OF Warrarton. Virginia. on the 10Th.
Mr. Gilman who spoke in Alexandria rec.nt.
IL has enne 10 Richmond snd will stump that
congressional district for Capt. George d. Wise
and The regular democratic ticket.
The Virgins democratic congressional COM
nlilteo is Cd gsgsd in revising their formor estl.
mslo OF tho vote OF the State in The coming cleo.
ton In twenty-five counties of which thor
ough political canvass has be,n taken tie zoe
will DO 90 coo for the straight ticket 1900 for
the republicans and 1000 for tho Mahoni:es. In
these counties there are lG, COD negroes who have
net yet paid their e,pitation tax.
Newspaper men who witnessed the display in
Bsit moro yesterday lay i. was the grsndeat
sight they ever beheld, and the saoat kable,
for notwithstanding there were $4,000 strangers
in tho city and The whole population on Tho
streets, there was rot single accident and but
IS arrests. Among the mos! attractive portions
of tho parade were the 5000 employees of the Is.
y o. L. T.. in Uniform. and marching in serrio1
ranks and whose parade cost laat road the
round sum cfS SD 0-O