Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-07-30
FROM WASHINGTON,
special Correspondence Of the Alerd. Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. g.. july 80 1881,

this morning. end etc breakfast of bis owo
ordering. aid Of sold food. He watched tie
clock from nlce to twenty mi1utts after, when
&c remarked, Exactly at this instant, four
| weeks 80. l Was shot" lie sod bis physicians
now say be is Oh the rapid road to recovery.
A resident of Southwestern Virginia. Dew 10
| the city, says the election tour IF Col. Cameron
General Msnoue's candidate for Governor, WIS
the Hates: ever m,d ;, a,d that m1ch cf the
Nsaone s.rsog:h in thst section ups bsen dis.
slpated. He Gays that the low soccdotos ,o!d
BY the Colonel a: Abingdon, ADD the msnne,
10 which be took .ho flies GU. of the pitcher
from which DE drank 90 tho stsnd disguised
oil the better elias. Of his hearers there, and that
many who were sdoh pronounced resG busters
last tal that they voted tho Malone presden.
Raj ticket have now cjme back to the regular
democratic party. He says that the CoDousl
had very small su1leDce at Bristol, and that
the reported Malone cnthrfiasn 10 the South.
west is ali bosh. He also says that the deuo.
crsts OF that section have no particular fsyorite
Tor Governor. bus will caeerfuiIy support any
ticket the convention mty nominate, bat that
he thinks Pfldcmore for Li@ut. Governor would
glse The ticket additional strength ia That SEQ.
| tin.
Inc uafriendIy Treatment Cbirs has re-.
| celVcdiffom this c2un;ry has induced tho Chi
pisa government f:si. 70 recall the students it
had hero, and sec9Ddly to Withdraw its eubss-
| 81. II ls said thss the students will not be-
transferred to European schools, bat will re urn
20 Onlna. and a!5o that new Minister will be
seos bare TO reDtac, the two now here, bu,
those statements are not believed, though
Chlns has been offended at the cours, pursued
| toward her Icop.e here, and wsnis 10 cur,eil
her relations With this country as much as DOS
sibe.
Col. Blight. Sergeant at Arms Of tho Senate,
Rho ls largely interested in The neW!y orSspiz ID
fotomao Msnutec urinE Company Of Alexsn-
ora, informed The Castles correspondent. to-.
DAY thai the stockholders 10 that COMPANY had
put their money 10 1t, CO we're therefore more
Interested IN KS success than anybody else could
90, and were consequently the MIRO Likely to
giVo Ii all the attention it deserved; tina. they
we're conducting IL according to their ideas, 81
| they and they alone would be the losers il il
did not succeed, ADD that if they we're sstisfs ID
"lh us progress, as they are, i, is immaterial
whether other people ore 50 or Dos. He said
| tho necessary machloery for the commencement
OF operations has been ordered snd is on its gsy
| to Altxsntrls. and will be erected IS soou AZ Il
reaches there, and that after operations shall
nave coMm,nced, the erection of o!har works
| Will DC proceeded with rapidly as possible.
| Inc 1or ksown Conmis ion held another
| meeting to dsy, 10 hear tbs report of Senator
bo'ler snd Cuh GGodc, who went to Baltimore
to eors1tt with gentleman there who il in.
teressed 10 Yorktown. about building now
wharf thore. The Govtrumsut h.d promissd
to build the Oecdsd whtrt, tu. at lats day
doollood to do 80, and SIS ono is required. the
commission must cree: it ous Of the funds al
ihelr disposal. COMMITTEES from tho Bsti-
mora Carnival and irjm the National Fair
Association of this OF 9sro before the COM
mission Tor the purpose of making arrange
meets oy whcb all tho colebrstors should c2n-
tribute toward each others suc,css.
AL the authority cpou the subject hiss been
looked uo aud DO wsy has been fouad by which
Senators aid employees Ct the Senate can draw
their ray uo'll pew secretary shall hsvs been
elected, and that can't be unliI the SQnatc
meets next D:can5'r. There is no way BY
which money c.n be drawn from the office Of
The Secretary of Seosto uulas8 the Secretary of
the treasury assumes the responsibility Inci-
dent uDoa suoh proceeding.
| POSTMASTER General James, while bent Up 10
nsklng the postottioe psyicg institution, las,
since the Conkliug faction csme 10 srief, "lct
| :,
lest, II is understood, he should catch other 6sh
than those he Intended to fry, and a. s,rot q.
or proof that be is not snch civil strVic, re-
| former SIS somo Of his friends would have it be-
| eVed, it may be stated that be is using his Of
h,e to further the ends of Goooral Mahono to
the extreme limit of his power 50 we'll ig this
known that one of the clerks 10 the Postofhce
| Department, tho other day, tod q friend who
wanted postmastcfsaip in Virginia that all he
| had do to secure the plea Was 10 got General
Ma hone to eodorse bis application, ns the Gen.
era, to as. his exnression, WIS DOW 'ruoung
the postofhoes 10 Virginis."
| Intelligence was received here this morning
from u s. chip Alliance. She has arrived al
| Iceland, reports that part of the ocean clear of
ice, that nothing has been heard there of the
Jesnnette, and tnst she will have descriptions OF
that vessel printed in tho Icelandic lar guage and
distributed throughout all paris OF the island BIZ
| the members of Parliament who we're then about
| returning TO their homes.
1t is stated here that Mr.. Gray, Collector Of
Customs at Alexandria, who removed the negro
| ]sultor there, told him he die 90 because il was
| the policy OF the Secretsry of the Treasury to
| remove sll oficehoders who had held their DO
si!ions for long time.