Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-09-03
From WASHINGTON.
'peeial Correspondence If tho Alara. Gasett.


WASHINGTON. D. o.. Sept. 3. 1881.
The noon bulletin from the Vile House tc.
dAy gives the Presidents pulse as lO4, hi!
temperature as 95.4. lis respiration as IS. and
his snalal condition as net materially changed
1t IS rumorcd outside that ono Of his physicians
DR.. Wooaasr said this morning that the
lr1sldout is 90 stronger than BIO was week
ago; that be is txoet doRy Wask. aud that he
Can not stand another relapse. 1t seems to be
the prevailing opinion that he bss not improved
siLcs Sunday. To the contrary, however, 9TH
ers who see the President besides bis phss.
cans. sIy he is not to dsy aud neVer bis boon
as ii K man as the bulletins report him 10 be.
AT tho Cabin It meeting, held at tho Stats De-.
partm,nt to day, the report upon tho Taa-
poosa s accommodations was presented, and il
IL Understood ttst determination Was arrived
at 10 move the President by rail to Long Branch
as soon as possible, probably to III brow morn
lrg. ss a telegram from the railroad Officials
say tho road Can be cleared then 80 as to III Ike
the trip 10 five hours.
IL is IT ported that at the Gal lct meeting to.
dsy. IN acditlon to the subj ct of the removal
OF the President, the question Of his disability
and OF tho a0visabl!y OF requesting tho Vco
President 10 assume the dates OF tho Frnsi.
DENTAL cthca during that disability Wtrs ,l5o
considered, and the opinions of tho physcisns
lskeD respC cling the probable duratoD OF the
disability. The meeting il not yet over and i S
proceedings haVo not yet trspspirod. 1t is not
thought, however. tast an extra sessiou of
Congress WiI be called, as it is very likely that
we're 1t called tor the purpose Of iegislatcg up
ni.nhi ana ! Ia,
or decision By the time Of The regular meet.
iDg Of Congress tbs n it would bo at the com.
msnccmopt Of tie called session, AID lhsl,
therefore,. Hn X:rs session ia entirely unnCcrs-
saly.
The cai, ,0pic II conversation here t. dsy is
about tie lIdIan nassacie 10 Now MI xica
The ludiaus who ptIpeirated it ara not blarkot
l0dIans, hut luclaLs Woo dress like civilized
ptope Who bro armed with mos; approved
Weapons, aud who arc considered The best liz ht
oaVany Ill Tho world. Some OF the ffin.rs killed
were We'll known heIe. 1t is rumored that The
c,ur,e TO be pLr ugd toward tho murdorers by
the Governnent Was another ono OF the sui ,c,s
C IDsi Tered at lhe Cabinet M aeing 10 dsy.
Commodore Kellogg, of .ha Tallapooss, much
10 the surlr SO of himself aud Of everybody
else st'"r what happened yesterday, was DOT
deprlv, d OF the c1nuand IF that vessel 10 dsy.
He chl:d upou Secretary Hunt early this
norolpg. expecting to bo relieved at oaco but
instead OF that ito Secretary fastened to
apolotiz 10 him for anything no said to him
yesterday hat was calculated to wound bis
feolIcgs |: IS reported that Rideley Hunt,
son of the Secretary and master ia The Navy,
who i5 vuty popular 10 tho strvic', bad irri
tated his tsthor against Commodore Kellogg
aid was the ohiei cause OF the trouble.
A Iumtr that obtains orcdonoo to day is ono
TO the et1cot that there have been some sharp
words between Col. Rockwell and Gen. Swain
on tho QUO part and Secretary BIGn, on the
other Icspt lag tho difference between tho
latter's kilograms aud the bulletins of the
Pfesldcnt's physicians, and also upon Mr.. Balm g
leanitg toward the stalTarts. supposed TO 70.
suit from his belief that tho Pr, sideDt will die.
1t is known that when Mr.. Arthur was homo
Blaine called upon him every day, aod that he
DOW agrees with oil the stslwart idcns, oven
with their support Of Mahouism.
M'jJr Archer of the Potomac Manufacturing
Company has ust returned from Boston where
he has bacn on business connected With his
compa6y. lie says the prospects not Oh y for
largo iron furnaces. but other manufactures 10
Alexandria arc exceedingly favorable.
Nineteen bosts got dopn as tar as George
towo yesterday, tu. could not c)me through
tho locks there, IN ODDS; quenoe Of tho low water
10 ihe cautl
MIR. JohuS. Ba,bour,ss one Of the syadic VIC,
hav'rg bought tho stock Of the Virginia Mid
lard Railroad held by Mr.. Garrett and tho Bal
t'more and Olio Railroad. on advantageous
terms. left yesterday morning for tho White
Sulphur. where BIO will remnln wJtk or ten
days. The stock he boz ght is large %. ri Y
Mt m RI IN 0f 4, bo
purchase vi Do 10 mako The Midland en lode
psodeot uo Iusesd Of a par! OF the Baltimore
and Ohio, aud ntirsos to 1t businesi from all
roal direct route between The North and the
South. ard both its travel aud transportation
must necessarily iumGhse. This of course, will
the work at the railroad shops. Alexandra
DOW, iLstead of Bal inore. will be the eastern
end of the road. 1t has long bean the purpose
Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to make
he Midland irely subservient. but this pur-
pose has been successfully conbltted By Mr..
Barbour. who has at .st gotten tho road into
bis oWn coorol. ADD will now BIO unhampered
10 managing it for he best Interests of all par.
Ties concercd. including A!exaud, The pro-
posed Southern < ensnos of the road will b..
pres cuted. and it will be made the great
through nidl.od railroad between the two sec
tons OF the cjun!ry. Why the Baltimore and
Ohio sold Gu. is not p'so except upon the
ground that It's counec.ion south Ct DsnvilIe
had b.en cut eff during Mr.. G,rretL's absence
10 Europa, and that tho rro6!s of 81 short a
Sou hcrn line w)u!d not tqaa' those of 40 3d.
VAntsgeous sale.
KINDNESS THAT PAID. lin the fall of 1873 "a
young and destitute Irishman named Thomas
McDe1mott cana to RoDdout. n. Y, q stranger,
without m oney or friends. A young mech anic
named William Marian, who was q. work on
the Dixie. gave him employment and befriended
him. McDerm 1T confded in him, said be came
from Hng gland and that his relatives were wealthy,
In tbs spring of 1879 he went to work on the
Delaware snd Hudson Canal. About q year
ago an English lawyer arrived in this country
and Inquired for the whereabouts of McDermott
After some difficulty his WAS found and Inform
ed thA.s wealthy uncle had died without child. .
rem. leaving his entire estate to McDermott's
father. who, however. beiDg also de:d. it had
Descended TO him. Thomas went ct once 10
England and took possession of the property.
He died on the Ssh of March last and willed bis