Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-12-27
Prom WASIiINGI ON,
Sp,ciuI Correspondence of the Alera. Gazette

tOpttulL correspondence ~ tuc -atcCI. uuHette.
WASHINGTON. D. G., Dec. q. 1881.
The weather cleared eff warm ard bright
about the middle ol The dry and Penbsy,vauia
Av;rus sooa afterwards presented its usually
spnimaltl sppoaraooo during The seasoD.
Nssrly ali tha ladies locked bright aud fresh
bu! man7 tf Ito mtn salntd TO b, much the
w1ise for wear.
Al the Capit there Wer5 maby visitors. Tut
only toW me mbers Of either house Of Coz
gross. Oa The House sids the Committee oc
Elections was engaged 10 arranging the GASES
| thst arc before II. aud Oh the Seusts sdo the
COMMITTEE oa Appropriations was c0ntDulpgls
| examination OF witnesses who know but won't
! toll all shout tho ctoOkedoes5 that Was gciog on
10 the Treasury Department wbls MIR. Bhtr
man was st tho head Of it.
| The 81 Volume OF tho Annals oil tho War,
| compiled from tho Uoion AID Uoutodrate
| archives, has been published This work was
oCmmsLosd By act OF Congress 10 1874. There
are to DO S. volumes OF it, Of which ouly three
havo been printed.
Letters received here from Judge Hughes.
Judge of tho u. 8. District Court for the
| Eastern District Of Virginia, say that he will
DO in Alexandra next Monday to hold tho
regular term o. his court ther5.
! The talk hero is more and more to the effect
| that William. aiiOs Bill. Chandler. of Florida
fraud iamo. will havo plaoo in the Presidents
Cabinet. OF i that il nominated tho democrats
will mako 20 opposition to bis Confirmation up
on the ground that, With Howe already in the
Cabinet, tho beat ttirg they ca do is 10 lot it
b, as Questionable ls possible.
Tho @. 4 0. Canal is still opur, aud three
boats srr,vod at Georgetown yesterday. Ii will
r9Dsin open as lorg as there is sTy business
for it to de-, provided the weather permits. or
until The Lumbar is ready for the repairs that
arc to ba msdc during the wintor.
A telegram received here tt-dly says that at
the election held at Pensacola yesterday j. Nj.
| Tarbe. republican. was elected May:r, over
the c,n biocd vote Of tho democrats and The
| Custom House Wiug Of tho republican party.
| The latter was against him because be ia spoken
| OF as seeking the dictatorship Of Tho port OF
! that place
The Gulteau case was resumed tC-jsy. Dii
trlot ATTORNEY G0kh says the c.s, will BIO
given to tho jury by Frid y. But how that
cen BIO when esch OF tho fice oouasel is to mako
speech can't we'll DO seen.
IL Is booming the Impression hera that Mr..
| Blaine, who has been almost "elininate q"
! from tho republic ~ party. not BY bis owe Vi
| tiOp, hu. by the !orco Of circumstances. is real
| " at work organizing boom By which he may
| tcc,iso tho democratic nomiustion for the
Presidency 10 1854, and that bis agents orc al
| rasdy traverspg the South with that otiset 10
view. IL is needless TO say that all reasonable
| men believe that should no ba successful 10 OBJ
tanning such q nomination his defeat will be
| and should be moro disastrous to himself than
that phioh killed Horace Greeley.
A YOU'VE LADY PICKED UP IN A DlUNKsN
CONDITION A rather unusual arrest for drunk.
| euntss wa1 mads last evening by tho cffc,ls OF
tho Eth Pro CO.. A young and attractive
gr about eighteen yeers of sgo. drcssod 10 quiet
bat elegant style. WAS discovered 10 tn, carly
hou's Of tho evening ia the Smithsonian
grounds surrounded by guug Of rOu2ts.
They had touad her 10 Tie slrtols uuier the it,
fluotoe OF OUR. aad dtooyed her 10 q l0aeIy
spot to rob her OF The wclry who'll she wore
10 prolusiop, and ptrhsrs with Other dcsieoF
They were interrupted by the arrival Of The OFF,
cars aud took 10 their hoels. The yCuog lady
was lsken in charge aud conveyed TO the station.
! pag l1uul that she WEA no cannon character.
aud tor rsce. ut moro than ordinary besu'y.
showed NJ lric II OF q fast hl:.. Tho handsome
lnr-llued circular Whibh sho wore was stained
with Tho Mud of tho slrtote. VII, r3 she had fall
60 10 her staggering progress A costly hat Of
the laies! design WAS cfushu! and battered a..
mast beyond recognition. Her dtrsa, which
was Of lovely shade OF empress cloth, and her
we'll saleced ,peIry and tho othor details Of
her toilet evirc'd q refined and wol;hrod tts!e
From what could 10 gathered from her iacohe
rent and di: ioined talk il was evident that she
was n person Of education and c,us:omed to
good soo.tY When she roaliz I'd her situation
she began to cty bitsr'y and called for her moth
CT. !. WAS ssoertaintd that she had Left her
hons 10 tho upper part Of tho ely Tho West
Endl early 10 tho day TO maks a call at tho
house OF fiicnd While thore she lunohed
and pariotk rather freely 81 Christmas egg
| nogg The lqncr did not begin to have lis
full elI.c; until sho e'srod fer her homo cary
10 Tho tvanng. Sho staggered along the
| s!r.ola, ard wbiIa in this condiian and almost
| unoosoous she fill into tho hands of tho rcughs,
| with tho rfsaltH th ,vs mu1tiontd. Har parents
| 10 their elegant homo were ignorant f tho fato
| which had btiailsn ihtir loved daughter.
This 0cident il s.rikiDg illustration Ut snmo
phases of sscIal life in this CITY, Iiash. Rep.