Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-09-09
EXON RASHLNG7ON
Special Correspondence q the Alepa. Gas.lte
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Special Correspondence q the A!epd. GGrelte
Wa9uIE6ToE. ID. O.. Sept. 9. 1881.
Tie latest ttleg;aus roc lived here to day
IF ,m L,Dg Btslch report The Presidents JOS
dision as considerably mp:ored. aid Strength
en- the aIreacy 8 roDg hopes Of his recovery.
Secretary kirkWood arrived hero to day from
Loog Bratch, lie s;ys the President has n
proved more sincs he has been moved than be
did 10 all the time he lay al the White House;
that be is stronger in every way nov than lie
Was when be lsft Washington; that he talks,
eats al d sleeps better, and be and all around
hun low are confident 10 The bnoyant hope q hat
b. will soon be 80 much improved that there
need be no further talk about his successor.
The Secretary ssys that it was feared tho Presi
dent j lungs might have been affected By hia
long prosIrstIon aud the VllistiO1 OF bis blood
but that an examination, expressly for the pur-
pose OF Determining that pUlot. failed to detect
the slightest cause for unoBsiness 90 that &C.
couoIi lie also says that what tho President
gained at the White House during the night
he lost during the day. but that all the strength
no gains now he retalLs, and that il nothing
Unforeseen occurs IN tho next ten days his re-
C)'Gly NJ be5uItus Auu bpGeuV 100.
1t is reported to day that MIR. Dudley. Com
missioner OF Pensions. will recommend that
pensions be given to all federal soldiers who
were coLtlccd 10 military prisons 10 the South
during tho War.
Senator Garland, who is member of the
cub commItto apDol0t d to prepare national
bankrupt law, telegraphod from hora to Sens
tor Ingalls,, chairman of that committee, to dsy.
asking him wien and where tho cjmmtteo
must meet. The committee will visit New
York, Boston, Chicago and st. Louis TO collt CT
Information respecting their labor.
MIR. w. w. DuGRap. ono Of the Iessecs of tho
Alexandria canal. has Just returned from Bali.
moro whtro no contracted for 10000 feet of
heavy lumber with which to repair the Aoue-
duct of the canal during next winter He SAYS
$4,000 was spent on tho A0uednc. last winter
aud 81 600 moro will be spent on the SINE
work during the coming win er1 Twenty. five
boats arrived ct Georgetown este tday, but the
boatmen are already beginning TO tie up for the
reason that there are only two feet Of water in
the SIX mile level. ar il will take ell the water
10 the canal ab6vo that point to flush that level
and for the additional ruascn that tho prioo of
forage and provisions has gone up 80 much that
boatmen cannot make any thing at the Present
rates CT freight, aod that tho coal companies
can not afford at the present price OF c0al to
stand an increAse 10 freight charges.
There ls more lnterest manifested iD the boat
raciog to day than thoro was yesterday. and tho
sptc ators are moro HUMOROUS The Elizabeth
cub from Portsmouth, Va, won the four Dared
race yesterday, and ar3 tho tavori.es in a simi.
lar race to day.
Tho telegraph repor:s another c1rper in
iancy. stocks 10 Now York to day, This
Tina it is tho Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,
which went up from 50 to GO. II ia reported
that the corner was engineered by James Koen
TO get oven in Hannibal and st Joe, AID
that number of Washington lambs have been
shorn.
Mr.. Miller. Of tho Blue Ridge Echo. is 10
tho city to day. flo says tho committee to
prepare the routo for a railroad 10 Rappahan
mock county: Virgioa. havo prepared their res
port and Will present it to meeting OF tho
oltizans OF tho oOuaIy next Monday. 1t will
recommend route from Wsrrenton to Sperry-
Vile, via the Warfenton Spiogi and Amiss.
vile. Such a route will bo q miles long. the
road bed OF which Gan be built for SlGS 600.
Intelligence was received ct tho War Depalt.
ment this morniny that the Chatham Artillery
OF Savannah will altoud the Yorktown Uepten-
nisl and bring with thom two field pieces can.
tuTed from tho British at orktown. The only
battery Of u. :. artillery that was orraoiz I'd
and took part ia The battle of Yorktown ia Low
in Washington Territory and will not be rtsent
ut tho CUnttnDiAl.
The impression at tho Treasury Department
Is that Secretary Window will expend tho sur
plus money ia the Treasury 10 the purchase of
the throo snd hall per cant honda instead Of
| he tours aud four ADD halls. aud that he will
do this Srh tho OF ieo. Of preventing CongrtsJ
from pssing throe per ceot refunding bill
A private letter received here to day from a
reliable aud we'll informed politician of Carroll
county, Va aays thu Mahontes will have no
candidate for th3 Legislature in that county this
year, and that they are no. as strong there now
ss they were last year.
Lieat. Gordon, who WAS wounded in tho late
Indian tight i'll New MeIico. is tho sen Of MI
Gordon who r0eldos near Bsiley's Gross Roads,
Fairfax county, Va.
The first fatal case Of yellow foyer in this coun.
try this Year is reported thia morning from Key
West.