Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-07-28
FROH WASHINGTON,
Special Correspondence u tie ileso, Gdsette
WAsHINGTON, u, G., JAW %. 1881,

White House to day the condition of the Press
ideot is greatly improved He slept we'll las.
night, and ate sDd resded large breakfast
this morning. be vas 90 muoh better that be
VAS moved to smother bed ia OId-r that tbs onc
upon which be had bceo iycg might be made
up. Ho eXpererc. d gres. relief from thu
char &c. npd 5000 afterwards FIJI iuso refresh
Jog sleep. He will be ru, back 10 bis cid bed
this atteranon. 1t is stated that telegram was
sent North last night By authority OF bis ply
sicia; $, to the eff CT that be wJuld be able 10
set up to day. Dr.. Hamilton IS o1rs:an. il bis
atta ndstc: and will rot leave u1til the return Of
Dr. Ago.v. The Wti!c House is 40 exceed
Ugly melc1rlal place. A sIigb: uafavors5le
~ upton makes everything about there louk
| blue, while tsv0r.be turu imnarts rosy hue
| to al! the surroundings. A patriotic people.
| however, hope that the cheerful feelings 10 dsy
| may have better tyunds,lou lhsc thcss Of Iss
FRIDAY. Judge ksIIry, ct Pnii4Geiuti., wa,
| among tho callers this mcrLiog. Among the
| letters Received there this murnug was oue
| from youGgsler, who says thst DR.. Bliss mus
| be great surgeon, ADD that hsvi.g lost two
6.grrs be Wou d like the Dic,or to mske hin
Two to supply their place, as DE-. Palmer, OF
| PhilsdeIp ia, asks lin $25 peoe for them.
| PnVate inle,ligeoc4 received here FROM Mis-
| sisslppi is 10 the etf,c: that while S;oas and
| Barksdalo will be tie strongest candidates bo-
| fore tie CenOo!a:io convention OF that State
| for Governor, the friends of both sre soinimcaI
to each other that probably neither o,n c NOM
| osted, and that 10 that event either Loprey or
| Thy Tor will receive the nomination. Whoever
gets the DomlDatiJa viii probably be elected,
| though ,uuless the invention seleo BIksisIr
f-r lis cancid:te. Ben King, who ioueh.
| through the var as private, will head The %.
| position 10 which will b. united the republicans,
greenbackers and ue2rCes. BaIksdsa is .
personal friend OF Klug i and should the former
| be dominated TIE latter will not oppose Tim.
Mr.. Cooking is sill here and hsviog given
up bis rooms Oh IA street is stopping with bis
friend, companion and partisan Senator jones,
| OF Nevada. He is at the Capittl slm0st every
day, where no takes bath, a shave and spends
some time 10 the room Of the COMMITTED Oh
| Commerce Of which Committee Gen. Malone
made him chairman. He receives humorous
callers at Senator Jones's home. nearly sl Of
! whom belong to tho s.alwart Wing CT bis party,
Fred Douglass Was one OF then tt day.
! Mr.. Owsn Holmes. prominent republ can
from Laulouu coun;y, Virginia. who is here
to day, says the eonveotiou TO appoint dtlege tvs
| " tbO tCpuHllSao oitlo CUufeutlUu HUH NlS
county will meet next week, and that he thinks
the men it will selec. will bs 10 favor Of tie Ma
hone ooAli loo, but that there nay be some
doubt about it from the tso. tina, lemperaaos
N cling is to be hell 10 ths upper par; of tho
county 90 tho Same day, and that it wilt be at
tended by waby WHO would otherwise attend
the cJuvoollon aud vote for the coa'i,ion.
Among the clerks 10 the Pasctic, Dsparl.
meut now is Josiah MIllatG, who. until cJmpar
atlVe recantly has been ou9 OF the Dis.rio. coo
stables. He vii! be remembered 10 AltXaudria
as one OF the federal officials Who figured IRON.
neuly dufing and shortly after the WAT.
Colonel Butoh, Secretary Of tho Senate, is
very III to day, eCd those who sal up vita rim
last night say there ere but slight hopes of his
recovery. His physioisps say the valves of bis
heart arc diseased and d. not peiiotm their
prop:r uUotlop. TIE CoIoucs d 18th at ang
uonent would not surprise bis friends. Tho
| Colonel is The first dem .cratic Secretary the
Senate has bad siaoe the var. He is leu
resseau aud the editor of q dem, c.aic Daucr iu
| Memphis.
A esnil.nsn who arrived from Norfulk this
morning says that the cuiro deegariGp from
the Norfolk, or Pad Cougr: s,;ousI distrc:, of
| Virginia will 70 to tho S.ste dem0orstis cjnven
ton as ucit for Mr. Goode, Sud that su,h
will also be the o.'e with the del, g,tiops from
| the two counties on the Esstera Shore, cpd
other counties 10 the 1st district, some OF when
have been Instructed TO vote for Croxou, who
will not be candidate; that BIO also mss sireo2,h
| 10 every other district, and that the pecp!o II
| bis own dlstric. will BE- greatly surprised II be
does DO reoeiVs the nomination.
Col. PJpham. prominent Virginia republi-
eau, aud clerk of the u. S. Court of that Stat.
Iar Odd hfrA fran R.n..v l,ki
says that che republican State Ologen,iou will
be in favor of the Mshoue coali,ioo b, laIg &c
majority, sDd that every indication new poin .
10 that direction. He says thst Mr. Fenus!d,
collector OF internal rrvenue for the Danre
district, was 10 Petersburg Yesterday 10 oousu
taSioD with Collector Brady, of .hs, district,
and General Mehope FIR the purpose Of iac,i,
! tatlrg that otiso!. and that c9ll.os RiVss Of
the Lynchburs d sirio; is working 10 the same
| interest," that the Postmaster General of the
United States is doing Ill he can 10 favor the
| OBJECT. ard that Commissioner Dudley OF the
! Pension Bureau, Is helping it scpg By al the
means 10 his power. He thinks II probable
| that the Convention will either endorse the
Malone ticket or leave tho parry to vote TO-.
whom ita chooses. we'll knowing that an over
whelmiug ~, ,rity of IL will vote that way.
The oouf reuco to be held here soon be Zen
the Commissioner Of Iodsu Atfsrs and dele
! gstious from the various tribes Of lndi,ns will
b. for the purpose of seeing it s,ms srrspg-
meDt cannot be Effected by which the aumsr.
! Gus and now costly sgel cies can be co1soda.ei
The delegations will have nc! aud expensive
| summer ulp at the Cost Of the government, but,
| OF course, will Consent to 40 proposition for The
proposed consolidation.
10 the show widow Of music store OF
Psnnsy'vauis avenue arc displayed three small,
tut beautifully executed, Italian sceu 8. psiu.
| ed 10 water coIors, BY Ross Turuer, formerly Of
Alexandra. Mr.. Turner is sill 10 Europe,
where be has been fer several years pat pur-
suug his artistic studies, bat will returu to his
c2uutry next year. He speut Isst wloter 10
Florence, where he scquired 90 little reputsuon
among AID uuch mgney from the rich Ameti
caus thero, who eagerly bought all the work he
had on hand including that GA his easels, and
who gave bin orders for much more.
COMMUNICATED,
Of coursc! stop the whistles Of the boats
Stop the boatsl Some sensitive uerVe may be
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