Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-08-13
From HASHlNGI ON
Special Correspondenoe Of the Alesa. @

WASHINGTON. ~. u, Aug. Is, 1881.
The Picsid cot was ~ouodad on Saturday and
Saturday has been n bad day with him ever
siGco. Nlsny, therefore. thought yesterday
that this mornings bulletin would DO 90 urta-
vorablo one, but none supposed ii would be us
bad As Ii Was. for mornlr & pulse OF lQl md o
temperature over 100 showed a higher foyer
Ia On duty again al Tho Whiu House TO day,
n0wl hsthGdlLg his Eslt asserted blood poiS0n
log OF yesterday. lie Say that tho Pre- siicut' q
fcver this morning. wes oaus d hy ohaitnaiod
pus. and that 1t subsd0! IS suCn as Tie wounds
We're dressed this mUrhng nnd ille obstruction
to the How CT ru5 removed. Tho nCoa bulletin
gives his ru!so At lU2 which III tgO points
higher than II Vas a. tho same hnuf yasold:y.
nf. AgnoW has boon tclrgr apitrd FIR. All The
frosldenls physicians hers say tic IL duiGg az
we'll 81 c1uld be expected. and that his lebrilc
exaoerbatIona GrJ charlottesville symptoms OF his
itluros. Tho President, himself, is reported
as saYiog that ho IL better, and Col, R0rk we Eli
Siys tho l'n aldtnt borrowed his eva sIassrs
this mGrnlOg aud rnnd tho headiugs IN the
morning. papbis end commented upon thom,
bus thu CO!Onbl. 1t 10 generally understood, is
not coed authority about tha President s c0nd
lion. The prevailing IMPRESSION to day, az, it
haa been all tho week, Is that Guiteau' d 6all
will do ils dcs g0cd w.rk sitter eli.
Lttle Chief. chitf OF the Choyepnea arrived
hero lhia mornng and is qu4rtCrld at tho Trc-
mont House, le is tho first 10 arrive of the
ladlans invited hc,o by tho Interior Depart.
nent TO hold council with tho Goverumsut
The others will arrive next week. Their ar
rival has been delayed by tho I4;a murder OF
Spotted Tail.
1t islunored hero to dsy that The Central
COMMITTEE of the Vifgioia slraighous rapubli-
CANS, to whom was referred tho question of The
advisabilily Of putting a republican ticket 10 the
hold, will probably decide that question 10 the
affirmative, ADD will nominate ticket with Mr.,
Norman Smith. Ct lLenrico county, at lis head,
Mr. Smith i5 an able and activs republican who
acquired 90 little pronioot c. 10 1869 Should
this rumor DO luo Mr.. Smith will receive tho
largo republican vote that will othetHis, be
u1cast IF Cas- for the debt paying democratic
ticket
Among tho ,umors about Virapia aAoat
here is one TO tho effect that MIR. Huntington.
President of The Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road. was 10 Richmond last week 10 corsultas
tlon with MIR. Wickham, Flcs President OF
that road. aDd that tho latter refusal TO accept
tho straishtout nomination for Governor was
due 10 the advice of the former who doesn't
want the oordrct Of his road mixed up with
politics.
Toe nomination Of Mr. Counsy Tigg for
the State SuDate by tho democrats of Tho dis
trict, composed Of Washington and Smytho
counties IN Virginia, it is said By Vireiuisus
DOW In tho ci'y will secure that heretofore Ma
htue district to the democrats aud mako large
rent 10 tho Mshonn racks That Senatorial
disIrc: IS In tho oh Congressional district
which up to last november WAS largely Msho
Ditc. tut which Mr.. Trieg, then candidate
Tor CoogrcS9, csmc within an ocs OF Carrying.
Mr. Geo w. Riggs. Of the old firm OF Core,
ran and Riggs, coutirucs to improve. and his
friends arc even moro hoptf about him than
they wCro yesterday.
PHO drivers wCro at work to day Ga low down
IS tho Arsenal drVlog pill, s 90 the south bank
OF the Washington ChanDeI, 6vtr which tho
mrd to b. drodgcd from that chsnnel is to DO
DUO pad, 10 or Ter to assist 10 making an Island
OF tho fits
Mr.. Lacey. prominent republic 10 OF Alex,
andra county, who Is in favor OF tho Liberal"
proits,iObs OF Gcbtral Malone, but has his own
noilon about peculiarly obligations, suggested
plank for tho Malone platform by which tho
eVldocGs OF VirQioia's indebtedness no matter
TO what hruro it might DO scaled. DO msds liza.
Bile to ttZa;ion. bot his suggestion was not GO.
captad. MIR. Lacy now hos doubts about the
6eucra' ii, c'rlty. ard is a straightuut