Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-26

trict to shelp his election. The gentleman
also said that Daniel carried Franklin
county last year by only thirty odd majority,
but that Massey will carry it next Novem-
Der by over five hundred majority.
Ex-senator Roscoe Conkling and ex-Gov.
Hubbard passed through here this morning
for the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs,
whether to attend the races or Il political
conference is unknown. =
Gov. Cameron Of Virginia passed through
! here yesterday afternoon for Richmond, on
carried his family day or two before
Ensign Lee Holcombe U. S. Navy, for
merly of Alexandria. has been appointed
Assistant Astronomer Of the American ex
petition to Africa to observe and report the
transit of Venus. He will have charge Of
the photographed part of the work. The
expedition will leave about the middle Of
of September, and will be gone about six
months.
An old lady who has u clerkshp in the
Treasury, and who had just returned from
the funeral ola grandchild in Pittsburg, was
observed yesterday to wilt and faint at her
desk soon after her mail had been handed
her. When picked up four letters were
found in her hand, one containing doctors
bill for attending the child referred to; one
the undertaker's bill for burying that child;
one Mr. HubbelPs assessment circular and
one, :, similar circular, from the republican
campaign committee Of Pennsylvania.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, has chal-
lenged Senator jackson, of the same State,
to stump that State together and discuss the
State debt question before the people, and
the challenge has been accepted. Senator
Harris takes the torcbly reduced tax and
Senator Jackson the compromise tax side OF
the debt question. These two democratic
L. S. Senators from the same State arc try
ing to split their party and thereby help
the republicans to retain possession OF
the State which they gained two years ago
by means of II similar split.
y prominent Northern democrat in the
city to-day says the detection of Chalmers
and his Endorsement by the republicans art
the best thing that could possibly have
happened for the Northern democracy, as
for years past republican speakers and
: writers have been denouncing Chalmers as
q bulldoZer and as the author of the Fort
Pillow massacre, and then holding him uE
as a typical Southern democrat, and by
: these means have made great deal o.
: political capital.
From Kentucky it is learned that ex,
Clerk Adams, Of the House, will be elected
to the House from the district now repre-
sented by the scalawag White, and thai
, Mr.. Phil. Thompson, the Secretary of the
Democratic Congressional Committee, anG
who, by the by, has just returned to the
e city, who represents the closest district il
5 the State, will certainly be reelected.
With the present force in the pension of
flee new names for arrearages of pension!
are being put on the rolls in numbers that
will cost the Government fifty millions
t year, and when the whole increased force
I provided for is put to work the names thai
will be daily added to the rolls will necessi
tate al expenditure of more than hundred
millions Il year. 1t will thus be seen tba
\ the republicans are providing ways fol-
, spending the surplus in the Treasury, so a!
=, to prevent any reduction either in the in
ternal revenue or, the tariff.
Frank Haggerty, Doc Palmer and G.. NJ
II Moore, who had gone to Cape May togeth
II er, returned yesterday. Haggerty went tt
bed as soon as he came back and died il
the afternoon. Moore, who had seen hin
once or twice during the day, finding hin
! dead at his last visit, went to an apotheca
= RVS and buying some arsenic from a CLERK
III one part of the store with which, as h,
L said, to kill rats walked to another part O
G the same store ard asking different clerl
ioA o SiaSo vi 'lSIS, GillC" Ilo pOlSOu Ill l
C and commenced drinking it, but the latte
o clerk, who was Mr.. Kell, of Alexandria
seeing what he had done, sprang around
!, the counter instantly, and selling hin
t by the neck. prevented his drinkin!
more than two or three swallows
none of which contained any of thu
poison, which, being heavy, had sunk t.
the bottom of the glass. But to avoid al
5 risk, he forced the proper antidote dowr
n his throat at once, and told the crowd
! which by that time had assembled, to tax,
- him home. Palmer, the remaining one o
> the party, has not been heard from. Hag
e gerty kept the restaurant on Pennsylvani,
e Avenue, just above the Pension Office tn,
D place made famous by Senator Vance, wht
when leaving upon one occasion ran almos
; into the arms of his porter, and in response
: to the latter's expressed regrets at seeing
: him come out Of such place instantly re
marked, "My dear sir. you certainly didn'
want me to stay in there"
a letter received here to-day from Mr. Mas
!; sey says that he spoke at Floyd c. H., OF
+ the 23d inst, with the most satisfactory re
q suits, and will from this time daily until thu
election, enlighten the people of his Stat,
upon the subject of Mahoneism.
o Henry T. White, Jenkins Bridge, Acco
f mac CO., Va, and Edwin H. Zepp, Star Tan
+ merry, Frederick CO., Va, were commissioned
postmasters to-day.