Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-16
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lauy Illustrated magazine, containing the newest
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Especial Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WAsHINGTON, ID. c., August l6.-The
more voluminous the intelligence from Fir-
ginia becomes, the more certain it appears
that the Mnhonetc party in that State is
dssolving, and that as its only cohesive
power, public plumber, is rapidly reaching
the exhaustive point, it will soon be resolved
into lis clmentary components and leave
nothing to mark its former power but two
misrepresentation Of Virginia in the U. 5.
Senate, some State Judges with bad reputa-
tons, and an unpleasant memory. General
Malone. il is said, has been promised
thirty thousand dollars by the Republican
Congressional Committee, with which to
carry Oh his campaign. But what is that
for So large Il State as Virginia, even if
placed where it would do the most good,
and not, ai il must be, entrusted to unreli-
able hands. II is said that the straightout
republicans all over the State feel that they
have been outraged and that they have de-
tcrmined to let the President see that though
N'Sii'i ~ -itil'iiS lllu INC sup
port Of Virginia in the next national repub-
lican convention she can't deliver the
goods 1t is also said that Wherevcra politi-
al M eting is held in the State, no matter by
which party il may have been called, any
allusion 10 the defeat Of Malone is received
with chccls while favorable remarks about
him elicit no applause, and that already his
followers; are reduced TO those who either
hold ulrr:; or hope to get them through the
Generals influence
y telegram received here to-day from
Senator Brown states that Senator Ben Hill
died at a quarter past six o'clock this morn
ing. The liags on both houses Of Congress
arc flying AT llalf-mast, and the doors of the
Senate are heavily drapcd in mourning.
There are but four Senators in the city,
Measrs. Morgan, Lamar, Beck, and Blair.
of whom the first three will attend the
burial of their late colleague. The commit
tee Of the House, appointed by the Speaker
to attend, includes Mr.. John :. Barbour, of
the Alexandria district. The funeral will
take place at Atlanta next Friday afternoon
III four o'clock. The GAZETTE's corrcspon-
dent heard Mr.. Hill say that he should
always remember the floral ship presented
to him by the ladies OF Alexandria, winter
before last, as the mark of one of the most
agreeable incidents Of his eventual life.
| y meeting of the stockholders of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal will be held TO-.
morrow for the purpose OF electing a pres-
dent of that company. AS heretofore stated
In this correspondence, the probability is
that Mr.. Lewis t:lss Smith, of Alleguny
| county. Nd, will he chosen. He is u per
sonal and political friend of Mr.. German.
The belt of 1rrscoc painting that is to
adorn the upper part of the rotunda of the
Capital, which WAS commenced by Brumdi.
lacks now about a third of being completed,
the successor Of the old artist being Il more
rapid worker than he WAS
1t is understood here that the Win, Gen.
Mahonc's paper in Richmond, opposes the
nomination orGco. {. Round for the Malone
nomination for Congress in the 1st district,
and that the Generals t;lvortc for the nomi-
nation is Mayo, of Westmorcland county.
Wolff, Il prominent republican from that
district, says Round will be nominated ON
the first ballot, and that if not nominated
then will be the Straightout republican
candidate.
y gentleman here from Danvile saws that
the speech Mr.. Massey made there had a
most telling effect, and that scores of read
iustcrs there who heard il now saw they
will vote for him. He says that the attack
upon him ut Franklin made him hundreds
of votes in that county alone, and that at
the trial which he demanded readiusters
We'd with each other about going his bail if
bail should be required. He says that Mas
sey $ candidacy is evoking great enthusiasm
in the 9TH and 9th districts, and that in the
former it will afford material help toward
the reelection of Mr.. Cubell.
Two bad accidents occurred here to-day.
Columbia fire engine No. 5 Of Capitol Hill
when on lis way to fire upset near the
Capitol and its driver, Joseph Daniel, was
so severely injured that ii is thought he can
not recover.
About the same time the horse attached to
Il phaelom ran away on PENNSYLVANIA
avenue near 10Th street, and badly hurt the
lady who was driving it, who was the wife
OF 4 clerk in the pension office.
kilograms from Brownsville, Texas, to-
day report fifty cases of, and three deaths
from yellow fever there since the last re.
| port.
Intelligence here to-day from the I'd Viz
district is to the effect that Dczendorf, the
straightout candidate, is carrying the ne
groess, who have Il large majority in the
district, with him almost to man and that
at Suffolk last Monday, where Paul and Cross
also spoke from q different stand, and where
Spauding his Mahoncite opponent was to
have spoken but did not, because he could
not get an audience, the size Of his crowd
was three times that of the others, and ten
times as enthusiastic.
F0REIGN NPWc