Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-20
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. Mahone's Campaign. A Favorable Outlook for
 His Success. BRIBERY COMING HOME TO BOOST. Result of the Star Route
 Investigation. RUBBER SHOPS TO SHUT DOWN. A Stroke to Break tEae
 Corner.
RUBBER SHOPS TO SHUT DOWN.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Virginia Canvass-A Campaign
 Workers Glowing View of the Pros
 pects-Ths Governments Side an the
 Star Route Bribery-Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. Ex-Governor Cam eron, General Groner, and other leading Vir- ginia Coalitionists, are here to-day in consul tation with General Malone. Minister Lang ston has also returned to tho city after mak- ing series of ten speeches for the Readjuster cause. He takes glowing view of it's pros poets, describing his meetings as large and enthusiastic. Referring to these accounts of his work by Professor Langston, prominent Virginia politician said to day that they should be taken with reserve as statement of the popularity of the Malone movement. MT. Langston, he said, was popular speaker, aud would always command large audiences at the South any subject. He said it was but justice to MT. Langston to state, as he did from personal knowledge, that the speak or did not labor in the canvass for mercenary motives, as had been charged in some quar- tors. He had seen Mir. Langston's bill for the entire trip, including everything, and it amounted to only fifty dollars.
 Governor Wells, ths special counsel en- gagged by the department of justice to inves. tlgate the bribery of Star route jurors, thinks the governments side of the case will be ready to be made public tomorrow, and the statement is made tonight that it will prove the bribery of at least one member of the jury by the defense.
 A comparative statement of the Postoffice department for the first half of the last fiscal year under Postmaster Generals James and
 Howe shows that the surplus of receipts over obligations under James half was $197, 7O3.- s7, and Howes half $1 32O, O,521.O7. The re- ceipts during James, half were $1, ,293 427 O9
 more than in Howe's half and the expendi-
 lures for the same period were $l6O, 6O9. 92
 more The decrease in the Star service ex-
 pense was $212 438 35 more in Howe's half than in James and in the steamboat service
 1924 1926 70 more.
 Secretary Folger denies the report of his
 intention to resign without foundation.
 He will soon begin work on his annual re-
 port.
 The Democratic National committee now estimate that the Democratic majority in the next House will bo at least forty.
 The President will return to morrow night and will be the guest of Secretary Freling- huysen. One of his first acts will be to fill the existing vacancy in the rank of Major General. The impression is that Brigadier General Pope will be promoted and Colonel Henry J. Hunt of the Fifth artillery, will be made Brigadier General.
 The annual report of General Superintend ent Thompson of the railway mail service shows that during the year 1904 railway postoffice cars were run over 87 ,S65 miles of railroad, making 75, TAI ,483 miles in the an. nual service. There were employed in the service 3, 57O clerks at an average salary of $976.9s, who handled 34, TAG, PIT, ,79O pieces of mail matter in 57O, 483 pouches. In the distribution of this matter 9O2, ,48s errors occurred, or one error for every 3,SO5 pieces Out of 1,O27 clerks appointed during the year 20 per cent. failed to pass the final ex animation and were dropped from the rolls There were S3 casualties in which clerks were killed and 36 wounded. During the past ears 19 clerks have been killed. The ! superintendent recommends Congress to allow the two years salary to families oi clerks killed in the service, and says that the fines and deductions for failure to perform service, etc., could pay such amounts without ! increased appropriations. Tho sum of $15,- 900 turned into the treasury this yea, from this source. The estimates for the \ next year call for $5, ,193, ,12O. It is recon I mended that Congress make the limit oi office in the railway mail service permanent l during good behavior.
 There is rumpus in the Columbia lew college over the admission of 8 colored mar \ to the junior class. The students have signee 8 petition to the faculty and threaten to lea Se
 in body unless he is expelled. Judge Cox who presided during the Guiteau trial is Ice ! turing before this class
 Congressman Rosecrans. of California, il \ a private letter to 8 friend here says tha ! Horace F. Page the Republican nominee fol
 reelection to Congress in the Second district
 is the only Republican who VIII be elected tt ! Congress in California this fall, and that thu State will go Democratic by eight thousand | majority