Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-11-15
FROM WASHINGTON


political campaign work in his State, says
that DO candidate for the I. S. Senate in
Illinois has majority of the members of
that body in his favor, and that the COM
pctitor he stand most in fear of is Governor
Cullum. He doesn't think Mr.. Davis, the
present President of the Senate, has much
chance of election.
Ex-senator and present Secretary of the
national republican executive committee,
Dorsey, the man whom President Arthur
publicly thanked for buying the vote of In.
DIANA has returned to the city, and with
Turner Brady, and the other star reuters,
is preparing for his second trial, in which,
for the sake OF the reputation of The District
of Columbia, and for that of the trial by
jury system, it is to be hoped that neither
sugar nor soap may be used with such dis
graceful effects as they were in the previous
trial
In talking about the we'll merited com.
piment paid DR.. RufIncr, late Superinten-
dent of Public Instructions in Virginia, by
DR.. Curry, General Agent of the Peabody
Fund, in his just published annual report, Il
Virginia gentleman here to-day, wondered
what the Doctor would say of Mr. Farr, the
new superintendent, in his next report and
then Mr.. Fairs recent defeat for Congress
in the Alexandria district being alluded to-;
the same gentleman improvised the follow
ing:
Fnrr from the maddcnmS crowds squabblc and bliss
OF future greatness d"!cfuly DREAM
And weep all day that should miss,
q! all the offices Eve sought. the cream.
Gentlemen from the 9th Virginia district
here to-day say that OF all the men who
took Appointment part in the recent election
i'll that district Judge Rhca made the be st
show. He Is young man and never made
a political speech until after Col. Fulkerson
had announced himself Il candidate for re-
election. hui from that time until the close
OF the campaign he was an active canvasser
and Worslcd his opponents, in every dis
| c,lssion. He is said TO be the rising man in
that district and lis next representative in
Congress
Samuel }. Elliott, WAS commissioned post
| master nj Rosby's Rock, Marshall CO., w.
| Va. to-day.
One of the most dangerous counterleits
eyer issued l. now reported to be ia extcn-
size circulation. II is of The Bland silver
dollar, 81 winch II apparently is the exact
| counterpart, having the same weight, size
aid ring. and being able to stand The acid
test.
! Intelligence received at Marine Hospital
! hchd4,i'li'''- !his morning is that the yellow
fever has completely died out in Texas. and
| that the only towns in Mexico in which il
still! prevails, and in them only to a limited
extent, are Camargo and Mier. Also that
OF the thirteen hundred employees in the
Pensacola Navy Yard not a single one was
attacked by yellow fever owing to the san
tary precautions taken there.
The awarding of tho cnnt ~ nj ror I Lo Il, "a
sins required i'll the work Of retaining the
| the flats Oft this city,not to Adams, the low
est bidder, but to one whose bid was twenty
thousand dollars higher, is the subject OF
some talk here, but most people seem to
think that the award was made honestly
and that Alajor lIains, in making it. acted
precisely rs he should have done.
Coz. Robert Mayo, the. defeated Malone
candidate in the 1st Virginia district was
here last night and left to-day. He saws
| that the returns will show Garrison's cleo
t!on by lhirty-iive majority, but that in
some Of the precincts in some of the counties
votes intended for him were placed in the
amendment box, and that the Judges re-
fused to count them. He therefore eycpects
the State Board OF Canyassers at Richmond
! to give him the certificate.
Govcrnors-clect Waller, Of Connecticut
Cleveland, of New York, and Pattison, of
pennsylvania, are natives respectively of
New York, New Jersey, and MARYLAND. It
Is curious circumstance that each of the
States nomcd should select for governor a
native Of the State next adjoining them on
the South.
Hon. Gilbert NJ. Woodward. of La Crosse.
Wisconsin, who has been elected to Congress
from the th district as Il democrat, over
coming 1000 republican majority, was a
Washington boy and is still pleasantly re-
uemhered by some Of the older residents.
In bis early manhood he was a printer. but
Is now 4 lawyer Of signal ability.
Now that the election is over and no
more votes can be gained or lost for Malone
by SuSpcndinS postoflices, the Office at
Iceland, Stafford county, Va, which was
suspended because Mr. Dan Lee was most
master. will probably be reopcncd, that is if
Nahoncitc can be found there to act as
postmaster.
Senator Johnston, of Virginia, is in the
city to-day, but only for Short time, and
on private business.
1t is rumored here that the DELAY in re-.
ceiving the returns from Virginia has some
connection with the bets prominent Ma
honeites, among them the Governor who is
one OF the returning board made on the
election.
Several Virsniaus are talked about here
as aspirants for Captain John Wise's place
as [. 5. District Attorney for the Eastern,
District Of their State, but it is reported
that they are deferred from taking active
steps in the matter by the fear that thoucb
the Captain will have the certificate of cleo
ton, the full vote and fair count about
which he talked so much, were so utterly
disregardc,i at the election that the House
Committee on Elections may, without any
thing like the strain they made last wear
decide that not lie but Mr.. Massey is emit.
lied 10 the seat
Prominent Mahoneitcs here from the
Richmond district say that their grief at the
defeat of Mr. John Amber Smith does not
keep them awake at night. 1t is pretty
well known that Mr. Smith was not the
candidate Gen. Malone desired TO run in
that district, and it is understood that of ali
the money the General had at his disposal,
Mr.. Smith got little or none of it to helm
him in his canvass.
WITH regard to the organization of the