Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-04-06
FROM WASHINGTON.

lt,deny that they We're applicants: but one of
them, Mr.. New, Of the Treasury, is SO dis
gruntled that he says the leaves of autumn
Will not see him in office any longer. Mr..
Hatton, Assistant Postmaster General,
thought he was to have the place, and had
ms gall raised because he didn't get it, but
he was polite enough to fail to recognize
mat he had been snubbed, and was al the
depot yesterday morning 10 SEQ the presi-
dent oil.
Congressman George b. Wise, of Virginia,
who is in the city, when informed that Gen.
eral Mahones organ here was going up, re.
marked that the General himself, had al
ready gone up-meauing of course the Cen
erals supremacy in Virginia.
The I. $. Cattle Commission having
been Informed that many fatal cases of
pluro- pneumonia had occurred among the
cattle III the State of West Virginia, west of
the Allegany mountains, and their theory
being that that dlseasedoes not extend west
| OIL that range OF mountains, sent one Of their
inspectors to the section of country referred
TO with orders to examine the dead cattle
and report the cause of their death, His
report has just been received, and ia to the
effect that death was caused not by pluto.
pneumonia, but by tuberculosis, an entirely
| different disease. Cattle men, however. suy
that the disease known as pluro- pneumonia
III this section of country affects cattle west
as well as east of tho Allegheny mountains,
and that the tubercles in the cases referred
to were sequee 10 the inflammation of the
lungs, luug fever, or peuro- pueumonia.
DR.. Hamilton, ofthe Marine Hospital SER
wee, has gone TO Pensacola to devise ways
ana means 10 prevent the appearance of
yellow fever there this summer. if such
thing tie possible.
At the star route trial to day, J. ". Dor
sey, brother of the ex-senator, was on the
witness stand. His testimony was to the
effect that the whole star route business, 50
lar as he knew, was conducted fairly and
honestly, and that The Government mad not
been Getrauded to the extent of a single
cent
AT the meeting of the Jeanette Board of
inquiry to-day, the questions prepared BY
Or. Collins and intended to develop eyi.
dence that would show that his brother had
been badly treated were propouDded to the
witness Bartlett, but he testified that the
Doctors brother had been treated with all
the respect due him, and that when his
body was found the cross he wore was
buried with him, as it was part Of his re-
!lglon. Bartlett also testified that no human
foresight could have changed the fate of the
expedition.
Secretary Folger is so much better today
that ne said this morning he expected to
be at his seat in the Treasury Department
on Monday next. His face, however, still
bears strong resemblance to that of the
terribly SCARED one of the Attorney General.
Hanlan, the oarsman, who has been prac.
ticing here for some time past for his match
with Kennedy next summer, will leave next
week Tor Lowell, Massachusetts. where the
weather Is cooler and moro bracing, and
where he will continue to practice until the
day Of the race.
kilograms here state that the fact that no
BODY but boot blacks and porters were at
the depot at Alexandria when the President
passed through there yesterday was OBJ
served and commented upon By some OF the
Presidential party. Also that the conductor
between Weldon and Wilmington demand.
ell tickets, passes or money from the party,
and WAS only prevented from enforcing his
demand by receiving u telegram at one OF
the stations from the officers of The road
telling him that the party had been invited
10 travel on the road, but that by an over.
sight he had not been informed of that fact
Rumors are again aloat, but they come
from interested republican quarters, TO the
effect that the President is very anxious
either TO bring the heretofore democratic
followers of General Malone into the re-
publican party, or 10 do something TO show
that he recognizes the existence of the re-
publican party in Virginia. II is said that
he really contemplated making Lieut.. Gov.
Lewis Postmaster General, and made
an appointment with Governor Cameron
TO see if Mr.. Lewis would he acccnta-
bic to tnose followers Of the General who
have heretofore been democrats, but that
the Governor was taken sick and could not
come. 1t is also said that the General is as
uncertain about his future course as any
man in his party, and is depending alto
sether upon contingencies TO determine that
course; ne ls very much put out with
several o! the departments for not complying
with some of his demands, and in some
instances has refused their requests 10
| recommend names for appointment. but he
will allow nobody else to recommend them,
not even Senator Riddlebcrger, who has been
trying iE vain for some time past to get
q personal friend an insignificant clerkship.
The President it is said has had several cousults
tloas with prominent Virginia republicans for the
purpose OF recognizing the republican party and
OF bringing into it sill tho members of the Malone
party. Virginia republicans here today saw that
unless hah9ne comes over to them In name and
avows republican principles tncy will either vote
against him or let him severely alone in his flu.
| ture contests
The following were commissioned As postmas.
tiers i'll Virginia to-day: +. s. Arlington Belfar
Mills; J. II. billiard. Claremont Wharf; A. J.
Goodwin, Cuckoo; ]. E. Jones, Peadletoa, and S.
| d. Wilson, Sycamore.
1t Is reported to day that the Insurance cases
brought in the Court of Claims for share of the
Alabama indemnity fund will be dismissed for
want OF jurisdiction, the court holding that all
such claims must be decided by the Alabama Com.
mission.
1t is understood that J. Stanley Brown, the pri.,
vate secretary of the late President, is writing
history of the life of President Garfield in which
ne will attempt to disprove all of the numerous
scandalous charges that were brought against the
man who lost his life in the lottery Of assa.sina
| ton.
gentleman. here in looking over some old
| books that had not been uHpacked for about ed
teen or twenty years. found business care ! [.
tween the leaves ofone of them, on which the':,-
lowing words were printed "a Lincoln, Counsel
Tor aud Attorney at Law, Springfield, Ill Can al.
ways be found in his Office TO receive his friends
cracks joke or split rail- until the 4th of March
next" There was NO date on it, but it is suppos.
ed that Mr.. Lincoln had 1t printed after he was.
| elected. and for the nurnnee of ,oox1