Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-27

shone Of the republican nomination Tor Con'
sn"p =, tho Raleigh district against MI.
~ hnt has no more chance OF election
H., Mr. Green, in the Alexandra district
- Wirc;nia. Mrs Vance, wife OF the eena-
40 Mo has lust returned here for the winter
t co., Mar home in North Carolina, told
r,isnd that everybody is SO certain OF -
sweeping democratic victory there tnls iaa
that The political condition OF the otaIe 10
not an open question and consequently 10
not subject OF conversation tnere. -,
The long delayed action upon tne olii ao'
free bridge across the Iotomac AZ ueo.sd
town is the result OF causes ehtlseiy oeS ,har
the control of Mr.. Barbour and the oInei
narties interested in the construction OF
such bridge. The bill and the acceptance
of its terms BY the Alexandria Canal Com
oony and the lessees of the canai, were
Cont TO the Secretary of War, and by Nun
transmitted to the department OF Jus,lce
t,no months ago. At that department. they
Nor referred to Mr.. BeDtly, an examiner,
hnt before he had time to complete the ex
on,;nation he was afflicted with disease OF
the ewes which has ipcapacitated him Tor
work ever since, and as nobody else at the
denartment knows anything about them,
report upon them will have to await his re-
covery.
A Well-hnown Virginia republican, in the
CITY to-day, says he knows that Governor
Cameron will take the stump for Evans, Inc
anti Malone colored candidate for Congress
in the Petersburg district, on Monday next.
He also says that the republicans ID virgin,
ia have practically atandonded all nope OF
carving any of the congressional districts
except the I'd and 4th, that Mahone mas hoV
vet received cent of money from the ma
lnft nun commit
tee formally endorsed his electoral ticket be:
cause thew could do nothing else, they told
him thew would not give him any money
until he changed it SO as to recognize the
rem hl;can element, that he went to Phla-
delphia to see Blaine about it, and that
Blaine sustained the action of the commit
foe that therefore his ticket will be
changed, and that consequently he Will be
allowed such an amount as the committee
can snare after the result of the Ohio cleo
ton shall be known.
A gentleman from the 1st congressional
district in Virginia here to-day says that at
a noitical meeting at Saluda last Wednes-
dav. the crowd listened to Mayo, the repub-
lican candidate for Congress, but that when
Fowler-"pue wee" he says, they called him,
| his friend commenced to speak all the white
eople in the Courthouse left and went on the
green outside, when they listened to demo
cratic speeches by Messrs. Evans and Pollard.
! The gentleman referred to says that Mayo
in bis speeches declares emphatically that
he is no Malone man, that he went into
politics for the express purpose of showing
Of Mahobs:9, iHGqgp1lsai .ln not be bossed, ana
the republican party in that district is with
out form and void, has no regular organiza-
ton, and consequently no discipline, and
that its members are sadly demoraliZed
and without hope of success.
Mcmahon, this MN cut here last night by
George Hough, printer from Alexandria,
died AZ four o'clock this morning. He re-
tanned his senses to the last, and said be did
not want 10 dir. Housh was committed
to Jail this morning, alter being made to sit
for his picture.
Elk Congressman John Il. Harris, of the
7th Virginia district, passed through here
last night on his way home from business
visit to tho Northwest. He says that Cleve-
land is booming in all that section Of
country.
A Virginia democrat here who was anx-
ious to hear what Mr.. John Wise had said
in his recent speeches in Indiana, wrote to
MIR. Henderson, chairman of the State dem
ocratie committee there, to send him re-
port Of one of those speeches. Mr. Hender-
son replied that so little was thought there
of the speeches referred To that neither re-
publican nor democratic newspapers pub
lished reports Of them.
The President is expected to return to
Washington some time next week. His son
Allan and his daughter Miss Nellie are
already here. The President will spend the
first few weeks after his return at the cot
tage in the Soldiers Home Grounds.
| al cd fha NJ, n,
partment to-day announcing that Commo-
dore Thos. S. FilIebrown, commandaut of
the New York navy yard died suddenly
this morning at New York, Of heart disease.
The Virginia democratic association of this
city will meet and reorganize tonight. Mr..
l.. q. Washington was the prss ident during
the last campaign
From Ohio it is Termed that there are
fifteen hundred Cleveland clubs there with
a membership of two hundred thousand,
and that all those clubs will work diligently
from now until the election on the 18th
proximo. Mr.. Follett, democratic Congress
man from Cincinnati, says the betting in
his district is two to one on his having one
thousand majority, and that his democratic
colleague from the same city, who is Ger
man Hebrew, will also be reelected. Mr..
Follett says he never knew the Germans
in Cincinnati to be so united, and that that
unity is for Cleveland. The republicans
there are so alarmed that Senator Cameron
is to be sent to their relief He has tele-
sraphed there that from and after next
week he will he at their service. 1t
is understood that he will be paymaster
general of the campaign there, and that
he has pretty good sized barrel The
democrats have not much money, but
they have the men, and are sanpuine of
success, aud the republicans will be delight.
ed with majority as small as ten thousand.
1t is reported here that the stress upon
Mr.. Blaine by reason of the recent revela-
tions of his long-continued turp,ude and
the anxiety about the result of the election
has affected his mind-made him childish,
and that his show masters on his present |
exhibition tour wont let him talk much lest
his condition be discovered.
Another instance of Blaine's corruption
has come to light. 1t is that when Speaker