Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondents OF the Alexandra Gazette

Especial Correspondents OF the Alexandra GazetteI
WASHINGTON, D. C.. August 5. 1884.
A letter received at democratic head
quarters from Mr.. Reagan, member of the
House from Texas who is now at Capon
Springs, states that he has entirely lecoy
cred his health, which it was supposed at
the last session of Congress he had lost en-
tirely, and that he will be reelected to the
next Congress. Mr.. Reagan was Postmas.
ter General of the Confederate States. and
is one of the most efficient members OF the
House.
Mr.. Edmund Burke, Commonwealth
Attorney for Alexandria county, was in this
city to-day getting up evidence agains,
Drummond, a negro magistrate of his coun.
ty, accused of stealing the betting from the
Adamantine brick works in that county,a
selling it to a junk dealer in Georgclown,
and against other parties in that county
charged with being parties TO that theft.
Messrs. Raum and Clapp are the chief
political blackmailers of the republican par.
ty. The department clerks stand in the ut.
most dread of them, aud some, it is said.
have been so afraid of being reported by
them M derelict in paying their political
assessments that they have borrowed tho
money at usurious rates Of interest in order
to relieve themselves Of that dread.
In view of the prevalence of yellow fever
in some of the northern States of Mexico it
has been deemed best to inspect all trains
coming into the United States from Quay.
mes, and the Acting Secretary of the Treas.
ury to-day authorized the collector of Gus
toms NJ FL Paso, Texas, TO employ COM
petent Inspector for that duty with compen-
sation at the rate of five dollars day.
Col. Mackey, republican candidate for
Congress in Pennsylvania, and J. Nj. Dickey,
of the same State, left here this morning
for Virginia Beach, of which they are part
owners.
Gen. Newton, chief of engineers, states
that the order transferring Capt. Hoxie
from duty as assistant engineer commits
sioner of the District of Columbia to duty as
the officer in charge of the Improvement Of
rivers and harbors in Georgia and Alabama
will not be reconsidered, and that his sue
cessor will enter upon his duties in Wash
ington as soon as possible.
Senator NJ. c. Butler, Of South Cardinals
in the city to-day. He says that from what
he sees and hears democratic prospects are
brighter now than in any previous Presi-
dental campaign since the war. Senator
Butler was one of the few Senators who
were original Cleveland men. He said sew
eral weeks before the convention that if
advice contrary to the hopes of him TO
whom it was given, especially if unaskcd,
did not always make an enemy of him, he
would advise Mr.. Bayard not to allow his
name to 60 before that convention, as he
was convinced he had no chance of a nomi-
nation.
Mr.. Vance. democratic member of the
House from North Carolina, was defeated
Yesterday for denomination in the democra-
tic convention of his district, by Col. Thos.
Johnson, q more popular democrat. 1t is
said here that one of the causes that led TO
Mr.. Fance's defeat was his active partici.
patton in the temperance cause. He adj
dressed the Reform Club of Alexandria on
the temperance question during the last
session of Congress. He is brother OF
Vance from the same State.
Notwithstanding the fact that the last OF
the wounded and dead were gotten out OF
the ruins Of the fallen United States Hotel
yesterday, large crowd of the thousands OF
negroes in this city loitered
around those ruins to-day, gazing at them
and pointing out to each other the spots
from which the victims of the disaster were
taken.
A Blaine elcctor on the straightout re-
puDlCtH tthcl III III lhC WY w
day, says that so far as he can learn there
will he no change in the Malone ticket TO
make it acceptable to the straightouts and
that the result will probably be the with
drawal ofthe straightont ticket. The straight
outs, he said, had no money, were not or
ganized and had no Congressional candi-
dates, and thatiftheir tickle were kept in the
field under such circumstances, the vote il
would receive would necessarily be small
and would be seized upon by Malone
as evidence to sustain his assertion that
the straightouts amounted to nothing. He
said, however, that thousands of repub-
licans, knowing that there is no chance Of
carrying the State anyhow, would either
stay away from the polls because they
would not vote for his scalawag electors, or
would vote for Cleveland as the best means
of killing Malone and Of relieving their
party Of the incubus he is to it.
Mr.. Hazleton has III ade as great iiasco in get
ting up grand combination Blaine and Logan
ratification meeting at Cornwall, on the Hudson,
rs he did when he bought the old Baltimore Ga-
=etts about two years ago. contracted for the most
expensive machinery, employed the highest priced
and attempted to start what he
termed \ Give" newspaper in Baltimore, all with
nothing else except wind. Mr.. Hszleton is great Oh
fascos. He is now connected with weekly
newspaper in this city.
Negro thieves in Lynchburg snatch chick
ems from children whom they encounter on
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