Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the ALEXANDRIA Gazette.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispec,s Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette
WAsHIrGToN y. g., July 80. 1884
William Writ Culbertson, a republican
member of Congress from Kentucky, shot
himself with suicidal intent at the National
Hotel here about eleven o'clock TO day. He
had been on prolonged froic at a water
ing place, and arriving here last Saturday
had shut down too suddenly. A policeman
standing near the hotel heard the reports Of
the pistol aud informed the clerk, who, up
on going to the room, found it locked. 1t
was Immediately unlocked, however, by
the wounded man, who said he feared
he had not done itn He asked if all
the chambers of his revolver were
empty, and upon being told they were, he
asked for another pistol with which ITO
complete the Job He had held the pistol
10 the back of his head and discharged all
its i've loads. Three of the bullets did not
touch him at all, but had gone into the CELL
ing, and two, while Wounding the scalp
and bone, had not entered the brain, so that
his wounds are by no means necessarily
fatal He was Immediately examined by
surgeons and by their orders was sent to
Providence Hospital. As soon as the sur
geons had flushed examining his wounds
blanks and wrote and sent of several dis
patches to different friends telling them
what he had done. He is native of Penn
sylvania.
MIR. Dezendorf returned this morning
from Norfolk. He says that Bowden, the
collector of the port Of that city, is contest
ing with Libby for the republican Congress
sional nomination in that district, but will
not get it, rs Libby is Mahone's favorite
Mr. Hooper says that Libby's greatest pleas
ure is to sit in the Arlington Hotel and see
General Malone ride up and down on the
elevator. With regard to the two re-
publican electoral tickets now in the
field in Virginia, Mr.. Drzendorf says that
nothing has IA yet been done to re-
move them aud substitute one that will
be agreeable to all republicans, owing to
General Mahone's refusal to make any con-
cessions, but that he has not yet lost all
hope that something may yet be done to
concentrate the republican vote in Virginia
before the day of election. Bowden, he
says, will not run if Libby be nominated,
but Hooper will run if Brady be the con-
vention's nominee in his, the Petersburg
district.
Mr.. Dalton, of Indiana, Postmaster Of the
House, is in receipt of letters from several
different parts of his State, the tenor Of all
of which is to the effect that perfect unity
prevails among the democrats there, and
such enthusiasm as has not been before since
the war. TO show how the national ticket
brings out the voters, one of the letters states
that Judge Jordan addressed ward meet
ing in Indianapolis one night last week at
which not less than thousand people
were present.
The action of the Treasury Department
yesterday in refusing to allow the landing
at New York of cargo of rags from the
bark Marie Luigi, which sailed from Mar.
settles May 30th, was reconsidered day,
and the collector Of customs at New York
was notified that if he was satisfied the rags
were actually shipped from Marseilles be-
fore June 10th, the cargo might be landed.
This action was the result of conference
between the custom officers of the Treasury
department. and the Surgeon General of the
Marine Hospital Service, and was mainly
based on statement by the latter officer
that Marseilles was free from epidemic
disease prior to June 10th. 1t was also
shown that the vessel in question exhibited
clean bill of health and had passed quar-.
antine.
A lawyer here has been employed by the
relatives of certain parties in this city who
have lost money by gambling in Alexandria,
to prepare paper to be presented to the
Virginia Legislature at its coming extra ses-
sion, in which it will be stated that the author
tiles of Alexandria are derelict in not sup.
pressing gambling esl Establishments there asst
is alleged, has been done here. The paper
will say that the reason ofthe alleged laxity
in the enforcement of the gambling law in
Alexandria results from the fact that the
residents Of that city do not infringe the
law, as they are not admitted into the
gambling saloon; not regarding the fam
lilies of those who go there from this city
and lose what they can ill afford to lose. 1t
is also said that the police of this city have
been instructed to "spot" those who 60 from
here to Alexandria to gamble, and to arrest
them on their return.
The democrats of this city, at the grand
ratification meeting they are to hold, have
determined to exclude from all active or
prominent participation therein all those
whose personal character is not without
reproach.
A gentleman from Westmoreland county,
Virginia, here to-day, says that General
Beale, Of that county, having withdrawn
from the contest for the democratic nomi-
nation for Congress in that district, the con-
vention of his county, instructed the dele
gates to the district convention to vote for
Garrison.
From an orbit calculated by Messrs Chan.
dIer and Wendall, at the Harvard college
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