Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria aazette.l
WASHINGTON d c. Sent g. 1884

doors OF the senate were also QfdpeQ III
mourning. If all the desks had not been
removed from the Senate chamber, that oil
the deceased Senator would have been
similarly draped Mr.. Anthony was very
rich man, and Of late years never drew his
salary and mileage but once year.
Governor Cameron, of Virginia, is ex-
pecteh to pass through here tonight on his
way to New York to confer with the ma.
tonal republican committee and to induce
them 10 take such steps as will compel
General Malone to so change his electoral
ticket as to give half of it to the republicans,
who rightfuIly should have the whole of it,
as his democratic followers now don't num-
Der five hundred A paper signed by more
than half of the Malone members of the
Legislature demanding such a change as
that referred TO has been sent to Malone,
but it is understood that he has not yet been
sufficiently chastened to grant it and is still
Stiff necked.
Among the defeated candidates in YER
mont yesterday is Mr.. Hooker, ex.Sergeant
ut Arms of the U. S. House of Representa-
lives. The republicans here are looking
blue at the great falling off in the majority
in Vermont yesterday, and fear that it pre-
sages even greater losses in States in which
they will not only reduce their maiorities
but pile up majorities on the other side
The democrats are iubilant, but say they
are not surprised, and that it only confirms
their anticipations of a grand national VIC
tory next November.
Mr.. Blaine was poor man when he en-
tered Congress. His expenses have more
than consumed the amount of his salary.
and yet he is a millionaire. He has a palace
here, which having no present use for, he
rents 10 another man for Sl1 900 year. He
is IL large share owner in the Hooking Val
ley mines, where the strike against a still
further reduction in wages is in progress.
The democrats have had hundreds of thou
sands Of photographs of his costly palace in
this city, taken and are having them dis
lrbuted among the miners throughout the
country, who are Working for sixty-two cents
Il day.
Among the callers upon Gov. Cleveland
Yesterday was Mr.. George G. Gorham, erst-
while the staunchest friend of President
Arthur and General Malone, but whose
gorge rises now at the mention of their
names because they went back" on him
when he was candidate for Sergeant at
Arms Of the Senate.
A letter received at democratic headuuar-
tiers here this morning from Mr.. Townshend,
nois, says that the report about the solid
correct SO far % his district is concerned
and that the strong probability is that Car
ter Harrison will carry the State.
The Treasury Department to-day decided
that the rags shipped to this country from
cholera districts before the time specified in
its order upon that subject, shall be per-
mitted to land after disinfection. So there
is no cause for rise in paper.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Mr.. John Wo,z of the First Virginia dis
trict, a well known republican. Mr. Woltz
is anti Malone, and says thatin Fredericks
burg the delegates to theGeneral's recent con.
vention in that district were not appointed
by a public town meeting or convention,
but by private meeting of few office hold
ers there. Mr.. Wolff thinks that the Gen.
eral will not tlutter after November
Mr. Barbour, who has been in New York
for the past two weeks in attendance upon
meetings Of the executive committee of the
national democratic committee, of which
he is 81 member, will return during the latter
part of the week, and enter at once upon
the active supervision of the campaign in
his own State.
The latest reliable political intelligence
from New York here to-day is to the effect
that it is affirmed at republican headquar.
ters there that not only in the South but in
the North also the negro vote will be solid for
Blaine. This is confirmed at democratic
headquarters also, but it is said at the latter
that the fact that it is so will induce many
a white man who otherwise would have
voted for Blaine to vote for Cleveland. The
attempt to make the Grand Army of the
Rnpuhtir q RlaiDo oruo tiop hoe jpduoed
II member of that organization in Albany,
II. {. Hunt, who has always been pro-
nounced republican, to come out for Cleve-
land, and to write public letter, in which
he says that General Logan until now has
taken so little interest in the Grand Army
that he failed to pay his dues and was OK
PEELED, and that though Blaine is accused of
bribery and corruption by some of the best
men in the republican party there is no repub-
lcau paper nor orator to offer the slightest
defence of the charges brought against him.
John Boyle O'Reilly, editor of the Boston
Pilot, the leading Irish Catholic newspaper
in the country, was one of the callers upon
Governor Cleveland. yesterday and after a
long talk with the Governor, relative to the
Freedom of Worship bill, about which the
friends of the man who defended the mob |
who tarred and feathered man because he |
was an Irish Catholic priest now make |
make such great adoo, expressed great
satisfaction at the Governors statement Of
the case.
Among the excursion parties in this city day |
are two from Virginia, one from along the line of
the Manassas branch Of the Virginia Midland |
Railroad and the other cOlored one from Abe |
marie County. Virginia, and one from Troy, New |
York the Washington volunteer fire company, |
Of that city, accompanied by brass band. One
of the members of this company when asked at
the Capitol how Cleveland would run in his part |
Of the state, replied that he would have the sup
port of all the democrats and independent repub
icans. and that there were not many other sort
of people up there.
The Department Of State has Just received from
the United States consul at Naples q telegram
saying "173 cases Of cholera Naples and rs deaths
within 81 hours
1t is understood that the private secretary of
Senator Sherman HIS written private letter to
friend in this city. in which after reminding his
friend of the fact that he'd ha oretod the defeat of
Foraker the last republican candidate for Governor
Of Ohio. he says there will be more of it and
worse next month
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