Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
lgpecal Correspondence Of the Alexandria aasettel

FROM WASHINGTON.
lan.ciaI Correspondence OF the Alexandra 1Asettel
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Nov. 25, 1884.
Among the members of the House who
arrived here last night, 10 Mr.. Curry, the
delegate form Arizona. He spent the con.
oress;onal recess ut his old home in Soutn-
west Virginia, whence he mas JUST cone;
He SAWS be was in the very country nefa'ueo
throughout the land as the scene OF terrioie
rayapes of a disease resulting from wafer
made uuwholesome by drought, Dne tha'
strange TO relate he heard nothing OF IL un.
IL b,. reached here He says the drought
,.re has teen no worse than elsewhere IN
Virginia. that the people there have suffered
from il no more than those in other sections
of the State, and that the terrible desease
referred to is nothing but myth that was
conceived by too vivid imagination.
Mr.. E. John Ellis, who is still in the city,
saws he thinks the South is entitled to two
members of the cabinet and should be salts
fed with that number, and that he hopes
she will not be clamorous for Office under
the incoming administration. As regards the
postoffice Department., he says there is no
one in the country better qualified Tor Inc
nlace than Mr.. Money, of Mississippi. Re-
pardiup the formation Of the cabinet, how
ever. he saws he thinks it is in embryo In
the Presidents mind. Respecting Mr..
El!is's hope that the South Will not De
clamorous for Office, Major Ben. Periey
Poore, who is now in the city, says it Will
only DO natural, and not at all extraordi-
nary, for many Southern people to apply
for uftice; that there could hardly be more
applcants than there were when Hayes
entered upon his term, and that he does not
believe there will be any more changes
than there would have been had Blaine
been elected Sergeant. at-arm Cannady OF
the Senate, to whom the Major was talk
ing. remarked that he thought there would
be great many changes, though they
would he made gradually, and that the new
administration would be like the democratic
administra lou in his Slate-North Caro-
liua-when il first got possession OF the
State government, which said it would not
remove good men, but which could not
find any good men in office.
TIE House Appropriations Committee
met this morning, Messrs. Randall, Towns
bend, Ryan, Cannon, and Jordan being
present.
The democratic associations of this city
will act i'll conjunction with committee OF
the national democratic committee in max
lug arrangements for the Inauguration cere-
monies.
Among the recently arrived Senators is
| Mr.. Voorhees, He says that his recent
visit to toe President elect was purely OF
social character, aud that he was most
E.vorabv impressed with him and consider
ers him ii man OF strong common sense and
with the requisite amount Of will to back it..
He says the republican newspaper talk
about a disagreement between the President
and Vice President elect has nothing for its
| ha xpish of oral hlarS
aud their desire TO print something sensa
tional. even though knowing it be incor-
rect. He says that Mr.. Cleveland and MIR.
Hendlicks are the best of friends.
A prominent republican politician from
New York here to day says three days will
not elapse after President Arthur shall send
in his last annual message to Congress,
which will be next Monday, before every
body will know who should be the new
Senator from New York. That the Presi
dent wants 10 come to the Senate, thai he
is exceedingly anxious to come, ID we'll
known, and the fear that he would DO
knitted is all that has prevented an an
nouncement 10 that effect; but after his
mys.age shall be sent in tally Of the mem
bars OF the New York Legislature will be
! taken, and Il il he found that he can be-
elected lis name will he put among the
candidates ut once. Mr.. Evarts is also
keen set upon the place, but the impression
seems To be That those who have the filling
| Of il don't want him.
| Among the Senators in the city are
Messrs. Vest, Garland, Cockrill, Pendletou,
Allison, Voorhees,, Morrill, and Beck.
A wellknown Virginia republican ia the
city to-day says that his party in his State
is in favor of a fair convention. in which he
sayS, he is sure Mahone would be downed
efieciua Is, as iu his opinion that individual
is the deade,t politician alive. Another
one Of the same sort, when talked 10 on the
same subject, said that the members Of his
party who are now deuOuncing MahoDe are
the v.rJ ueu who have gotten all they ever
Raj from Malone, that his own hounds
are Iow eating him. He said that if
republican legislature were elected in Vir-
ginia he supposed Malone would be re.
elected ,o the Senate, but that he had no
more idea Of the election Of such a legiaa-
ture than he had of sailing to the moon 10
| balloon.
| Among the strangers in the city to-day Is
Mr.. Chambers Mckibbep, of Chambersburg,
Pa, who, though 81 years old, is, when well,
a. active % man of sixty. He voted for
President Monroe, aud has voted for every
democratic Presidential candidate since,
having been taken FROM sick bed on the
4th Instant to vote for Cleveland.
The most attractive windows on Penn
sylvania Avenue to-day are those Of the
news stores, in which are exhibited wood cut
pictures representing republican crow
banquet, in which the wry faces of Butler,
Robson, Gould and all the prominent
Blaiueites are ludicrously grotesque.
The Hough NJ Mahon murder case is
again in progress to-day, the examination
Of witnesses being continued. Among those
summoned as witnesses are several from
Alexandria, who are to testify to the pris-
| oner's previous good character.
A MURDERoUs MEDIUM.-A dispatch
from Gambler Ohio. says: "Mrs. Welker,
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