Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandra Gazette


i. Mr.. Bruce, the colored register of th'
U. S. Treasury, and whose name is stamped
upon every note issued by the Treasury
Department, having gone off on prolonged
electioneering tour for Blaine and Logan
| in direct opposition to the civil service
laws, that model civil service reformer
| President Arthur, has designated another
man to act in his place during his absence
i The Capitol police about six o'clock this
morning discovered fire in the office ofthe
Clerk of the House which had been burning
for several hours, and the origin Of which Is
| unknown. The fire was in a closet in which
were kept the accounts of the members OF
the House during the time when MIR. Blame
was member. Except those accounts ana
some waste paper nothing else was de-
stroyed.
In Georgetown it is learned to-day that
the repairs to the break in the six mile level
of the &. 4 0. canal will not be completed
until the 9Th inst, that the break there Is
at culvert which was repaired only short
time ago, that the workmen and employees
of the canal not being paid the wages due
them, do not do their work we'll or render
their service efficiently, and that the credit
Of the company is 50 low that people in
Georgetown will not honor its orders.
Navigation, they say, has been suspended
by breaks about half the season so far, and
that the present break has in ured the coal
trade considerably by forcing many vessels
that had come there for cargoes to 60 to
Baltimore to load.
A gentleman from .Greensville county, in
the black belt Of Virginia, here to day, says
that Brady, the collector of internal reven-
ue for that district, and General Mahone's
candidate for the republican Congressional
nomination there, has the negroes of that
county for him to a man, and that he will
be nominated. Mr.. Hooper, straightout
republican, and the present member OF Con-
gress from that district, will, it is said, be
candidate for reelection.
Secretary Lincoln, accompanied by Gen.
Sheridan and stall, left Washington last
evening to attend the militia encampment at
Gettysburg General FitZ. Lee was tender
ed review by this encampment tomorrow,
but was forced to decline it by previous
engagement.
1t. Greedy is expected here about the
last October, when he will proceed with the
preparation of the report of his expedition,
which, it is expected, will occupy him for
two years OF the survivors of his crew,
the privates will be made sergeants, and
The sergeants commissioned officers.
1t is expected that the electric light in the
tower at Haletts Point, He'll Gate, will lie
in operation before the close of the present
month.
Letters received at democratic headquar
tiers here to- day from Iowa. are to the
effect that instead of the democrats losing
any of their late remarkable Congressional
gains in that State, they will probably in
crease them at next falls election.
The verdict of the coroner's jury in the
United States Hotel case here, holding the
owners and lessees Of that hotel responsible
for the disaster there last Sunday night,
and calling for their Indictment, is deemed
most remarkable, in view of the fact, that
the owners lost thousands Of dollars by the
accident, and that the lessee's own life YVES
endangered, and that his wife was one of the
victims.
Gentlemen from the Danville and Lynchburg
congressional districts in Virginia, here to-day,
say that Mr.. Cabcll will be rcnominated by the
democrats of the former district, and Mr. John w.
Daniel he nominated by those of the latter, for
Congress almost without opposition.