Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispecia Correspondents Of the Alexandra Gazette J


a dispa -ch from Senator German this morn
inv. stating that the election Officers in Nc"
York CITY bad agreed to postpone lot .ne
nr.sent the recountiug OF any otner 'o.es
ercent those for Presidential electors, anu
mai IN consequence that recount Wouiu NC
snm,,i,le,; to-day. He says that the otnciai
roconnt in the few remaining districts can
rnt change the result, as experts nave
olreadv zone over the returns from those
l;st ricis' and that their figures will not De
altered. Mr.. Jonas also says that MI
Evarts is sick of the contest; that Judge
Noah Davis, of the Supreme Court OF the
state. a pronounced republican, upon Wnom
the Blaineites relied for their Judicial pro-
ceedincs, Acknowledges the defeat OF Blame
and has congratulated Cleveland upon, MS
election: that no further attempt VIII De :
made to delay the official announcement o.
the vote of New York, and that all tne De'S
nave been paid except those IN the poor
rooms, where the stake holders are com
| pslled to wait until the official announcement
of the result shall have been made. Mr.
| Jonas saws that the vote of the States on the
Pacific slope was bought by the railroad
monopolists, but that neither those states
nor the monopolis!s referred to Will pront
! bv the sale or the purchase.
General Butler has succeeded 10 renting MS
| house on Capitol Hill, or rather that one OF
the three be built there of stone the duty
on which be cheated the Government OUT
of by importing it as ballast. which was
occupied by Senator Jones, OF Nevada, ana
at which Mr. Arthur staid before ne TOOK
possession of the White House, TO Congress
for Sc 900 per annum. 1t will be USED LOT
congressional committee rooms, there not
being enough of such rooms in the Capitol
building.
Messrs. Beck, Angus Cameron, Aldrich
and Jonas. Mr.. Beck, when talking to MIR.
Cameron Yesterday, said: "Well, we've got
you." YES" said Mr.. Cameron, Il think
YOU have. But hope you will treat US as
we'll as we treated you" "As we'll ?" said
Mr.. Beck, Eyes we'll treat you just as well
but that will be as bad as any of US can wish"
Poor Logan, too, has gone" said Mr.. Cam
eron. Yes" said the Kentucky Senator,
"and he should have gone. The Senate is
no place for him."
Mr.. john S. Barbour has received an Off
cial COPY of the proceedings of meeting of
the Virginians resident in Savannah, Ga, OF
and John E. Morri; secretary, among the
!
lowing: Resolved, That our thanks for the
great change in the Cd Dominion are due
TO John S. Barbour and the noble com.
mittee at whose head he stood. To Mr..
Barbour it is mainly due that the power OF
that arch traitor Malone has at last been
DESTROYED that we join hand in hand with
the people Of Virginia in matchmaking
such wretched beings as Malone that we
feel sure traitor will always receive from
our people the execIation he deserves and
that to Mr.. Barbour and his committee we
not only award our thanks, but say to them,
"Well done, good and faithful servants"
| AS Collector Brady cannot hold two places
at once, he will have to resign the collector
ship of the Richmond internal revenue dis.
| trict when he accepts his new place as con-
gresham on the 4th Of next March. This
will be great benefit to Virginia, inasmuch
as the district referred to swarms with in
ternal revenue officers, the successors of
whom will not be electioneering agents for
| Malone at the next election
DR.. Cogswel who built the free fountain
at the corDer of Tin street and Pennsylvania
Avenue is 10 the city to-day He says that
he has done many foolish things in his life,
| but be is now going to beat them all BY
starting the fountain to running.
Among the congressman in the city to-
| day ia Mr.. Cabell, from the Danville dis
trct of Virginia. The Mahoneite5 tried
their best to defeat Mr.. Cahell at the recent
election. and The federal office holders were
out against him to man, but the reputa-
| BILE people of his district stood by him, and
| he was elected by large majority. Mr..
Cabeli IS delighted ut the success of the ma
tional democratic ticket and thinks that
\ rIo,n1,nli, olp oipio OF will
| be wise and conservative.
There is very well behaved and intelli-
gent negro here named Cuny, who halls
| from Texas His only known vocation is
| to attend national republican conventions.
| But why that should entitle him to place
on the pay rolls of the Senate, on which he
was put after the adjournment of Congress,
is what nobody can tell, especially as he is
not even nominally employed there. And
vet the republican Senate says it is IN favor
of civil service reform.
| Mr. Benton Chinn, who was removed
from his position as route agent on the Vir-
GINA Midland Railway three years ago By
Thompson, superintendent of the postal
service because, though a republican, he
would not support Malone and methods
called at Thompson's Office here day or
two ago, and alarmed him considerably by
telling him what he thought Of him In plain
words, and what he had great mind to do.
| He also told him that he would be on hand
on the day he, Thompson, would be turned
out of his prostituted position neck and
heels, after the 4th of next March.
It is stated that number of influential demo-
Gratis have determined to make an effort to have
the Hon. s. j. Tilden, the sage Of Gramercy. at
tend the inauguration of President Cleveland.
Should his health permit and no consent to come
to Washington. the ovation given him will ex-
coed anything ever known IN the history of the
country.
CLEVELAND CONGRATULATED Alta meet
ing Of the democratic members of the Gen.
aral Assembly held on Thursday nipht the