Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexanaria dazel'e'
WASHINGTON, D. c., August 8, 1854.

This is.the season of excursions and ex-
cnrsionists. A party of about 400 were
here Thursday from York, Pa, and that vi
cinity. A smaller one from Tennessee was
here Yesterday. The most OF the excur.
sionists make the best of their TIME, and
see all there is to be seen. Most OF those re-
ferred to are democrats, and they have
almost exhausted the stock of Cleve-
land and Hendricks badges in the city.
It is understood that Mr.. John Amber
Smith, of Virginia, but now resident OF
this city, has obtained patent for bread
making, invented by an old colored woman
in Virginia, and that so valuable IS 1t ana
so desirable will it be to all house keepers,
that he has taken an interest IN 1t himsell,
and will 90 at once 10 San Francisco, intro
duce it there, and then come East with it,
dispensing it's benefits as he comes.
There is a terrible rumor afloat here to.
dav tc the effect that now that the survivors
of the Greedy party have recovered their
physical strength and animal spirits, some
of Them have intimated that in the straits to
which thew were ut times reduced, resort
was had at cannibalSm in order to preserve
their lives. Where this rumor originated
has not vet been aScertalned, nor Is any
thing known here that tends to verify It,.
Indeed all that is yet definitely known about
it is that the correspondents OF several lead
| ing Northern newspapers have received
! kilograms this morning from their respec-
| tive home Office directing them to make III
uuiries about the runor and To send all the
| information they could gather.
Mr.. Clapp, one of the republican black
| mailers, has Just returned from New York,
and as a means to stimulate the reluctant
department clerks to hurry up the payment
of their political assessments, says that
State will give Blaine seventy-ive thousand
majority He agrees, however, that Butler $
candidacy will not have much effect, either
one way or the other. There is no doubt
about the fact that the contributions to the
republican election fund from the federal
EMPLOYEES have been considerably smaller
| that if they are to he increased something
must be done, and that at once.
From Richmond intelligence is 10 the eff
feet that the Malone conference there is
for the purpose of stif1ening the back bones
Of General Mahone's members of the Legls.
| lature so as to make them steadfast in their
opposition 10 any and every measure the
democrats may propose at the coming extra
session Of that body.
From the First congressional district oil
| Virginia it is learned to-day that now that
General Beae has withdrawn from the con
| test with Judge Garrison for the democra-
tic nomination in that district, Mr.. Pollard,
member Of the Legislature from King and
| Queen county, is the Judges most tormida-
| bic rival for that nomination.
Mr. Barbour, chairman of the democratic
organization in Virginia, has issued a call
| for meeting of the central committee to
| be held in Richmond on the l4Lh instant.
| This meeting will be for the purpose of
completing some arrangements for the COM
| ing campaign in that State.
| New York democratic politicians, in the
city to-day, say there is nothing to- the
republican newspaper talk about defec-
| ton in the democratic Irish vote of that
State But as politicians words are by no
means convincing to some people, it 10 men
| toned that what the parties referred to
STATE was corroborated subsequently by an
Irishman employed by one of the railroads
running in this city, who said he had just
returned from visit to his two sons, who
are railroad hands in New York, and that
| thew had told him the talk alluded to was
all bosh
Ex-senator Mcdonald is still in the city.
He was at the Capitol this morning looking
up some documents for use during the
political campaign in his State. He says
things couldn't be better for the democrats
| in Indiana than they are, and that as the
| republicans have neither Mr.. Dorsey nor
the 5000, 900 in new two dollar Treasury
notes he used there in 1880, Cleveland will
carry the State by decided majority.
The Washington Monument has now
reached height Of five hundred feet The
work of putting on the apex will commence
at once.
A dispatch received at the democratic hcadquar-
| tiers here to-day says that at the meeting of the
Independent Labor Party, in New York last
night, the keogh- Elkins bargain was exposed,
and speeches made in favor of Cleveland, the real,
not sham, friend of the workingmen of his country