Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the ALEXANDRA Gazette
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 26, 1884.

Ispecia Correspondence Of the ALEXANDRA Gazettel
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 26, 1884.
There is strong possibility that Alex
andria will soon have free mail delivery. |
Mr. Budd. democrat, Of California, will on
Monday next introduce bill providing that
all cities of over ten thousand inhabitants, !
or the business of whose postoffice amounts
to Sl5, 900 a year. shall have free delivery.
4 member Of the Postoffice Committee, to
whom it will be referred, is authority for
saving it will receive favorable considera-
ton.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Barbour pre-.
sented petition for the relief of the heirs OF
Richard 5. Coke.
Elk Speaker Keifer delayed his appear
ance before the House Committee on Ac'
counts as long as possible, but could post
none it no longer than this morning. HIS
testimony respecting the appointment of
his nephew to lucrative position was d.
rectly at variance with that of witnesses
whose reliability is unquestionable, but even
from his own evidence it was plain there
had been some crooked in the appoint
ment. Very little could be gotten out OF
the members of the committee about the
testimony, and when Mr.. Keller was asked
about it be replied that he could not abre
viate what he had told the committee with
out subjecting himself 10 unjust criticism,
and did not have time to repeat the whole
statement.
It is understood that when General Ma
hone was informed that the Virginia Senate
had passed the resolution requesting him TO
resign his seat in the Senate he was exceed
inely wroth, spoke of the action in emphat-
ic if not polite terms, and said it was
short cut to give Jack Barbour his seat, but
that if the mule democrats had not changed
the constitution, he believed he had three
more wears to serve, and that if he lived
that long he would not relinquish it until
the expiration of that time. The adoption
of the resolution is said to have irritated the
General to no small degree, and will add to
| the venom of his speech on the Sherman
bloody shirt resolution.
The negro followers of General Malone
are by no means pleased with the treatment
they have received They say that not
withstandng the fact that they left the re-
publican party and joined the Mahoneites,
but few of them have been awarded office,
and that of the most mental sort, while
Beckley and two other colored men who did
not repudiate republicansm, but kept true
to the faith by being straightouts, have al
ready been rewarded with good places by
the democrats.
Mr.. Randall, when talking to a party OF
newspaper men on the floor of the House
to-day, before the session commenced, about
Fred Douglass's marriage with white
woman, and F'red's anti-physiological asser.
ton that in time the races will be blended
into one, remarked that God Almighty had
made the distinction between the races and
had made their separation absolute
There is no doubt that General Mahones
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in the office Of the Secretary of the Senate.
There was no session of the Senate to-day.
In the House the consideration of the tltz
John Porter bill was resumed, Mr.. Ray,
republican, Of New York, speaking lie favor
of the BILL and Mr.. Thomas, republican, OF
Illinois, one Of Senator Logan's friends,
taking the opposite side.
Mr.. Turner, chairman Of the Committee
on Elections, says the public printer seems
TO be doing all he can to hurry the print
ing of the evidence in the Virginia contest
ed cases, and that he thinks the cases will
be before the committee for consideration
within two or three weeks. He says the
committee will decide the cases upon their
merits and ouly after due deiberation, as 1t
would be unseemly to render itself amena-
bic to the charge of too much haste. Judge
Paul. who once held the certificate to the
seat for which Mr.. O'Ferrall IS contesting,
was in the committee room when that case
was up, and it is needless TO say, that the
presence ola U. S. judge there, US an in
terested party, was the subject of some I'M
favorable comment among the members OF
the committee.
1t seems to be pretty we'll determined THAT
Mr.. Staples, the straightout republican post
master at Portsmouth, Virginia, will be de-
posed, but whether his successor will be
Lindsay or Larkins is not decided, as Gen.
Malone has not yet signited his preference.
The painter employed by druggist in
this city to paint the picture Of his st. ia
cob's oil advertisement, selected Gen. Ma
hone for his subject, and the likeness he has
produced is an excellent one and is easily
recognized by all observers.
There has boen quite gathering Of Mahonetes
here recently the democrats in the Legislature
in their State having stirred them up amazingly
and set them to moving about. District Attorney
Watts, Judge Paul, olcctor Bowden and several
others have been here in consultation with Gen.
eral Malone.
gentleman FROM Alexandria county, Virginia,
here to day says that. Mr.. john A. Febrey will
be made superintendent Of Schools, vice Mr.
Cave. whose nomination has beeu rejected by
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