Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the ALEXANDRIA Gszettel
WASHINGTON d c. July Is. 1884.


WASHINGTON, D. c., July Is, 1884.
A gentleman who had a conversation
with Mr.. Parsons, Mr.. Blaines head man IN
Virginia, last week, says that the impression
made upon him by that conversation was
that Mr.. Blaine did not have much hope, OF
carrying Virginia anyhow, but that whetner
he carry it or not, he is not going TO In
terfere with General Malone in the man
agemeut of the campaign. In this connec-
ton it may be stated that as yet there has
been no agreement by which the Mahone-
ties and the straightouts can come together.
Plans to effect that purpose have been sug-
gested, and Logan has gone to see Blaine TO
consult with him as 10 the best one TO be
adopted. As an evidence Of how wide the
split between the two wings of the party
really is, it is only necessary TO say that
though Collector Brady is General Mahone's
candidate for Congress in the petersburg
district, Mr.. B. S Hooper, the present mem
Der from that district, has announced him.
self the straightout candidate for the same
district, and yesterday opened his campaign
at Lunenburg Court House.
Ex-senator Pool, Of North Carolina, says
the democra ticket will sweep the couu-
try as that of Harrison in 1910; that 1T can
not be defeated, and that the Blaine ticket
will not get one hundred and fifty electoral
yoLes. Mr.. Robert Beverly, who returned
from Chicago via New York, says the tick
ct gives general satisfaction 10 all demo-
Gratis, and that every body he talked with
said it would be successful.
The democratic Congressional committee
did not meet this morning, nor was such
their intention. Mr.. Post, the secretary of
the committee, was at the committee rooms,
No. 1917 F street, where be received many
callers. Mr. Post is member of the House,
but says the civil service laws do not apply
to him, inasmuch as his committee do not
intend to collect money from ofice-hoders.
Mr.. Robert Portner, ex-President of the
American Brewers Association, who is in
the city to-day, says the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland is highly satisfactory to himself,
and he believes to all right.t thinking Ger
man American citizens.
The docket of the Criminal Court of this
city was cleared to-day of the detective
cases which occasioned so much talk when
they were instituted, the last one of them
being dismissed this morning at the instance
of the Governments counsel.
General Butler arrived in the city this
morning, but positively declines to be inter
viewed. He says it is entirely too soon for
him to be talking now, but that he assures
the public enough will be heard from him
before the election shall have been decide d.
General Pryor, who was at the convention
as friend of General Butler, says there is
no doubt that the latter will be third can
didate for the Presidency. 1t was publicly
stated at Chicago before the adjournment
of the convention that the bargain was made
with Butler by which he was to run as the
anti-monopoly and labor candidate.
Commander James H. Sands has been
ordered as navigation officer at the Wash
ington Navy Yard Commander Robby D.
Evans detached from duty as inspector of
the fifth light house district; Commander
Silas Casey from the Washington Navy
Yard and ordered as Inspector of the fifth
light house district.
Mr.. Edmunds, president of the U. S. Sem
ate, pro tempore, allowed that body to ad-
journ without presenting to it the resolu-
ton of the Virginia Legislature addressed
to it through him, requesting General Ma
hone to resign his seat rs Senator from Vir-
ginia. A Senator now in the city says the
only way for that resolution to get before
the Senate is for the Legislature, at its call
Ell session, to request another member of
the Senate to present it.
Mr.. Steve Elkins has gone to New York
to see about the sinews of war for the Blaine
campaign. If successful he will return to
Deer Park, view the landscape of West Vir-
ginia DER from that point, aud then proceed
to place such money as he may have the
disposal of where it will do the most good.
Ex-senator Davis of that State, who knows
as much about it as any other man, says it
is as safe for Cleveland as Georgia.
A gentleman interested in the Potomac
Manufacturing Works of Alexandria, in the
city to. day, says the company owning those
works have made arrangements for the i'm.
mediate erection of a thirty ton copper fur
mace with three trimmings a. day for the re-
fractory gold ores Of North Carolina, which
assay at $50 to $40 ton, and which can be
delivered at Alexandria for $40 ton.
The only place on Pennsylvania Avenue dec
o. ated with Blaine and Logan flags and banners
is the colorcd restaurant of Perry Carson, the
leading cpored politician of this city, who says
that Blaine is the peoples Notwithstanding
probably the colored people.