Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-27

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The recommendation of the Commissioner
Ct Internal Revenue that the Gis:ii:sr> Of
fruit brandy be allowed to store lhei: brandy
in Government warehouses fer three years,
during which lime the collection OF the ;isN
upon it shall be in allegiance, instead 81 hsihZ
enforced within three months, as l. DOW
the case, meets with general approval III
Virginia; at least so it is said at the Treasury
Department. The increase in ne Hro.inc
ton of such liquor in Virginia has increased
from 35 to 80 per cent. during the last year
or rather such an increase hsa bees reported
to the Commissioner.
William Reeves, coloied, Of Alexandra
county, Virginia, the man who ran aGainst
Judge Stuart Tor The House CT Delegates il
1851, and who is known as q most offensive
partisan, has been promoted from $3.50 to
5000 place in the Pension Office q the
Interior Department.
Samuel Il. Snow, who halls from North
Carolina, but who is a carpeihagger and an
offensive partisan, was yesterday removed
from his position as assistant chief OF the
public land office il the Interior Depart
ment. It is probable lie Gii act observe
Thanksgiving day.
q
unite in saying that the charges Mr.. Jones
has brought against Congressman King are
too grave and specific to tie pooh-poohed
with the simple assertion that Mr. Jones is
an assassin" Mr.. King has gone to New
Orleans to consult with his friends az TO the
best course for him to pursue under Tie cir
cumstauces. 1t is thought here, however,
that Mr.. King will let the matter rest where
it is, even though it leaves him il a NEST I'M
enviable position.
Ohio people here to-day say that
only one member Of the Ohio demo.
cratic congressional delegation is oppos-
ed to Mr. Leedom, who is from their
State, for Sergeant-at-arms Of the House,
and that he will be ro elected along
with all the other old officers Of that body.
1t is said that all the talk about the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Higgins for either Mr.. Leedom's
place or for the vacant Doorkeepership
amounts to nothing, and that he viii! be a
candidate for neither, but will lie content
to retain his present. place-appointment
clerk of the Treasury.
AS the time for the meeting OF the Vir-
ginia Legislature approaches, the Virginians
who come here seem to be more and more
certain that Mr.. Barbour will be elected U.
S. Senator; not only that, but, in the par
hands down. They say the popular feeling
in the State for year or two has been to the
effect that when the democrats should have a
Senatorship at their disposal they would give
it to Mr.. Barbour, and that thu members
of the Legislature will act in accordance
with that feeling, and will do SO prospect
i've of any asserted superior or inferior quail
iications of any of the numerous other good
and true democrats whose names have been
spoken of in connection with the position.
While it is probable Mr. Carlisle will re-
appoint TO their former positions the mem
bers Of the next Congress who held chair
manships in the last one, there is, OF course,
no public intimation to that effect: as Mr..
Carlisle Is not yet Speaker, and therefore
any such intimation would be in Dad taste.
He may not do so, however, fer the two good
reasons that if the rules be changed and the
appropriation bills be distributed among
the committees, good men will have 10 be
on those committees, and SO many of the
old chairmen have been left al home that
some of their places will have to be filled by
those who were re elected.
All the Government buildings in The city
are either already draped in mourning or
are being SO as rapidly as possible, in
respect of the memory Of the late Vice
President. Such of the Senators as are in
the city met at the Senate this morning and
determined that all that could would at
tend the funeral. Messrs. Carlisle and
Randall were at the House. and q committee
of the members in tho city vas appointed
to attend on the part of the House. The
Cabinet held a meeting and also determined
to attend. 1t is understood that the
President aud his Cabinet, and the members
of the Supreme Court and of the two
branches of Congress will 60 together in
special train, starting Monday, 90 as to
reach Indianapolis in time for tho funeral
next day. Other special trains will also go
to carry the large number of other persons
from this city who intend to be present.
Pay Director Caspar schencls, U. S. n, is
detached from special duty at San Fran
cisco and ordersd to the navy pay Office at
Norfolk, Va. Pay Director c. P. Wallach
flee at Norfolk, Va, and ordered to settle
accounts, then await orders
Second Lieutenant John P. Finley, Sig
nal Corps, is relieved from duty at Fort
Mver. Va, and will report to the Chief Sig
nal officer for duty in Washington.
The fact that Mr.. Logans credentials |
have not yet been presented to the Senate
and that therefore he will not be a member |
of that body until he shall have been sworn
in by the presidiug officer thereof, will dis
gust the bloody shutters, who hoped that in
the lottery of natural death he would draw
the prize he failed to win in a fair election.
1t is said here that one of the Malone |
postmasters along the line OF the Virginia |
Midland Railway, who, though a most Of |
fensive partisan, Is allowed TO retain his
position, though several good democrats
are applicants for his place, distributed re-
publican tickets at the election, and mustered
up over q hundred negro voters.
Among the members of the U. S. House of
requested b. tho meeting Of the
members of the House held yesterday to attend
the funeral of the VicePresident, is Mr.. Barbour,
of the Alexandria district.
The North american Reriew for December has
been received from its publishers in New York.
Its contents are Halleck's Injustice to Grant,
The Progress of Texas, Motley and Monarch,
Rome and the InouisitionS, An Acquaintance with