Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Ia.etso.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. July /, 1885.

fhVn HdSdlNu1oH.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria aa.etsoi
WASHINGTON. D. c., July !, 1885.
Among the numerous stories atioat about
the President is one to the following effect:
A man applied to him personally for an Oh
fee, and handed him some written recon-
mendations. The President said i must
tell you plainly that you can not have the
place you have applied for, as | have prom
lsed it already to q man whom kno"lo
be competent and efficient, and VINO Is one
ofmy personal friends" The applicant sald:
"Iudeed, am surprised. had heard you
didn't have one' The President laughed
and said, land that's the way they talk
about me, do they. Well, leave your papers;
they will probably get you place, bnt not
the one you ask Tor"
Among the appointees in the Department
of Justice to day are ex-Congressnmn Ben
Wilson, of West Virginia, and j. Monroe
Heiskell, Of Maryland, who was the repuDll-
csa candidate for Mayor of Baltimore a
year or two ago.
1t is said at the Treasury Department
that the ords. for the removal OF Sl"y, tne
Malone collector of customs at Newport
News, Va, has been suspended; but the
reason therefor is not stated.
A gentleman from Blacksburg here this
morning says that Mr.. Arthur Gsymes, OF
Mai HAS Point, King George county, Va,
won the orators medal ut the college there,
and J. E. Early, of Madison county, the
medal for Improvement in elocutlon.
A notice on the door of the room Of the
Postmaster General this morning informed
the public, wbetthey had heard before, thai
for two weeks after The 4th OF July MIR.
Was would not be seen by office seekers or
upon the subject of Office, as be would he
engaged during the whole of that time with
the consideration Of papers already III his
office respecting bat are known as Presl-
dental postCifices, tl.Gt is offices whose i'll
cumhents are appointed by the President
himself.
Mr.. Randall Is III the city to-day. ills
undt r.tood that the Philadelphia appoint
ments will be made at an early day, and
that john tadwallader will be made col
Iector of the port, and Frederick Gerker
collector Of internal revenue, both of whom
have been recommended by Mr.. Randall.
A gentleman posted in the mail service,
when talking this morning about the early
train to be put on the Virginia Midland
Railway next Monday, said the railway
company would have put it on long ago II
the Postoffice Department bad been willing
to pay for the mail service on it, but that
that willingness was only expressed last
week, and that as soon thereafter as possible
the arrangements for running the add ionai
train were made.
There is rrm0r current 10 the effect
that the President will in Il few days an
nouuce his determination to receive no
more office seekers or those who call in
their interest until all the present applica-
lions in his office have been considered.
Gen. Mcllahon, who, it is reported, will
he rendered the appointment Of 4. S. Mar
shall Of New York, is the man who first sug
gested Mayor Cleveland us q suitable candi-
date for Governor.
II is said hy lawyers here that the case OF
Mr. Butler Malone for shooting at an i'm
pulent waiter will never come to trial, or
be mol. pressed if it shall
The only change in the 4th class post
offices in Virginia day was the appoint
ment of Paul S!ralton to be postmaster at
Norwood, Nelson county, vice w. K. Tagne,
removed. The only Virginia Presidential
postmaster appointed was Matte X. CHS.
man, at Hampton, vice H. Il. Booker, re-
signed. The special mail service to Joyner's,
Southampton county, Virginia, has been
discontinued. A daily mail route by steam
boat has been established from Norfolk 10
Cape Charles, via Portsmouth and Fortress
Monroe.
Among those discharged from the bureau
of printing and engraving yesterday is U
good white democrat named Haddox, Of
Alexandria, while among those who were
retained is a colored Mahoneite, from the
same city, named Madella.
A democrat from Lynchburg, Virginia, now
here, when asked this morning who would prob.
ably be nominated for Governor by the republic
can convention o; Virginia OH the 10Th inst, said
he thought General Malone would make SIR. j..
s. Wise his candidate. He added, if that was SO
the democrats should hold no discussion witbhim,
but should employ colcred speakers to meet him
OH every stump and harp upon his statement that
he received negro legislators III his kitchen.
A gentleman from Alexandria was informed by
General Hunton here this morning that he was
sure Major Herbert would be appointed postmas-
ter ut Alexandria within the next few days.