Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-17
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASd1Nt1UN,
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette!
WASHINGTON. D. c., Sept. II, 1885.
Major Bev. Tucker is the city to-day. He
saws his brother, Mr.. j. K. Tucker, arrived
here last night from Virginia, where ne mas
been stumping with General Lee, ana states
that the like Of the enthusiasm the General
has excited in the Valley was never before
known: that new horse is ready for MIN
mile or two outside of every town, and that
he enters the towns escorted by cavalcades
in which are old and young, republicans as
we'll as democrats, and even colored voters,
and that at the bugle call the fields are de.
serted, all the men and boys following the
procession. Mr.. Tucker also says that Gen.
Lees speeches were delivered with telling
effect, and that be will sweep the entire
Valley. Major Bev. says that from what his
brother tells him and from his other sources
of information he has bet twenty four bas.
kets of champagne that Lees majority will
be twenty thousand. "You know" he said
to the GAZETTE's correspondent, II have
other uses for champagne besides drink
ing it,
From Dsnville it is reported here to-day
that Mr.. John Wise, when there recently,
was approached by well.known and high
" respected resident of that city, and asked
to designate any one or any several of the
men Of that community to whom he had
generally applied the terms assassins and
murderers, and that when Mr.. Wise de-
clined to do SO, the gentleman referred to
denounced him as q malicious slanderer.
1t is also said that in Danville and in all the
region round about, Lees majority will be
greatly in excess of the usual democratic
majority, as all the people of that section
think Mr.. Wise has maligned them and that
his groundless abuse of them has tended to
keep immigration and capital away from
them.
Mr.. E. John Ellis says he has half prom
ised to speak for General Lee at Fredericks-
burg on or about the first of October. and at
Wythevlle on the 18th, and that after that
he will be at the Generals disposal until the
end of the campaign, though as he hears the
whole bottom has fallen out Of Mahoneism,
he doesn't care much about taking part in a
fight that has already been won.
A we'll known Virginian in the city to.
day says that Mr.. Wise has been informed
that General Malone is willing to trade
him for Legislature pledged to his own
re election to the Senate, and that as Mr..
Wise must see wherever he goes that the
feeling of the people is against him, and
that he has no chance of election, it
would not be at all surprising if, angry and
disguised with the way in which his mas
ter" has treated him, he were TO abandon
the contest, and thereby do all it is possible
for him now to do in order to get even with
the man who would sacrifice his best friend
to profit himself.
General Bethune, of Warrenton, the old
master af Blind Tom, the colored musica
prodigy,:is in the city to-day. When asked
about the persistent attempt of some North.
ern lawyers, at the instance of the divorced
wife of his deceased son, to take Tom away
from him, though he positively refuses to
go, said he was getting tired ofit, aud in.
tended to take steps to stop it.
Congressman Holman, of Indiana, known
as the great objector, arrived here last night
on his return from an inspecting trip to the
Indian country, more impressed than ever
with the necessity for retrenchment and re-
form in the matter Of the expenditures of
the Government.
Mrs links, the famous witness in the
Presidential contested election case, whose
evidence was intended to conceal the in
famous part Senator Sherman took in that
fraud, has come to grief, as most every other
one of the other participants in that fraud,
except that Senator, has done. Her hus-
band has deserted her for another woman,
and poor Agnes now says she will have to
return to her mother. Retribution will over
take them all.
The British government has made no OBJ
lection to receiving Mr. Whelan, who was
recently appointed consul at Fort Erie,
Canada, though he was a prominent mem
Der of the Fenian Brotherhood.
No election leaves will be granted in any
of the departments. All the employees
who go home to vote will have the time
required to do SO deducted from their regu-
lar thirty days vacation, and will not be paid
therefor. Nobody will be refused permits.
sion to 60 homo to vote, but any active
will be INDUCED in on pain of
removal.
A letter received here from Mr.. Daniel
Trigg, member of the Virginia Legislature
from Washington county, says Wises cam
oaign there was failure, that he seemed to
De under hack, and that of all the counties in
;he Southwest, Tazewell is the only one about
which there is any doubt. ex-senator John
'ton, who is still here says that from what he |
hears Mr.. Wise's incendiary speeches in
stead Of helping his cause have greatly |
weakened it. and that there is no doubt
Lee will be elected by an immense majority, |
md that the democrats will also have all |
he majority they require in the Legisla-
lure.
AIR. Aleck Hunter, formerly of Alexan-
iria, Well.known throughout Virginia as Q
writer over the name of Chasseur, now
clerk IN the Interior Department, had three
valuable guns stolen from him last week,
out was lucky enough to recover them from
pawnshop.
The telegraphic operator at the White
House will be removed, and his place be
lied by Mr.. Duke, of Virginia.
One hundred 4th class postmasters were
emoved to-day, but none in Virginia.
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