Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-27
rpnm WASHINGTON.

DIV. also that Mr.. Charles Baldwin. who
,,..s ,nsIalyzed there some weeks ago, IS re-
covering. though slowly. Judge Christian
- DISTINGUISHED ex-men Der Of the Supreme
Court Mr.. Baldwin was formerly OF Alex
ondria and is q son in law of Mr.. w. N. NC
Weigh Of that city.
'rne Virginia mechanics and other work
inv mcr of Virginia, now employed IN inns
civ. have prepared II labor plank WINCH
they want inserted in the platform TO De
adop.ea bY the Virginia democrats AT tneir
convention 10 meet in Richmond next Wed
ucsday, which plank they sag VIII offset the
iusincere labor planks put BY Gen. Manohe
i, his platform. 1t IS also understood mere
.i,yi The temperance men VIII cnueaFor 10
have declaration in favor 81 Local op''oh
inserted IN lie platform, but that the at
| :ctup. 10 i:rng the temperance qnes'',n
n!n politics will b: irowned down ny 'n'
| iemnr,alS :, ,-.;;,
RI. following changes in the Virginia
nn.t, ncrs were made To-day Round llIil'
| i,o,d,l,p county, Eihelhert Milburn al'-
,,,,;,,,,.d p,stmast,r, vice Maggie NJ bHhI,'
rs,nnv, Il: Flint, Floyd county, JOS. II.
| .s;,,,n:nn vice JOS NJ Hale, removed Vol
III, Inn Fairfax county, Roh.rt Cunning-
b"m, VIC jos. H. Brown, removed; VIVA
t.,vii:,.. Ea,t, emond county, Geo. w. Skin
ner. vice Mrs. W. A. Howell, removed.
David NJ Sooner WAS commissioned "a
20 II n.,Strr at Hamburg; JOS. ). Powell
! =, Eerr's Creek .j,.hn ". Patton ut Middle
lu,., and Henry ID Cole at Williamsburg.
| Pu tollcrs have been estab'ishcd at Buin'o
station, Nelson county, nnd at Bybcc, Fit
wanna county.
The President will leave here next Sun
lay fer Mt. McGregor,- accompany the re-
| IL G,g,n tn
Yck, aud attend the Generals funeral III
tina, city. lie will then lake his summer
vacation, AMI be- absent from Washington \
month or six weeks, the most OF which time
/ q will spend among the mountains Of his
own Safe.
Fix Senator Mcdonald, OF Indiana, when
at Deer Park recently, in an interview with
gentleman now in this city, said that
when here recently he told tbePresideutt there
we've but two parties in his State, the demo-
cratic and the republican, and that he was
clad to say each was Extensively partisan to
the other He also implied, if he did not
sav, that he expected democratic reve.ses
in the fall elections, but that he thought
thoy would do good rather than evil, as
they would prove to the administration that
| it, policy of mugwumpism and of going
SOW was not popular with the party, and
/ IllEIIl tDpTSDS lH'luCo ~ w a'Ot'b WV Hio'S
in accordance with the wishes OF those ny
whose votes il was elected.
The democratic members of the House
having done the party all the harm it was
possible for them to do in the matter Of the
disp ,sition Of The federal patronage, have
| left the city and gone to their homes, or to
summer resorts There are less than TWEEN
ty Of them il The city to-day. They tell
| the President and the newspapers that the
| administration is the best the country has
had in many years, but tell their friends,
with an injunction Of secrecy, that the
course of the President is breaking up the
party.
General Gabe Wharton, who has been ap-
pointed supervisor of inspectors general Of
the land office, is we'll remembered by the
old residents of Alexandria, as one Of
the first engineers employed in the con-
struction OF the Orange and Alexandria
Railroad, now the Virginia Midland. His
appointment is one Of the few good ones
made in Virginia.
Arrangements are already taking shape
for the erection of magnificent monument
in this city to the memory of General Grant,
no matter where the remains of the General
may be buried The subscriptions are to
be received in small sums, so as TO give as
many as desire an opportunity to contrib
ute, and no subscription from Congress will
be received. The feeling in favor Of
burying the General here is on the
increase rather than the decline, aud a
city meeting is talked about to formulate
aud make public that feeling. Rev. DR..
Sunderland, in his sermon yesterday, said
| The Generals grave should be here.
Il is now publicly stated that when the
German syndicate who now hold the enor-
NOUS land grant in New Mexico and Utah,
known az the Maxwell grant, were nego.
Eating for the purchase of that grant, they
offered Mr. Thurman, 81 member of the Sen
ate Committee on Public Lands, n fee of
i've thousand dollars for Il legal opinion on
| the validity az that grant, and that he de
| clined The oil>r upon the ground that bis
position rs u membcr of the committee re.
ferreh 10 would make it improper for him
to accept it, but that Mr.. Bayard, a member
Of the same committee, accepted an offer of
three thousuna dollars from the same par
lies Tor his ''lninr, rn Ec same subject.
\ prominent Virginia democrat, in the
city to day, says that whoever may he
elected chairman OF the democratic commit
tee al hi> !Stn!e, and be silrposrs Mr.. Barbour
wiii i,s ,:,,I>t lei he administration under
-lara !.tlinI& tl,a!. civil service reform or
Str..i.htut.i democrat, * it was elected IA
4. ,;cinu>.Ai;1 administration, il should natu
rally ii-sire l.. have ii Democratic successor,
and that Therefore it must help the demo
Gratis TO carry the State, and must make
y clean sweep of the Mahoneites, and
in the appointment of men to fill their
places select leil and more effective demo
Gratis han many Of those it has already ap-
pointed. He also saws that the preparation
of the platform to be adopted by the demo
cratic State convention to meet in Richmond
on Wednesday is already in progress, the
several planks being formulated by as many
different mon, and each based upon theidea
OF exposing the shams of General Mahone's
platform, and correcting the false impression
that platform was intended to produce. He
says an attempt will probably be made
in the convention TO condemn some
of the actions of the administration,
but that it will amount to nothing. Re
garding the probable nominations of the
convention, he says General Fitz. Lee will