Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Isnecisl Correspondence OF the hlez"nd'iH ttAIee'
WAsH1NaYoH. D. c., August l, 1880.

tics OF their Slate ABOUT SeItiDS up Leo
ratification alday meeting ana barbecue a.
Belmont Park, OIL the Washington, ouio
and Western Railroad. The attendance at
suck a meeting, it is said, "ouln Oe iafse,
az both Alexandria and this city would seno
heavy conlingents.
Among the late arrivals in the city are
cnnoressmen Barbour and Trigg, who are
;nst from the Virginia State democratic
convention Mr.. James Barbour, CT Cui-
neper county, is also in The city.
gentleman from Leesburg, Loudoun
county. Virginia, here 10 day, says THAT Mr.
Harry Fairfax, son of Col. John W. Fairfax,
vesterday bought the fine estate nesr tnat
;own known as the Quinby farm, lnc!uuing
tSs stock. implements and furniture, Tor
Ss9 ma The estate formerly belonged 10
s ;ba nnrcbasera father, and is the one upon
| which he was born.
The renott that MIR. Day, Second Auditor
or,ha rr.as,,ry. has requested the resignn,
tio no If the six chiefs Of Divisions under him,
of whom AIr. ,Vhalou, OF A!exandrla county,
Virginia, is ore, is denied at Mr.. Days Office
this morning 1t is said there that only two
of the six hicfs have been asked TO resign,
and that their places have already been
filled.
Congressman 1'rigg vas at the PostoCice
Department this morning, and sEcceeded III
having about dozen of Mahone's post.
masters removed in his district. There Is
hang about the postmaster at Abingdon, in
conseauence Of the scramble for the place.
and it is understood the Department is OF
opinion that the charges against ihe lneum
| bent are not sufficient TO warrant MS I'd
moval.
Mr.. Eaton, chief of the Civil Service Com
nisaiun, has received the report OF the IN
yestigatou Of the case of Postmaster Jones,
ut Indianapolis, but as yet declines TO make
it public He irtisnates, however, that Ell.
Jones had perfect right to 90 all no has
done.
Yirgipians in the city to day from the
southwestern section Of their State say that
General Mahune's candidate for Governor
will open bis campaign at Newburn, Paaskl
county, on Monday next. They also say
that the democratic committee of the State
will advise their speakers TO have no joint
discussions with the Mahoneites, and That
probably the only nan who will not adopt
that advice is ParsUn Massey, who ia 30 II.
ritatiuy to AIR. Wise that the latter has al
ready declared he will not meet him on the
stump In this connection it is just as well
10 saw on the authority of Virginia re-
publcau now in the city, that Mr.. Hooper,
republican, who represented the Petersburg
dis: ric; III The las: Congress, has written a let.
ter mere, in which he says that Ia his county,
Prince Edward, where the negroes have an
overwhelming majority, Wise will have u
small vote. Lit. Gov. Lewis, another Fir-
GINA republican,, who is also here, told some
| friends Ibis MOI ming be did not believe Wise
would get one hundred votes in his county,
Rockingham, one ei the largest in the State.
A strong delegation of cattle uen are
here to-day 10 urge the President TO extend
tbs time allowed them to remove their cattle
frou The lands they leased of the Indians.
They say they have sig million dollars in
vested in cattle, aud that it will he utterly
imuossible TO remove them in the prescribed
forty days, especially as much OF The adJoin'
ing country is quarantined.
| The executive committee Of The demo-
cratic parry Of virginia will meet in Staun-
ton next week to make preliM arrange
neuts for their coming campaign.
The following changes in the Virginia
P.sto[Iices were ANNOUNCED to-day. The
mail route from Harlisonburg to Tenth Le-
g.on i. changed so as to embrace New Mar
set. The route from Harrisonburg via Port
| Il pubic 81 Harrisonburg is extended to
enurAca T,uth Legion. New Postonlces
have been established at Bybce, Fluvanna
| county and Lono Gum, 3 -dfortl county. At
| Mountain Grove, Bath CO.. Mary J. Foutz,
| Is appointed postmaster, vice Mrs. Mary +
]. Hicks, resigned Alchiu, Halifax county,
Juo r. Mitchell, vice .Ino. a. Mitchell, re,
signed Amelia &. H., Amelia county, Ger
vas n. Sou;hun, vice W. T. Vaughan, re-
sigaed. The mail that since the first of last
April has left Alexandria at 4:4O p. m. for
points along the line Of the Manassas Gap
branch Of the Virginia Midland Hallway,
laid over all night at Manassas and went up
the road next morning on freight train.
Hereafter it will SO up the road on the
passenger train the same evening it leaves
Alexandria.
A member Of the late State Democratic
Convention Of Virginia in this city to day
SAYS that be has attended many previous
similar conventions but never q more order
ly and quiet one, or one in which their was
less trickery. He said all the speeches were
good, and that some, that OF Mr. Holt of
Surry, for instance, would have reflected
credit upon a Senate. He says that Parson
Massey came there with only two counties
at his back, but that by his speech he won
the whole convention.
The office seekers who will fail to receive
appointments during the next six days will
have to bide their time until about the mid
die of next October. as the President will
leave here towards the end Of next week,
aud will be absent a long time, and will not
resume the consideration of applications for
oiIice for some time after he shall have re-
turned.
The President to-day received telegram
from Gen jos. E Johnston, saying that he
was in Portland, Oregon, when he received
word Of his selection rs one of Gen. Grants
pail bearers, and that he had started imme-
diately for Nav York.
Attorney General Garland, to whom the
Secretary of the Interior referred the ques-
ton of the power of the Interior Depart
ment to authorize the Indians to lease their
lands for grazing purposes, has transmitted
to Secretary Lamar, an opinion in effect
that no such power exists under the law.
One hundred and eighty EIGHT fourth class
postmasters have been appointed to-day.
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