Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-25
FROM WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON n c.. August %, 1885.
Congressman wilkins. democrat, from
Ohio, is in the city to-day. He says the
party in his State is in much better condl-
ton than it was two years ago, when Hoad-
" was elected by twelve thousand majority.
He also SAYS the late convention was the
most harmonious one they had held for
years; the kids and mossbacks striving to
excel each other in concessions for the gen
eral good The managing committee, too,
he SAYS, is composed of wise and active
members, who will leave nothing legitimate
undone to obtain victory. The prohibi-
ton ticket, he says, will get about twenty
five thousand votes and that the repuhll-
cans are so afraid of it that they are fight
ing it more savagely than they are the one
nominated By the democrats. They accuse
The temperance candidate for Governor OF
being beer-drinker, because he eats Welsh
rare-biis, which, as all good cooks we'll
know, can not he made without beer as
component. Mr.. Wilkins says, the Post of
this city to the contrary, that the Ohio dem
ocrats are sanguine of success and have
good cause to be. ;.
A member Of the executive committee OF
the democratic State central committee OF
Virginia, here to-day, says that meeting
of that committee will be held in Alexan-
dria early in September,to make further ar
engagements for prosecuting the campaign IN
that State,
A straightout Virginia republican from
the Eighth Congressional district OF his
state now here on private business says the
Mabopeites have great trouble about finding
ranutable men for their candidates for the
Legislature; that in the "black districts"
they have to select negroes in order to re-
tain the negro vote, and that in the white
counties hardly any reputable man will
accept nomination ut their hands.
General Logan loses large.sized plum by
the recent decision of the land office, which
takes away from him large tract ofvalu'
able land belong TO the Zuni Indians, but
which the Generals son-n.laW had located
under the desert land act.
A telegram received here to day from Gen.
Butler ga, the ground on which the market
house in this city is built is q government
reservation, and that at the next session OF
Congress an font will he made TO Dust not
only the Market House Company which has
no right to the ground, but also the 9Th
street depot, and that he will sign a petition
10 have il done so as to open park from
his house on Capitol Hill to the Washington
monume mt clear Of all obstruction.
The State democratic convention Of Penn
srlvania will meet TO- morrow. A we'll in
formed democratic politician from that State
in the city to-day says the session will be
short, and that the administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland will be endorsed, and MIR.
Day be nominated for Treasurer, which of
flee will head the ticket this year. MIR.
Quay, machine politician, is the republic
| can nominee for the same place, but Mr..
Day is a business man, extensively engaged
in halness and saddle manufacturing in
Philadelphia and will be run on an anti
| monopoly and Notwithstanding railroad
policy, aud will, it is said, secure the votes
| of all the southern counties in that State, re-
publican though many Of them have been
heretofore.
| The Consul at ST. Paul de Loando, on the
west coast of Africa, has resigned that
place. The salary is $1,000 1t cost him
$3.50 to take himself, bis wife, and child
| there. His vile was taken sick with the
| fever of the country soon after landing, and
| he bad to sell his household effects to raise
| money enough 10 send her to England,
where she is waiting for money from her
| friends in this country to bring her back
here. He was taken sick soon after, and,
but for the providential arrival Of a q. s.
vessel, which brought him away he would
have died without attention. He is Of the
opinion that consuates in Africa are not
profitable, though he gave up profitable
business 10 accept one. There are numerous
applicants for the vacancy caused by his
resignation.
A gentleman who arrived here from
Stanton this morning says he was at the
two political meetings held there yesterday,
and that one lock at them was sufficient to
Determine any undecided man how to vote,
and that that determination would have
been confirmed by hearing the speech made
| by Judge Stuart, of Alexandria, to the large
democratic meeting, and those made by
Messrs. Berkeley, Craig and Yost to the
small crowd Of Mahoneites. He says the
| democrats Of Augusta county are confident
they will increase their majority by three
hundred.
First Assistant Postmaster General Ste
vepson has become aware that some of the
republican clerks in the Postoflice Depart
ment are doing all they can 10 hinder the
removal OF republicans f ON Office by refus-
ing to give information in their respective
Offices to people who have tight to it. He
will take immediate steps to correct the evil
that bias caused general complaint.
j. n. White has been appointed mail mes
senger al Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Major KoilGy sailed from Antwerp on tho 10Th
inst. and is expected st New York on the 9th.
1t is generally believed that the Administration
will give him another place, rs he sold his library
and other effect at a great sacrifice when he left
Richmond.
1t is rumored among Virsinians here that Gen
eral NJ hone has recently lost some more of his
former republican supporters and that one of
them, gentleman well known throughout the
State, will probably, at an early day, make public
hic fpr onpoSnp Mabnuicm and tell his
party that the most effective way to rid themselves
of the man who is riding them TO death is to bury
him under an overwhelming majority next fall.
Fairfax Nomination.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria GAZE1TE.)