Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. D. O., Sept. 9, 1885.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF tho Alexandria Gaseto.l
WASHINGTON. D. O., Sept. 9, 1885.
Senator Blackburn, Governor Knott,
Stodard Johnson, and others of the most
prominent democrats of Kentucky, did their
best to have an offensive republican retained
as inspector of the public building ut FRANK
fort, The comptroller of the Treasury, Mr..
durham however, headed other democrats
of the State in an effort to have the ohJec-
tionable republican removed, and to-day
succeeded in obtaining an order to that Ell
feet and in having democrat appointed TO
his place. 49,,
ty. is an applicant for the position of cap
tain of police of the Interior Department.
The Captain was an officer in Maryland
regiment of the Union army during the civil
war, and is working democrat.
Commissioner Sparks of the land office of
the Interior Department, who has been ab-
sent some time, is expected back tomorrow.
It is understood that not only in the land
bureau, but in all the other bureaus of the
Interior Department there are many en-
ployes, not protected by the civil service
laws, who are permitted to retain their
places, Notwithstanding the fact that they
are offensive partisans.
Among the strangers in the city to-day IS
MIR. Walton Moore, a prominent member OF
the bar of Fairfax county, Virginia. he says
that Mr.. r. r. Farr has positively declined to
accent the Malone nomination for the
House of Delegates from that county, that
the Malone convention to make another
nomination will meet on Monday next, and
that either Judge Sangster, Mr.. Kenyon or
Mr.. HaBxhurst will be selected. He says
that no matter who receives the nomination
Mr.. Chichester, the democratic candidate,
will be. elected by majority of not less
than three or four hundred.
A firm of claim agents in this city has
sent circulars to nearly all the druggists in
the country stating that it has discovered
that by an illegal construction of the internal
revenue laws each of them has paid great
deal more to the Government than he
should have paid, and is, therefore, entitled
to restitution, and that for a contingent fee
of 33i per cent. OF the sum recovered. it will
take all the requisite steps to secure that
restitution.
The Ohio election will take place in Oc-
tober. Nearly all the Government en-
ployees here from that State are republi-
cans but it is reported here to-day that all
Oh lQeu Will ~ uOuS w fOgO, iAu Iuoo lhooe
of them will vote the republican ticket,
though that ticket is the embodiment of the
bloody shirt and sectional resolutions of the
Ohio republican convention and of the de-
nunciation of the administration by Senator
Sherman, Mr.. Foraker and all the other re-
publican editors and speakers there.
Mr.. James Devine of Leesburg, Virginia,
O. we'll known temperance man and demo-
GRAFT of that State, is here to-day. He says
he was present at the organization of
lodge Of Good Templars at Bailey's Cross
Roads, near Alexandria, last night, and that
from what he could learn there the demo-
Gratis of that neighborhood are sanguine of
success at the coming election. Mr.. Devine
also SAYS he hears from his friends and cor
respondents in Westmoreland county, Va,
that not more than ten or twelve white men
in that county will vote the Malone ticket
next November.
The late murderous assault upon the
Chinese at Rock Springs is likely to cost this
country no little expense. Under the treaty
with China, citizens of that country are en-.
titled to such treatment here as is accorded
the most favored nations. Certainly whole
sale slaughter is not the treatment accorded
such nations. The Chinese minister is hav-
ing q record made of every Chinaman killed
or injured in this country, and it is supposed
will make it the foundation for large claim;
and there can be no doubt that if such
claim be submitted to the arbitration of dis.
interested nations it will be granted.
About one hundred fourth class postmas-
tors were changed to-day, but none was in
in Virginia, where many of the postoffices
are still held by most offensive republican
partisans.
day by some of the friends of the Court of
Alabama Claims to the effect that Secretary
Bayard is wroth with Comptroller Durham
for his action in the matter of that court.
Those who know any thing about that
matter know that Mr.. Durham's action was
in accordance with the advice of Mr. Bayard.
Letters here from Buckingham and Cum.
berland counties, in the "black belt" of
Virginia, where all of General Mahone's
really effective strength lies, indicate that
though in both of them the negroes have
overwhelming majorities, the factional
fights among themy and the "disillusion"
to which they have been subjected by
democratic administration, the democrats
will elect both the members of the Legisla.
ture to which those counties are entitled.
Judge G. E. Stuart, of Alexandria, Speaker
of the Virginia House of Delegates, was
here for short time to-day. He is just
from Franklin county, Virginia, in the Dan.
vile section of the State, where he made an
effective speech last Monday. He says the
democrats of that section are very sanguine,
and that in Franklin, though that county
gave Malone large majority in 1881, so
many democrats who then went off, have
come back to the party, that it is doubtful
if the Mahonites will run candidate for
the Legislature there this fall
Until otherwise ordered the Presidents
days for the reception of callers will be
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays The
President curtaled his vacation so as to |
make it come within the thirty days allow
ed the other servants of the people,
The annual edition of the blue book is
now almost ready for publication. In it the
actual bona tide residence OF all the en-
ployees of the Government at the time of
their appointment will be given. This will
show that hundreds of Office holders hailing
from Virginia do not live, and never did
live in that State.