Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
,sn,c,, Correspondents OF the Alexandria t!sset.e.


pinians here, respecting the political cam
paigns that Senator Sherman, Governor
Foraker and other Northern republicans are
to make in Virginia, is that instead Of hurt
ing they vii! benefit the democratic cause,
by terminating the many democrats who
had become lukewarm by reason Of the re-
fusal of the administration to remove re-
publican Office holders, and by inspiring them
to renewed efforts to defeat the worst enemy
Virginia ever had-ininitely worse than the
worst carpet Dagger ever conceived of being.
A Virginian who has just arrived here from
the West via the G. & 0. r. r. says that
from the western border of the State 10
Charlottesville all the people with whom ne
talked on the train expressed entire conf
dence in the election of the democratic
ticket. He was surprised to hear that many
if not all the old issue republicans of the
State were now more opposed to Malone
! than the democrats, for the reason that to
him they attribute the ruin Of the republl-
can party in Virginia.
Last weeks racing here was the most sue
cessful meeting ever held on Washington
course. just before the fencing race Oh
Saturday daughter of Senator Bayard,
W no rode her own thoroughbred, escorted by
Mr.. Blunt, went over part of the steeple
chase track and made beautiful leap Of
one of the stone walls. Subsequently Mr..
Blunt, who, by the by, has many friends in
Alexandria, won the gentlemeu's race east
", riding the horse Col. Clark.
Mr.. Cab. Maddux, the famous proprietor
of Orkney Springs, is in the city to-day.
He says he hears Shenandoah is put down
his State as one Of the doubtful counties,
| h,t thot If q n NO n c n hot fhof Gan
Lee wont carry it by at least two hundred
majority that man can lose all the money
he has by calling upon him.
1t is reported of that all the Virginians
who have been appointed to Office here un-
der the new administration not single one
has subscribed cent to tho Virginia cleo
| ton fund, at least not to the Virginia demo-
cratic association of this city, which has al
| ready sent funds to some of the close coun-
| ties, and which has made arrangements for
sending large number of Virginians So
journiEg in this city back to their State to
vote.
Mr.. Thoman, the so-called democratic
member of the electoral commission, held
on as long as he could, but having it plainly
intimated TO him that unless he resigned he
| would be removed, he has at last rendered his
resignation, which, it is needless to say, will
be accepted as soon as a successor shall be
decided upon. Mr. Eaton, though his res.
| ignation was sent in some time ago, still re
tains his place because his successor has
not been appointed. He denied the charge
| that the commission had not administered
the civil service law fairly but it is proved
by all the heads of departments at the New
York custom house that the commission
has been run in the interests of there
publican party and for the appointment of
| republicans to Office.
The Postmaster General has decided that
in cities and towns where the receipts from
| the special delivery Of letters are not sufIi-
Gent TO secure the service Of delivery boy,
the clerks in the Office shall perform the SER
vice without extra pay.
News here TO. day from Petersburg is
to the effect that most all the North
ern money General Malone has re-.
ceived for his campaign fund was sent
by the national republican committee and
Mr.. Clyde, Of the Danville railroad, which
road, it will remembered, General Malone
made his Legislature permit to pay its just
| Indebtedness to the State in the deprecated
Riddlebarger bonds, thereby swindlng Vir-
| ginia out OF quarter of million dollars
Mr.. Huntington, of the G. & 0. r. r., also
promised 10 subscribe to the Generals fund ,
bat, it is said, was prevented from doing so
| by General Wickham, who told him such
money would be thrown away, as the dem
| Gratis would certainly carry the Legislature.
Treasure Jordan is having an investiga-
ton made Of the expense to which the Gov.
ernment is subjected in the effort to make
the silver dollar circulating coin, and says
the country will be surprised to learn the
| magnitude Of that expense, and that the
rnfn IL, hn Il hat
used.
The U. S. Supreme Court to-day decided
the long-pending suit of the Lamar heirs for
the recovery of the value of large quaint
ty of cotton seizsd by the u. S. Government
and sold as captured Confederate property.
This court complains of the pressure Of bus
mess, and yet of the five days in the week
of its, at best short sessions, it consumes one
in the reading of decisions which not even
the lawyers interested can hear we'll enough
to understand, when the whole of that day
could bo saved by merely announcing the
fact that the decision of the lower court had
been affirmed or reversed, and let those in.
terested in the reasons for the decision wait
for the printed copies. Mr.. Justice Bradley,
who, it has been reported, would resign on
account of old age and infrm health, looks
as we'll as he did eight years ago, when after
formulating righteous opinion in the in
famous Hayes fraud, was induced by parti-
san influences to reverse it.
As the general impression among the
people of this city is that more of the money
they subscribe to the charitable institutions
here goes to the support of the officers
thereof than to that of the poor and needy,
public meeting has been called for the
purpose of eflecting some improvement in
the matter of disbursing the charity funds.
The schooner Annie F. Clark bound from
here to Norfolk, which was in collision with
the steamer Arrowsmith during the fog last
Friday morning and was sunk, has been
raised and is now at the 18th street wharf
unloading. Her damages it is said will
amount to about four hundred dollars.
AS the President nor any of his Cabinet atten-
ded the races last week. Rev. DR.. Sunderland,
pronounced republican, whose church the Pres-
dent attends. in his sermon yesterday compared
those who did attend tho races to those who 60 to
prize fights and low theatres.
Few people here believed the late reported in
terview with en- Senator Conkling. They are
therefore rot surprised that Mr.. Conkling should