Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Ae1andriS aaret'e'
WASHINGTON. d. c.. August III, 1880.

o change of four thousand votes IN that us
trict next November, that is in the countles
that composed that district before the Slate
was redist ,icted. The reason for the change,
he saws. will be the fact that OF the three
men On the republican ticket and the one
who selected them not single one is re-
publican. that many Virginia republicans
ore not party men and are pleased at the
sort of government Mr.. Cleveland is giving
the country, that the election Will be STATE
and not national election, and repuoilcans
white republcans-are as much interest
ed in good State government as the demo,
Gratis are, and that the negroes having founo
out that they are treated just as well unner
a democratic as republican anmlnistra'
ton will not allow themselves, as hereto
fore, to he voted as one man, espe, lai y as
many Of them have scores to settle win the
Mahoueitts for unfuflled promises. Hesnys
that he knows many white republicans who
will either stay away from the polls or II
they 90 there vote the democratic ticket.
Congressman Tucker, of Virginia, one OF
the Congressional committee who attended
The funeral Of General Grant, ID i'll the city
to day on his return to his home. lie Is
understood to have expressed himself as
highly gratified at the evidences OF restored
good feeling between the people OF tue
| North and South everywhere apparent
throughout New York city, and by every
body he met. 49,,
T. is sail by Virginiaus, here to-day, that
thu re1entiou OF Col S,ith Boiling, ns post
master al Petersburg, is AS disagreeanie 10
General Malone as it is to some OF the
democrats Of that city, for the reason lhab
the Colonel is one uf the lew Wnite followers
| of the General who has inc respect OF MS
fellow citizens, and is really an influential
man and an effective party manager, and
that his retention deplives the General of
one of bis strongest props in all the South
! side. The General, it is understood, so far
from attempting to have him retained, hopes
he will be removed, and is angry because he
| is not turned out, "a in that case he would
naturally obtain his valuable services.
The rumor is current here, and is generally
credited, that Major Kelley, when he shall
return to this country, will be appointed Sd
| Assistant Secretary of State, vice A. ~.
Adee. Mr. Adee will be remembered as the
oflicious individual who was 80 anxious to
have MIR. Gresham sworn in that he nearly
pulled off the knob Of Judge Wylie's 'front.'
door bell, in the middle of the night, and
having q defect in his speech, talked 80 UNI
intellgibly ,hat the Judge thought he was
drunk, called tho police and had him ar
rested and taken TO the Station house before
the mistake was discovered
MIR. Frank Robinson, a pressman at the
Government Printing Office, while engaged
there about ten o'clock this morning in in
struciiug young woman how to feed a
press. fell on the floor without premonition,
Il stream of blood gushing from his mouth,
aud died before he could be taken up. He
formerly lived in Alexandria, where, it is
said he work ell on the presses i'll the Ga
ZE1TE cfGce.
Mr.. Aieck Hunter, Of Virginia, hos just
returned from q trip to Cobb's Island. He
SAYS that owing to the easterly storms OF
last week the lido was very high there, COM
ing up almost TO the hotel, and that flooding
the other small islands i'll the neighbor.
hood, all the birds on them were driven to
that Island making the shooting there ex.
cellent He killed ninety fine plOvers there
in short tia- last Saturday.
as previously stated in this corresponds
euc. The men VITO have cattle grazing upon
the lands of the Inrlans will he allowed 8
few days srac" after the expiration OF the
forty DAYS uinwed them in which TO IT,
move their cattle from those lands, provided
they show that they are really intent upon
removing them Otherwise the cattle will
be driven off the lands irrespective OF con-
sequences. All the fences on those lands
and on all the Government lands must be
taken down within the prescribed time.
For the purpose Of executing these or
ders the cavalry force in the Indian Coun.
try will he increased. Gen. Frank Arm
strong, OF Texas. an ex-CUnfederate cavalry
| officer who made the recent census of the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes, though it was
said that could not be done, and upon whose
report the late action respecting the Indians
and their lands was taken, has been ap
pointed to taxa census and invesi
| gate the condition of the Apaches, the
widest Indians of the Southwest No
leases or licenses granted by Indians
will be considered valid, unless they be
issued by the Cherokees, who are q thor
oughly civilized people, and are perfectly
competent and able 10 attend to their own
| business.
The White House is now closed to visit
ors, and work men are engaged there in
making necessary repairs aud improve
ments.
The returns of the Department of Agri-
culture to the first of August show gen.
| eral improvement in all crops.
| A gentleman from Southwest Virginia,
here to-day, says Mr.. Wise is speaking out
in that country, but is doing more harm
of men there who left the democratic party
on the debt question have returned to it,
now that that question is out of politics, and
| that scores more will do so for the reason
that General Mahone's platform publishes
to the world the Infamous charge that
their white fellow citizens are assassins
and ballot box suffers. He says all the
reputable men who have heretofore acted
with General Malone will now leave him.
Among those who have recently done so, he
mentions Judge Miller, of Smyth county.
The following changes were made in the
Virginia postofices to-day: t. F. Adams
at Tasley, Accomack county, vice s. w.
Wilson, resigned; Jonathan Jenkins at Hay
field, Frederick county, vice Robert w.
.Borewell, resigned; Fl. I. Bailey at Baiey's
Cross Roads, Fairfax county, vice w. N.
Payne, removed; F. II. Hoffman at Crooked
run, Culpeper CO., vice P. S. Yates, removed;
Lewis Waller, at Catett, Fauquier county,
vice J. NJ. Callett, IT,, resigned; J. T. Am
burgy, ut Lebanon, Russell county, vice C.