Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-08

reason, for the good one that many OF the
democrats who went off to Malone on tne
State debt question have returned 10 10, 'ne
party. He says there was ana sun 80
some dissatisfaction among the democrats y,
his county in consequence OF Inc te.eue
of some obnoxious Mahone!te postmastesS,
hus that he thinks it will all be dissipateo
before the dav of election, and that MI
Farr show ed sense in declining the n0mina'
tion "a he would have been beaten Daoiy.
Ha COWS the idea of allowing Mahoneites 10
roto;n offices upon the idea that they VIII
80 tho democratic ticket is bosh too weak
t>r children. as even if they were to prom
;ee to do So they would break that promise
an election day and drop Malone ticket
into the ballot box I; but, that If otherwise,
thew would have no influence and could not
induce single man in their party to vote
the democratic ticket
The scarcity of one and two dollar notes
is now so great that like every other scarce
thing they have increased in value, ana
now command premium of from dollar
and a. quarter to dollar and halt tnou-
sand. ;,
The President received callers this morn
ing from ten to twelve o'clock, but not OIL
fice-seekers. A good many availed them
selves of the opportunity to pay him thelr
respects and congratulate him upon MS ap-
parent improved health. His private sec
retary, Col. Lamont, said to-day that no
important appointments would be maze
"yet awhile" ,,, o,,,,
The following changes in the fourth class
postoffices in Virginia were made TO gay :
Rectortown, Fauquier county, Charies n.
Walker, vice Daniel q. Green, removed
Jennings Ordinary, Nottoway county, VIM
Kies. vice John Thurs6eld, not COMMISSION
ed: Nichols Carroll county, Il. W. LinosaS'
vice T.. T. Jennings, removed. ;,,..
An intelligent commercial traveller JUST
here from an extensive business tour
throueh several of the Western States, ID
talking at the Metropolitan Hotel, o'day,
said that the democrats of the States from
which he bad Just come were very much
interested in the result of the election IN
Virginia; that they entertained warm feel
ing for General Lee, which had been in
creased to the point of enthusiasm by his
appearance in Washington at the dedication
of the Washington monument and at Presl-
| dent Cleveland's Inauguration, and IN New
| York at General Grants funeral, and by the
concliatory and unsectional speeches he Is
making, and that should he be elected Gov
ernor of Virginia they will demand that be
be given the second place on the next ma
| tional democratic ticket.
It is learned at the Court House this
| morning that the civil suit against MIR. But
Ter Malone for damages for shooting at
colored waiter at Welker's Hotel here last
winter has been dismissed at the instance OF
the prosecutor.
Intelligence here to-day from Shenandoah
county, Virginia, is to the effect that MIR.
George Rye, ex-State Treasurer, and an
original and consistent republican, will sup
port General Lee in the present campaign ;
that most all the other straightout repubil-
cans of that county will do the same. and
that the county, though it was one of those
that went off on the debt question, will give
| a democratic majority Of three or four hum
dred at the next election. Democratic and
| Malone meetings were held at Woodstock,
| in that county, yesterday, but the former
was much the larger, and was attend
ed by the substantial men of the coun-
ty, while the latter, as usual, had all
the negroes. Among the speakers at
the latter was Senator Riddleberger, who,
it is said, will from now to the close of the
campaign take an active part in it, and that,
| too, thought Mr. Wise said his inactivey
would be matter of no consequence. With
| regard to the Senator's speeches, it IS said
| General Malone would rather he would
not make them, as he does not think he has
any influence, and doesn't want him to be
making himself prominent. Notwth.
standing the oscuatory scene in the Malone
State Convention, the General does not like
his colleague because he tried to divide the
federal patronage with him, and to be
partially at least independent, and because
lie brought ridicule and consequently dam
age upon the republican party by his course
| in the Senate. This. it is said, Mr.. Riddle.
berger knows as well as any body else, and
that it is to keep himself before the public,
and avoid the oblivion to which tho Gen
eral would consign him, that he will stump
| the State not that he dislikes the General
the less, but that he loves himself the more.
1t is rumored here from Norfolk to-day
that General Groner, heretofore one of Gen
eral Mahone's staunchest supporters 10 that
city, and one of tho few men of any real
substantial influence in the Generals party,
has at last become sick of one man power,
and has left the General in disgust.