Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-17
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON. j. c., Oct. II, 1885.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Virginia democratic association of this city,
held last night, stirring speech was de-
livered by Col. l.. @. Washington. One OF
the District candidates for a District Office
subscribed $40 to the Virginia campaign
fund, and two of the democratic clubs of
this city made contributions to tho same
fund-one of 800 and one of $40. Several
more contributions were also received. The
association is making arrangements for haV-
ing all the Virginia voters in this city re-
gistered, and for sending them home TO vote
on election day.
Congressman Gibson, one Of the speakers
at the democratic meeting ID Alexandra,
last night, says the meeting was very sat-
isfactory one to the speakers and seemed to
be so TO tho audience. He also says the
speakers were very Hospitality entertained
both before and after the meeting.
Congressman Wilkins, of Ohio, who ar
rived here from Cincinnati this morning,
saws the democrats of his State have elected
enough members of the Legislature to give
Them majority of two on joint ballot, but
that that majority will be made by their
majority in the Senate, as the republicans
will probably have smaller majority in
the lower house, and that the danger is that
they will use that small majority to unseat
enough democratic members 10 more than
offset the democratic majority in the Senate.
A private letter received here to- day from
Congressman George Wise, of Virginia, who
is now stumping his State for the demo-
Gratis, says ''the result in Ohio has not dis.
turbed the equanimty of the Virginia dem
ocracy, and that he is confident of glo-
rious victory"
Among the appointments made yesterday
in the Lighthouse service were the following
VIM. G. Bell, to be assistant keeper at Cher
rystone, Va; N. L. Odell, to be acting keep
er at Cape Henry, Va; and Thos. P. Bell
to be first assistant keeper at Cape Henry,
Virginia.
1t is generally believed by the politicians
here that persistent and continuous at
tack will be commenced by the republican
Senators upon the President as soon as Con
gress shall assemble for the removals and
appointments he has made, and that though
some of those Senators may not take promi-
nent parts in that attack they will all vote
together.
1t is rumored here that the bloody shirt,
the sight of which nearly created riot at
Columbus, Ohio, yesterday, was the same
one that was draped in mourning and sus-
pended in front of the democratic headquar-
tiers in this city after the election of Presi-
dent Cleveland, and which so engaged there
publicans here that they threatened riot
also They like to raise the bloody shirt,
but don't like to be reminded it.
Congressman Cole, of Baltimore, who will
be remembered by all the surviving mem
hers of the 18th Virginia regiment, in whose
camp he was familiar, is here again to-day
looking for places for some of his constitu-
ents. With regard to the coming election
in his State, he says the republican ticket is
weak, is already beaten, and that German
will come back to the Senate.
The Secretary Of the Navy had consul
tation with some of the bureau chiefs of his
department this morning respecting the
selection of the navy yards at which the
new cruisers shall be built, but he has 80
far arrived at no definite conclusion in the
matter.
A member Of the Virginia State democra-
tic committee in the city to-day says that
at the recent meeting of that committee
such financial arrangements as were deemed
necessary were made, and that as it was
thought that straightout republican,
man as much oppose to Malone and his
methods as any democrat could be, can
be elected TO the State Senate from the
Portsmouth district, while no democrat
can be, the committee unanimously
recommended that the democrats of that
district support Mr.. Callahan. Elk Con.
gresham Dezendorf, who is here, says MIR.
Callahan can be elected, and that he will go
to Portsmouth and electioneer for him.
Washington has become the Mecca Of
nearly all the bridal couples who live with
in easy distance of the city. twenty-five
such couples were registered at one hotel
here yesterday.
The conviction Of butter merchant here
yesterday for selling illegal oleomargarine,
will, it is thought, stop the fraudulent sale
Of that article in this city. Professor Taylor
testified and made it plain to the jury that
butter could be distinguished from oleomar
gariue-a previously disputed point.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Portugal has seized two French stations
on the Gulf of Guinea.