Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
,snsc,sl Correspondence Of the Alexandra eale1.e
~n,>,oror n c.. Jan. /. 1880

FROM WAS61NoloN.
,snscal Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette
WASHINGTON. D. O.. Jan. l. 1880
III. currently reported here to-day toaI
a.. I'm ! Wise. the transient memoer
e Inc Z. S. House of Representat,ges ilom
as MrTucker once caiieq hlm' 10y
possibly be elected Professor OF Law aS 'oe
University of Virginia, to 81! the VacapeS
occasioued by the death OF the iate ~
lessor Soutbal The present BOARD .. si S,,
tors of that institution was aPpoin!eu ~
General Mahone's Governor, anu IL W. ~
Serstoo6, stand four to four lor MT. Wi IS
with one vacancy. The chairman o. Iuo
hoard is MIR. F. >. Blair, the Genera az ~
torney General State Senator Heaton, "
Loudoun county, it will De remem Zone
nroposed in the Virginia Lei Leg State
70 remove this board, as h aH tho The 20 cultv
with the boards of some 9tv snv nom her
institutions, but was sr rbv whom appointed,
Of the University . Wise is hard to com
OF the Doaffoor nothing else, in view of the
can at several days after the recent Pres
lRGtial election, this same Mr. Wise tele
praphed the New York Tribune that ''Vir-
ginia, unaided, rebukes negro killing and
legislative scoundrelism by bourbons, and
wheels grandly into line for Blaine and Lo-
gan"
New Years Day being legal holiday
here, not only all the departments, both
city and national, but all places of private
business except hotels and restaurants, are
closed and the day ia DEVOTED to making
and receiving formal and social calls. All
the Cabinet ministers, except Secretary Lin
coin, whose wifes mother died recently, are
holding nunerously attended receptions, as
are all the other prominent people in the
CITY. AS Speaker Carlisle, nor ex-Speaker
Randall, nor either Of their wives is here,
their houses, of course, are closed but with
those exceptions the houses of all the public
and of most of the private people of the city
are open to visitors. At the White House
the usual programme was observed, the
members OF the u. s. Supreme Court, the
Cabinet officers aud other chief officers OF
the Government the diplomatic corps, the
Grand Army of the Republic, the Veteran
Corps, the survivors of the Mexican war,
and The association Of the Oldest inhabitants
calling and paying their last formal respects
to The President. A large crowd of clerks
and other people also called. Capt. VIM.
Geary, of Alexandria county, was among
the Mexican veterans who called. There
were thirty of them who called last year
only sixteen TO day. The Captain says to-
day WAS the second time, last year being
the first, tina. be has shaken the hand OF
republican, President, and that he hopes it.
will be twenty five years before be can have
an opportunity ofdoing so again
1t IS rumored here to-day that confer
ence of the denocra ic members of the
Virginia Congressional delegation, and such
other prominent Virginia democrats as may
III ha .,,inh he nall nnrk.
next week to consider the most advisable
senting TO the President elect the good and
sufficient reasons for selecting one Of the
members of his Cabinet from their State.
Almost everybody not personally interested
in the matter thinks that Virginian should
he in The Cabinet, and all Of those who
know anything about Virginia affairs think
that the quiet, safe and careful representa-.
tive froru the Sth district should be the man.
Old Probabilities Slipped up" terribly
to day He was 80 confident the day was
tn be "clear and cool" that gratuitously he
buletined al he White House yesterday a
prophecy TO that effect, and Informed the
dignitaries that they could make their ar
ruugemepts for to day accordingly. The
old fellow has made many false prophecies,
but that for to-day beats them all, and sub
jects him 20 much ridicule.
II seems to be the impression in Wash
ington that Mr. Devine will succeed to the
place vacated BY the death of Mr.. Lord,
one Of the official reporters of the debates oil
the House Of Representatives, as vindica
ton for having hepn dismissed as committee
reporter by MIR. Keller. Now nasmuch as
Mr.. Devine was appointed committee re-
porter by Mr.. Blaine and dismissed by Mr..
Keifer-two republican speakers-t is hard
to see what claim he has on Speaker Car
Isle and democratic House. Another
thing, the corps of committee stenographers
is different institution from the debate re-
porters of the House, and if Mr.. Devine has
any ground for yindication it should come
about in the branch from which he was dis
missed, and not through another branch of
the public service.
Congressman T. B. Ward, Of Indiana,
awaited himself Of the Christmas recess to
make little trip into Virginia, visiting
Charlottesville aud Richmond, and viewing
the objects of interest in and about both.
He returned last night much pleased with
what he saw and heard and with the hos
pitable treatment he received.
The volunteer cavalry company lately organ
lied here, the Presidents Mounted Guard, seems
to have died at its birth, as nothing has been
heard of it since.
The Great Eastern.