Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-15

to the exclusion of all others, men who have
heretofore been the most offensive OF oil
offensive partisans.
In the Agricultural Department the ex-
penditures for July and August, 1881, un-
der republican rule, were: for bags, 81 4oo.,o;
cotton cloth, 81 $50; spool, 50 cents treignt,
s6l1 .3s; labor, s12, 1874 II paper, tWine ana
gum arabic, $4239 total, S2l oo. Inc
same expenditures in 1885 for the same an
length of time were as follows: bags, Sblooo'
cotton cloths, $500 "a; spool, 81 cts; freignt,
1892. Os; labor, $1,s16S2; Irvine ana gum
arabic $22S 81 total, $3,667 97-a dinerence
of nearly $4,000. a 49,,
It seems to be generally understoou hefe
that the President ID III thorough aecotu
u;,b the civil service commission, and ap-
m MO" the cause of Mr.. Eaton. Upon the
silver question it is also the received opin-
ion that he is utterly opposed to the con-
tinued coinage of the Objectionable silver
dollar, which is now intrnsically worth only
eighty cents in the dollar, and that he WILL
do ali he can TO have that coinage sus-
II is said at the Interior Department to-
day that the impression among the large
number of Ohio republican clerks there is
that that State will go democratic next
month. Several of them, it is said, will not
90 home to vote.
A gentleman from Fairfax Court House,
| Virginia, here to-day, says the republican
county convention held at the courthouse
Yesterday did not nominate, but only en-
dorsed Judge Sangster as candidate Tor
the legislature in the place of Mr.. H. II;
Farr, whom they had previously nominated
but who had declined, and that the Juoge
then entered the meeting, accepted Inc
endorsement, and announced himself an III,
dependent candidate. He also says tnat
though the Judge may be independent noW'
he has hit the democrats blow IN the
matter of appointments whenever he has
gotten q chance heretofore, and that TWO
Years ago he appointed Mahoneites at every
registration precinct in the county except
one. and was reported TO have said the only
reason he didn't appoint one there was the
| fact that there was not one at the precinct
who could read and write.
At the Interior Department to-day it is
learned that among the clerks dropped
from the rolls there yesterday, in conse-
uuence of the curlailment Of expenses, was
a lady FROM Mississippi who had only re-
Gently been appointed, and who to accept
the place had relinquished q teachers place
in Virginia. Congressman Singleton, from
Mississippi, when informed of her removal
| went to the department., stated JnaC he nau
been here nearly all the summer trying to
get some of the federal patronage for his
district, that he had not received even as
much as messengers place, and that ne
hoped the lady referred to might be rein
stated. His request was unsuccessful. Com
paratively few removals have been made IN
any of the departments here, nor in the city
postolIice or District offices, nearly all the
employees therein being men who when in
Office have been offensive partisans.
It is rumored at the Department of Jus.
tice that Captain Howgate, who escaped
from Jail here three years ago, where he was
confined for robbing the Government, has
signifed An intention of returning, provided
} the Government will assure him of speedy
, trial, as he cannot give bail, and as imprison'
meat is deleterious to his health.
Ex-senator Mcdonald is q partner in q
law firm in this city, and is here now. In
recent talk with the President he is re
ported to have advised him to make nc
more concessions to the mugwumps, who
hate the democrats more than they &C
the republicans, and to have told him plainly
that his reliance for success was upon the
democratic party, and that if its support
I've taken away from him his administra
ton must be signal failure.
A gentleman from Winchester here to-day
says the democrats Of Frederick county
Virginia, nominated Mr.. Tavener for the
Legislature.