Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Ale1a. GAzE1TE.]
WARRINGTON D. c., Aug. II, 1886.

Especial Correspondence OF the Ale1a. dAZEITE.J
WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. II, 1886.
A we'll informed democrat from the 9th
district in Virginia, here to.
day. saws the nomination of Mr.. Henry for
Congress in that district is the strongest that
could have been made. He says there is a
rivalry between the railroad and the Cllnch
river sections of that district, and that 81
Henry represents the latter he will get more
votes there than Trigg could have gotten-so
many more that he will probably carry all
the counties in the latter section, including
Bland, Russell, Lee, Dickinson and even
Tazewell, though Bowen. the probable NOM
inee of the republicans, lives there and usu-
ally carries the county by large majority.
He also says that Henry gained great popu'
larity by his defense of DR.. White in the
Whitley Ward case.
A we'll known Southern politician, in the
city to- day, says that Secretary Lamar may
DO very efficient official, but, If so, it is
more than most people having official bust
ness with him have discovered, and that be
spends comparatively little time at his Of
fee, and thereby causes Inconvenience and
actual trouble to large number OF people.
He says, in addition, that it was chiefly ow-
ing to Mr.. Lamar's influence with the re-
publican administration that Bruce, the COL
ored Mississippi barber, was appointed reg.
lister of the treasury with one hundred and
odd white ladies under him.
Gen. Malone has gone to Fortress Mon.
roe. A member of the Virginia Legislature
of 1871 says the General has written to
every member Of that Legislature, asking
them to state whether or not he ever said or
did anything to induce them to believe that
la f,r
bv that Legislature, and that he will collect
their replies as q rebuttal OF the statements
of Gov. Lee and Senator Daniel, to the effect
bill.
Notwithstanding the fact that public
announcement is made every month or so
that the District of Columbia has it's full
quota of federal appointments, hardly a
week elapses without one or more rest
dents of the District being made happy by
having their names inscribed upon the Gov
ernmental pay rolls.
Mr.. Romero, the Mexican minister, says
Mr.. Bayard's talk about Mexican money
having been used for the purpose of Great
ing opposition to his, Bayard's, policy re-.
gartling the Cutting affair is of 30 little con-
sequence as to be unworthy of notice. The
whole affair ia now looked upon by almost
every body as one that will reflect no credit
upon this country, and one that could have
been avoided so easily with the exercise of
only moderate quantity of common sense.
Mr.. Clark, clerk of the House, has gone
over carefully the last election returns from
all the congressional districts, and after the
most liberal estimates of democratic losses
can not reduce the democratic majority in
the next House below twenty. Others,
however, say that while both the prohibit
ZIONIST and the knights of labor will be
strong factors in the election of the next
House, their strength is utterly unknown.
The fact that it was generally known that
Mr.. Blaine was searching the departments
here and the document rooms at the Capt.
toll for matter for the campaign speeches he
intends to make in Maine, and in which it
is also known he intends to strike for the
pineal gland of Mr.. Cleveland and his cabi-
net, Is said here to have been the reason
why, after eighteen months, the President,
lust before he left for his summer vacation,
removed the offensive republican partisan
postmaster at Fairfield Maine who for years
past has been Mr.. Blaine's chief political
agent in that section of his State.
Public Printer Rounds not having his
resignation accepted has gone of on sum-
mer trip at the expense of the government.
Before he left he took pains to discharge all
the democratic printers who bad been en-
ployed as compositors on the Congressional
Record The republicans similarly employed
we're given other work.
Among the strangers in the city to day is
Mr.. Wilkerson, the Independent candidate
for Congress 10 the 9Th district of Virginia.
He says Col. Cabell will get the regular
democratic nomination in that district. MIR.
Wilkerson has been n member of the Vir-
ginia Legislature, and recently resigned
place az Waterman in the Interior Depart
ment here which he had obtained through
the influence of Colonel Cabell.
Mr.. F. l.. Brockett, of Alexandria, left
here last night for West Virginia, in compa-
ny with Pennsylvania capitalist, to whom
he hopes to sell thirty thousand acres OF
land in Highland, Pendleton and Pocahon-
tas counties in the State referred to.
The withdrawal Of Mr.. George d. Wise from
the fight for the democratic congressional nomi-
nation in the Richmond district is the cause Of a
good deal of surprise here, and all tho Vrginians
in the city to-day arc being asked the reason for
It. They, oe course, can assign no satisfactory
reason az up to to-day they believed that Mr..
Wise not only wanted the nomination, but would