Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-24

about the denomination of Mr.. Gibson, as

about the denomination of Mr.. Gibson, as
several of the counties have instructed their
delegates to vote for Jackson. Senator Cam
den is the friend of both Gibson and Wilson,
and that fact is thought by some to indicate
that both will be renominated.
The more that is known about the Pres
ident's relative, DR.. Young, who was re-
Gently appointed consul 10 Windsor, the
more Objectionable does that appointment
appear in the light of civil service reform,
inasmuch as it seems that the appointee,
when clerk in the Treasury Department,
was charged with bribery and specializing
in public documents, and was dismissed
therefor, and that during the last Presi'
dental campaign he was an offensive Blaine
partisan, and also boosted of bis instrument
tality in the defeat of the democratic can.
didate for Congress in the Toledo, Ohio, dis.
trict.
The democratic congressional campaign
committee, fearing the effect of the knoWl-
edge that they were having the book they
have prepared printed at an office where
non union men are employed, cancelled
their contract, and gave the printing 10 an
other Office. Discerning men here say they
will not save nor make one vote by the
change.
Congressman George D. Wise of the Rich
mond district in Virginia is in the city to.
day on private business. He says the demo
cratic convention to nominate his succe ssor
will be held on the Cd proximo, and that
Messrs. Dunlop and Aylett are the promi-
nent candidates for the nomination, but that
he has no definite idea who will get it. MIR.
Wise has written O letter declining re-
nomination though certain Of getting it, but
for all that his friends here say they have no
doubt he will accept it if it be rendered
him.
It is understood OF the Treasury Depart.
ment that the recent large bond calls and
others tbat are expected are the result OF
the Presidents orders with the concurrence
of Mr.. Manning. The surplus of the last is-
cal year was twenty. five million in excess
of the estimates, but, decreased at the rate OF
this month"; will soon be expended. Only
ten per cent of it,however, returns to gener-
al circulation, as ninety per cent. is retained
as security for national bank circulation.
The report of the chief of the bureau Of
statistics of the Treasury Department, now
in the hands of the printer, shows that the
blast furnaces of Virginia and some OF the
other Southern States make better and
cheaper pig iron than those of Pennsylva
MIA that great Improvements have been
adopted in the agricultural industries of the
South, and that the public school system o
that section compares very favorably witt
that of the North.
A dispatch received here this morning
from St. Louis states that General Joe John
ston, U. S. Railroad Commissioner, is quite
sick there.
The nomination of Col. Hooker by tho demo
Gratis of the 18th Mississippi district, in place o
Mr.. Barksdale, the sitting member of tho House
is satisfactory to most of the democrats who liv
here or who are now in tho city. Col. Hooke
was a member of the House some years ago. H
is ready and eloquent debater, and upon on
occasion delivered tho address on Confcderat
memorial day in Alexandria