Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzETT
WASHINGTON D, c., Aug. 81, 1886.

Especial Correspondence OF the Ale3a. tAZETTE.J
WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. 81, 1886.
Post master Dalton of the House has just
returned from q visit to his State, Indiana.
He saws that in each of the several Con-
pressional districts of that State in which
there are now two democratic candidates,
there will be but one on election day, and
that arrangements that must effect that OBJ
iect have already been completed. He says
the democrats of Indiana are sound and
solid.
Judge Ward, democratic Congressman
from Indiana, is one of those unfortunate men
addicted to periodical sprees. He has been
on one ever since the adjournment oil the
session. As he is growing old, each one al
fects him worse than it's predecessor. The
present one has deprived him OF his senses
temporarily, and while roaming about in
daft and reckless condition in Georgetown
yesterday he was taken up by the police
and turned over to his friends by whom ne
hos been locked up in Providence Hospital
Among the recent appointments IN the
federal service here is that of Mr.. Brent, OF
Fauquer county, Virginia, who has place
in the geodetic survey bureau.
Congressman Golf, chairman OF the re-
publican Congressional campaign commit
tee, says be will not be candidate tor re-
election. He will 60 to Maine next week
and take part in the republican compalgn
there.
Swallow, the man arrested here for recent
swinding operations in Fredericksburg ana
other parts of Virginia, was turned over TO
the Virginia authorities this morning and
carried to Fredericksburg.
There is good deal of talk among the
Virginiaps here Of the running OF an lnde'
pendent democratic candidate in the Alex
andria district, but who that candidate Is
nobody seems to know. All the attendants
at the convention from this city, whether
from Virginia or elsewhere, that is all who
have been heard from, speak in high terms
of Mr.. S. G. Brent, but especially OF his
speech against the resolution endorsing the
ad ministration.
The District Of Columbia democrats seem
to be no better pleased with the admlnistra-
ton now than they have been from the time
the President first began to manifest SYM
toms of civil service reform. One OF them,
and leading one too, being told this morn
ing, in reply to question, that the Eighth
Virginia district was "all right" responded
when asked a similar question about the
District, "all wrong"
AS tDo Treasury DepaitncuU bhS ioi Soihe
time past been looked upon somewhat in
the light as sort OF minor death trap OF
mild black hole of Calcutta, plans were
adopted this morning for renewing aud i'm
proving the whole sewerage and ventilation
of the building.
While the report that Mr.. Benedict o
New York has been appointed Public
Printer is not denied at the White House
the clerks there say they have heard moth
ing about it..
1t is said here by well trained lawyers
sound democrats at that, that the appoint
| ment of Matthews, the colored New Yorker
! to the position of recorder Of deeds for The
| District Of Columbia, subjects both the Pres
| ident and Matthews to the penalties of two
sections OF the revised statutes.
The family of Minnie Tiuney, the young
girl recently arrested here in order to pre-
vent her from marrying negro with whom
she eloped from Quantico, have been heart
from, and she will be sent back to them.
| General Newton, U. 8. A., was retired thi
morning at his own request in order that h
may enter at once upon his new duties q
commissioner OF public works of the city o
| New York