Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
(Speaial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzEI
WASHINGTON D. C.. Sent. 2. ISIS


[Speaial Correspondence of the Alexa GAZETTE
WASHINGTON D. c., Sept. 2, 1886.
Sergeant.at-Arms Canady of the Senate,
arrived here yesterday morning from his
home in North Carolina. He says tho me-
groes of his State take no. and the white re.
publicans very little, interest in elections,
the result of which there now is practically
determined by the democratic conventions.
Congressman O'Rara, colored, from the
Same State is also among the recent arrivals.
bic will have Two opposing Candidates this
fall, another colored republican nam ed Alb
bolt, and q white democrat. He seems,
however, to have no fear OF defeat, as he
says Abbott has little or no following, as the
negroes have a clear ms ority Of between
six and seven thousand in the district, and
as the democrats have not attempted any
bulldozing or fraud for the last sight years.
It was said here to-day by an officer of the
Senate that upon several occasions during
the last session of that body, he knew Of his
own knowledge that Mr.. Sherman, president
pro tenn. OF the Senate, was advised by sew.
eral republican Senators to make an exam
pie of Mr.. Riddleberger by rigorous execu-
ton of the rules, but that Mr.. Sherman
thought the adoption OF such advice would
rebound neither to his own nor to the inter.
ests Of his party, and therefore put up with
Mr.. Riddleberger's supplementary beha.
vior
1t is stated here by those who certainly
ought to know, that the Washington and
Ohio Railroad has been sold to New York
parties for elk hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars. The purchasers are not rail-
road men, but spectators, who hope to he
able to sell to one or the leading railroad
lines at large profit. The new owners, it
is said, will take possession about the first Of
October.
Mr.. Stockslager, assistant commissioner of
the general land Office, deeming g bird in
the hand worth two in the bush, has with
drawn from his congressional contest in In
diana, as, under the Pres idents civil service
rules, he would have been compelled to re-
sign his present office had he continued in
the field. And yetunder republican admin
istrations even foreign ministers left their
posts to come homo and take part in polit-
ical campaigns.
Its reported here to-day that some of the
executive committee Of the democratic par.
ty of the Sth congressional district of Eir-
ginia, say they called their next district con-
vention at Culpeper Court House, instead of
at Alexandria, because at the latter place
the delegates to the recent convention there
were charged high prices ut some places for
their meals ana drinks, because the floor
and stand of the convention were intruded
| upon by people who were not delegates, and
some of whom were under the influence of
liquor, because tho spectators Kissed the
delegates whose views did not accord with
| their own, because great many people from
Washington came there and attempted to
influence the members in favor of their
respective candidates, because the Alexan-
drlans tried to keep the convention in ses.
| sion as long as possible, and because at the
former place all these things will be avoided,
and in addition they will be charged moth.
irg for the use of the hall in which the con-
venlion will be held.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Virginia democratic association of this city,
to be held to morrow night, the annual cleo
| ton Of officers will take place. The associa-
ton will at once go to work forwarding
documents to the several congressional dis.
tricts in their State.
| Prof. Newcomb of this city says shock oil
earthquake was perceptible here at 516 yes.
terday evening, but that it was very slight
and lasted only thirty seconds Acting Sec
rotary of War, General Drum, who, by the
by, is the father ,in-law of Mr.. Dawson of the
| Charleston News and Courier, has ordered
supplies and tents to be sent TO Charleston
by revenue cutters from both Wilmington
| on the north and Savannah on the south, as
all railroad communication with that city il
cut off.
Gentlemen from the 1st Congressional dis.
trict of Virginia here to-day say that Mr.
Bailey, Of Accomsc, the Malone nominee
for Congress in that district, is not an origi.
nal republican, but only left the democratic
party upon the rise Of Mahoneism, and that
| though a Malone electur on the lasi nation.
al republican ticket he never took the
troable 20 cross the bay TO speak for Blaine
or Mayo, when speakers were il great de.
inand, end that the friends Of Col. Mayo
| have ret forgotten all this.
| DIR. Pe:er Goodrich aud DR.. Edgar Jarnay
Of Virginia, have been removed from THEN
positions in the Health Department Of the
District Of Columbia. Among the new ap-
| pointees in that service i5 Dir. &. Il. Col
Inns, a son Of Colouel Collins, Of the old, and
| later OF the Confederate army, and u nephew
OF Mr.. Julian Mason Of King George couli.
ty, Va.
A dispatch received al the rooms Of the
Congressional democratic committee here to-
day announces the denomination of Congress
man Snyder, of West Virginia.
| Dispatches received here from the City ct
! Mexico say that the citizens of this country
residing there are disgusted with the whole
Sedgwick affair, and say there WAS no ne
cessity for sending him there, M fuller, better
and more reliable information could have
been obtained from Americans living there
Mr.. Bayard, however, still stands by his
favorite, and that, too, to such sn extent as
to threaten The recall of Consul General
| Porch, who informed the department official
! ly of the Sedgwick toot, unless ne shall
apologize for having done so.
| letter from, the Valley.
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