Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-03
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISERS

of the Government in Washington drawing
salaries of 81 200 and upward have been
changed since Cleveland was inaugurated.
OF those drawing $4,000 and upward, about
SO per cent. have been removed, so that at
least half Of these places are still held by
republicans The same congressman is au
thoIity for the statement that more changes
were made when Grant and Hayes came
into power than during Cleveland's term
thus far, and quite as many when Garfield
was inaugurated.
A prominent officer Of Congress Just here
to-day from Michigan, says that alb out three
in five Of every Catholic and Irishman in
that State voted against Cleveland at the
last election, and that the remaining two
fifths will join them if Mr.. Cleveland be re-
nominated. But, continued he, I don It
think the President wants to be renomi.
mated, for if he did he would not have set
himself as he has against his party.
Mr.. w. w. Walker, The famous Virginia
orator, who is a preacher and lawyer, pass.
ed through here to- day on his way to his
home in Westmoreand county, from Nor.
folk, where he was employed in the recent
Balm bank case, in that city When asked
about The recent democratic defeat in his
district, he replied that it was not at all sur
prsing, and while there were several assign
able reasons for it, the chief thereof was the
course Of the administration.
As the knights Of labor esroused the
cause of the pilots, and as neither
party in Congress wanted 10 oppose
the former before the late election, the bill
to prohibit compulsory pilotage was not
acted upon At the last session Of Congress.
Now. however, that the elections are:over,
it is probable the bill referred to, as we'll as
that for increasing the efficiency of the mil.
itia, delayed for the same reason, will be
taken UP and PASSED at the session to com.
meuce next Monday.
A Bostonian here today says he heard
Col. Moshy's lecture in his city night be.
fore last and that it was great success.
The house was crowded, and at the conclu-
sion of the lecture Oliver Wendell Holmes,
John Russell Young, and other prominent
gentlemen who had seats upon the stand,
shook the Colonel by the hand and con.
graduated him warmly.
Charles Tong Sing, who was steward OF
the Jeanette and also q member of the
Thettis rescue party and was afterwards
convicted of assault with intent to kill an.
other Chinaman and sentenced to seven
years Imprisonment, has been psrdoned by
the Governor of New Jersey, upon the re.
commentator Of Lieut.. Eisenhower and
other officers Of the Arctic expedition.
Mr.. Charles +. Nchol, of Brentsville, Vr.
ginia, was admitted to practice in the u. S
Supreme Court yesterday.
Representative Barbour, fthe Alexandra
| congressional district, was here to day, al
Wizards hotel, to attend meeting of q
company owning mining interests in West
Virginia, 10 which he is q stakeholder.
There was an exacerbation Of the Presi
dents old disease, rhumatism, to day, 81
that he was again unable to receive callers
His wife is still in New York
1t has been asserted that DR.. Dabney, one
of the medical examiners at the pension
| Office, was one of the guards at Anderson
vile during tho war, and for that reason
should be removed. 1.-The had BEEN it would
have been no cause for his removal but he
could not have been, as his family bible
shows that he was only fourteen years ole
when the war closed The Doctor is
brother of Mr.. Firginius Dabney the author
Of Don Milf"
Representative Tarsncy, the only democratic
| congressman from Michigan who was reelected
has arrived here. He speaks in any other way
| than cnc0uragingly of the prospects Of the party
III his State, and attributes the condition of affair
| there to the errors committed ut the White House
he says the tariff question had nothing to d,
with it, and that if they had received the prope
encouragement from Washington they would no
| have lost a single district He says he thinks s
dental nominee. and that his preference is fo
Mr., Carlisle