Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-12
FROM WARRINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE


WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. -, 1886.
II is reported that serenade will be ten
dered tonight to Matthews, the colored
New Yorker who has just been appointed
recorder of deeds for the District of Colum-
bia, and that it will be given to him not at
his residence but at his Office in the City
Hall. "Col." Perry Carson, the leading
colored republican of the city, being asked
about this reported serenade this morning,
said he had heard nothing Of it, and that II
the report were true the serenade would DE
gotten ND by white people, as he was sure
mo niggers had any thing to do with 1t, not
here"
OF all the members of the House only
nineteen vet remain in the city, and most of
them have notified the House postoffice
that they will leave in short time. The
Sergeant. alarms of the House has found it
impossible to get from those now here
funeral Escort for the late Congressman
Beach, of New York.
MIR. W. L. Welsh, SON of the late U. S.
Minister to England, is in the city to day.
He is staunch republican and an appointee
of President Arthur, but nevertheless ex-
poets to retain his position as Consul Cen
eral to Italy. Mr.. Adamson, another
staunch republican, Consul to Panama, is
also here. He, too, expects TO be retained.
Mr.. Hume, one of the leading candidates
for the democratic Congressional nomina-
ton in the Alexandria district being asked
| to day if he had heard of any changes
among the delegates to the convention since
its recess, replied that he had not, and did
not expect to; that from what he had
heard he was induced to think there would
be no changes that the delegates would
reassemble in the same mind as when they
| recessed, and that he was at loss to know
| what the outcome would be. Mr.. james
Divine, of Leesburg, says that the Loudoun
delegates will 20 back to the convention as
solid for Foster as ever.
General Denver, pronounced anti !.
miniatration democrat, has been nominated
for Congress by the democratic Congres
sional convention OF the Chillcothe district,
| in Ohio.
The appointment Of Major A. NJ. Kelley,
of Richmond, OK. Minister to Italy and Aus
tiia, to the position of American judge OF
the international court at Cairo, Egypt, Is
heartily commended by all the Southern
democrats in the city. The salary is 81 500.
The appointment was made by the khedive
of Egypt upon the recommendation of Pres
ident Cleveland.
| Among the visitors Ut the capitol to-day
was Mr.. Butcher, the independent candi-
date for Congress in the 7th Congressional
district of Virginia. He was there get copies
of the speeches of Congressman Tucker and
O'Ferrall on the oleomargarne bill. He
says he has already picked out the seat he
will occupy in the next House, and that 1t
is on the democratic side. Being shown all
article in newspaper iu his district, com
menting adversely upon bis candidacy, he
said he meant to pay his respects to the editor
of that paper when he next spoke there. de
will speak here at Abner's Hall tonight
and says he expects large audience.
The democrats here who are fancy free
laugh over the Inconsistency Of the rcsolu-
tions adopted by the Indiana democratic
convention, one OF which endorses the al.
uinis.ration, while another tavols silver
currency aud the expenditure of the surplus
in the Treasury, TO both of which the ad
ministration is utterly opposed.
Nothing is given cut at the State Depart
ment to-day regarding the Mexican i'm
broglio, except that negotiations with the
Mexican Government are still in progress
Gen. Negley. who is here on his way to
Hampton to inspect the erection Of the new
barracks there, who WAS in The Mexican
war, says he anticipates no war between
the two governments, though there may be
some local disturbances along the border
He says the trouble is with one of the States
of Mexico. and not with the general govern
ment of that country, which is decidedly
friendly 10 the United States.