Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-13
FKOsE WASHINGTON,
Especial Correspondence of tho Alexa GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. Is, 1886.

Especial Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct Is, 1886.
1t is said here that Mr. Louis Mckenzie,
of Alexandria, has been in this city recently
since the republican conference in his CITY
last week-ialkns about the probability of
Il republican candidate for Congress in that
district, evidently implying that he would
not object TO being that candidate himself if
any body would nominate him. Major Chi.
chester, o well-posted democrat of Fairfax
county, Va, here to-day, when told of this,
said he hoped Mr.. Mckenzie would run, as
Gen. Lee would easily defeat any man who
could be run against him now, but that his
majority over Mr.. Mckenzie would be above
| five thousand.
Secretary Manning arrived hero last night
| and was 10 his room at the Treasury De.
partment this morning. 1t was evident to
all who saw him that he is not the same
man he was when he left here six months
ago, and, If he had q paralytc stroke, all
doctors know he never will ba. 1t is ru.
mored at The Department today that appoint
ment Clerk Higgins will soon ell the place
OF chlSi OF the secret service, vice Brooks,
to be removed, and that young Mr. AL
bright, whom Mr.. Manning brought here
with him will fill the place MIR. Higgins now
holds.
The |. ;. Supreme Court to day resumed
the hearing OF the argument in the case of
! the creditors Of the Pacific National Bank
OF Boston, Senator Hoar speaking. Among
the lawyers present was ex u. s. district at.
! torney I. }. Beach of Alexandria. The court
VII! adjourn oday until Monday in order
10 allow the chief justice and some of the
associate justices To be present at the rein
| terment CT the remains Of the late Chic
Justice Chase, at Cincinnati.
Congressman May bury, of Michigan, who
ia hero to-day, says the democrats
Of his State will certainly elect a
majority Of the next LEGISLATURE
and will therefore gain United States
Senator. Mr.. Maybury says the course Of
the administration is not satisfactory to
him. Il ID understood here that it is the
same w@y With ali the other democratic
Congressman rom that State
\ private letter received here to day from
Col. Ed. Henderson, chairman Of the demo
c:alic committee Ct Indiana, saws that moth.
ing that has not yet happened is more GER
tain Tran that the democrats there will
have m"joriry, probably as much as thirty
five, on joint ballot in the legislature
and that a democrat is sure to occupy the
seat in the |. 5. Senate now filled by Sena-
tor Harrison. II the representations about
Senatorial gains prove true the democrats
Will have majority in that body in the
next Congress.
People from Kentucky here to day say it
Is we'll kGoWn in their State that Senator
Beck was in the same boat With Mr.. Willis,
and that the defeat Of the latter is q sure
indication that the reelection Of the senior
Senator from their State will he strongly Oh.
posed next winter, so strongly that the
probability is he will be defeated BY dem.
ocrat who believes with his Junior colleague
that when the people Of the country order
change in the administration they mean
That that change shall apply to cross roads
postottices As we'll "a to cabinet positions.
The President. tae mem bcis of the L, S,
Supreme Court, General Sheridan, and other
distinguished persons, were present today at
the removal OF the remains of the late Chief
Justice Chase from the cemetery here. The
remains were taken TO the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad depot. and from
there Will I've carried to Cincinnati in
the private car of President Garrett, the
escort occupying tho private car of first
vice President Spencer of that road.
Judge Wright and Chancellor Walker, Of
Tennessee, now here, say Mr.. Phelap. the
democratic candidate for Congress in the
Memphis district, will be elected, and thus
increase to the extent of one the democratic
Congressional delegate from that State. Mr.,
Honk who now represents one of the other
two republican districts in that State has
republican majority of ten thousand TO back
him, and Mr.. Butler the republican nomi-
nee in the other one, cannot, it is said, be
defeated, though when in Congress before he
was proved to have sold cadetship.
Judge Key. one of the oldest democrats
in the city, died here yesterday. The Judge
was President Johnson's right-hand man in
the latter part of his term, and was innuen.
tial under tho Buchanan administration.
He came here many years ago from Indiana.
People here who profess they know what
they are talking about say that General Ma
hone has made arrangements for leaving
Virginia after the close of his Senatorial
term and for making this city his future
home.
| Mr.. Marshall Parks democratic r4ndidsto for
Congress in the Norfolk district. is in the city
| to-day. He speaks favorahiy of his chances Of
overcoming the lSrSe republican majority in that
district.
| Commissioner Colman this morning received A
telegram from DR.. Salmon. chief of the bureau of
animal industry in which he states that the in
vestigatons of the past week show that pluro-
pneumonia is widely scattering among the cattle
| at Chicago.