Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-02-10

memorial on that subject prepared by
Hon. A. H. H. Stuart for the Peabody
Board of Trustees. In the House it is
vaguely reported that the Ways and
Means Committee has made some advance
in the preparation of a compromise tariff
bill.
Hon. W. G. P. Breckenridge Of Ken.
lucky who created such Juror among the
Staunton Democrats at the Skating Rink
just before the November election, ad-
dressed meeting in Philadelphia last
week. in advocacy of President Cleve-
lands tariff policy. He erraptured the
PhiladelphiaBs as much as be did the
Stauntonians, and was interrupted with
applause all through his speech. A tele-
gram says:
Mr.. Breckenridge had left the stage before
the first burst of applause which followed his
peroraton, but was compelled to return by
the cheering audience, which fairly shouted
itself hoarse until he stepped again to the
footlights.
Some of the old constituents of Hon.
John Randolph Tucker, says the Wash
lugton correspondent of the Richmond
"Dispatch,'' have been writing to him
urging him to become a candidate for
congress again, but he declines the com-
pliment with thanks. The correspondent
says lawyer OF Washington remarked
that 'If Ran. Tucker runs away from the
business he has here, to run for congress
he ought to be run into the lunatic asy-
lum."
The Washington correspondent of the
Alexandria ''Gazstte" says that capitol
policeman Corrigan, (colored), one OF Ma
homes appointees. who was bounced by
Senator Riddleberger, afterwards, through
Representative Bowden, of Va, got a
place in the folding room Of the Senate.
but Riddleberger hunted him up and
had him bounced again.
A correspondent of the Charlottesville
"Jeffersonian' dominates Capt. Micajah
Woods to succeed Hon. G. L. O'Ferrall.
Mr.. W. W. Scott, Secretary of the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee, who is
great sportsman, was presented with
shot gun on behalf of the Committee at its
recent meeting in Richmond. Hon. A.
M. Bowman, of Saltville, was the medium
through which the present was procured.
The Sherman Blaine war for the romi-
nation has opened. In the District OF
| Columbia convention to send delegates to
the National Republican Convention at
| Chicago, last week, the body broke in two
| in row, and one set elected Sherman, and
| the other, Blaine delegates.
Gen. Malone has spent the past week in
Washington city. Among the Virginia
Republicans who were there at the same
time were ex.Auditor S. Brown Allen OF
Augusta, Capt. Asa Rogers of Petersburg,
and ex- Delegate James A. Frazier. Sen
ator Sherman gave Gen. Malone dinner
at which several Republican Senators
we're present.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Alexandria "GaZette" says that Mr..
James A. Frazier has expressed his inten-
| ton to run for the House of Delegates
from the counties of Allegheny, Bath and
Highland in case Capt. McClintic is un-
seated.
Hon. Chas. A. Pilsbury of Minneapolis,
the great miller and leading Republican
of Minnesota, has been on a visit East and
gone back convinced that Blaine, who has
been his fayorite, is not the man for the
next nomination. He says:
great many men who were afraid to vote
for Cleveland before, will have no hesitancy in
| doing SO now after his administration of af-
fairs Conservative Republicans think an en-
| tirely new candidate must be nominated, some
at present clark horses" Blaine cannot be
| elected, and his nomination means defeat.
President Cleveland expects to visit the
Sub Tropical Exposition at Jacksonville
Fla, on the 21st inst, during the brief
holiday taken by Congress then, and to be
back in Washington by the 23d.
A Washington letter says that the office
of U. S. Attorney for the District of Co
lumbia recently given to Mr.. J. B. Hcge Of
West Virginia, was offered first to ex-
| Cong ressmen J. r. Tucker of Virginia
but by him declined.