Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-24
From Washington.
spsc,sl Correspondence OF tho Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c., April 81. 1889.

SOsCf8l correspondence Oh bu6 AlS1Hs pAhhi ihJ
WASHINGTON, D. c.. April q. 1889.
Mr.. Thomas Jackson Bayly, son of Major
8. P. Bayly, of Fauquier county, has been
appointed postmaster at Bessemer, Alabama,
q Presidential postoffice. There was some
opposition to the appointment, and copy
Of letter from General Grant TO the late
Daniel W. Lewis, of Fairfax county, Virgin
ia, unfavorable to the -Baylys was hIed at
the Postoffice Department and st the Whlte
House, but that only stimulated the MAJOR
to greater eXertions, with the result as ABOVE
stated. The Major, as ls we'll known, Is an
anti Malone man. He made his light with
out the help of either faction OF the republi-
can party in Virginia.
James Alfred Pierce, of Chestertown, Md,
a grandson of the late DR.. Dick, OF Alexan-
dria, the physician of General Washington,
has as an heirloom the French hunting horn
presented to General Washington by Gener-
ul Lafayette also a pair of pistols that be-
longed to Gen. Washington.
Fir. Thomas Garnett, of King George
county, Virginia, has been made purser of
the Potomac river boat Wakefield, vice
Mr.. Stone, whose death has been previ-
ously announced in the GAZETTE.
Very few strangers are here to-day to at
tend the spring races, which commenced to.
day. From present indications the season
does not promise to be very successful
one.
All the witnesses in the suit for damages
by the Four Mile Run accident, now in
progress before the circuit court of this city,
having been examined. argumentin the case
commenced to day. A verdict may be ex-
pected on Friday.
A gentleman from Marshall, Fauquier
county, Virginia, here to day, says that on
Saturday night last a man named Puget,
living on farm near there, shot at a Negro
woman, but hit negro man named Skillet.
He was arrested and tried before Squire
K,ncheloe on Monday, a large number OF
people being present, and sent on to court,
but was released on writ of habeas corpus
yesterday in Warrenton by Judge Keith.
An unusually large number of 4th class
postmasters were removed to day, because
| they are democrats, and their places filled
by republicans, because they are republic
cans. Among the new appointments the
/ only one in Virginia is that of James I.
| Hope, postmaster at Pungoteague, Acco-
I mack county, vice l.. ii. Ames, removed.
The friends of Gen. Joseph e. Johnston,
Commissioner of U. S. Railroads, say the
General has been assured that he will not
be removed during the present administra'
ton.
The police Of this city have been inform
ed that a negro woman was murdered last
night or this morning in Prince Georges
county, Maryland, near the line of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
1t was stated in yesterdays GAZETTE that
Messrs. Bailey, Watts, Mills and Wood, o.
Virginia, we're among the Presidents call
ers The first is an applicant for the place
of attorney for the western district of his
State, and the second for marshal of the
same district. They made their wants
known, but, while received with the conr.
tesy accorded all other visitors, came away
10 as mach doubt about the result of their
call as they were before they had made it.
Ga the evening of the 26h the preimi
nary meeting of those interested in the or
ganizstion of q national association of the
alumni of the University of Virginia will be
held at the residence of Prof. W. D. Cabell
in this city. The business meeting will be
held the next day at the National Museum
A large attendance is expected. Those who
come from distance will be granted one
third reduction on their return tickets.
Gen. Malone has not yet repeated his
call upon the President. His friends say he
is waiting for on invitation to do SO. His
enemies say if that BIO true he may as well
supply his wardrobe and engage permanent
quarters.