Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-01
From Washington.
+ ,pscisl Correspondence of the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., May /, 1889.

From washington.
.pscsl Correspondence of the Alexis. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c., May /, 1889.
The sealed verdict rendered in the Circuit
Court OF this city yesterday,.in the case of
Charles H. Stewart and Thomas W. Jones,
postal clerks, against the Pennsylvania,
Baltimore and Potomac, Alexandria and
Fredericksburg, Alexandria and Washington,
and Virginia Midland railroads, oach for
$50 600 damages for Injuries ct the -Four
Mile Rua accident was opened and an
nounced this morning. 1t is against ali the
roads named except the Virginia Midland,
which is entirely exculpated, and awards
SIS 600 to Stewart and $4,000 to Jones.
Messrs Cook and Cole were counsel for the
plaintiffs. Messrs Totten and Wells were
counsel for oil the defendants excepting the
Virginia Midland road, for which General
w. II. Payne and Mr.. Linden Kent were
counsel.
The report sent out from hero and pub
iished in Boston and in O New York news
paper to the effect that Mr.. Blaine had re-
ceived slight stroke Of paralysis is without
the slightest foundation. Mr.. Blaine hns
not been at his Office for some days, but that
has been due to an attack of rheumstlam.
Mr.. Blaine is by no meaDs in coed health,
b 1t he has not been parslyzed
| Among the Virginia republicans here who
are applicants for Office is NJ. Van Auken,
4 of Petersburg, who wants the Red Cloud
J Indian agency, and Dr.. Moore, of Shenan
! doah county, who wants the Agricultural
Department TO appoint him siatisiician Tor
the State of Virginia, for which his cousin,
MIR. Morgan Moore and Mr.. Bocock, OF
Bedford county, are also applicants. The
posto flee inspectorship for which eX-Ancl
tor Brown Allen wac al applicant has been
given 10 somebody elsa. Senator German E
brother has not been assigned as special in-
spector OF customs Mt Norfolk, as reported
in some newspapers Under an old law tho
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized 10
appoint such officers and pay them out OF g
contingent fund, and assign them wherever
he chooses. Mr. German was drawing IS Il
day, anC, Secretary Window, at the request
of Senator German and ex Senator Davis, OF
West Virginia. would not remove him, but
transferred him to one OF the places referred
to, where he draws only 81 a day. lie has
not yet been assigned to duty at Norfolk.
Mr.. W. W. Scott, secretary of the demo-
or .tic committee of the State OF Virginia,
and special agent Of the Treasury Depart
m ant, stationed in North Carolina has been
removed.
Elk Congressman Bowen, of Virginia, is
still here He is staunch supporter of
| Gen. Malone and is one of the Generals in
innate personal friends, but he says he does
not know the result CT the interview be
tween the General aud the President last
Saturday. Mr.. Bowen says he is here to
look after the papers in the case OF his con-
test for the seat in the U. S. House Of Rep
resentatives for which bis democratic rival,
| Mr.. Buchanan, holds the certificate but that
he fills ND O little of his spare time in trying
to get offices for few of his party friends,
hut for none outside Of his own Immediate
district.
prominent Virginia republican, hailing
| from the 2nd district OF his State, told the
GAZgqTE's correspondent at the Ebbitt
House to day, that be had read the account
of the interview between Genera! Mahone
and President Harrison as given to the cor
| RESPONDENT by one OF the Generals partisans
and published in this correspondence, but
did not think it could be accepted as entire
ly correct. He said he supposed the antici'
Dated appointment referred to in that ac-
count would be that of Capt. Asa Rogers to
the internal revenue relationship or the
Richmond district, as the Captain was eG-
dorsad by q large number of u. S. Senators,
and that should that appointment be made,
he General would Of course try to make 1t
appear as an endorsement OF bl5 own course
and as recognition of him as the head OF
he party in the State But, said he, ut
| would be nothing of tho kind and in my opinion
no endorsement or recognition OF Virginia repnb-
| lcans will bo made until the differences in tho
party in the State shall have been settled. be-
| love" he continued that such settlement Will
| be made during the next throc months, and that
a delay in the distribution of tho federal offices
| in the Ststo for that time will be conducive to
that end
Among tho recent deaths hero was that of Cap
tain Crntchett, vino before tho war WAS woll-
known in Alexandria as the manufacturer OF
walking canes made from wood cut on the Mt.
| Vernon estate.
! So much time was lost by the rains of last week
that tho aces set for to-day here had TO be run
in spite of the rain. The crowd, Of course, was
| small and uRrCmuneTatye.