Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-08
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondents OF tho Aloxs. GAZETTE

FROM WASHINGTON.
special Correspondence OF tho Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. d. O.. June S, 1889.
Elk Congressman Hooper of the Peters
burg district in Virginia is here to-day. He
was au anti. Malone man, but came back to
the General in the latter's successful at
tempt to defeat LangstoD, the negro repub'
ican candidate for Congress- in that district
last fall He says the split in the party
there is wide, and that at present the indl-
cations are that Mr.. Venabe, the elected
democratic Congressman from that district
will serve several terms.
Frederick Douglas Gays nobody ever told
him General Mahones signature was neces'
sary for any appointment in Virginia, but
that he doesn't understand the cause
of the opposition to General Malone,
and why he should be called q boss and 8
machine politician Every body, he says,
who leads Ia boss, and General Malone by
thoroughly organizing his party has made it
effective.
| A gentleman here whose business takes
him to the Government printing office tre-
quently, says that almost every employee
there now wears q grand army button, and
that he sees so many such buttons there now
that he asked the other day what had be
come OF all the "ex-rebels" he used to see
there, as he had not heard that any of them
had died.
Congressman Buchanan, of the oh Vir-
gnia district, is expeotedt-iere to morrow or
Monday to be present at the opening of the
papers in his contested election case. He
should have been here before, but his official
notice was sent to Washington, Rappahan.
mock county, instead otto his right postoffice
In Washington county, Va. MIR. Bowen, his
contestant, who has been waiting for him,
| has had to go back home, but has engaged
Mr.. Rees Edmundston to look after his case.
| The papers in the contested election case OF
Mr.. Elliott, democrat, OF the Beaufort dis
| trict, South Carolina, were opened to-day by
Clerk Clark Of the House. The contestant
is negro named Miller.
The fact that Minister Pauncelote, of Eng.
land, called at the White House to. davjI,
without any intermedjaro; Communication
through the State apartment and infcrmed
! the PRESIDENT Of the Queens sympathy for
the JohrstoWn sufferers, s the cause Of no
little comment, aud lends to strengthen the
rumor about the strained relations between
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Harrison.
1t s said that ex Senator Lewis OF Vir-
. gnia, when mere, went to see the President
t ia behalf of friend who is an applicant Tor
a consulate, but was told by MIR. Harrison
that Virginia republicans could not expect
any thing in that line until they settled their
g differences and agreed upon the men they
desired to have appointed to such o1hces.
g As Mr.. Lewis, according to his usual habit,
will probably deny this, it may as we'll be
said now as later that bis son'ln- law, MI.
r Smith, ia the author of the statement
3 The North Carolina republicans here Gre
r oniescent at present about General Ms-
3 homes attempted interference with the COL
ectorship Of customs at Wilmington, n C.,
but should the Generals favorite MIR. Sebrl!i
be appointed, they threaten to cat u pretty
3 caper.
, Right thinking men Of all parties here
say Mr. Harrison should proceed with the
changes he intends making in the otlices es
rapidly as pc ssible so "a TO relieve the city
of tie immense number of office seekers
here who crowd the Ebbitt House and near
" The whole of T street, and do the city NO
good either in business or moral point
of view. A large portion of them are ne
grces whose presence is agreeable to no
body, and who would be much better oil at
work at home than idliDg away their time
loungirg about hero with no prospect oil OBJ
tanning what they want.
1t is said here by people who know Capt.
Arues that the Presidents communication OF
Tho urt-martal's sentence OF expulsion
from the army to i've years. deprivation of
the use of his uniform is almost rs object
iouab!e to the Captain as the sentence, as
the Captaiu is very proud of his personal ap.
p-arance wien dressed in his uniform, and
his vanity is eorely tried by being forced TO
appear In citizens clothing.
Elk Senator Ei5dleberger, who s waiting
for the kick ars" committee to have their
interview with the President next Tuesday,
having nothing else to do. amuses himself
with the preparation Of daily bulletins on
various subjects which he has posted at the
Metropolitan Hotel He had new one out
to day
1T is stated here by some of Col. Noaby's
friends that Senator Stanford requested the
President TO remember Col. Mostly in the
distribution of the good offices at his dispos-
al and that Mr.. Swift, of tho same Slate,
did the same, and that the President
replied he would do so if the con-
ercssionsl delegation from the Pacific slope
would unite in endorsing the ColOnt but that
when the Colonel was informed of this he init.
ma. ed that he thought his services to tho party
were so well known rs not to require such ell
dorsement AS that referred to, and that conse-
quently he could not ask for it
| A Chesapeake and Ohio Canal inspector arrived
here to-day having walked over the entire length
| of the canal from Cumberland to this city. Ho
SAWS the damage 10 tho canal is less than that III
| received in 1877.
| I'll,