Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of tho Alexs. GAZETTE
Wlsu1NaToN. D. O., Sept. &c. 1889.

WASHINGTON, D. O.. Sept. 26, 1889.
Mr.. E. T. Broyles, of Page county, dep.
pty official In the internal revenue service
and an active worker in the Mahone cause,
writes here that the Malone campa!gn IN
his county opened with the most favorable
prospects, which brighten as the days toll oy.
A we known republican "kieker" here
TO-DAY from Virginia says the conference OF
his faction to be held next month will prob
-ahlv recommend to the Mahoneites that
thew do as they please about voting, and for
whom, at the coming election, but that they
must not get 30 far away from the republic
can party as not to be able to come back to
it after the election.
a North Carolinian at the Capitol to day,
in talking about the negro republican meet.
ing 10 Alexandria last night and the
speakers thereat, eaid that one of them, Tim
Lee, was a carpet Dagger in North Carolina
soon after the war,and was e Cleveland man
during the last ADMINISTRATION. He also
said republican member of Congress from
North Carolina named Smith, in a speech
one day, said Lee was one of the bummers
who followed Sherman's army and were
dropped in North Carolina after the war
that he, Smith, bad seen one of them steal
the last hen that had been left him; that
that one was an 1rishman and was bald
headed and that though he would not
swear Lee was the man, Lee was the only
bald headed Ieishman he had ever seen.
The President will probably return here
to morrow for the winter. AS his return
has been expected the Office seekers have
already commenced to reassemble here, and
will storm him almost before be warns his
seat 10 the White House. His delay In sal
isfying their wants has made them savage,
and if he could only hear what some of them
say about him, that delay would be pro-
longed Indefinitely.
The following changes in the 4:h class
postof6ces of Virginia were made to-day
Arlington. Nelson county, ]. NJ. Berkeley
appointed postmaster, vice G. b. Stevens
removed Divina, Wise county, A. ] SfsI.
lard, vice VIM. A. Carrico, removed; Ford't
Depot. Dinwiddie county, Algie s. Walden
vice s. E. Warden, removed; Horntown
Accomack county, VIM. D. Chopper. vice
Mrs s. A. Petit, removed Mountain View
Stafford county, Edgar Armstrong, vice Il
George, removed: Ocean View, Norfolk
county, w. l. Brooke, vice VIM A. Msthe
son, removed.
A private letter written by Corporal Tan
ner, since his retirement, to Private DaZell
in which the President s referred to in auy
other than commendatory terms, has found
its way into to the press, and is supposed
| to beve cooked the Corporal's goose so fai
as his getting any other Office ia concerned
and to have cooled the affection of the G
A. r. for the President to no slight degree
There is a good deal of talk among The
members of Congress here to day, about
the question that has been raised concerning
the tight of the clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives to put the names of the Congress
men to be elected next month In the four new
States on the roll of the House until after
that body shall have been organized. AS il
ia q question, of course there are two sides e
it, and ss one of those sides Ia against Che
democrats, 1t is just like the democrats thai
several of them have taken that side.