Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alers. aAznrTKl

FhUM WASH1NGIUN.
Especial Correspondence OF tho Alexs GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c.. July %, 1885,
According to the talies kept here of the
delegates 30 far appointed to the Virginia
State democratic convention, including those
appointed on Monday last. the favorites of
those delegates stand In the following order,
and close together, Berne. Mckinney and
O'Ferrsll, with Messrs. Venable, Tyler aud
Harris way behind. But for ali this, the
impression still prevails among Virginia
democrats now here, and who have been
here recently, that the nominee will come
from the Petersburg district. ard that Mr.
Venable, the father of the congressman, will
be the man. 1t also seems to be the impress.
sion that Mr.. ]. Taylor Ellyscn of Richmond
will be chairman OF the Srate committee.
Mr.. Basil Gordon. of Kappa hammock county,
should be entrusted was 30 Ill at Atlantic
City last week that his nearest relatives
we're sent for and went on to be with him.
A delegation of Virginia Mahoneites called
at the Interior Department yesterday and
requested the appointment of Mr.. W. G..
ELAN to lucrative position in the Office Of
commissioner of railroads. Mr.. Elan was
editor of the late Richmond Wing when
General Malone owned that paper. Judge
Newman of Page county, Virginia, is an ap
picant for the place of deputy collector Of
of internal revenue at Luray. Tits reported
that Mr.. Deane would have been appointed
postmaster at Winchester, but for q letter
he sent Col. Mosby, which the Colonel for
warded to the Postoffce Department.. Elk.
Postmaster General Hatton called at the
Postoffice Department to day to urge upon
Mr.. Wanamaker the immediate appoint
ment of Mr.. d. A. Windsor as postmaster at
Alexandria.
The protest against commissioning the
recently appointed postmaster at Blacks
burg, Virginia, previously referred to in this
correspondence, was effective, and another
man has been appointed there. But the
new man, like the obnoxious one, was ap-
pointed on the recommendation of MIR. Nc
Caull and General Malone.
Among the Virginia republicans in the
city to-day is Mr.. Lawson. of Albemarle
county. He is an applicant for the Char.
lottesville postotfice, now held by the wild
ow OF General Long. But as he has been an
anti Mahoneite he looks ss if he is in a
frame of mind, and that, not very happy
frame. Indeed though come of the old
kickers still profess to believe that the ia
nous Compromise" has not been all buzz
zArd to them and all turkey to the Mahone'
! ties, the looks of the few who are here indi.
cate that their thoughts and words don't
agree, and that they realize the fact that
they are hanging on the ragged edge.
Mr.. Thomas Furlong will be appointed
| chief OF the secret service, though the
knights of labor have protested against his
appointment for the part he took in the
suppression of violence in the famous Mar.
tin Irons strike in the Southweat.
The following changes in the 18th class post
| Offices in Virginia were made to-day: Backsburs,
| Montgomery county c. A. Pugh appointed post
| master, vice T. Kerster removed; Bumpas',
Louisa county, W. w. Grimes, vice C. W. Bum
pass resigned Cuckoo, Louisa county, r NJ
Voolfolk, vice W. B. Thornton, removed; Fort
Mitchell, Lunenburg county, II. D. Hammer, vice
Wing mia F. Ford, removed; Guynn, Matthew'S
county, Lu,ie ]. Powell, vice z. E. Godsey, re-
moved; Guiney's, Caroline county. Mary Dunn,
vice Miss B. +. Dabney, removed; Lodge. North
cumberland county, Vim. Dawson, vice NJ c.
Weaver, removed; Naruna, Campbell county, N.
R. Hobson vice c. r. Adams, removed; New
Point Mathews county, ]. B. Grinnell, vico VIM.
I. Jarvis, removed; Randolph, Charlotte county,
N. D. Dickerson, vice II. s. smith, removed;
Sa!uda, Middlesex county, L. 8. Bristow, lr, vice
H. L. Smither removed, Sandy Bottom, Middle
sex county, VIM. II. Kelly. vice Wis Waugh, re-
moved; Smithvile, Cha' lotte county, w. S. Greg
DRY, vice P EkelestoD, removed; Wiynes-
borough, Augusta county, a. f. Mosby, vice Il. q.
Wright removed Wilton R Y dH4Gfiey removed;
#yi.;ssburgh, Charlotte county, Mary B. Russell,
vice A. L. Barnes removed.
It has leaked cut that tho extolled Samoan
treaty for negotiating which the two republican
members of the commission have been rewarded,
instead of securing American interests Ia Samoa,
really sacrih, those interests, i'll consequence OF
Bismarck Establishments.
Secretary Noble as the best means of settling
the rivalry between two republican applicants
for the mersh ship of the northern district OF
Alabama, in which the charges brought against
each other were terrible, has appointed dark
horse"