Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-09-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Cores po udenee of the Ale.s. dAs


WASHINGTON. D. O.. Sept. %. 1889.
An Alexandria republican here to-day
saws there will be meeting Of the repubil.
can committee OF his city tonight at which
| Chairman Dearborn and all the other men,
bers of the committee will resign, but be-
fore doing so will pass resolution request.
ing General Malone to adopt the recon-
mendation of the district committee that
Mr.. Corbet be appointed chairman. This
| request will of course be granted and then
| Mr.. Corbet, under the existing plan OF organ
ization, will appoint the ward chairmsn, who
aud the city chairman constitute the city
committee.
Col. a. W. Jones, formerly a prominent
|. Virginia Mahoneite, but now resident in
Kansas City, is here to-day. He says when
he heard that General Malone had accept
| ed the gubernatorial nomination he wrote
| him letter telling him be admired his
pluck but deprecated his lack of discretion
Among the Virginia republicans In the
city to-day are Internal Revenue Collector
Brady, 80 far the only beneficiary of the fa-
NOUS compromise, Col. Wollz and Mr.. Wei
| fey. The former having provided for him
self, is OF course by no means az much inter
ested in Virginia politics now as formerly,
snd has little to cay on that subject except
what is of general character. Col. Woltz
says if Gen. Malone be elected 1t will be by
democratio, not by republican votes. Mr..
We fey is clerk in the Office of the
Secretary of the Senate. He has
Just returned from his summer vaca.
ton, which be spent In Fauquier, Lou
doun, Frederick, Page and Clarke counties
He says the only republican dsaffection in
that section Of country is among the Qlak
ers in the Waterford neighborhood of Lou
doun county, and that that will be more than
Offset By loss the democrats will sustain by
the temperance vote. In all the other conn-
ties mentioned, he says the republican vote
will be as large as ever. Page county, he
saws, will increase Its republican vote, and
that though be did not 60 into Shenandoah.
reliable and we'll informed people from
that county told him that Mr.. Riddleber.
ger would take from General Malone
but one vote-nis own.
There we're no changes in the b class
postof1ces of Virginia to-day. Itseems that
some of the changes have done General Ma
hone more harm than good; 80 much harm
that they have had to be revoked by direo'
ton of the General, and the old postmasters
reinstated.
There are to day only 5000. 900 silver dol
Gates can be Issued. Three years ago there
we're IS, 600 600. and since then $4,000 600
have been coined.
Col. Edmund Jonee, chief of the customs
division of the Treasury Department, who
has Just returned from an extensive tour
through North Carolins, says the cotton and
tobacco crops of that State this year will ex-
coed those of any previous year during the
| last decade.
In order to avoid any possible trouble about
| obtaining state room on the Norfolk boat, the
| government has determined 10 send Frederic (
Douglass, U. s. minister to Hayti. to Fortress
Monroe on the U. s. vessel Dispatch, on which he
will occupy the room that is assigned to Presi-
| dent Harrison when he makes tips on that YES
| sell. At Fortress Monroe the minister will take
another U. s. vessel that will convey him to Port
au-PI ince He is sent there, however merely as
figure head, with instructions to do and say
| nothing except under orders from the government
or from the commander of the American fleet
there