Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-05-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
s,ecs. Correspondence Of The Alexandria Gazette.
wAsprr4raf.. -. O.. Nav 10. 1851.

WASHINGTON, y. t,s may ~, locl
Commissioner Rum has never made the
csl he told certain Newspaper people here
sst Saturday ne intended making upon The
President, and upon the result OF which, ne
sid, depended hs designations; nor Ia Vt
though: be will make Ii until M. Harrison
shail rsad FOX him. He says now be cannot
,rd to ratlrs uuder fire. He Ia the man
who formulated the republican doctrine
when hs said modern politician can't af-
fo,6 10 be consistent. The recent exposures
in the Rsum csses .evives the recollection
Of the fact that eiuce Mr.. Rsum has held his
position old pension examiners In the field
nave been called ID, forty five at one time ard
examiners in the pension bureau here cent
ont 10 their places. The examiners In the
field receiving the same pay IS those here
and So g dsy extra for every day In the year,
the transfer affords 6De chance for q
diVyy betve,n the beneficiary and the ap-
poin ing power. which opportunity, it ia said,
was aysied Of to Ire fullest extent.
q dispatch received here to-day sage the
public building ard bonded warehouse at
] cksorvllie. Florida, were destroyed BY NE
this morning.
Private oiepa caes received here say that
Mr.. Blaire's disease Is infinitely more g. Z.
rious than CONT. eud that though be Ia bet
ter now, it is doubtfulifbe will ever be per-
fectly we'll man again. The date for his re-
turn to this city is Indefinite.
A Texas o ngressmen here to day who
had seen In Yesterdays GAZETTE what his
colleague, Mr. Grain, had said respecting
Mr.. Mils's chances for the speskersbip Of
the next House, se!d OF course the whole
Texas delegate would support MIR. Mills,
bat that be had 20 idea Mr.. Mills
would be elected. and that Mr. Crisp would
get larger vote or the frst ballot.
Sens t # Qaay's vist tc this oily was by 10
means sa,isis Glory to himself, and be went
back home in hurry, and some say In
huff Pennsylvania has strong leaning
TOW ards Mr.. Blaine, and Mr.. Harrison, like
General Mshcre, does not believe 10 vast
ing time en- people who, he knows, are not
going to suppcrt biz denomination.
real estate sgept here told the GA
zETTg's correspondent to-day there was
hardly day 10 the month on which he did
rot heys ipGuirits ms6s OF him concerning
reel estate ia Alexandria, He said he b.
l,eved II there vas bridge across the Poto-
mac ut Arlington, aud coed road from
there to AlexeoG:is, the whole country he
tween Washington and Alexandria would
soon be- covered With houses.
EX-SENATOR Kellogg Of louisiana says the
Presidents late trip through the South was
q great failure politically, and almost necss'
sarily, az all the Safes and cities In That
section heiug in the hands of democrats, the
receptions and cou1tesies had OF course to
come fr M democrats; that therefore the se-
publicsns, and especially the negroes, who
look upon republican Presidents as peculi-
arly air Presidents, were excluded from
pa,ticipstion iu any ofthe public ceremonies,
and tssi in consequence thereof taey
were by no means pleased, sfd that where
MIR. Harrison made one friend be mads ten
enemies.
Gan. Malone bad strong 'pnll'' on Post
master General Wsnemaker, but, 1t Ia now
said, no, strong enough to induce bio to
adopt Mr. Rn,ler Mshcne's patent for street
letter boX.s,