Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-11
buy canned goods; they have money enough
to buy fresh food all the year round.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispsc;ol Correspondence of the Alexandria Gasste-
WAsHIHeroH. D. o.. Aug: II: 1881.

FROM WASHINGTON.
[spscsal Correspondence Of the Alexandria G Sn1
WASHINGTON, o. o.. Aug. IL. 1881.
This m ornipg member OF the Mahone
8 ofa csntrs, committee GA his way to the
Psteyshnro conference halted moment at
thu metropolitan Hotel for shelter ano re-
tresbmsu.. While mopping the moisture
rom his brow soma gerry cooling advice was
nroff.red him by en- Old time Virginia re.
pnhlicsp, That it WAS sensible sdmits OF
s,t.la or no doubt. Now" said he why
this exposure Of yours to the ourhibe SUI
this use lesa waste Of time end money LsC
me saw that trip from the ooundiess snaue
of the great valley where you i've, margineo
with mountains end cooled with the green
foliage OF 81 eternal paradise TO the oumo
and swe!terIpg city Of Malone, may prove as
perilous to your health az Aspinwall did TO
Pcphsm. YoG stsy here and telegraph
proxy to the General. He Ia master once
more. absolute and ipylncible. Is he not the
chairman? Il the chairman not the COM
mIstss? Is the committee not the organize
t,on? ID the organization not the party ?
Why, there is Major Gam Ba.ly, man OF
fine head and nerve, with great power OF
will and fertility OF resource. He said yes
terdav Malone was again dictator, that he
and bis cohorts had the machine, and that
thew would pretty much grind to powder
auythsng standing in their way. OF course
Malone is snti. Blaine /; hs is obliged to be,
and he is for Harrison for the simple reason
that he is obliged to be. Now, don't thwsrt
Gen. Malone In any way whatever. D1h't
yex him with even suggestion. lie 6ons
need you. advice, and, besides this, he ie
entitled to all that's left. Els services have
vet to receive their due reward. BE Is o
great nan, and far nooler In defeat than In
victory" And etill the ros' master refused
the counsel, and when lest seen Was on BIS
wsy to the train, which headed for the
South.
1t is daaoltely ascsitained that Secretary
Blaine, with the consent OF President Harri-
SON "requested", that Ia demanded the reg
ieuetion of Fred Douglas as minister to
Hayti, at tbs expiration OF his farlough.
The appointment was O mistake. and no.
body found shat GU sooner than those by
whom It was Isde. Fred Ia very much ST
fronted, and Notwithstanding his long samii.
lar association with white people tn the
North, tbs natural characteristic OF bic
race whsn In that condition-protrudsd lips
lis distinctly pesceptible. It Ia generally
understood that his place will be filed by q
whise man.
l, is understood here tina. Mr. Eastman,
OF Rappahannook county, Va, as previously
stated In this correspondence, is seriously
emplating the purchase OF the B!addock
House In Alexandris, and OF lifting 1t up
snd conducting IL as ifst CLASS motel. Tbs
owaer OF the property has been written TO
for h,s Lowest figures, and II they be sasis-
factory iae purchase vii! he neGo.
Cho regulations for applying the civil ser
yico lay to the navy yards directs thet 10
the matter OF appointments preference mast
always 0e given 10 the SIX Union soldiers.
The tsct that most of such man must now
be too cd for hard work doesn't seem to
have struck Secretary Tracey.
A gentleman from Washington district
Alexandrla county, hsre to-day, says large
meeting Of the ci.iZsrs OF that district was
hello at CaIae's schcol house here last Digit.
at which the county supervisors we're unanI-
mou4ly requested topnrchase stone crush
or and roller fer he county, to be used 10
macadami zlog the roads In that county.
Mr. Wneeless OF the Washington and Ar
ington R.ilrca6 tod the GAzETTE's CORES
,ondens to-,ay that the people who were
talking about laying a tramwsy from the
Aqaeiuct Bifge to Arlington DID not seem
10 know that suoh road could only go 80
the outside lim;t of the Arlington rose!va-
tion, which Ia q mile from the cemetery.
He also said that his road would be com
pleted to Atli0gton In TINA for the meeting
of the G a. r here next summer.
Tho facts that in addition to Postmaster Gen
erai Wsnam iker ard Mr.. Cia,k ,on Mr.. Steve Elk
ms, Mr.. Blsines especial friend. also spent last
Sunday with tho President. that they sll met
Senator On y in Phiadelphis yesterday, and that
on that sstne day Attorney General Miller was
sent fo5 by the President hsvo greatly excited
tho quidnuncs here, and have started numerous
rumOrs, none OF wh Oh, however, has any appa-
rent foundat,on.
THO following was tho only change in the Alb
class postoffices OF Virginia that was madeto day:
Passspst my, King George comfy, II. a. Jones
appointed postmaster. vice " P. Jones' resigned.
i he commissioner of immigration ct 30. tor or
dered the -otu-n o. eome Russian Hebrews who
arrived ct that city. but the superintendent OF
immigration hcre rad reversed that order and di-
rected thst tho people referred to be allowed 10
land, but only under boud thst they shsll hot be-
como public chsrge.