Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-09-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette
WAsHINGTc.N. Sept. %.


after hearing Mr.. Bayly's explanation
Of his conduct as deputy health officer
of this city yesterday evening, and III
response to his enquiry having told him
they had no fault to find with that con-
duct. issued an order removing MIN
from his office and appointing him to
another one, the salary of which is $500
less. Mr.. Bayly, it is understood, will
not accept the new Office and conse-
quently will not be in the District ser
vice after the end of the current month.
He will. it is reported, publish the state
ment he made TO the commissioners, in
which he applied some very harsh
words to Mr.. Frank Hatton. Mr.. Bay
Tvs friends say that when he went TO
Mr.. Hatton's office with card which
he desired to have published, he was
invited by the man who received the
card and read it, and who was alone,
INTO another room, in which were two
other men, one Of whom, the man with
whom he had had fight, and that
then, and not till then, did the man to
whom he had handed the card, say to
him that he had acted in cowardly
ana brutal manner, and that rs there
were three TO one, and he was unarmed,
be replied that under the circumstances
be would pocket the insult temporarily,
and then retired.
The President is encouraged at the
Improvement in his wiies condition
since her return to Washington, and he
now devotes nearly the entire forenoon
of each day to the consideration ofpub-
lie business. Should this Improvement
continue, the President will participate
in the Columbian celebration in New
York on the 10Th proX., and in the ded-
ication Of the exposition buildings III
Chicago later in the same month.
Among those who saw the President
this morning were Blanch Bruce, the
Mississippi negro recorder of deeds for
the District of Columbia, and two other
members of his race.
The President received this morning
from Mr.. Henry Grabau, of Galveston,
Tex, a rather poor lead pencil sketch
OF himself, on cuff somewhat soiled,
and enclosed in fine frame with red
plush back and gilded borders. The
sender say IS that the sketch was taken
from life during service ut the First
Presbyterian Church of Galveston, April
II, 1891.
1t is currently rumored here, and
generally believed, that the men who
we're employed here to lobby the Chi
cago fair appropriation through Con-
grcss have each been paid 81 800, which
mon " came out Of the appropriation
referred to.
About the 18th of next month the
new return postal card will be placed
on sale at all postoiiices. The half of
the double card containing the message
to which a reply is desired is 81 inches
wide by 81 inches long. At the top of
the card, and little to the left OF the
center, are engraved in three lines, one
above the other, the words Postal card
with paid reply United States of
America" and in smaller type, this
side is for address only" In the right
corner is n vignette of General Grant
encircled by frame bearing at the top
the legend message card" and at the
bottom, lone cent At the lower left
hand corner are the words, dispatch
card for answer The face ofthe return
card is similar to the message card.
Instead. however, of the words pos
tai ca, d with paid reply at the top of
the card. are the words ''Reply postal
card over the vignette of Gen. Grant
the words Reply card" are substitute
ed for Message card The message
card and the card for reply form one
piece of card board folded together and
creased OH line between where they
are to be separated when the reply is
/ sent.
Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms Hill of the
L. 5. House OF Representatives is just
here to-day from Ohio, of the democrat
ic committee of which State he is a
member. He says Ohio in national
elections is republican, but that the
chances of the democrats carrying it
next November are excellent, and that
the impression of the most knowing
democratic managers there is that they
will. lie says that while there is not
the slightest trouble among the demo-
Gratis in any OF the districts of the State,
the republicans are having several fac
tional fights, and that the Foraker men,
knowing full we'll that they will have
no show under Harrison, are not going
to twist their gizzards in trying to re-
elect him.
A reliable newspaper correspondent.
here to-day, who has just returned from
an inspection trip through the several
congressional districts of Virginia, says
there are not many third party men
there and that they are found chiefly
among the less intelligent of the rural
population. In the cities, he says,
where people take newspapers and
know what is going on, and can tell a
fraud when they see one, there are few
or mono, but that in some OF the more
illiterate counties there are more
than would be supposed. In Gooch-
land, for instance, he said that at late
political meeting there, though there
were 4 good many people in the vii
lage, but few would go to the court
house to hear the democratic orators,
but that when the time came for the
third party candidate for Congress in
that district to speak, the court house
was crowded, but was emptied again as
soon as he retired.
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