Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
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Correspondence of the Alexandra uizctte']
WASHINGTON, July IS.
From Virginia it is learned to day
that probably Col. james Marshall OF
Craig county, will be the democratic
nominee for Congress in the 9th district
in place of Mr.. Buchanan who declines
a denomination, and that Mr.. swanson
of Pittsylvania will be the nominee III
the 5th district in place of Mr.. Lester,
who also declines to be Il candidate Tor
denomination.
General Field, the Vice-Presidential
candidate ofthe third party, will attend
picnic at Wellington, the reXt station
above Manassas, on the Manassas Rail
road, tomorrow.
Fiibustering on the Chicago fair ap-
preparation commenced at an early hour
IN the House to-day and it is likely that
the whole day will be consumed i'll that
way. There is clear majority in favor
of the appropriation, but there are forty
or fifty members who say they will stay
here all the summer before they will
agree to any such unconstitutional
scheme. and to-day it is expected that
they will be able to kill it, and that the
Senate will recede and allow the sundry
civil bill to pass without the fair amend
ment.
Among the visitors at the Capitol to-
day was ex-State Senator Twyman OF
Madison county, Va. He has just sub
mitted to surgical operation aud is on
his way home He says there are few
or no third party men in his county.
Chairman Carter and eX-Chairman
Clarkson, OF the national republican
committee, had a private consultation
with the President to-day on the sub
ject of the management Of the coming
campaign.
The House to-day adopted resolu-
ton to close the session ofthis Congress
at 3 o'clock next Saturday evening.
Some of the leading republican mem
bers of the Senate say that body will
concur, and that, too, whether there be
or be not Chicago fair appropriation
or sundry civil bill.
1t is generally believed that the anti
option bill is dead for this session OF
Congress.
In respect ofNIr. Henry Cabot Lodges
recent and reiterated assertion, to the
effect that the intelligence of this coun-
try is confined almost entirely to the
North and chiefly to New England, and
that there is little of it III the South
ard never was. it may be stated that
an inspection of the records OF the Navy
Department reveals the fact that grad
yates from the University of Virginia,
all from the South, rank highest on the
list of the medical and surgical officers
of the Navy.
An intelligent newspaper correspond
ent Just returned from Homestead to-
day saws the result of the recent strike
there will be the entire dishandmeni
and dissipation of the Amalgamated
Union, and that in less than two months
there wont be IL union man in any OF
the iron works at and near Pittsburg
He says the most intelligent of the
strikers already realize this condition
and are making arrangements accord
ingly.
A gentleman interested in the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad here to.
day, who had seen by the GAZETTE
that General Malone is being urged by
some of his friends for the permanent
receivelship of that road, said he had
expected something Of the sort, but that
he had good reason to believe that the
term of the present temporary receivers
Messrs. Foster and Huidekoper, would
be extended.
Congressman Jones, of Virginia, and
Patterson of Tennessee, had their tick
cts and were starting for Fredericks-
burg to speak there last night. but be
ing informed by a gentleman from that
town that they would have no audience
if they went there, they adopted his add
vice and remained here.
The House appropriation committee
has resolved to report n joint resolu-
ton appropriating $4,000 for the relief
of the Mississippi flood sufferers, most
of the money to be disbursed in Repre-
sentative Boatner's district in Louisi-
ana under the direction ofthe Governor
and Secretary of War.
The House Judiciary committee has
decided to take further testimony in
respect of the Homestead trouble. Mr..
Powderly has been telegraphed to APP
pear before the committee tomorrow.
Tho North A,ncr;ecu Pericr for AurIlst has