Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
I Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazctte.l
WASHINGTON. August Is.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazctte.1
WASHINGTON. August IS.
Among the ccioeholders here hailing
from Virginia is J. II. Van Auken, for
merly prominent republican and now
Mahoneite, who is Il clerk i'll the cen
sus office. lie says he doesn't know
much about Virginia politics now, but
that he does know that Malone gave
to the republican party in Virginia all
the strength it ever had, and that
though the administration may nave
turned the General down and given It's
favors to Brady, there are thousands OF
Virginia republicans who will never
wear Brady's collar. He says If ever a
man who left the democratic, and JOIN
ed the republican party had cause TO go
back to the former, General Mahonc Is
that man. but he won't do 1t.
General w. ii. Payne OF Warrenton,
Virginia, being asked to-day if he
thought the third party would draw oil
MANY democratic voters in his county
at the coming election? replied that nc
was not now, and for several years had
not been in politics, but that from what.
he saw and heard he was induced to
believe that the democratic majority III
Fauauier would be as large as usual.
The same people, he said, who are
fighting the party now have been dong
so for years, and still the majority has
steadily increased.
A dispatch from Richmond in a Phil
adelphia paper of to-day says there Is a
strong probability that Gen. Malone
will be appointed receiver Of the Il. q
d. r. r. Inquiries in railroad circles
here to-day tend to confirm what has
previously appeared on this subject in
this correspondence, which is to the Ell
feet that no such appointment will be
made, and that the present receivers
will be continued The U. 5. court for
the Virginia circuit will meet in Rich
mond next Tuesday, and if a motion be
made to remove Messrs. Huidekoper
and Foster and appoint new receiver,
argument on it will be heard, but II Is
not probable that it will be granted.
Senator Ransom of North Carolina
passed through here to-day on his way
home from New York. He says Mr..
Bourke Cochran told him the New
York democracy is in as good ifnot bet
ter condition now than ii has been fora
long time and Will carry the State next
November, and if this be Il democratic
year, will do so by & large majority. About
his own State, the Senator says there Is
some trouble there with the third party,
but by no means as much as some peo-
pie have been led to suppose by the
.a:k of those who would have it so, and
by those democrats who are always dis
posed TO imagine that their party is
weaker than it really is. He says by
November, when the democratic mem
bcrs of the third party will have learn
ed where that party will lead them, ne
thinks they viii all vote the old ticket.
While using gasoline stove here
Yesterday Mrs. Annie Leeman set fire
to her clothes and was fatally burned.
The unfortunate woman placed her Z
months-old child, which she had in her
arms at the time, i'll a place Of safety,
and ran then into the street in flames.
J. D. Goodhar was to-day appointed
postmaster ut Alphin, Rockbridge com-
ty, Va, vice N. T. Ayrcs, resigned.
4 New York democrat here -ta-S}}fsFly-
says the fact thai >F 71mmany has been
put control of the democratic ma
chine in his State has set the anti-snap-
pcrs on fire. and that their eyeballs are
protruding and their ears are burning in
consequence ofthe efforts they are MAX
ing to keep from exploding with wrath
and indignation. The spectacle, ne
says. is sight to see, but that it affords
unalloyed delight to the democrats,
He says the anti-snappers are so mad
that it is doubtful now if they will sup,
port the straight democratic ticket neXi
November.
1t is rumored on the Senate side OF
the Capitol to-day that Senator Hoal
either has or intends to resign.
1t is understood here that some of the
prominent republicans Of Virginia have
been invited TO met ut General Ma,
homes house in Petersburg tonight
and confer with him about party affairs
1t is said that Postmaster Agnew OF Al
exandria is one Of the invited guests.
Mr.. Foster, Secretary of State, left
the city to-day Neither the President
Vice-President, nor single member o.
the cabinet is now ut the federal capital
and the government is being run by
subordinates. But it goes along just as
smoothly as if all the absentees were
present.
A democrat living on the line of the
Manassas Railroad, here to-day, says
that in recent conversation with Mr..
Turner, the third party's candidate for
Congress in the Alexandria district,
that gentleman said he would get two
thirds of the democratic vote of some OF
the counties in that district, three
fourths of that of others, and five fitths
of that of some Of the remainder. For
his part, the democrat referred to said,
he did not believe Mr.. Turner would
get two hundred votes in the whole dis
trict.
How GEN. FIELD Cor THE NOMINA-
TIoN.-Professor r. A Rawlings, who
was delegate from this State to the