The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-30
GOSSIP In WASHINGTON
The Daily Budget of Our Reg
ular Correspondent.
EH1NGs THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

&An Active Maryland Congressman-Fitz
'5l hnsh Lee Still u Candidate for Senatorial
# Honors = Postmaster General Bssseu
Back ut Work.
III WASHINGTON, April 29.-"I am just sit
<RlrG here thinking what change would
s&havc come over the country If Cleveland
;3had been killed in New York" remarked
ID southern congressman. Stevenson
syopld be president, and his AK, now idle,
|}ssYould get to work OIL the heads of present
sf2Ili ceholders as rapidly as the guillotine in
$he days of the French revolution. Would
aee give us such an administration rs Mr..
sfClevelandf / think not, and am glad the
BPccident was not more serious"
81 One of our congressman from whom
Eve look for great deal, " said a prominent
4sMarylander, us McKaig. He has already
sSihown great activity, and has planned to
.$qevote all of the next month to looking
e3after the interests of his constituents in
1.-THE officeseeking line. He has n large dis
!$frict, and the work before him will keep
'89lm busy. About the first of next month
Ayou may look for rush from Maryland"
a Senator Vance of North Carolina has
#arrived and joined his colleague, Senator
HlRansom. Congressman Woodward has re-
&turncd home.
"A Governor Lees Senatorial Candidacy.
3 You can put it down as a certainty that
#thc appointment of Ex-Governor Lee as
4director of the Union Pacific railroad"
9Eaid one of the governors prominent
&boomers, twill in nowisc interfere with
fhis candidacy for the senate. The presi-
Edent was aware Of the governors senate
11rial aspirations, and for that reason gave
|ahim an appointment that did not require
Mchange OF residence. and the appointment
lqwas simply a graceful act of Mr. Cleyc-
gland to show his friendship for Mr. Lee"
a Congressman George d. Wise of the
i Richmond district has returned home
Captain Grin b. Mitcham, U. s. A., of
q Iynchburg, has been granted leave of
|1absence for six months on surgeons GER
MITIGATE Of disability
a ~ prominent politician says there is con-
lsiderable dissatisfaction over the manner
Win which the congressional delegation
Hdivided up the patronage of Virginia, and
nan effort will be made to bring pressure
1on the president sufficient to secure the ap-
1pointment of candidates who were not in
4 doysed by the delegation.
Postmaster General Bisscll has returned
4 from New York. lie had announced that
he was going to Chicago, and his return
was u surprise. The news soon got
AMONG the ofliceseekers, but he declined to
see any Of them.
Mrs. Cleveland has also returned to
Washington, while the president is Oh his
Way to Chicago
New Postmnsters Appointed.
The following fourth class postmasters
have been appointed:
New Jerscy-J. j. Cook, Carteret, Mid
qlesex county; S. p. Ketchen, Delaware
Gap, Warren county; w. c. Nicholson,
Turnersville, GLOUCESTER county.
Virginia-Leon Salsberg, Belleville, Nan
semond county; Charles r. Irving, Buck
HghQm Courthouse, Buckingham county;
Y. i. Hptcheson, Iron Gate, Allegheny
\ county; WI. DuhcanS6n, Harpcr's Home,
brunswick county; J. E. Purvis Montreal,
Nelson county; J. w. a. Calhoun. New
Eampden, Highland county; r. A. Moore,
Rehoboth, Brunswick county; Thurston
Goodrich, Spot Cash, Brunswick county.
Tennessee-Tilman B. Carr, Arthur,
Claiborne county; w. II. Grigsby, Center
Ulle, Hickman county; w. H. Lowry,
HOLLOW Rock, Carroll county; Hugh Bird,
MQoley'S College, Greene county; j. NJ
Collier, Yellow Greek, Houston County.
North Carolna-H. b. Jewett, Crowley,
Columbus county; Mrs. S. S. Robertson,
Finch, Nash county; w. d. Keel Keels-
Vile, Pitt county; II. O.. Baglcy, Moyock,
Currituck county: Mrs. Ella Cochrane,
Nevn, Mccklenbcrg county; r. III. Smith,
Jr., Scotland Neck, Halifax county.
Total number appointed, 1875, of which
10 were to fill vacancies caused by resig-
nation and death.