Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Aexandris Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1884.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 1894.
Governor Wirts, the State official.
and others accompanying him, as well
as the members of the New Jersey
shooting team, arrived in Washington
last night. The members of the team
will spend to-day and to morrow prac'
ticing for the tournament of Saturday
at the rifle range of the District militia
on d street.
Captain and Brevet Lieutenant Col
onel Garrick Mallory, q. S. A., died in
this city yesterday. In 1870 he be-
came Secretary of State and Adjutant
General of Virginia, with the rank CT
Brigsdier General, and part of the time
was acting Governor of Virginia.
And none did love him, though to
hall and bower, he gathered jewellers
from far and near" 1t is currently re-
ported here that General Mahone's
last friend aud 6rmest standby. ex-
marshal Watts, has now, like all the
others. abandoned him, and, what's
worse, his sued him for $1,000, got
from bank on his and ex-Congress.
man BOWen'S enQOrSemeut.
Among the arrivals here to-day was
that of MIR. Ellyson, chairman of the
State democratic committee of Virginia.
He came on business with the demo.
cratic congressional campaign commit
tee, but both the chairman and secre-
tary of that committee, Senator Faux
ner and Mr.. Gardiner, were in New
York trying to effect compromise be-
tween the Tammany and mugwump
congressional nominees in that city.
He intimates that democratic prospects
in his State are favorable.
The horses attached to the large
wagon of Messrs. Leadbeater and Sons,
of Alexandria, ran away in this city
this afternoon, and, besides destroying
a large part of the contents of the
wagon, threw the driver, Aleck, col
ored man, out, severely injuring him.
Captain Jones, who has charge of the
business of sending Virginia democrats
sojourning here home to vote at cleo
ii 1ns, says he doesn't think he will have
many applicants for transportation
tickets. When asked the reason for the
falling off, he replied that Grover had
taken al the spirit out of the men
whose votes make democratic MAORI
ties.
Ex-Copgressman Libby of the Nor
folk, Virginia, district, here to-day, says
the negroes in his district seem to be as
we'll organized as usual, and that
in Ising from the way they talk, there
are great many apathetic and dissat-
isfied democrats there, it looks to him
as if Boreland, the republican candidate
for Congress, will be elected. He says
work on the new hotel at Old Point is
progressing actively and is expected tc
be completed by next summer.
Among the visitors here today i;
General Farnsworth, not of lllinoi:
cavalry fame in Alexandria, but O.
New York. The General, who is from
the Albany section of his State, says
be really believes that Senator Hill
will be elected, and that Gov. Flower
agrees with him. OF what, if anything
the President may do in the way of eff
fecting that desirable result, he, like
every body else, is utterly and entirely
ignorant.
The State Department has received
from DR.. Chancellor, the American
consul at Havre, report upon the
treatment of diphtheria and Group by
means Of hypodermic injections o
serum as successfully practiced by DR.
Roux, Pasteur's chief assistant, and by
DR.. Behring in Germany. The expert
ments which have been conducted fol
the past five years leave no doubt, the
Doctor says, that most malignant diph.
iberia and Group can not only be cureo
but prevented.
A great smallpox scare has been Gre
ated here by exaggerated newspaper
accounts of the existence of that dis
ease in one or two negro houses. All
the clerks in the Interior Department
were given holiday to-day in order tc
let them go home and be vaccinated.
General Hunton and Major Robert
Hunter will leave here tomorrow tC
dispel the apathy that is reported as
affecting the democrats in the Norfolk
district.
Congressman Meredith of Virginia,
and Messrs. Jeffries of Fauquier, and
Willard of Fairfax county, in his dis
trict, will speak at the banquet to be
given here tomorrow night by the Vir-
GINA democratic association of this city.
Col. Mort. Kilgore, of Loudoun county,
was to have spoken, but he is engaged
in the West Virginia campaign. Messrs.
II. o. Claughton of this city and Capt.
Mushbach of Alexandria, were invited
to take his place, but both are sick
Messrs. Carlin, Barley and Brent CT
Alexandria, are expected to be present