Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. Sept. 7.


The well known and entertaining
MIR. Cabell Maddux has just returned
here from brief visit to Culpeper. He
brings news that Mr. Richard Lewis
will be the nominee of the democratic
party for the legislature and that such
being an ascertained fact Col. Catlett
Gibson has announced his intention to
oppose him as an Independent candi-
date. Candidate Pitcher, of Fauquier,
he says, has informed him that there
will probably ba no opposition to his
reelection from that county to the
House of Delegates. The Warrenton
ring--if there bs such thing in exis-
tence-has been compelled, he says, to
strike its colors to the '.sons of toll" in
the rursl districts. Revenge for Pill
cher's vote against Lee has been post
poned for season. Pitcher, he thinks,
will be triumphantly elected. The
colonel is regarded as good authority
here in his forecasts of coming events
in the politics of his native State.
Wherever he sees the shadow the sub
stance is so accurately reflected that be
is able to name many of the Governors,
Senators, Representatives, &C., of his
State far in advance of his contem-
poraries. His reputation on the broad
field of national politics is yet to be
achieved, but he commences well by
"copperingn the Presidential selections
of Congressman Tucker. Were book to
be made of the race track variety he
could get, he says, fifty and even double
that against the entries Mr.. Tucker
has made. In fact he predicts that
most of them would be left at the post
and that no hacker would get so much
as q run for his money.
Postmaster. General Wilson has gone
to his home in Charlestown, West Vir-
ginia, to spend Sunday.
Sheridan P. Read, United States con-
sui at Tien Tsin, and Consul Francis
NJ. Barber, naval attache at the United
States legation at Toxic, have been
selected as members of the independent
commission which the United States
will send to investigate the attacks on
missionaries at Chengtu and vicinity in
June last. The missionary representa-
tives have not yet been selected. The
American commissioners will make a
report to this Government, while the
Chinese envoy will look out for the in
terests of China. 1t is not likely that
they will make joint report unless
they can agree upon all the facts
brought out in the inquiry.
DR.. C. w. Chancellor, counsel at
Hayre, France, has sent report to the
State Department concerning the con-
gress of physicians and scientists re-
Gently held at Bordeaux to consider
the question of combating consumption
by the vaccine de la tuberculosis.
Prof. Marigliano,, an Italian sayant,
read paper at the congress which has
attracted considerable attention. He
claims to have discovered an efficacious
process for the treatment of consump-
ton by the injection of tubercular Sc
rum, which he says renders the subjects
of this most formidable and fatal of all
maladies Immune. ''This paper has
naturally excited great interest in the
scientific world" says DR.. Chancellor,
"but in view of the signal failure, only
a few years ago, of Koch's inocculation
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negative results after extensive expert
ments with DIR. Rouk's serum treat
ment for diphtberia it must be admitted
that it would not be quite safe at
present to pronounce definitely upon
the value of this new process for the
cure of consumption, though introduced
by one of such high standing in the
profession as DR.. Marigliano.
o. o. Wissman was to-day appointed
postmaster 81 Harrisville, Shenandoah
county, Virginia, vice W.. ]. Bolts, re-
moved.
Statements that Secretary Carlisle
will make speeches in the campaign in
Kentucky and Maryland are met at
the Treasury Department with the
distinct announcement that so far Mr..
Carlisle has accepted no invitation 10
make speech in either State.
1t can hardly be said that the deci-
sive turning point has been reached by
either party, certainly not by the dem
oerats, in the fight now on for Presi.
dental nominees, but it il most palpa.
bly, fact that the plot on behalf of
Reed for the republican nomination ia
growing and "thickening" all the while.
1t now looks likethe managers of Reed
would be able to make valuable allies
out of the silver element of their party.
There is an admittedly strong silver
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