Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-08-20
The Outlook,

MAJ. y. N. OtuDD5, OF UlOuocSter, D lOlmcr
member OF tho Legislature, who has been en-
tour through THU s;Ctioo Of the State thus
writes to tho West Point Star of tho political
outlook: ut has boon my fortune to take o
trip through Fauquer. Orange. CuIpoper.
Prince William and Abomarlc counties and tho
city of Alexandria. 10 the past fvo days. was
not 90 o political tour, yet 1 heard politics
talked great deal and oODversod with citizens
from the above named places and they report
politics ia a "hcaIthful condition" Some
would vote tho irregular Hancock electoral
ticket, ii the election were to take plGc, now,
but tho rca6ilsters arc obtaining iurloughs
rapidly for the coming cItcion and sone are
obtaining their discharges from that party and
| really thick by the % Of Novembr next. tho
Irregular ticket will not have corporaps guard
10 fact, would not BIO surprised if that ticket
was Withdrawn ard its adherents come over and
give the regular ticket firtv thousand majority
in Virginia. lis truo. had long talk with
one al tho most prominent read justerS, and sOo
an elactor. and one of the best stumpers they
have, and be said that they would Curry Vir-
GINA by 80 600 or 40 600 mi )tity, yet believo
no is mistaken.
II ssw the grand turn out ia Alexandria on
Thursday night the ''democrstc cpd democrat.
| reac iustera" had grand Hancock rslly, the
latter numbering COO strong. The booming OF
| caunons, the music by two bands. the brilliant
display of fro works, the ipnumberable number
| Of torch ligbts one hundred or more devices
| and truths" Inscribed 90 canvas and read by
| cheeriug Thousands aud speeches BY Con. Fi'z
Lac, M.ior Baker z. Lee. Mr.. Barbour and
| Major John w. Daniel, made Alexandria 9
lively place ard too warm for che hold out 70.
&C ulster or republicans
The democratic readjusters had at the head
Of their column, "Stste issues nothing to do
with National issues" and when first seen
loud and long hurrah rent the air. | thought
while the procession Was moving through the
streets, that even then. some Of the eitizsps
living in the city across the Potomac, were
making their arrangements to yacate on the 4th
of March next and take back scat, Prospects
are growing brighter and brighter daily here in
Virgins, and VIC must continue to work, and
faint not.
The July number of tho American reprint
Of the London Quarterly Review has been re-
ceived from its publishers, tho Leonard SCOTT
Publishing Company. of New York. lis Con-
tents are The First Lord Miuto. Middlesex,
Thomas Chattertoo. Recent and Future Arctic
Voyages. Msrie-Antoinette, Universities and
Their Critics. Around the World 9Th General
Grant. St. Paul and Renun, and Wings, Radi-
Gals and Conservatives.
Scribncr's Magazine for Septcmter has been
received from its publishers, Scribner & Co.,
New York. Among its contents are Dir.
Pickeick and Nicholas Nickleby. Eighteen
Years Alone. Georgetown College, When the
Woods arc Green, Richard Henry Stoddard.
The GraDdissimes. Peter the Great. Over the
Balkans with Gourko. Jean Francois Millet,
Tho Less of tho Oneids, Hickett's Hollow.
The Value of ViViseetop, Thomas Payne and
the French Revolution. and large. able and
instructive editorial department.
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