Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-05


WASHINGTON. d. c., Nov. ., 1888.
The Capitol is almost completely deserted
o.day, all the people usually seen aooul
there having gone home TO vote, II not 10
work at to-morrow's election, ana all tne
government departments here approximate
that condition. The hotels and sidewalks
too. present somewhat lonesome appeal
ance and the horse car conductors complain
of great falling of 10 their receipts. All
the neople who remain here are taking
shout the probable result Of the election,
and while the republicans profess entire
oonfdence in the election of their ticket, the
democrats. Judging by what they say, are
euen more confident of the success oftheir8.
The little betting that Is done Is IN laVor
of Cleveland.
Chairman Barbour, of the democratic
committee of Virginia, told the GAzETTE's
correspondent to day that his news from his
State improved as the time for the election
drew near, and that while he had always
thought the State would give five or Blk
thousand democratic majority, he now
thinks the majority will be twelve thousand.
RI. 9 h Congressional district, now repre-
scented by republican,, he says, will prob-
ably give about fifteen hundred democratic
majority. VeDabie, the democratic nomi-
mas in the Petersburg district, he says, will
nrobably bs elected. About the Alexandra
district. he saws Gen. Lees majority will not
ne less than twenty-five hundred. He ex-
pacts less from the Norfolk than from any
other district in the State.
Tue State Department today received IL
,eliceuce to the effect that San Salvador
has made It's tariff more in accord with Tree
trade.
Representative Wm Walter Phelps, re
publican, OF New jersey who is now herein
a short talk with the GAZETTE'S correspond
ent this afternoon, said, but in more words,
that the republicans OF his State are certain
to CARY the legislature, but that the vote for
Presidential electors would be so close that
| it would approximate tie, and that nobody
could pow tell which side would get the few
votes that would determine the result. He
said he would be tbs next u Senator
from his State unless Mr. Sewell, also a re-
publican, would get ahead of him. II this
be SC. the next Senate will be republican even
| though Mr.. Thurman be elected Vice Pre6l-
dent.
private dispatch received here Today
| from democrat at democratic headquarters
at indianapolis, saws the democratic and re
publican polls Of Indiana have been com
pleted. and thet while the latter gives the
s ale to the republicans bv eight thousand,
the former gives it to the democrats by thir-
teen thousand. 1t says every manufacture.
ing establishment in Indianapolis owned by
republicans will give their employees holiday
to. morrow, but that the democrats will see
that and go some better. 1t also advises
the receiver to bet On Cleveland.
Private dispatches received here from Mr..
Brce at national democratic headquarters
in New York represent every thiag as lovely
and the goose as hanging high, that all the
reliable information received there Is to one
and the same effect-that the democratic
victory will be complete and decisive.
There are rumors here from Richmond to
the effsct that General Mahone's expressed
confidence in republican victory in hls
State to. morrow is only assumed, and that
he really has lost ell hope Of carrying the
State, if he ever bad any, and that among
the Congressional districts he comedies the
democrats will have, ls the 9th, now repre-
scented by Bowen. republican.
The news hero from California about the
election is very favorable to the democrats,
and to the effect that that State will not on
ly 20 fer Cleveland, but that all her mem.
bers of the next Congress will be demo
cratic.
The navy department received dispatch
to day from Kingston. Jamaica, to the effect
that the o. s. ship Boston has sailed from
there for Hayti,to see about the late seizure
of an American vessel there.