Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-25

estimate of the corn crop OF tne couu.ie1
composing his, the Alexandria congressional
district. this season is twelve bushels 70 Tue
acre. which Ia the best In the iass twenty
years. end about twice the usual qunot,ly.
The price too, he says. will be doob!e Una:
of last wear, he also says the wheat crop u
the district referred to was fair acc tas
nrice good, and that the grazlers tnsfe nav
also had most profitable year. Inc yeas,
he says, will greatly improve the peouniafs
oonditior OF ell the farmers in Virginia.
EestsrIy Winds are generally Eu2poaed 30
no n-nyons.iye of pains In cid wonnds, but
. niS te9arsl eoldies ct tho pension of1oe
aestardsv. vhIle inhaling the stif breszs
tben blowing In s southern window, anu
talking about the probability Of democratic
s1ooess In 1872, rubbed his stump and re-
marked that 1t always panied him when the
wind blew from the South.
"Col." Smalls, the negro ex-congressman
from South Carolina, and the present col
leotor of the port OF Beaufort. 8. O., who &C,
CURED fame when. as the pilot OF q email
Confederate vessel be ran her under the
guns of the federal feet and compelled hei
surrender. Is here to-day. He says the
Farmere' Alliance will osuse split 10 the
democratic party of his State, by means Of
which the republicans hope to gain several
congressman there at the next election:
Intelligence here to day from Ohio ia to
the effect that the friends outside OF that
Stste. of both Sherman and Foraker, the
candidates for the y. s. Senate, have united
with those of Mr.. Mckinley In contributing
To the Ohio republican election fund, and
that the State will be flooded with republs
can money during the campaign which has
already commenced there.
Senator Voorhees, is still here. He relt-
crates what he has previously ssi6, which Is
that after careful. deliberate end unpreju'
diced view of the whole situation, he Is Of
the opinion that Senator German is the
most available man the democrats can nom
mate for President In '92, and that IL the
nomination isll to the East. Mr. German
will pet 1t. Senator Pugh, who has just re-
turned from Saratoga, agrees With Mr
Voorhees, He says it is useless to talk about
tbs nomination of Mr.. Cleveland, as the e1
President will not have che delegation from
his own State and Is not popular In either
OF the four close States of the North, New
York, Indiana, New jersey and Connecti
cut, and that be is growing Wesksr ano
weaker every day.
A conference between committees repre-
senting the National League and the amer
Icsn Association of baseball clubs was held
here this afternoon.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has, after much
thought, reached the conclusion that philosophical
and scientific apparatus and instruments required
for the use Of the Government Weather Bureau,
may be imported free OF duty under the tariff law!
The U. 8. Cousul General at Berlin, having re
ported that certain exporters OF paper etc, from
Germany employ convict labor in tho manufsc'
ture los their goods, the Treasury Department
has referred the matter to the Collector of Gus
toms Mt New York, With the suggestion that a
such importstions arc illegal under the tariff law
no take such steps as are necessary to secure &c
liable information on the subject.
northern democrat here to-day, who recently
saw Mr. Dudley in Boston, says the "blocks OF
five man ia dead against the denomination Of
President Harrison, who, he says, has lost thu
heart Of the republican party. Mr.. Dudley Is fol
the imam from Maine"
The Secretary of State received a dispatch TO-
day from Bio de Janeiro to the effect that after
the first Of next October all import duties at Bra
lillian ports will be collected In gold.