Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, August s.

WASHINGTON, August 5.
The orly three nominations made,
but not confirmed, during the late SEES
siou of Congress were those OF u. w.
Miller to be collector Of internal rev
enuc at Pittsburg, Pa, and James Hill
to be postmaster at NicksbGrg, Miss,
and L. j. Day TO be postmaster at
Monet, Mo. Hill is the negro repub-
lcan leader in Mississippi, who doesn't
even live in Vicksburg. He was com
missioned as postmaster by President
Harrison in April, 1891, during con-
gressional recess, and was nominated
soon after the commencement of the
late session.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Judge Keith of the Alexandria, Nir-
einia, State circuit, who is on his way
to Bcrrvyi!le. to hold term for Judge
Turner OF that circuit The Judge says
that in his county, Fauquier, where
some of the leaders of the third party
reside, he doesn't think the democrats
will be hurt by that party to the extent
Of fifty votes. He also says he thinks
the democrats are much stronger Ill his
State now than they were in 1883, by
reason Of the republican support Of the
tariff and the Force bill, though they
NAV lose few votes by the failure OF
the free silver bill, which bill some peo-
pie have been tau ht to believe would
be the remedy for all their evils.
When the pool sellers at Monte Car
10 were robbed by their clerk some time
ago, they gave it out that they had
only lost a few hundred dollars. The
fact is, however, that their loss amount
ed to $4,000. What became of the
money they have not yet been able to
find out.
Though the South is the great free
silver section of the country, of all the
five members of the international mon
etary congress, President Harrison only
selected one from that section, and that
one from State that did not belong to
the Confederate States. But Mr.. Har-
rison thanks God he was not born south
of the Potomac.
The Mexican charge d'affaires called
on the Secretary of State this morning
and showed him telegram from the
President ofMeXico saying tits rumored
at the Mexican capital that the Cara
revolutionists are recognizing along
the border in Webb county, Texas, and
asking that the attention of the L. 5.
Government be called to the report
The telegram was referred to the War
Department and instructions to inves-
tigate the matter were at once tele-
Uraphed General Wheaton ut San An
tonic.
A business man from Augusta, Georgia,
here to-day, says Mr.. Watson, the
Farmers Alliance Congressman from
that district, tells people he is going to
stump Mr. Speaker Crisp's district and
defeat him, but that in his opinion Mr..
Watson will have all and more than he
can do to secure his own reelection, as
Mr.. Black, his democratic opponent, is
not only an able but an exceedingly
popular man, and the democra s
of the district have made up their minds
to elect him. Mr.. Watson, he says,
will never be reelected.
Most of the members ofthe republican
Senate provided summer trips for them
selves at the Governments expense be-
fore the Senate adjourned, by securing
the appointment of committees to visit
cool resorts and conduct investigations
during the recess. The members of the
House could not do likewise as they
have to be home hustling and rustling
for denomination and reelection.
The Austrian Government having
complained of the alleged ill-treatment
of some of its subjects employed on the
Navassa islands by an American guano
company, orders were given to the U.
S. S. Kearsarge TO stop ut the islands on
her way to Honduras and investigate
the matter. The kearsarge left New
York yesterday.
A prominent Virginia democratic pol
itician here to-day says the greatest
danger the democrats of his State have
to fear is the possible appointment of
Gen. Malone as receiver for the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad, which, it
is understood, is being urged by some
influential republicans who are part
owners Of that road. If that appoint
ment be made, he says, the two wings
of the republican party in the State will
be united, and that with the patronage
of the place and with the loss of
strength the democrats will sustain from
the third party, the republicans would
have better chance TO carry the State
than they have had heretofore.
Congressman Meredith of Virginia
and Boatner of Louisiana left here to-
day for Leesburg. Va, where they and
Gen. Field, the third party's Vice Pres
idential candidate, will make political
speeches.
The third party has established q lit
erary bureau in this city, presided over
by Congressman Jerry Simpson of Kan
sls and Thomas Watson of Georgia,
who do most of the writing themselves,
thecharacter of which may be judged
by the latter's book, in which he says
drunken congressman reel through the
aisles of the House and attempt to dis
cuss grave questions, and by some of
the formers speeches, In the de-
livery of which he pulls up
his trousers to show that he does
wear socks, though he formerly did the
same to show that he did not wear them.
The first unfinished business that
will come up in the Senate at the next
session of Congress will be the bill pro-
hibiting options and futures" and
high up on the senate's calendar for
next session are the bills for transfer
ring the revenue cutter service from
the Treasury to the Navy Department,
and to provide q shelter for those who
may witness the Inauguration of the
next President.