Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.J
WASHINGTON, August 81.

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Correspondence OF the Alexandria dazette.J
WASHINGTON, August 81.
Among the visitors here to-day Is
General Wade Hampton. The General
IS lust from Charlottesville, Virginia,
where he has been summering. He is
much gratifed at the gains made oy
the straigbtout democrats in his state
Yesterday, but, unlike most other poll
iicjans. is candid enough to confess
that he knows no more about the cleo
ton than what he has read in the news
congressman Meredith and State
Senator Moore of Virginia, are here to-
d.v. on their way to King George Z. H.,
il their State, where they will speak
I morrow They will stop At F'reder-
i,sbuGg tonight and address a meet
,g to be held there. MIR: Meredith
s.ys be has been pretty we'll over ms
the Sih congressional, district OF his
State. aud that so far as he can learn
the third party peoplewill cut little or no
figure iii The congressional election there
unless they be helped by the republi-
cans. He says there are none OF them
IN Fairfax, Loudoun, Culpeper or Stat
ford counties, and only IA few N some
of the other counties, the most OF them
being in Fauquier. He says he doesn't
think he will help to get any more ali-
diences for Mr. Turner, his third party
on,onent. for the reason that he is tired
of exhibiting the Stiffness of that gen
tleman. for whom he has the klndest
feeling, but which he is forced to dc
when he has discussions with him.
The following changes in the 4th
class postotficcs OF Virginia were made
to-day: Churchland, Norfolk county, /.
E. Trotman, appointed postmaster, wee
w. I. Mars, resigned; Mint Spring,
Augusta county. j. Towberman, vice
{. r. Swink, resigned; Messy Creek,
Augusta county, w. a. Harrcll, vice j.
Swecker, dead; Patti, Franklin county,
w. II. Machenheimer, vice &. I.
Mitchell, resigned.
The Newport's News ship building
company has put in Il bid for the con
struction of one of the new ships pro-
vided for at the last session Of Congress.
A gentleman from Manassas here to-
lav SAYS that Mr.. James Stoevcr, of
that place, has recently bought tract
of six thousand acres Of land in Bedford
county, Virginia, for $4,000, and that
the land is heavily timbcred.
State Senator Moore: of the AleNan-
dria. Virginia, district, here to-day, says
that in his opinion the third party, il it
ever had any strength in that district,
has lost it, and that if the republicans
do not nominate candidate for Con-
gress in his district he believes Mere
dith's majority will be five or six thou
sand. Mr.. Moore says he believes the
most noticeable effect Of the third party
in his State will be to increase the demo-
cratic vote, by stimulating the democrats
in that State who have lost interest in
politics to come out and defend the old
party against the attack that is being
made upon it from the inside.
There was no official information to
be had at the State or Treasury Depart
ments up to noon to-day respecting the
seizure of the three British and one
American sealing schooners off Copper
Islands by the Russian war-ship Ia
braka, as reported in dispatch from
Victoria, B. G.
There is some talk here about post
poning the Chicago fair unless there be
an abatement Of the cholera, as foreign
ers will be in no condition to come here
if their homes be infected with that
scourge, and Americans will be in nc
condition to receive them if the disease
shall prevail here.
Mr.. Ives, prominent member OF the
New York State Senate, is in the city
to-day. He says the democratic anxiety
about New York is without the slight
est reason, and that he is sure Mr.
Cleveland will carry the State by sat.
isfactory majority.
News here from Campbell and Bed.
ford counties, Virginia, continues tc
the effect that the third party is quite
strong in both those counties, and also
in the city of Lynchburg, and that its
meetings in that city are more numer.
ously attended than those of the demo
Gratis 1t is also learned that the third
party speakers in the Lynchburg dis
trict are more violent than in any other
part of the State, and that they declare
on the stump that if they don't succeed
with ballots this year, they will try bull
lets at the next election.