Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, August n.

CORRESPONDENTS VI Tile AlCAAAoAhS 0~NSSSS'J
WASHINGTON, August 81.
Chairman Gordon of the State demo
cratic committee of Virginia was among
the callers at democratic headquarters
here to-day. Subsequently he left Tor
Charlottesville, where the headquar-
tiers of his committee have been 10,
Gated. He says that while the general
condition of democratic affairs in MS
State is favorable, there are some coun-
ties in which it might be better, Du5
that if the proper steps be taken, anu tba
he thinks they will be, even IN tne
worst of them things will be all rlgnV
by election day.
we'll known Georgia newspaper
correspondent, here to-day, says that
until recently he supposed that some OF
the districts in his State would elect
third party congressman next NoVem-
her but that now he is confident none
Of them will, and that even the famous
Watson will be left at home. be says
the republicans will make no light
there but will unite with the few disap-
rointed democrats who have joined the
.hjrd party, but that the course being
pursued by the leaders of the latter is
rapidly drawing all such democrats
back to their old fold. He says that
one day this week a negro man at
tempted to walk into the dining room
of the tavern at Sparta at which
Watson was q guest, but being stopped
by the lady proprietor, who was sup
porter of Watson, he told her that Mr..
Watson had told him black man was
as good as white one and that race
distinctions had been abolished. He
was ordered out of the house at once,
and observing that the eyes OF
some white men were set upon
him. he stood not upon the order of
his going. and Mr. Watson being him
self informed soon after that his
room was better than his company also
left. That tavern has changed its poll
tics, and is now supporting Mr. Black,
Mr.. Watson's democratic opponent.
The third party, in order to get the
negro vote, has adopted all the aban-
doned republican methods-with the
necessary result.
Among the strangers in the city to-
day is State Senator Washington of
Westmoreland county, Virginia. lie
saws he thinks Congressman Jones OF
his district will be reelected without
much difficulty, and that so far as he
knows the third party will not receive
three democratic votes in his county.
He SAYS he hears there are some demo
cratic third party men in King George
county, which adjoins his own, and
which is in Mr.. Mercdith's district, but
that he knows nearly every man III
that county, and he doesn't believe that
ten democrats among them will vote
any other than the democratic ticket.
Congressman Meredith Of the Alex
andria district was here last night, but
left this morning for Grange Camp, in
Fairfax county. where, if there should
be any political speaking, he expected
to take hand. He said the democra-
CIV of his district is in good condition,
and he is confident of his reelection by
the usual democratic majority there.
People here to-day who attended the
recent agriculture fair at Leesburg, Vlr'
einia, say the law against pool selling
and book making married that fail
greatly, as it had previously done with
the fair at Cape Charles City, in the
same State. Numbers of people went
to both, it is said, to bet on the races
but left as soon as they found that the
book-mai1ers and booksellers either
could not operate at all or else had tc
do so on the sly. They also say thai
in their talks with the people of Lou
doun county they met at the fair they
learned that few or none of the demo
cratic members of the farmers alliance
in that county have been led away from
their old, by the new third party, anc
that the latter, if it ever had any
strength, has lost it, and has none now
The company now building an cleo
trio railroad from here to the Great
Falls of the Potomac via Rock creek
park has determined to lay its wire:
underneath the ground instead of over
head as will be the case with the road
from Alexandria to Dit. Vernon.
Passed Assistant Surgeon f. II. Marstellel
has been detached from the Constellation ant
ordered to the Naval Academy.
| The only information in regard to choicrs
received at the State Department up to moor
to-day was contained in a dispatch from Con
sui Johnson, at Hamburg, who cabled thai
there were 295 new cases and 100 death:
from the disease in that city yesterday.
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