Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-09-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Sept. D.

4 prominent ex-high government
official lust here to-day from New York
SAYS there would be no doubt of demo
cratic success in that State if Senator
Hill! will do what is right, and he is in
duccd to think he will, as il would be
suicidal for him ID do otherwise, though
he was, be says, in consultation with
Peck for three hours before the latter
made public his labor report to the cf-
feet that the Mckinley bill was condu-
Give To the interests Of labor. Governor
Flower, he says, wants 10 be Senator,
and Lt.-Gov. Shehan wants to be Gov
crnor. and both Of them will do ali that
can be done to keep the party united
and bring out full vote. The anti
snappers, he says, will run municipal!
ticket in New York city, not that they
expect it 10 wiz, but for the purpose
of bringing out the fall Tammany vote,
which, he says, will not come out unless
there is opposition. The gentlemen re-
ferred to j, a southern man, is a Cleve-
land man, and was one before the Chi
cago convention.
Mr.. 5. P. Bayly, jr., deputy health
officer of this city, says he made no as
sault upon the Posts reporter until the
latter had laid his hands on him, aud,
instead of taking them oil when warn
ed. frightened his grasp. Then. and not
till then, he says, he struck and kicked
him at the same time, and floored him.
He saws the reporter was personally OBJ
iectionable to him for the reason that
for some time he had been writing in
correct things about him, and that the
health Office, had requested the i'ost TO
send somebody else to the health office
for news. On the day of the affair,
Mr.. Bayly says, he told the reporter
when he called again, that what he had
published that morning was grossly in
correct, and that the reply he received
was that he, the reporter, would sooner
credit his informant than he, Bayly.
He then, he says, rose from his chair,
and the reporter caught him by the
arm. and that when he told him he had
better take his hand off him, instead OF
doing so, he give his arm twist, and
that then he felled him. he says he
wrote a card to the Post, but that It's
publication was rudely refused. lie
also says there were witnesses to the
affair and that he has their affidavits
to the truth of what is said above.
Mr.. Robert Beverly of Fauquier
county, Virginia. left here this morn
ing for Lexington, in his State, where
he will make third party speech. Mr..
Holmes Conrad, Of Winchester, will
make democratic speech there at the
Same time. Mr. Beverly told friend
here that the fight in his State was
really between Harrison and Weaver,
though Cleveland would get some votes
in the Valley,
A dispatch was received at the Treas
ury Department to-day from San Fran
cisco to the effect that vessels from Pan
anna were quarantined there under the
Presidents recent circular. Orders
were Immediately sent to release them
at once, as the circular was only against
European ports. But the circular
didn't say so, al the same. The only
cholera news received ut the State De
partment was a telegram from the Con-
sui at Antwerp saying that the sanitary
commission Of the Scheldt has issued
modified bills of health stating that no
epidemic exists in Antwerp or suburbs,
but that isolated cases Of cholera have
been noticed
Labor Day is clear and pleasant. There
was parade of the JourncymcD HorSe-shoers
Union and Brick Layers Union this morning.
Largo numbers Of the members of the various
| labor organizations and members Of their
families spent the day at the pleasure resorts
on the Potomac river. The chief observers
of the day were negroes, who thionged the
south side of Pennsylvania avenue from 18th
.treet down IS far rs Perry Carson's.