Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, August II.

The Hotel Stratford, formerly the
Langham, at the corner of 18th and II
streets, caught fire this morning and
was damaged to the estimated amount
of S15 900. exclusive of stock, which
originally cost $4,000. The hotel was
not occupied by any one save the old
negro Waterman, and was to have been
sold by auction Monday. The watch
man was awak, ned about 4 o'clock this
morning by noises on the third floor,
and being afraid to venture up stairs
ran outside. Another Waterman in
stable next to the hotel saw a man,
thought to be negro, rush out OF the
building Just afterwards. A few mill
utes later fire was discovered on the
upper floors. John f. Cooke, owner OF
the building, had assigned to John b.
Larner The fire was confined to the
three upper floors.
Representative Hurd Of Missouri,
who is still here, says the third party
wont amount to much in his State, and
that the Congressional delegation from
that State, with one exception, Will be
democratic. The exception will be in
the district made republican intention
ally, in order that all the others might
be democratic in The Southern States,
in which there is 50 much talk about
the third party, he says, disappointed
applicants for Office have formed such
party in their respective counties, but
iha; a party so organized cannot hold
together for any length Of time.
The Treasury Department is inform
ed to-day that much Jamaica rum is
smuggled into Florida by fishing
smacEs anchored near Anclote Keys,
WHO trade it for sponge.
The Secretary of the Navy to-day
issued invitations in the name of the
President to all the naval powers of the
world 70 participate i'll the Naval Re
view TO take place in New York harbor
next April.
Among the arrivals here to-day is
Mr.. John Popham, U. S. commercial
agent at Panama. He has come to at
tend meeting Of the Baltimore COM
pany which has bought the bessemer
iron mine on the Isthmus in which he is
interested. He will return on the Goth
inst. and be accompanied by his father,
the Colonel. He says Mr.. Ashby of
| Virginia. q. S. Consul at Colon, has had
fight with the climate there and put
it to fight.
Consul McCreary to Valparaiso,
against whom charges of crookedness
have been preferred, called at the State
Department to-day i'll reference to those
charges.
II. E. Burns was to-day appointed
postmaster at huntsville, Bath county,
Va, vice j. w. Carpenter, resigned.
Senator Hunton who has been sick
for some days, was we'll enough to be in
his office here yesterday.
A gentleman familiar with the affairs
of the r.. & d. Railroad, here to-day,
SAYS he is convinced that there need be
no fear of the appointment Of General
Malone to the receivership of that road
The present receivers, Messrs. Huide-
koper and Foster, he says, have got the
affairs of the road in such good order
and have managed ii so advantageous
ly for all the interested parties, having
paid off at least seven hundred thousand
dollars of Indebtedness since the gener-
al office was moved back to this city,
that no Judge would think Of removing
them merely for the purpose ofappoint-
ing somebody else. The report of the
present receivers will be presented at Il
meeting of the railroad company to be
held in Richmond next Tuesday.
Senator Ransom of North Carolina
passed through here last night on his
way to New York to attend meeting
of the national democratic committee
of which he is a member. He says the
strength of the third party in his State
is nothing like as great as its members
and the republicans would have it APP
pear, and that he feels more sanguine
of Mr. Cleveland's election now than
he did in 1854
Mr.. Hughes, ex-chairman ofthe State
republican committee of Tennessee,
now holding office here, has just re-
turned from visit to his State. He
says if Governor Buchanan shall run as
an independent candidate for Governor
there, the republican candidate will
surely be elected, for the reason that
the bulldozers and fraudulent counters,
who have heretofore defeated the re-
publicans there, now belong to the third
party, and in the fight between
them and the regular democrats, the
republicans will get their dues. He
also says that between Harrison and
Cleveland the third party men will vote
for the former, so as to keep the cleo
ton out of the U. S. House of Repre-
sentatives.
Work on the Great Falls electric
railroad will be commenced during the
next thirty days.
Judge Keith, who passed through
here on his way to his home in War
renton last night, says he doesn't think
the democrats of his State are in any
danger. They are, he says, as much
interested in the coming election as
they ever have been in any previous
one, and that at a meeting in his town
during the recent hot weather. large
crowd of them listened attentively for
three hours to two democratic speak
ers. He says he hears that the demo-
Gratis of the Eastern Shore of Virginia
were never before in better shape than
1 they now are.
Letters received from the Virginia
democratic congressman at democratic
headquarters to-day report that there
are some third party men in each of
their districts, but not enough to cause
serious trouble. They also say that the
most efficient campaign m utter that can
! no cont to their districts Is such rs re-