Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, August %.

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CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, August %.
A letter received here to-day from
one of the most intelligent and weli.in-
formed democrats in North Carolina
contains the following: "Politics are
badly mixed here. We are working
hard, but the greatest difficulty is the
third party men will not come out to-
hear our speakers. We are making a
big effort to save North Carolina. l
still think Cleveland will pull through.
The republicans count on gaining i've
members in this State, but don't think
they can possibly gain more than two"
Private intelligence here to-day from
Maine is to the effect that Mr.. Blaine's
health continues bad, and that it is very
doubtful whether he will attempt TO
make single speech during the pres
ent campaign. co..
The truth of the report that the Chi
neso government has authorized test
TO be made of the latest anti-Chinese
law in the courts of this country, is de-
MED ut the Chinese legation here. SO
far as the Chinese government Is con-
cerned. there will be no interference
with the law which provides that after
the lst proximo every Chinaman In TINS
country must have three different pho
torraphs of himself taken and must be
registered by U. S. officer and pay
fee of 81 therefor. What the Chinese
government may do hereafter in the
way of getting even" remains to be
seen. The Chinese are o long-suf1ering
people, and they always take their time.
Car travel on Pennsylvania avenue
and 7th street, here, was entirely sus-
pended Yesterday evening from three
O'clock until after dark, by reason OF
the handling of brake by an unskillful
brakeman on one Of the avenue cable
cars. This morning also there was an
other stoppage of the cable cars on the
avenue line from the same cause. The
car company employs the most skillful
brakemen it can find, but some of them
will occasionally get ratified.
The United States Consul at Ham
burg cabled to the State Department
this morning as follows: Hamburg
authorities admit to-day that Asiatio
cholera has been in Hamburg since
August is. All vessels and their bag
gage leaving Hamburg after that date
ought 10 be disinfected in New York.
Up to the 23d of August there were 291
cases and rs deaths. The Hamburg
steamship line is complying with the
instructions of the Treasury circular of
July 9Th.
The Vice Consul General at Teheran
cables that the estimated deaths in
Persia from the disease are $4,000;
five thousand in Mesched, twelve thou
sand in Tabriz, eight thusand i'll Tehe-
ran and ten thousand in other places.
Among the visitors here to-day is DIR.
Parsons, the leader of the anti-Mahone
republicans in Virginia. Being asked
if the report that he had said the re-
publicans have majority of the voters
in Virginia was true? hereplied that it
was, and that all of them would vote
for Harrison next November, as on
national issues they were not divided.
When asked if the republicans in his
State would help the third party, in
view of their professed opposition to
third party doctrines, he said they
would, for the reason that the third
party are the enemies of their, the re-
publicans, enemies-the democrats.
A republican iron manufacturer from
the North here to-day says the Henry
CLAY Club is in prosperous condition,
and is increasing its membership in the
North and is extending itself in the
iron districts of the South. This club
is composed chiefly ofpersons interested
in the iron business, and ono of its OBJ
iects is to supply ways and means for
promoting the election of republicans to
Office and thereby the continuance of
the high tariff tax on iron.
Mr.. Lawrence Gardner. who is in
charge of democratic headquarters
here, has just returned from visit to
the national democratic headquarters
in New York. He says operations have
not fully commenced at the national
headquarters yet, and will not for a
week or two, but that the condition of
the party in New York city was never
better than it is now. The democratic
anti-Tammany men there, he says,
Will 90 nOUnluS GOWaiuo Illuminating
local officers until the registration is
closed, and that if the Tammany men
shall by that time have completed their
ticket and nominated unobjectionable
candidates, the anti-Tammany men
will adopt it as their own. The condl-
ton of the party in the other parts Of
the State, Mr.. Gardner says, is not so
favorable, but that there is strong hope
it will improve between now and
election day.
There are very few negroes employed
at the White House now in comparison
with the number there during the last
administration, but those that are there
are very much cast down to-day. The
coon has always been mascot in the
Harrison family, and the one at the
White House disappeared a day or two
ago, and has not yet been found. The
negroes referred to regard Its loss as
prognostic of the Presidents defeat,
and of the consequent loss of their own
places.
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