Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexsndris Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 81, 1894.

ceeded in its plan TO nave Inoian cnnu-
rem attend the public schools in the To-
C .lities where they reside. This brings
them in direct association with the
white children in the public schools.
There are now about 700 Indian child
ren in the public schools, and at the
Indian Bureau it is said that the num-
Der will be more than one thousand by
the 1st of January. The Indians VINO
attend these schools do not generally
live on reservations.
Mr.. Specht of Gunston, Virginia, who
is here to-day, says that DIR. Howard,
the T~heosophist, who recently robbed
him of FIVE or six thousand dollars is at
a watering place in Canada, but is
under police surveillance, and will, he
thinks, soon be in Sing Sing, as he is
under Indictment in New York for de-
frauding life insurance companies and
for numbering his own child. MIR.
Specht says that before Howard ex-
hibited his true c%olors, he spent $500
in trying to help him.
The chief topic of conversation here
to-day is the nomination of Senator
Hill for Governor of New York. Re-
public ms and democrats alike agree
that it is the strongest nomination that
could have been made. The democrats
are delighted with it,and so raised have
been their hopes that though yesterday
they conceded the election of Nor
ton, to-day they are betting on Hill.
| The nomination seems not OILY have
| cheered the democrats of New York
and this city, but intelligence received
here is to the effect that it has revived
and stimulated those of the whole
country, as it shows that their party in
the Empire State has abandoned its
| timorous leaders, who have proved in
efficient and weakened the discipline
and almost destroyed the organization
OF their party, and gone back to its old
time chief, who in peril as in safety a
always be relied upon. They say the
nomination will revive the party en-
thusiasm that has been smothered by
the present administration, and that
the democratic vote of New York next
November will be the largest ever poll
ed, and that if the ticket be elected
nothing can prevent Senator Hill from
being the next President, and that then
the long deferred hopes of the real
democrats of the country will at last be
realized.
Mr.. McCaull, the republican candi.
date for Congress in the Sth Virginia
district, was here to-day. He says he
has been treated very fairly in his discus
| sions with both his democratic and pop
| ulist opponents, and that he thinks his
prospects are very favorable. He says
there are more populists in the district
than some people suppose. He intends,
he SAYS, to continue to meet his oppo-
nents at every place to which they may
go and to address the same audiences
they do.
Atdemocratic headquarters here to-
day every thing is lively and all the
people about there are in eXubriant spir-
its over the proceedings of the demo-
cratic convention of New York yester-
day. No news was there from Virgin
ia, the only letter received from that
State being n from Major Otey, the
democratic congressional candidate in
the Lynchburg district, asking for cam
puign literature. They seem to be con
| fident there that all the democratic con-
gressional candidates in Virginia will
be elected.
The tropical hurricane announced in
| the weather bureau bulletin of Wednes-
day as southeast of Jacksonville, has
moved slowly north-northeast to the
north of Charleston, which station was
within the nearly calm centre at S q. m.
to. day with q pressure of $3.50 and a
| wind Of II miles south. Later reports
show that the pressure has risen six
hundredths in three hours at Charles
ton and fallen the same amount at Nor
folk, which indicates a very slow move
ment to the north-northeast. The
present indications are that the storm
will continue to move slowly until mid
night, probably diminishing in intensi-
ty. Dangerous gales will be expe-
enced on the south aud middle Atlantic
and south New England coasts, and
moderately high winds in the interior
of the Atlantic Coast States.
Public Printer Benedict has assured
! Congressman Meredith that he intends
to remove every republican from the
| Sth Virginia district now employed in
the government printing office, and to
appoint democrats from that district in
their places.
The democrats of the District of Co.
lumbia understand that a Mr.. Thomas
of Michigan, now holding q place in
the Postofice Department, will proba-
bly, be appointed postmaster at this
city. They say they have become &C.
customed to such treatment and are
not surprised.
At republican headquarters the feel
ing seems to be a little depressed and
it is intimated there that there will be
use for all the money they car get hold
of to secure the vote of New York, as if
that State be lost at the coming cleo.
ton there will be little or no use fol
republican campaign committees two
years hence. This is a sad blow to re-
publican congressional candidates, not
only in Virginia, but throughout the
entire South. So far as Virginia is con-
cerned, the control of the party has
been turned over completely and en-
tirely to the congressional committees
thereof, and they will have to provide
campaign funds.
At populist headquarters things are
very quiet indeed the place presents
a deserted appearance. Populist hopes
are now confined almost entirely to the
far West. The defeat of the party in
Alabama has been followed by a gen.
eral weakening in all the other South
ern States, so that little or nothing is
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