Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-15
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Correspondence Of the NoxAndris Gazette

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WASHINGTON, Sept. Is, 1894.
T. W. Patton, mayor of Ashville, n.
c., with Messrs. G. s. Powell, NJ. L.
Reid, J. M. DuBedose, c. A. Nichols,
Robert Cleyton and D. A. Blackford,
composing committee sent North on
a tour of inspection with the object OF
obtaining minimum figures for good
roads, accompanied by General LeRoy
Stone, of the Agricultural Department,
in charge of the roads division, called
on Mr.. Hume, supervisor of Alexandra
county, Yesterday, and went over the
road from the W. s. o. Junction to Co.
lumbia pike. The visitors expressed
themselves as much pleased with the
manner in which the road was built,
and its low figures and wearing quail
ties. After the inspection they stopped
at Warwick, Mr.. Hume's home, where
the inner man was refreshed and an op-
portunity offered from the hill to view
Alexandria and her beautiful suburbs.
Returning to Washington on the five
o'clock train, they left this morning
for New Jersey.
Secretary Carlisle to-day called for
the resignation of Jason E. Baker of
Indiana, chief of division in the Treas
urer's Office, and D. w. Herriott, assist
ant teller in the cash room of the Treas
ury. He also dismissed thirty. clerks
in the classified service of the Treasury,
the salaries of whose places range from
S72O to $500 per annum. A number
of women are among the higher priced
clerks discharged. These dismissals
are the first batch of l60 who will be
discharged between now and October
lst next. Changes to the number Of
500 in the matter OF reductions, promo
tons, and discharges will be made.
Mr. II. C. Jones, real estate agent
in this city, has just sold one fourth OF
the remainder of subdivision OF -
acres of the new town of Nauck, three
and a half miles from Alexandria, on
the Leesburg Railroad, after one hum
dred lots had been disposed of, for
$500. The whole subdivision only
cost 81 200 few years ago. This shows
how the price of real estate in Alexan'
dlia county has advanced recently.
Republicans from Richmond here to.
day say now that Judge Waddill
has declined the republican con-
gressional nomination for that district,
thew don't know who will be nomi-
mated, as Judge L. L. Lewis will not
accept the nomination except it be ten
dered him unanimously and he be re-
quested to accept it for the sake of the
party. They say the nomination may
90 to Mr.. Edgar Allen, who intimates
that he is much stronger with his party
than Judge Waddill. They say that
Mr.. Thorp, the republican candidate in
the adjoining, Petersburg, district, DE-
lieves that General Malone will help
him, but that the impression is that il
Mr.. McKenney of Petersburg be the
democratic nominee he will receive no
little help in a quiet way from the
Generals party friends in his own
city. They also say that Langston
who has declared his intention of going
to the district and making speeches for
Mr.. Thorp, is so Objectionable there
that he will do him more harm than
good.
The receipts from customs for the
current month, estimated from those to
date, will be thirty-odd million, which
will be greatly in excess of those of the
preceding months under the Mckinley
bill. As a revenue measure, the Cor
man bill is not such q failure as its OPP
ponents predicted it would be.
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the
democratic congressional campaigr
committee, has returned and vas al
the rooms of that committee to-day
There was no news from Virginia there
the only letters received from thai
State this morning being such as con
tanned acquisitions for campaign docu
m .nts.
All of the old officers of the Virgins
Democratic Association, of this city
were reelected last night, except the
corresponding secretary and three
members of the executive committee
These places were filed by the electio,
of DR.. S. L. Harmon, w. II. Saunders
r. F. l.. Yellott and ]. S. Redman. al
the officers of the association, without
exception, are men in business on theil
own account, and are therefore no
running the association for what they
can make out of it politically. They
are simon pure democrats and have
higher motive than adhering to tha
faith for revenue only" as so many
so-called democrats have proved them
selves to be. All but two of the officer!
are from the Sth district.
Mr.. McCaull, the republican candi
date for Congress in the Alexandra
district, is here to-day. He says there
are more populists in that district thar
the democrats suppose, and that the
lack of interest among the democrat;
there is conceded even by their own poll
ticians. Of his own prospects, he say;
the campaign is too young yet for hin
to take satisfactory view, but that ht
is by no means discouraged. He, hi;
democratic opponent, Mr.. Meredith
and the populist nominee, Mr.. Mason
will all speak at Culpeper on Monday.
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