Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gszette.]
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2S, 1894.


Ex.Congressman Brady of Virginia,
nov practiciug law here, says the nom
iuation of Mr.. Borland of Norfolk for
Congress by the republicans of that
district is g very strong one, as he is the
favorite of all the republicans in that
district, and that he thinks he will be
elected. as there is a better chance OF a
fair election there now than before.
Postmaster Neale of Danville, Va,
was at democratic headquarters to day.
He saws Mr.. Swanson has a big fight on
hand in his district, but that he
thinks he will win without any great
deal of trouble. A letter from Mr.
Ellyson, chairman of the Virginia state
democratic committee, was received al
headquarters to-day, making a requlsl-
ton for campaign literature, and men
tioni,g incidentally that democratic
prospects in all the districts OF the
State are favorable.
Assistant Postmaster General Max
we'll says it is ''queer" that while Inc
newspapers are making such a fuss
about the change of the name of the
p~ostofice at Appomattox Court House
to Surrender, not q word of complaint
has reached the department from any
of the people served with mail at that
office.
The steamer Arrowsmith, which has
had q new shaft put in her at Alexand-
ria, has arrived. here and will resume
her regular trips on the lower Potomac
line tomorrow evening.
Among the visitors here to-day was
State Senator Fairfax. of the Loudoun,
Virginia, district. Mr.. Fairfax was in
good spirits as he has just won a forty
thousand dollar contractors suit against
the Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company.
Another Virginia visitor here was
Col. Cab. Maddux, of Fauquier county.
The Colonel says "Leish Meredith will
get more votes in his district than Pat
McCaull and Steenie Mason put to-
gether."
Not only the District democrats, but
those from all over the country now
here, agree that the Hill nomination in
New York was the best that could pos
sibly have been made and that 1t will
help the democrats in all other:parts OF
the country by the fact that they know
that a mau who, is o democrat, is lead
ing the party in the Empire State. They
believe, too, that he will be elected, and
that all the democrats of the State viii
make it their business to work for him
in order to down the anti-snappers who
oro already barking at him.
The suit in which Senator Stewart
was named as correspondent was prac-
tically abandoned, so far as the Senator
is concerned, when his counsel filed their
answer, which showed that Mrs. Glass
cock had bestowed her favors promls-
cuoualy before she came here.
There are people here who say they
hope the government will not ask for
severe punishment in the case of Capt.
Howgate, as he was induced to rob the
Treasury of more than a quarter Of a
million dollars and to desert his wife
aud daughter, when he was quite an old
man, by the smiles of a siren who
abandoned him when his money was
gone. Alexandrians will remem.
Der the Captain as the jolly owner of
the Yacht Gulnare, which he had re-
paired at the ship yard in thier city for
an Arctic expedition, and which was
subsequently engaged in the West In
dia fruit trade.