Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandris Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. "a, 1894.

CT co, New Orleans and carson VIII
purchase, when presented in sums OF
So and upward, mutilated and incur
rent United States silver coin at the
price fixed by the Director of III Mint
i@r silver contained in gold deposits"
This is understood to mean that incur
rent silver coin will be purchased by
the United States at the current rate al
lowed for the silver intermixed with
cold ore. when deposited at United
States miuts. The Mint also announces
that it is st. ady to redeem uncurrent
yold coin at the rate of S20.67 per fine
once. or SIS 60 per standard ounce.
Assistant Comptroller Mansus, who
has lust returned from a campaigning
trip to North Carolina, says the demo.
Gratis are in good condition there, and
that Senator Ransom will be reelected
without any trouble. He also says that
though the prominent democrats O that
State are as a general thing not admir-
ers of the President, the rank and file
of the party seem to be reverse.
Congressman Breckenridge, of Ken
lucky, is in the city today. He says
he is convinced that he is the choice Of
the majority of the democratic voters OF
bis district, but that he eve was a
kicker and never will be, and that he
will support the declared nominee and
urge ali his friends to do likewise. The
Colonel looks as we'll as ever, and will
now confpe his business to the practice
of his profession.
~. ,lor,on tho offOrpQv for tho
Mount Vernon Railroad, says he doesn't
expect DR.. Abbot, president of that
railroad, back from Pennsylvania be-
fore next week. AS soon as he comes,
the Colonel says, he supposes a deter
mination will be reached in respect of
the patent for the underground trolley
to be adopted, and that as soon as that
is settled, the work of extending
the road to this city will be COM
menced Immediately. AS the Love
patent, in use on one of the lines in this
CITY, seems to have stood a long test
satisfactorily, it is supposed it is the
one that will be adopted.
Is democrat of national prominence
here to-day says Mr.. Whitney would
not accept the democratic nomination
for Governor of New York for any con-
sideration. He also says that Senator
Gormsn will take 10 part whatever in
Maryland politics this year, except to
make one speech in his own county in
favor of the election of the democratic
ticket, no matter what names may be
upon it.
A tropical hurricane that is supposed
by the Weather Bureau experts to have
devastated the Island of Cuba, is now
attacking the southern coast of Florida
and flashing the waters of the Gulf, I'M
certain whether to pursue its north
western course or carom off the land
up the Atlantic in the track of coast
wise trading vessels. The bureau has
given timely warning and any mariner
who, during the next two or three
siays, heads his vessel towards the
south will do so at the risk of both ship
and cargo. This storm is a perfect
type Of those bred in the tropics during
the September and early October sea
son. Its velocity is unusual, but this
is expected to diminish before the wind
reaches the northern ATTITUDES. Last
| night the storm center was 200 miles
| southeast of Key West, the wind hav.
ing a velocity of 36 miles from the
northeast at Key West. 1t moved two
hundred miles west last night and
today at the rate of sixteen
miles an hour, its average forward
movement previously being IA miles an
hour. 1t will be two or three days be-
fore any effect of this atmospheric dis
,urbance will be felt along the northern
coast of the Atlantic. and the weather
Projectors will be unable to approx
mate an accurate forecast of its direc-
lion until after they have heard from
some of the Gulf observers tonight.
This morning the storm had reached a
point, approximately Is miles south
east of Havana, with the unusual wind
velocity of y miles an hour from the
north. Storm signals have been put
up as far north rs Jacksonville and
west to Port Eads. Information signals
were flying this morning up to Savan-
nah and Charleston and west to Calves
ton, and at noon to-day these were
changed to storm flags. 1t is believed
the velocity ofthe wind will decrease
as the storm w on, but at present
its rate is decidedly destructive.
Democratic headquarters here to-day
are very quiet. No Virginiaps were
there and no intelligence there from
that State. Such letters as were re-
ceived from there were simply requests
for campaign documents. Senator Nc
| Pherson of New Jersey was the only
prominent caller there this morning,
and he knew nothing more than what
is contained in the newspapers.
One of the Oldest and most reliable
newspaper correspondents in this city,
who has just returned from a tour
through the States of New York and
Pennsylvania says that unless the South
shall elect 8 practically solid democratic
delegation to Congress, the next House
will surely be republican, as the demo-
Gratis of the North, if they be like those
of the two States referred to, seem to
have given up the contest already, in
consequence, chiefly, of their disSatis-
faction with the administration.
A prominent Virginia democrat here
to-uay says ne Ine muSwumPS
and cuckoos of his State will not only
swallow the Surrender" dose, but
smack their lips over it, as they have
over all the many other noxious ones
the administration has forced down
their thu cats.
The cavalry post at Fort Myer, on
the Virginia shore directly across the
Potomac from Washington, will become
the headquarters of the 9Th cavalry,
with troops A, E, G, and q of that reg
INFANT for tho nresant. and the eynect.