Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondents Of the Alexandris Gazette. J
WASHINGTON, Sept. Z, 1894.


Correspondence Of the Alexandris Gazette.]
WASHINGTON. Sept. Z, 1894.
Communications received from con-
suiar officers giving consolidated state
,Lents OF the exports of various coun-
Tries to the United States show that
during the quarter ended June 80, 1894,
the exports of every country decreased
to an extraordinary degree as compared
with the exports during the correspond
ing period of 1893. Exports from the
United Kingdom alone fell Oft more
than SIC. 200, 600, and this during three
months only. :.
Among the visitors here to-day is
ex.Congressman Williams of North
Carolina. He says the crops in his State
were never better than they are this
year. and that the price of cotton IS
comparatively good. These conditions,
he saws, have greatly improved the
feelings of the democrats there, ana
have had a reverse effect upon the
hopes of the populists.
ThreeVirginia Congressman were here
to .day-Messrs. Meredith, Turner and
Jones-the two latter on their way to
Richmond to attend q meeting OF the
State democratic committee to be held
there tonight. Mr.. Jones will speak
at Bowling Green next Monday, where
his republican opponent, MIR. Melon
aid, will also speak on the same day.
Mr.. Jones spoke at Spotsylvanla
Courthouse last Monday, and says
h. is we'll satisfied with the condl-
ton of the democrats in that county.
He and Mr.. Lloyd Smith, chairman OF
the democratic committee OF his dis
trict. went to see Senator Faulkner,
chairman of the democratic congress
sional campaign committee, this morn
ing. but he is out of the city and wont
return for ten days. Mr.. Turner at
tended a reunion of ex-Confederates in
Rappahannock county yesterday. He
will speak there next Monday and at
Harrisonburg on the. 18th inst. de
saws the democrats are in good shape
in his district. Mr.. Meredith called at
the Treasury Department in behalf OF
some of his many constituents VINO
want government positions, but Score
tary Carlisle was invisible. Mr.. Mere
dith will speak at Louisa c. 81. next
Monday, on which day Mr.. McCaull,
his republican competitor, will also
speak there. Mr.. Meredith expects to
be re elected by the usual democratic
majority in the district. He says MIR.
McCaull can hardly be very popular
with the negroes, as he was opposed to
the disestablishment of the whipping
post.
Among the campaign documents now
being sent out from the democratic
Headquarters here are neat cards, to
which are attached samples of wooler
goods, with price of same under the
Mckinley and German bills, the differ
ence being in favor of the latter by frou
thirty to fifty per cent; also Mr.. Wana
makers newspaper advertisement, II
which the great difference in the price
of the same goods, bought before ant
after the passage of the German bill
can be seen at glance.
Senator Blackburn, who is now here
saws he intends as soon as Congress re
assemblies to try to make good hi
pledge, founded upon the promise o
certain democratic Senators, that if th'
House would pass the German bill
They would strive to pass the Hous'
bills for free sugar, coal and iron, bu
which pledge was unfulflled by reason
of the passage of the Murphy resolution
prohibiting any more tariff legislation
The President sent quite number O
appointments here this morning from
Buzzard's Bay, most of them to posi-
lions in the far Northwest, and none o
any interest to Virginia people.
Colonel Anderson, attorney for tn
Mt. Vernon Railroad, says DIR. Abbot
president of that road, will return frou
the North on the 20;h inst, and tina
he, Anderson, supposes the work o
constructing the road between Alexan
dria and this city will commence short
" thereafter. The cost of the roat
will be greatly increased by the provi
sion in the charter requiring the trolly
to be underground within the limits o
this city.
General Raleigh Colston, a gallan
ex-confedderate, now old, impoverish
ed and paralyzed, who, though he cal
work with his hands as well as ever
was removed from Office by Secretar.
Lamont because he had to do his WORT
at his boarding house, will be sent t
the Confederate Home at Richmond
next week.
A letter received here from Repre-
sentative Tucker, of the 10th Virgin;
district, says: 81 have hot fight, blu
hope to win."