Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Aexandris Gasette.l
WASHINGTON. Oct. %, 1894.

SplcuOuS ueTc TtCcutiy III CouASNe'oH
with an alleged forged deed of trust.
Mr.. McC. u ], the republican nominee
for Congress in the Alexandria district,
left here this morning for Culpeper, but
will be in Alexandria tomorrow. 10
friends who talked with him on the
subject he said he was much better sat.
isfed with his prospects now than be
was when he commenced his cam
paign.
Pecatone, a once famous estate in
Westmoreland county, Va, on the Po-
tomac, has been sold by real estate
agent here to Mr.. Lewis, of Loudoun
county, in that State.
Neither Senator Faulkner nor Mr..
Gardner was at democratic headquar-
tiers here this morning, but General
Walker, who was in charge there, said
all the letters and kilograms received
there to-day were favorable.
Private intelligence received here to-
day is to the effect that ex-U. S. Sen
ator and exit. Governor Lewis, of Vir-
GINA, is dying of cancer at his home in
Rockingham county.
The q. S. Supreme Court has re-
versed the decision of the Circuit Court
for the southern district of New York,
discharging John c. Emo, formerly pres
ident of the Second National Bank OF
New York city, from the custody of the
sheriff of New York county.
The Virginia democratic association
of this city supplied forty-eight voters
in their State with transportation tickets
last Saturday. They don't expect to
receive as many applications for suci;
transportation at this, as at previous
elections.
Democrats from the lower part Of the
5th Maryland district, the district OPP
posite Alexandria, here to-day, say
there is nothing that will substantiate
the report of democratic detection in
that part of the district, but that, on
the contrary, every democrat. there will
be at the polls tomorrow week and
vote the democratic Congressional tick
ct, the two names on which are those
of friends of Senator German. The
election there this fall will be for full
and for an unexpired term.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices of Virginia were made
today: Mount Herman, Rockingham
county, w. II. Marshall appointed
postmaster, vice ]. M. Lain, removed;
Plantersville, Lunenburg county, Mrs.
Pattie ]. Fowkes, vice J. r. Townsend,
resigned.
Among the visitors here to-day
uas Major Love of Fsirfay coun.
ty, Va. The Major says that Will,
there is no noticeable enthus-
iasm among the democrats Of his
county, he thinks they will all vote
their party's ticket at the coming cleo
ton, and that the ticket will receive a
majority of from two hundred and
| fifty to three hundred. He hasn't seen
any special interest taken in the re-
suit of the election by the republicans
of his county.
At republican headquarters here to
day it it said that eight or nine republi
can congressman will be elected in the
Southern States. Republicans from
those States. however, now here, don'l
count on that many, but say that had
their party nominated straight r3pub
licans in all the districts, and made nc
alliance with the populists, they would
have elected more than that number
They say the alliance referred to, where
the nominee is republican, has driven
dem 1cruti; populists away from it, and
where the nominee is democratic
populist it has had like effect upon
t! republicans.
IL is moot question among Virginia
democrats here whether the new cleo
TO law in their State will help or hurt
their party at next weeks election, in
asmuch as they say there. are many
white voters in every county of their
State who can neither read nor write
and that many of them will not like lc
expose that inability by asking the con
stable in the election booth to point GU,
to them the names on the ticket they
may desire to scratch.
Secretary Carlisle announced this
morning that he would not make auy
speeches in New York during the pend
ing political campaign. This announce
ment is made presumably after Secre
tary Carlisle had conferred with the
President, as on Saturday the statement
was made that Mr.. Carlisle would con.
fer with the President before he took
any action in the matter.
Maj. Robt. Hunter has returned from
a campaigning tour in the Norfolk,
Virginia, district. He says the demo
Gratis of that district confidently expect
TO re-elect Congressman Tyler, and that
one of their grounds for doing so is an
anticipated falling off in the negro vote
there.
1t is the current rumor at the govern
ment departments here to-day that
none of the officials thereof who desire
to bask in the Presidents favor will
turn his hand in favor of the election OF
the democratic ticket in New York,
and that a large republican majority
there would be rolled as sweet morsel
under the tongues at the White House.
The President to-day approved the
findings of the court martial in the case
of Captain William S. Johnson, retired,
and an order will be issued at the War
Department to-day dismissing him from
the service for refusing to settle his in.
debtness with Denver, COL, business
firm.
General Laws of Virginia, compila-
ton of laws of a general and permanent
nature, passed since the adoption of the
Code of 1887, including tax and license
laws, by Jno. Garland Pollard of the
Richmond Bar, has been received from
the publishers, the ]. L. Hill printing
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