Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Ale1andris Gazette
WASHINGTON. Sept. II, 1894.


Among the visitors here to-day Is
Capt. Ham. Shepperd, internal revenue
c .llector for the upper district OF VIZ
einis. He says that there is some apa-
by among the democrats OF his otsGe'
but not as much as there was IN 1880,
aud that he thinks it is not OF suff!clent
ettent to endanger the election OF any,
on , of the ten democratic congressional
nominees.
Il ia said here that within three weeks
| one hundred and fifteen lots have been
sold at Riverside Park, on the Nit. Yer
non railroad, and that already contracts
have been made for erecting cottages
ON thirty.6ye of them. A large hotel
is also to be built there, and the amphi-
theatre there is TO be enlarged and I'M
proved.
Senator voorhees, who is still here,
will commence his campaign IN bis
State about the 21st inst. at Terre Haute.
He will take the ground that the Cor
man bill ia the best possible bill that
G ,uld have been passed by the present
Congress, and that it is a finality. he
will also advocate the free and unllmlt-
ed coinage of silver.
Fire broke out shortly before noon
to-day in the large mattress factory OF
| Stump & Co., orner of eth street and
| New York avenue, and the building
was totally destroyed. Several work
inpmen Jumped from the windows, and
one of them was killed. A. j. Haske
Jumped from the fourth floor and sus-
tanned q dangerous fracture of the leg,
besides other injuries. James E. Waugh
and a. c. Bevans were injured, but
how seriously has not been determined.
| Harry Bacon was also injured. These
| four were taken to the Emergency Hos
pital.
A western commercial firm dealing
largely in imported goods from France,
whose representative, Mr.. Ferd. Sid
dons. is now in this city, received to-
day from their correspondents in the
French capital the following message
Paris papers contain following: m.
Kohlsaat, the American journalist,
was seen at the Grand Hotel this
morning and was asked to express his
opinion SO to the probable effect OF
the elections in Maine upon the ap-
preaching Presidential election. he
answered promptly that the result in
Maine left no doubt that NJ. Mckinley
would be elected by an increased
majority, thus restoring the tariff
and investing the negroes with
the rights of citizenship. Is this cor
rect? A reply was sent indicating that
it was not probable that any immediate
changes of the nature indicated would
occur in trade relations.
It is said at the White House that
the President will not return until the
18th proximo.
Ex-senator Kellogg says the report
that he will take az active part IL
Louisiana politics this fall is not correct
He will, he says, advise his friends
there to support the congressiona
nominees of the sugar men if they 81
good republicans, but that that will bt
about the extent to which ne will go
Besides, as the democrats there have
the Governor and the machine, he hasn'
much hope ofthe defeat of the regula'
democratic ticket.
Senator Gibson, of Maryland, was a
democratic headquarters today. HI
says be understands there is a little de
lection in n or two of the congress
sional districts of his State, but that b.
doesn't think there is much doubt o
the election of a solid democratic con
gressional delegation except possibly ii
the Cumberland district, which neve
b ,s been safely democratic, and wher
the protectionists have a strong holt
md great influence. But that the dem
ocrats will succeed there also if the pro
per step be taken to get out the demo
cratic vote.
A gentleman from Warrentop, her
to day, says that Col. Thomas Smith
chief justice of the U. S. Supreme Cour
for New Mexico, and Miss Lizzie Gains
daughter of the late Judge Gains, @
that town, will be married there on tn
Goth instant.
Mr.. William Dixon, an old-tim
Washington democrat, who has spen
much time, labor and money in tn
cause of his party, has become tired
and will rest during the remainder Q
this administration. He says his worl
was always stimulated by the pride b
would feel when a democratic Presiden
and a democraticC Congress we're in Wash
ington together, but though that objec
has been achieved, its fruit has been ik
that of the Dead Sea. especially to tn
democracy of this city, and that the in
dignity put upon them by the appoint
mont Of such a negro as the one brough
here from Kansas to be recorder Q
deeds was more than he could stand.