Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Ale1andria Gazette
WASHINGTON. Oct. "a, 1894.

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Secretary Carlisle has not yet accept
ed an invitation of the democratic cam
paign managers TO make some speeches
in New York State in behalf OF Senator
Hill, and there is considerable doubt
whether he will do so. 1t is stated that
the Secretary has q large amount OF
public business on hand which will re,
ouire the Presidents action, and until
that is disposed of be will not be free
to leave Washington.
The Postmaster General is determ-
iued to prevent the correspondence of
bond investment companies from being
carried through the mails, and says he
will order criminal proceedings insti-
tuted in every case brought to his at
teution.
Copies of circulars sent to all the re-
publican precinct chairmen 10 the Sth
Virginia district, have reached the
hands of the democrats from that dis
trict now here. They show that schools
and school teachers have been estab-
lished in every precinct in that district
for teaching the negro voters how to
know Mr.. McCaull's name when they
see it, SO as not to scratch it, under the
new election law.
Postmaster General Bissell to-day is
sued an order to all free delivery Of
fees against political contributions.
A shooting match between the mill
tia of the District of Columbia and
those of Delaware will come offhere on
Saturday next.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Congressman Meredith. He is in good
spirits and speaks confidently of his
success. He says they tell him at the
public printing office that no more ap,,
pointments will be made there until
after the election. Mr.. Meredith will
speak in Alexandria tomorrow night
and in Alexandria county next Tues
day.
MIR. Edgar Allen, formerly of Vir-
ginia, but now of this city, a republi-
can, one of the assistant attorneys
general. made some engagements for
Speeches in Virginia during the politl-
cal campaign now in progress there.
and didn't hesitate to say he had; but
people from that State say be has can
celed them, in consequence of orders to
that effect. 1t could hardly have been
otherwise, as democratic officials who
had made similar engagements were
compelled to cancel theirs.
A movement is on foot to erect a
Methodist church in Alexandria county,
near the Virginia Jockey Clubs race
track, and among those who have
promised liberal subscriptions to q fund
now being raised for that purpose are
some of the proprietors of that track.
A former A~leXandrian who has pros
pered here says he believes a first-class
hotel would be a profitable investment
in Alexandria, and that if he a buy
either of the lots at the intersection Of
King and Washington streets there, at
a reasonable price, he will establish one
there that will equal Rennert's i'll Balti-
M, re, aud that will attract strangers,
and be a credit to the city, and that he
would take pride in keeping such a
house.
Ex-State Senator Moore of Fairfax
county, Virginia, who is in the city to-
day, saws he has made a careful esti-
mate of the probable vote In his Conr
gressional district, the Sth, and that he
can't figure out q smaller majority for
Mr.. Meredith than two thousand.
The railroad track now being laid on
9Th street, northward, will connect
with the road that now run to Ecking-
ton.
Judge Cole, in the District of Columbia
Court, to-day decided that there was a law to
punish the commission of crimes against the
federal government, wien those crimes were
committed within the territory of the Dis
trict. The opinion grew out of the applica-
ton for a writ of nabeas corpus for William
B. Smith. ons Of the employees of the Bureau
Of En- ssaving and Printing, chlrged with
stealing $4,000 postage stamps from that bu
reau.