Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandris Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. Is, 1894.


26sh inst. in order to round up the Vir-
GINA voters here and get them ready
for shipment to their homes on election
day. They have secured Tor them
round trip railroad tickets for one fare,
good from the Goth inst. to the 6sn
proximo. 80.
The managers of the new race track
at St. Asaph, near Alexandria, where
the season will commence on Thurs
day. are confident of the success OF
their venture. Of horses they Will
have an abundance, and they antlcl-
pate most successful meeting. Rae
Jog will go on until December i, and as
is Is the Intention of the club to hold
spring meeting at the track, which will
begin March Is and continue until the
opening of the season in New York,
many owners will winter at the course.
There are accommodations for over 500
horses at the track, and should neces-
sity arise this will be increased.
At the Postoffice Department to-day
it is said that in addition to paper
from Lee Camp of ex-Confederates at
Richmond protesting against the change
of the name of the postoffice at Apo
mattox Court House, a petition from
small number of people at that place
for the revocation of the order making
the change has been received, but that
it has not vet been considered.
Colonel "Lige" White of Loudoun
county was among the visitors here to-
day. He says that while there IS
good deal of disaffection among the
democrats of that county he thinks MIR.
Meredith will carry it by several hum
dred majority. He says the populist
candidate will not get the vote of the
disafected democrats, but that it Will
not be cast for any body.
Major Bob Mason, postoftice inspect
or in the far Northwest, who has been
at home for some weeks on furlough,
will leave for Helena, Montana, his
headquarters, on Sunday next. The
Major says there is fair chance Of
electing a democratic legislature in
Montana this fall, and that if so that
State will have two U. S. Senators in
Congress instead of the one republican
who represents it in that body now;
He also says it is likely that the capital
of the State will be moved from Helena
to Anaconda. :,
MIR. Frank Hume of this city will
leave here this evening for Orange
Court House to attend the grand ex-
Confederate reunion there on Wednes-
day, to defray the expenses of which he
has contributed largely.
he of
headquarters here to-day were Con-
gressmen Dunn of New Jersey and Liv-
ingston of Georgia, and Col. Watts OF
West Virginia. Their election infor-
nation, like that brought by most OF
the other callers there, is indefinite, but
they all agree that if the democrats in
their States sustain any loss, it will re-
suit from stay-at-home voters. Other
people from West Virginia here to-day
say that both the Western Maryland
and the B. & O. railroads are throwing
their influence against Mr.. Wilson, and
that the republicans will spend fifty
thousand dollars to defeat him, and
Others say that the talk of bribery is Sc
rife there that many who may really
want to vote against Mr.. Wilson will be
deferred from doing so by the fear that
they will be accused of having been
bribed.
The President of the Columbia Rail.
way Company of the District of Column
bia has made his annual report to the
Secretary of the Interior. The report
shows that the total receipts for the
year were $4,000, and the disburse
meuts $117 1875, including $4,000 il
dividends, leaving 50, 742 cash on hand
A cablegram was received this morn.
ing by the Department of State from
American Charge d'Affaires DENLY al
Pekin, stating that the reports of danger
to foreign residents at Pekiu was great
ly exaggerated; that there had been
Only one attack upon an American and
that very insignificant affair, followed
by prompt punishment, and that az
imperial proclamation had been issued
to the local authorities eDjoining the
protection of foreigners.
The young Japanese Prince, Yash.
ina, arrived in Washington from New
York this morning. He was met at the
railway station by Minister Kurino and
the other members of the legation, and
] driven to the Shoreham Hotel. Sub
sequently, the Prince called at the
legation. With Minister KuriEo, as his
cicerone. the Prince next drove to the
Navy Yard to inspect the manufacture
of guns at that place. He left this city
this evening.
The expenditure of the appropriation
for Arlington and Fort Myer, in Alex
dria county, has commenced and quite
a number of the voters 10 that county
are now employed in hauling brick and
stone, or paving and in other work
there. This has put them in better
humor with the administration than
they were some time time ago, and also
with Congressman Meredith, who has
been urging the expenditure for some
time.
At the.ofice of the Mt. Vernon Rail
road Company, here to-day, it is said
that the survey for that part of the
road from Alexandria to the St. Asaph
race course was commenced last Satur-
day and will be completed this week,
and that part of the road be built and
in running order during the next three
weeks. In Alexandria the track will be
laid along Payne street.
In the U. S. Supreme Court to-day
the case of w. B. Moses, Harry c.
Moses and Arthur c. Moses, admins
traitors of VIM. B. Moses, involving the
payment of Capt Howgate's bond, as
disbursing officer of the Signal Service,
was advanced for hearing on the first
Monday in December. Judgment has
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