Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Ae1andris Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. II, 1894.

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lCor1espondoree Of the Ale1andris Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. II, 1894.
About seventy-fve or eighty govern
ment clerks employed by the Treasury
aod War Departments and the govern"
nrnt printing Office left Washington
al 2.25 O'Clock this afternoon over the
chesapeake and Ohio railroad for their
homes in the Seventh congressional
district of Kentucky to, lend their en-
erpies to the support Of Col. w. q. T.
Breckenridge in his coming fight at the
nrimsries on Saturday next for renomi.
nation to Congress. At the office OF
The railroad company the men were
lusv buyiug tickets. One OF them
said eve don't travel on passes, but
nav our way. Another thing. we, 60
unsolicited by Col. Breckenridge, but
of our own free will and accord. We
intend to see his silvery hairs again in
the House of Representatives" An
other party of about forty government
EMPLOYEES will leave Washington on
Thursday with the same object in view.
In the party will be several officials IN
the Departments.
Elk Congressman and ex-collect"
or of internal revenue Brady of Vir-
ginia is now practicing law in this city
He says he is out of politics now and is
attending strictly to business. But it
is we'll known that Mr.. Brady keeps
in touch with his party in his State,
and is in communication with its lead,
ers in many of the counties thereof
In a short talk with the GA
zErrE's correspondent to-day, Mr.
Brady said that Mr.. Manley, chair
man of the national republican
committee, and Mr.. Babcock, chairman
of the republican Congressional cam
paign committee, had told him tina
they were in favor of running republf
can candidates in every Congressiona
district of Virginia this fall, and that
too, after General Mahone's circular t.
the contrary. Mr.. Brady also said n
understands there is great lukewarm
ness. if not dissatisfaction, among tn
democrats of Virginia, and that he be
liaves the I'd, 4th, 9Th, 9th and lou
districts will be represented by repuh
licans in the next Congress, and woult
not be surprised if some OF the other
be also.
Mr.. proskauer of Richmond, ap
pointed u. S. Consul at Puerto Cabello
vice Judge Riley of the same State, ha
informed the State Department her'
that he has reached his post and enter
ed upon the discharge of his otfic n
duties. The people of Puerto Cabell'
will observe the great difference be
tween the present and the late Amerl
can consul at their city.
At Andrews, Spottsylvania county
Va, ]. O. Carr was appointed postm1as
ter today, vice J. Fl. Crank, resigned.
A resident of Alexandria county, her
to-day, says the inquiry about land II II
that county has increased conslderabl
of late, and that it comes almost entire
" from Northern people. whose objee
ton to buying sites in Virginia seem
to have been entirely dissipated, an
that they now say they would just a
lief live in that State as in any other.
At republican headquarters here
| in the language used there, sever
thing is lovely and the goose hang
hiqh.n Bulletins are being sent on
from there to all parts of the countr
to the effect that the result of the ele'
ton in Maine yesterday shows that th
rank and file of the democratic part
in that State have abandoned thei
leaders, and that indications are tina
such will be the case in all the othe
States.
A letter was received at democra
ic headquarters here this morr
ing from Congressman Bynun
of Indiana, in which the COZ
dition of the democracy in ths
State is represented as excellent, an
that young and old democrats alike al
enthusiastic. 1t is said there that Al
sistant Attorney-Gener Conrad
Virginia will take part in the presel
campaign and speak in both Virgins
his own State, and in West Virginia.
No news of any kind has been r.
ceived by the geological survey or tn
war department to confirm the "a
Francisco dispatch that governmer
surveying party had been massacre
on the Rio Grande river near FL Pas
on the Texas and Mexican border: Go
Rizer, chief clerk Of the geological su
vey, said this morning that accordin
} to the latest advices surveying part.
under charge of Surveyors Greene an
Eckhardt, were at work about rs mile
from the Rio Grande, near Fort Davi
Texas. He regards it as most unlikel
that any harm can have happened
them without information of the la
being transmitted to the authorize
here. The geological survey has hear
nothing of any trouble, neither has tt
war department, and the belief is tn;
, the San Francisco alarming dispatch
simply another sensational "fake."
Democrats here to-day from Norfol
say that Congressman Tyler of that di
J trict will be renominated by the dem'
cratic convention which meets at VII
pinia Beach tomorrow. They seem
think that Mr.. Boreland will be tn
republican nominee, but are confider
that Mr.. Tyler will be reelected.
Court of Appeals Yesterday.
The Court of Appeals of Virginia mt