Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2, 1894.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON. Nov 2, 1894.
II is understood within the inner
democratic circle here today that the
President, alarmed at the general and
pervading condemnation he is receiving
because Of the unprecedented course ne
has pursued toward the democratic
party 10 his own State, has finally
agreed to allow the man nearest to hlm
to express himself in favor OF the cleo
ton of the democratic ticket In New
York. and that a statement to this Ell
feet will be published tomorrow. IL IS
now too late for such statement TO %
much, if any, good, but better late than
never.
a well.known democratic politician
from Fauquer comfy, Va, here to-day,
SAWS the democrats of that county are
more worked up now than they were
in the Lee-Agnew contest, when they
carried the county by $50 majority. and
that they will carry it by at least that
much next Tuesday. He says the pop
ulist vote there will be small and that
the registration shows that there will
be more new voters than at several OF
the previous elections. Twenty-Five
young democrats at one precinct alone,
Calverton, will, he says, cast their first
vote next Tuesday, enough to change
the political complexion OF that pre-
cinct.
The Department of State has official
notice that Nicholas II has proclaimed
himself Emperor of Russia. President
Cleveland has received personal mes
sage from the new Emperor announc-
ing the death of his father and his sue
cession to the throne.
Goyernor-elect Oates of Alabama,
now here, says there may be break
or two in the congressional represention
from the South next Tuesday, but that
practically the South will be solid in
the next House.
The President and five members Of
the Cabinet attended the regular Cabl-
net meeting to day. Secretary Smith
and Secretary Gresham and Postmas-
ter General Bssell were absent, the
last two suffering from severe colds,
and Secretary Smith absenting himself
because of recent exposure to conta-
gion. Mr.. BisselPs illness, it is said,
may place him in the same category as
Secretary Gresham and prevent him
from going home to vote.
Among the contestants for the. re
ward offered for the arrest of the Aqua
Creek train robbers is Mr.. Ph'egar, q
member of the Virginia legislature
from Fauquier county. He lives near
Midland Station, on the Southern Rail
road, and being convinced that the two
men who brought some things there,
telegraphed at once to that effect, de-
scribing the articles they had bought
and the satchel they carried.
1t cost 81 800, SOP to feed the army
during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1894, according to the annual report Of
Brig. Gen. Hawkins, Commissary Cen
eral. Liquid coffee alone cost S3,SSl.
An old VirgiDian here to-day, on his
return from New York. where he has
large business interests, says Hill and
Grant will be elected, the former fol-
two reasons, the general desire to jah
Cleveland, and the gratitude of the rich
men of that State for his effort to defeat
the income tax, and the latter, because
Tammany, by bleeding the gamblers,
barkeepers and proprietors Of disrepu.
table houses, reduces the taxes of the
reputable people of that city. He says
| in Pennsylvania the republican MAORI.
| ty will be immense, and that even the
| one single district in Philadelphia, Ran
dall's old district, that now sends dem.
ocrat to Congress, will go republican
He also says Northern colleague in
the directory of company, to attend a
meeting of which he went North, told
him that as the South was solid, he
hoped the North would be so too. To
this he replied that he was disguised
with the management of the demo
cratic party, but, after that remark, he
never could vote any other than the
democratic ticket.
The Interior Department will be
closed at II o'clock tomorrow in order
that another thorough fumigation of its
rooms may be made by Monday.