Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandris aasette-l
w Acu1NcroN May g.

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Secretary Gresham, it is feared, Is 81,
very sick man. Those most Intimately
concerned as to his health make s y.
denial of their anxiety as to MS c"nnl-
ton. His main affection has peen
,l;,ooos.d as gall stone and this is com
nlic,ted by the weak physical condition
Fan which the secretary has suffered
FIR some time past. No visitors are adj
.nitted to see the patient, who is con-
fined 10 his apartments at the Arlington
Hotel.
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt, the new
nnlice commissioner of New York city,
called at the White House this morning
and said good bye to the President:
FIR. Roosevelt's resignation as civil
service commissioner has not yet been
formally accepted, but will be in day
or two. He will leave Washington to
take up his residence in New York On
Sunday.
Secretary Morton has been sustained
by the Attorney General in his conten-
tion that the purchase of seeds las re-
quired by law must be for the pur
chase of seeds :'rare and uncommon to
the country, or such as can be made
more profitable by frequent change
from one part Of our country to an
other"
Little significance attaches to the
official announcement in London that
the British government has not yet
given orders to Admiral Stephenson to
withdraw from Corinto and that mat
tiers remain in statu quo so far as Great
Britain is concerned. 1t is expected
thew will so remain for day or two
until Nicaragua shall have had time to
perfect the arrangements for the pay.
ment of the smart money. This Will
probably be done through the same
bank in London through which Mica
ragua pays the interest on its foreign
loan negotiated with Great Britain in
1856. Gable dispatches have been con-
stantly passing since last night be-
tween the Nicaraguan minister in
Washington and his government in
Managua, and no doubt is expressed
that Nicaragua in due time will ratify
the agreement entered into on her be-
half and at her request by the Saliva
doran minister.
Though the Virginia democratic as
ISOLATION of this city at its last meeting
declared for free silver, it is reported
now that since all the higher officials oil
the government have rallied to the
support of the Presidents good money
policy, that action may be reconsidered
at its next meeting, as most of the
members of the association are either
in the governments service, or still en-
terrain the vain hope that they will be,
before the close of the present admins
tration.
An Alexandria county democrat here
to-day says the property-holders there
are by no means pleased at their pres
ent outlook, as the large negro major
ity there and their few white leaders
have nominated straight ticket, and
would be almost sure to elect it even
under the most favorable conditions
and will doubtless do so now, as the
small democratic minority are not Or
ganized, and apparently have ceased tc
take any interest in the election, and
will let things go as they may. He
says that under democratic control
more school houses have been erected
and more permanent road improve
ment has been made during the last
two years than in any previous six,
and that now when the county has
taken start on the way to rapid pros
perity, to be checked, as it must neces-
sarily be by having its affairs entrusted
t. such hands, is too bad.
Among the visitors here who went
to Mt. Vernon to day, via Alexandria
and.the.electric railroad were the pupils
of the Roanoke female academy.
A real estate agent here says that
such is the doubt and uncertainty re
specting investments now, that Virginia
fiduciaries for whom he loaned some
money in that State last week, would
be satisfied with nothing less than a
bond for the payment of the same in
gold, and with the semi-annual interest
payable in the same sort Of money.
The comptroller of the currency, Mr..
Eckels, is absent, speaking in Michigan
against free silver, and Secretary Car
Isle is getting ready to go to the good
money meeting in Memphis. On his
way there he will stop in Kentucky
and make two or three speeches there
in his attempt to check the rising tide
of free silver in that State.
Race horse men here say that the
passage Of the race course bill by the
New York legislature yesterday will
necessarily draw all the New York,
and most of the best remaining horses
now at St. Asaph to the New York
tracks. The Jennings stable, they say,
will go tomorrow, some of the others
day or two after, and the remainder on
the 18th. After that date, they say, the
races at st. Asaph will be run every
day and foreign book be kept there.
Col. Cab. Maddux says if there be daily
races at st. Asaph, there will be morn
ing and evening races at Alexander's
Island.
Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania,
now here, says free silver is sweeping
everything before it in his State; a
Massachusetts good money man, here
on business, says he can't understand it,
but that he can compare the excitement
in his State in favor of free silver to
nothing except that produced by Mr..
Lincoln's first call for troops; New
Hampshire congressman, in favor of
sound money, here for a day or two,
comedies that if put to vote in his
State, free silver would win, and Con-
gresham Bankhead of Alabama, who
arrived last night, says he thinks silver
is on top there too.
LEo's POLITICAL TEsTAMENT.--A