Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette


Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.
A dispatch from Atlanta says the
executive committee of the exposition
have adopted resolutions declaring that
new hotels are all completed, are neat
" and comfortably furnished and are
in successful operation; that the rates
charged at these hotels are from two to
FIVE dollars q day; that hundreds of
rooms in private houses in the best
parts of the city, including Peachtroe
street, can be had at rs cents to 81 q
day; and that it would be hard to cite a
similar occasion in the history of the
country where the public was better or
more speedily served in the matter of
railroad facilities.
The first eucharistic congress of the
Catholic Church of the United States
held in America began this morning at
st. Patrick's Church. 1t was q mort
impressive occasion and drew an audi
encs that crowded the handsome e6i-
fee to the doors. The services were
not merely attractive in that they
marked the opening of the congress,
but because they brought together
nearly every member of the episcopacy
of the church and also dedicated the
new st. Patrick's, which, after tho
rough renovation, was opened to-day
and presented the most beautiful church
interior in Washington. The pontifi-
cal representative and celebrant of the
mass was Monsignor Satolli, the apos
tolic delegate. Gathered about the
beautifully Illuminated altar were the
diguitaries of the Catholic Church in
Americo, dressed in their purple robes
and baretias. The mass was concluded
with q sermon by Bishop Keane. His
subject was Friendship" and he
likened the members of the Eucharistic
League to the Apostles, whom Christ
called his friends. The first session Of
the Congress began this afternoon at
the Catholic University, and tonight
OF eight o'clock there will be a solemn
alteration of the sacrament at st.
Patrick's Church.
At Independence, Grayson county,
Va, d. G. Mallory was appointed post
master to-day, vice M. E. Porterfeld,
dead.
This morning General Malone was
reported to be still in the condition. in
which he was found Monday morning,
He has not recovered the use of his
organs of speech, but retains sufficient
consciousness to recognize those about
him. His family and his physician
have no hope of his recovery.
Postmaster General Wilson left here
this morning for Philadelphia to wit.
ness the launching of the new govern
ment vessel, the Brooklyn.
COMMONWEALTH Attorney Johnston
of Alexandria county, here to-day, say S
that so far as the county part of the
district is concerned, Mr.. Barley will be
the democratic nominee for the legisla,
ture.
A tract of eighty acres of land i'm.
mediately west of Arlington has been
divided into town lots. At the present
rate it will not be long before the whole
of Alexandria county will be divided
into town lots. The line of the Wash.
ington and Falls Church railroad is
being fenced in, but not the ends.
Secretary Carlisle, in accordance
with the administration wishes, vii
| not 90 to Kentucky aud say word in
favor of the democratic ticket in thai
State; but he has accepted an invita-
ton to attend the banquet of the re
form club at Boston, Massachusetts,, or
the 18th inst, and will be the principa
speaker at the feast.
A prominent democratic politician
from Maryland, here to-day, says the
only uncertainty about the success
of the democratic ticket in his State
next month lies in the number of the
A. P. AS. and the Junior Order Of
American Mechanics, who preach thai
Catholicism and democracy are synony
nous terms. He says the democratic
administration is not doing thing to
help the democrats there and does moi
intend to. Maryland and Louisiana,
he says, were the only Southern States
that voted the Know Nothing ticket
and the feeling that made them do SO
still fingers in the former.
Mr.. Miller, commissioner internal
revenue, says there has been a great
increase in the receipts of his office
recently, and that he expects they
| will average six hundred thousand dol
lars day for the remainder of the year
1t has been pretty well determined
by the republican leaders that as it will
be unwise to antagonize the brewers.
from whom come much of their cam,
paign funds, they will attempt to re-
impose the wool fax, and let beer alone.
A democrat from Madison county,
Virginia, here to-day says, the demo-
cratic party in the legislative district
composed of that and Greene county
has been divided by a tolt in
each, but that be thinks the
straight ticket will still be elected.
He says the people there are
more interested about the proposed
Chesapeake and West Virginia Rail-
road than they are about politics, and
that according to resurvey the line OF
that road will run through Madison
Court House.
FIGHT IN RocKINGHAM.-Thre men
wounded is the result Of en-
ATTEMPT of a sherifr,s nosse of