Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-12
work as scarce as it is, the wonder is
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of tho Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON, Oct. -.

Correspondence OF tho Alexandra GaZette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. -.
The following dispatch from Fred.
A. Baker, chairman of the democratic
State central committee of Michigan,
was received at democratic headquar-
tiers yesterday: "The average demo
cratic gain in the eighty-fve counties
of Michigan will not be less than five
hundred each over the republican ma
jorities or vote of 1892. This ensures
majority for Bryan in the State of at
least twenty-five thousand five hun
dred."
The U. S. Supreme Court reconven-
ed after its summer recess to-day, with
full bench present, even Justice
Field, whose lameness gives him much
uneasiness, being in attendance. There
were the usual number of applicants
for admission to the bar of the court,
whose claims were duly passed upon.
After these aud other formal matters
had been disposed of the court, with
out announcing any decisions, or
transactiDg any further business, adj
journed to pay ito respects to the Presi-
dent at the White House. This is a
custom which has been followed since
the foundation of the government. 1t
has only twice been broken in upon and
that was last year and the year before
when President Cleveland did not re-
turn from his summer vacation in time
to receive the court. The justices
were accompanied to the White House
by Attorney General Harmon and So
icitor General Conrad. Their greeting
| by the President was cordial, but be-
yond interchange of vacation reminis-
censes and personal good wishes moth
ing of public interest occurred at the
reception.
The President to day, through Secre-
tary Olney, accepted the resignation of
Fl. c. Smith, the negro U. S. consul at
Santos, Brazil, who desires to take part
in the democratic campaign, and init
mated that if the resignation had not
been sent, he would have been dis
missed.
Ambassador Eustis in cablegram
this morning informs the Secretary OF
State that ?. ]. P lyman, will be re.
leased. 1t IS thought that lyman will
sail for America by The first steamer.
A feeling of jubilation over the situa-
ton is apparent at headquarters to-
day. The statement was given out
from those headquarters this morning
that the present estimate Of Bryan's
gains over the vote of 1892 in Ohio
would be so great as to carry the State
for the democratic electoral ticket by
no less than $4,000.
Virginians here who have read Govern
or O'Ferrall's reply to the we'll deserved
censure he has received and is receiving
from the democrats of his State for
holding on to the salary of the office to
which they elected him, but deserving
them and trying to elect as President
one of the men who harried his own
district, the Valley of Virginia, and
who favors higher tariff and force
bill, say that knowing him, they did
not expect much, but that they did think
with his experience he could have put
up betterdeferse than the trite and
common place siUll he gave out last
Saturday evening. not one word, let
alone idea, of which had not been better
expressed before, and which, so far from
excusing, makes his desertiou of his
party the more reprehensible and the
more unforgivable.
Every thing in this city as we'll as in
the North, in the way OF republican and
boilers politics, goes to show that in
stead of sectionalism having been abat.
ell, it is as rife now as ever. Indeed so
intense is the feeling that those who en-
terrain it think it conduces to their own
selfish interest to carry it into their
business affairs. The proprietor of one
of the largest hotels here, the Airing
ton, on Saturday last told an acquain-
lance that the condition of affairs was
like that of 1861, that if he had had his
way all the traitors then would have
been driven out of Washington, and
that if he thought that one of his en-
ployees now favored the democratic
ticket, he would discharge him on the
| Instant.
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the
congressionaldemocratic campaign com
mittee, who has just returned from g
social visit to friends in the 1st Virginia
district, says that Congressman Jones
will be reelected by larger majority
than he received in '94, when it was
nearly five thousand.
In Georgetown to day Gwynn R..
Tompkins was shot by John W. Collins,
clerk in the secretary's Office of the
District Commits. toner's. The affair
grew out of Tompkins meeting Collins's
wife.
A private letter received here to-day
from the 9TH Alabama district, the dis
trict now represented by M. w. How
ard, the author of ''If Christ Came to
Congress- populist, which says a
true blue democrat will be elected in
Howard's place without doubt.
Mr.. Andrew LipscOmb, the democratic cleo
tor of the Sth Congressional district of Vir.
ginia, left here to-day for the Valley of
Virginia. He will speak at Woodstock aud
Winchester.
DEATH OF THE ARCHBIsH oP oFCAN-