Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WARRINGTON, August q.

w ASdlNGlON, August -
The Department of State received
the following cablegram this morning
from Dorsey Mohun, United State:
consul at L .nzibar. "Khalid bin Bar
cash refusing to surrender, palace bonn
barded by Eoglish fleet at nine O'Clock
this morning and totally destroyed
Many killed. He took refuge at the
German consulate. Afterwards Ha
mond proclaimed Sultan. All Ameri
cans safe"
Democratic comments here upon Mr.
McKinley's letter of acceptance are b!
no means complimentary, the expresse
opinion of it being that it is character
istic of the man-trickery, like his ex
posed trick in the Blackburn case, and
lis fallacies in respect of the tariff arc
no less transparent.
Mr.. Richard Thompson of Culpeper
Virginia, here to-day, says the est
mated majority for free silver in that
county is five hundred, and that it will
be composed in no small part of repub-
lican votes. He mentioned several in
fuential republicans of the county,
among them J. A. Brooke and George
w. Jameson, who are working for the
free silver ticket.
The United States government, by
orders from the War Department, at
Washington, are tearing down and sell
ing most of the wooden and frame
buildings at Fort Myer preparatory to
replacing them with handsome brick
structures. During the administration
of Secretary Lamont as Secretary of
War he has greatly improved the mill
tary post at Fort Myer, and with the pro-
posed Memorial Bridge to Arlington,
Fort Myer would become one of the fin
est military posts in the world. During
the last fiscal year there were nearly
three hundred thousand dollars spent
there on improvements and in new
stone and brick buildings, and it is
understood that the appropriation for
the continued Improvement of this
post for the present year is considerable.
Dir. Pat. McCaull, the republican
candidate for Congress in the Alexan-
dria district, was here to-day. He
says he is like Mr.. Bryan, and will not
have a political discussion with any
body else than his opponent, Judge
Rixey. But the latter's friends hele
say they don't think the Judge ought
to help Mr.. McCaull to get white audi
ences, 80 it is doubtful if the two candi.
dates will have public discussions. Mr..
McCaull will speak at King George c.
q. next Thursday and at Louisa c. h.
on September 9Th.
Major Brisco, an extensive lumber
dealer of this city, says be got a letter
from one OF his correspondents in North
Carolina the other day, in which the
writer, who is gold man, said that
Judging from what he sees and hears, he
is about the only such man in all the Sec
ton of country in which he does bust
ness. The Major. who has just return
ed from a trip to New York, says that
all the working men he talked with
there are for free silver.
A gentleman from Falls Church,
Fairfax county, Va, here today, says
but two people appeared in response to
call for gold meeting at that place
yesterday, one OF whom was BIZ. c; &.
Lee and the other republican. They
al pointed Mr.. Ellison delegate to the
gold convention st Richmond.
Congressman Elicit of Richmond and
and Mr.. Ellyson, chairman, of the State
committee of Virginia, were
here to day on business connected with
the democratic campaign in their State.
Judge Rixey, the democratic candidate
Tor Congress in the alexandria district,
was also here to day, promoting the
organization of silver clubs in his dis
trict. He thinks he will get twelve
hundred majority in Fauquier county.
The estimated democratic majority in
the Fredericksburg district is eight
thousand