Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. May %.

WASHINGTON. May ~.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices in Virginia were made
to-day: Hay, Campbell county, Geo.
w. Griffin appointed postmaster, vice
Horatio DePriest, resigned; Fox, Gray
son county, John F. Greer, vice Mrs.
Ida Anderson, resigned; Curtis, Bed
ford county, James A. Wildman, vice
Walter G. Logwood.
Congressman Otey of Virginia, the
head of the silver organization in his
State. makes the following statement
today concerning the silver status in
Virginia: Seventy eight counties and
cities have acted, and 961 delegates have
been elected, of which 769 are for sill
YER, 147 for gold, and 45 are uninstruct-
ed. Of the 679 delegates yet to be
elected, 400 are certain for silver, with
about 500 to draw from besides. Sixty
two counties are wholly for silver, 4 for
gold and II are uninstructed but q ma
iority of their delegates are for silver.
Of the delegates already elected to
the Chicago convention in 10 States and
the District of Columbia, 1877 are for
silver, 161 for gold and 2 are doubtful.
Among the visitors here to-day Is
Mr.. ]. a. Sewers of Virginia, but for
many years resident of Cuba, where,
before the instruction broke out, he
had large and valuable sugar planta-
ton which, however, has been devas-
ted by the insurgents. His family IS
living in Havana.
A son of Mr.. John NJ. Orr, of Lees
burg, Virginia, has been appointed to a
place in the Postofice Department.
The House District OF Columbia COM
mittee has agreed to report favorably q
resolution allowing the farmers of the
adjoining country to use both sides OF
B Street, from It'll to 10th, for the sale OF
the produce they may bring to Centre
Market.
Mr.. Hobart, New jerseys candidate
for the republican Vice Presidential
nomination, was on the floor OF the
House to-day. He says the vote of his
State in the st. Louis convention Will
be cast for Mr.. Mckinley.
Senator Daniel was in the best Of
spirits to-day at the result of the cleo
ton in Richmond yesterday. He has
received dispatches from that city as
surfing him that the district will be for
free silver, and to the effect that the
vote in Richmond would have been
that way, if it had not been that many
silver men did not wish to antagonize
the banks that accommodate them.
The Senator, owing to press OF work,
has had to decline the invitation of the
Virginia democratic association OF this
city to speak at their annual excursion
to Glymont on the 22d of July.
Congressman Swanson of Virglnla
SAYS that all the counties in his, the
Danville district, except two, Patrick
and Pittsylvania, have already declar'
ed for free silver, and that they will
when they hold their meetings. Con.
gresham Tyler says the democrats OF
his. the Norfolk district, are always dis.
posed to compromise their differences
but that the feeling among them on the
subject is decidedly in favor Of silver
as it is in all the other districts of the
State.
Friends of the postmaster at Hillsville
Carroll county, Va, who has been convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary for robbinG
the government, were at the Capitol to-day
and urged the two Virginia Senators to try Il
get the President to pardon him.
Representative Tyler, of Virginia. has OBJ
tanned gas buoy for the mouth of Lynhsvel
river. Virginia, and the promise of six add
tional buoys for James river.
A large excursion party, about five hun
dred, from Roanoke, Va, will visit this city
on Monday next.
The President has granted a pardon tt
Harry Lee. sentenced in February, 1896, t.
| 1854 days in the United States Jail at Wash
ington for assault committed in the Distric
of Columbia.
The House committee on public building
and grounds to-day ordered favorable reports
| on bills providing for public buildings. as fol
lows: At Portsmouth, Va, 100000 For
Monroe Va, $4,000.