Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-13

other, that his, had refused to give him
an opportunity of showing what his
policy would be, and that neither has
as high an opinion of popular intelli-
gence now as he once had.
AS the nomination of Capt. W. q.
Fowle to be collector of internal reve-
nue. for the upper district of Virginia
was rejected by the Senate, it would OF
course be unusual for the President
either to reappoint or to recommisslon
him, but as the Captain was designated
by the Secretary of the Treasury to
take charge of the Office, he will con-
tinue to hold the place until his success
sor shall be appointed, which, 1t is safe
to say, will not be done during the
present administration.
The proprietor of prosperous drug
store in this city says he gets ali his
bottles from the glass works in Alexan-
dria and most of his drugs from the
house of Leadbeater & Sons, in that
city, and that he finds his trade with
both more satisfactory in every re-
spect than with houses in Northern
cities.
Democrats from the Valley portion OF
the 7th Virginia congressional district,
now here, say that that portion will not
give way to the eastern counties, and
that they think Mr.. Marshall McCor-
mick will get the democratic nomina-
ton in that district, and not Mr.. Hay,
of Madison, as has been reported.
Mr.. B. F. Sheetz, editor of the Lou
doun Mirror, and Mr.. Sewers, an ex-
lie from Cuba, brother of DR.. Sewers OF
Warrenton, passed through here this
week on their way to the Johns Hop
kins Hospital in Baltimore for medical
treatment.
One of the delegates from the eighth
congressional district to the Virginia
State democratic convention, here to-
day, says a majority of the Loudoun
county delegates to that convention
tried to have Mr.. Janney of that coun-
ty removed from his place as member
of the executive committee of the dis
trict, but that the success of their at
tempt was defeated by the adoption of
a motion to re-elect the entire old demo-
cratic committee.
People from the list Virginia district in the
city to-day say that Mr.. Tyler, of Freder-
;cksburg, has announced himself as candi-
date for the republican congressional no nina.
ton in that district, but that there is little or
no chance of his getting it, and that if he
should do so, he would have even less OF being
elected.
]. c. Delgado and his son, DR.. Jose Manuel
Delgado, the American citizens of Cuban
birth, who were assaulted by Spanish troops,
had an interview this morning with Secretary
Olney. They were accompanied by DR.. Jose
L. Rodriguez, of this city, whom they have
retained as counsel, and Gonzalo de Quessda,
secretary of the Cuban legation in the United
States. The Delgados told their story to
Secretary olney, and called attention to their
scars. They brought with them and showed
10 Mr. Oluey broken machete with which
cut had been inflicted on the face of the
younger man, and bullet that had been
taken from his body. The interview lasted
twenty minutes The attack on the Delgsdo
plantation near Dolores was made in March,
1896 instead of last March, as was under.
stood by the public, and the claim for in
demnity and redress from the Spanish gov
eminent was filed at the State Department in
July last.