Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette
WASHINGTON. June 2.

WAsHINGTON. June 2.
The marriage of Miss Julia Steven
son, daughter of the Vice President of
the United States, to the Rev. Martin
D. Hardin, of Lexington, KY, which
will take place this evening at the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, the largest edifce of that de-
nomination in the city, will be bril-
liant affair, attended by all the high Of
ficials in Washington and most OF the
diplomatic corps. The bridegroom is
the son of Gen. P. Watt Hardin, the
recent democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Kentucky. Miss Stevenson
will be attended by her sister, Miss
Letitia Stevenson, as maid of honor,
and four bridesmaids, Miss Letitia
Scott, Miss Jane Hardin, Miss Julia
Scott and Miss Julia Hardin. Mr..
Charles Hardin, of Kentucky, COUSIN
of the groom, will be best man, and
the ushers will be Messrs. Longmoor
and Hill, Kentucky friends of the
groom; Mr.. Carl Vrooman, of Balti-
more; Mr.. George Hamlin, of Boston;
Lieut.. Browmwell and Mr.. Wilcox, of
this city. The groom's parents, Gen.
and Mrs. Hardin; Judge Hardin, an
uncle; Mr.. and Mrs. Hardin, of Dan
vile, KY; Mr.. and Mrs. Harrity, of
Philadelphia, and Gov. and Mrs.
Kuott, of Kentucky, are here for the
wedding. The wedding reception after
the ceremony will take place at the
Normandie. Among the gifts received
Vice President and Mrs. Stevenson
have given a large diamond star,
which will clasp the veil to the brown
hair of the bride; the bridegroom's
parents have given the bride
brougham and pair of horses; the
Chinese minister sent a magnificent
roll of white satin brocade; the Secre-
tary and Mrs. Lamont, an Empire fan,
with pearl sticks; the Brazilian minis
ter and Nine. de Mendonca, paint.
ing, which is a gem of art, and the
Mexican minister and Nine. Romero, a
silver tea service, gold-lined, each
piece bearing the BRIDES monogram.
No present from the White House had
been received up to noon to-day,
though the President and Mrs. Cleve
land have signified their intention OF
being present at the ceremony.
The President to-day sent to the Sem
ate the following nominations: VIM.
Churchill, of New York, to be Consul
General at Apia, Samoa; and David N.
Burke, of New York, to be Consul Gen
eral at Tangier, Morocco. The former
is the editor of the Brooklyn Times !;
the latter halls from Vermont and is
the present U. S. Consul at Malaga,
Spain.
When the report of the House cleo
tons committee in the Yost.Tucker
contested case from Virginia will be
called up, is still matter of doubt.
There are two other contested cases be-
fore it on the calendar, and as the ses-
sion is rapidly drawing to close,
whether it can be reached before adj
journment, neither the chairman of the
committee nor Mr.. Speaker Reed, who
were asked about it to-day, could tell.
Congressman Meredith says the
democrats of his county, Prince Will
liam, met yesterday and elected free
silver delegation to the State conven-
ton, but solid Meredith delegation to
the Congressional convention. He says
he will have five delegates from Orange
county. People from that district,
among them well known and promi.
nent democratic politician, now here,
on his way to the Staunton convention,
says the result of the election in Alex
audria yesterday is adverse to MIR.
Meredith, as his friends were active
workers for the defeated candidate.
Mr.. John T. Price, formerly of Alex
andria, but since the war resident of
this city, where, until recently, he kept
large livery stable on 9th street, just
north of Pennsylvania avenue, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head at his residence on
Indiana avenue in this city at an early
hour this morning, but the exact time
is not known, as though his wife and
her parents and a grown son and
daughter were in the house, nobody
beard the shot, and they only discover
ed that it had been fred when he was
found cold and dead, lying on his bed,
with q pistol in his hand, the muzzle
close to his ear.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Cullom,
republican, of Illinois, introduced q
bill approprialing $4,000 for the pur-
chase Of site and the erection Of a
monument to mark the spot on which
the Confederate army surrendered.
A prominent free silver democrat at
the Capitol to-day, after comforting
with several of the other prominent
democratic Senators and Represen-
tatives, said the silver men in
his party may rest assured that the
men who would be in command at
Chicago have the courage to stand by
their convictions, and that there will be
40 shadow of turning in them. They
know the strength that is behind them
and will adopt no halfway measures.
General Warner, of Ohio, the head
center of the silverites, now here, says
| if tho Chicago convention has sense
sense enough to declare for free silver
and to put free silver man on it, the
national convention of the silver party,
when it meets, will ratify its action, and
the success of the democratic ticket be
assured.
Both the Virginia Senators have
gone, and several of her Representa-
tives will 60 this evening, to Staunton,
to attend the State democratic conven-
ton to be held there. They all agree
that the delegation the convention will
send to Chicago will be solid for free
silver, and, most of them, that it will