Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, June %.

WASHINGTON. June %.
Secretary Olney to-day received the
following dispatch from MIR. Herod,
Secretary of the United States Legation
at Toxic: deaths caused by tidal wave
estimated at over 10000. In reports to
date (21sD no mortalities among Ameri-
cans"
People from the 1st Virginia district
here to-day say there will be quite an
active contest for the republican con-
gressional nomination in that district,
aad that appearances now indicate that
Mr.. TYLER, of Fredericksburg, will get
it. He is the head of a manufacturing
establishment employing about hun
bred hands, is young and ambitious,
and, they think, will poll larger vote
than any other republican in the dis
trict.
A Virginia republican here to-day,
not resident of the Sth Virginia dis
trict, however, says that though Messrs.
McCaull, of Culpeper, and Hue, OF
Fairfax, are the only ones now talked
of for the republican congressional nomi-
nation in that district, from what he
hears, he wouldn't be at all surprised
if. when the convention meets, it be
found that Mr.. Park Agnew, of Alex
andria, is the choice of o majority OF
the delegates. The negroes, he says,
may be opposed TO him, but that for
every one of their votes that he would
lose, he would gain that ola white man.
Most all the people who went from
here to the St. Louis convention have
returned, and of those seen by the GA
zETTE's correspondent all, without ex-
ception, say the newspaper reports of
enthusiasm either in the convention or
in St. Louis were without foundation,
and that the only manifestation OF real
enthusiasm they saw or heard was that
created by the silverites when they left
the convention, and that the few Kisses
thew then heard came from the fifty
cent seats in the galleries. Many of
them don't hesitate to say that the dec
laration for gold was bought.
AS something sensational has issued
from the White House upon the return
of the President from nearly every one
of the fishing trips he has taken this
year, no little curiosity is expressed as
to the character of that which is ex-
pected when he comes back from the
! one he is now taking. Many say it will
relate to Cuba, and that as General
Bradley johnson and General Fitz Lee
are great friends, and as the letters the
former has written from Cuba are un-
favorable to the Spaniards, they think
he has only reflected the latter's
ideas, and that the President has re-
ceived such intelligence as may induce
hin to interfere with the affairs of that
island.
In reference to Mr.. Wharton Bakers
public assertion that the bimetallists
clearly outnumber the gold standard
men in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, and that the silver question
has not only driven politics but section
alism out of those States, people from
each of them, here to-day, say he speaks
the naked truth, as is demonstrated to
every body who travels in any of them
and talks to the voters thereof. They
also say that if the Chicago convention
shall declare for free silver and nomi-
nate free silver man, the vote
by which the latter will be elected
will not be confined to the West and
South. In connection with this matter,
it is we'll known here that the admins
tratiOn realizes that its most recent pub
lie effort In behalf Of gold was made
too late, and that the people OF the
! country, irrespective of party, are join
ed to their silver idol.