Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. June 26.

is said that OF the SoO ueleSaLeS W 1uo
Chicago convention, COL are for silver
and 10 doubtful, that it only requires 8
more to make the two-thirds required
for q nomination, and that there is
every reason to believe that that num-
Der will come from Michigan alone,
whose convention was bought. though
recruits are expected from New Jersey,
Maine and Massachusetts, whose dele
gates have not been instructed. 1t is
also said there that up to to-day it
looks as if Boies and Mclean may be
the ticket. 1t is thought that the mis-.
sion of Mr.. Whitney to Chicago will
rather strengthen, than weaken, the
silver democrats, as both those from
the South and West are tired of New
York's dictation.
Minister Andrade at noon to-day re-
ceiyed the following cablegram and
Immediately sent copy to Secretary
Olney
CARACAS, June 26.
Rojas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to
Venezuelan Minister at Washington !:
IL was Yesterday when the National
Commissary of Cuyuni telegraphed oc-
currence. Harrison and nineteen 9TH
ers crossed to the left bank of the Gu
yuni to open road. The sub.commis-
sary of Acarabesi protested in writing.
Harrison insisted, and the sub-commis-
sary took him to the post of Ell Dorado.
As soon as the government was inform
ed thereof it ordered the release OF Har-
son and asked details.
The post Ell Dorado referred to in
the cablegram is directly across the
river from the British station of Urian.
Secretary Olney will notify Sir Julian
Pauncefote of Harrison's prompt re-
lease and the circumstances under
which he was arrested.
France has gone bicycle mad is the
deduction to be drawn from a re-
port received at the State Department
from Walter T. Griffin, United States
commercial agent at Limoges. Since
April 1892 each bicycle is taxed ten
francs (sl.99 a year and the number OF
machines in use in the republic can be
gagged through the tax returns. In
1892 the number of bicycles In France
was $50, AT, while at present there are
100000. The average is one bicycle to
every so persons able to ride. The BIZ
cycles offered for sale on the French
market are manufactured in every land;
France can hardly hold her own in
manufacturing these machines. Eng
land supplies the largest quantity of the
foreign wheels, a few are imported from
Belgium, and many from the United
States.
The Washington and Falls Church
railroad has been completed to point
one mile beyond Ballston, where it
strikes the Leesburg railroad. Whether
it shall cross that road on grade is not
yet known. Trains on it will be run
from the Aqueduct Bridge, in George
town, to Ballston on the 1st proximo.
At the State Department. it is thought
to be by no means strange that the
British government has requested the
good offices Of this country in behalf of
an Euglishmsn who has been arrested
in Venezuela, and it Is said similar re-
quest was recently made by this gov
eminent to Great Britain In the case of
citizen of the United States who had
been arrested In the Transvaal.
General w. Fl. Payne of Warrenton,
counsel for the Southern Railroad in
this city, has returned from trip to
Europe. with his eyes much improved.
The refusal of the authorities here to
allow the High School Cadets of this city
to take their guns with them on their
proposed trip to Richmond to partici-
pate in the Confederate reunion there,
has been the means of increasing the
number of that corps. Their arms will
borrowed from the National Rifles of
this city, and from the Light Infantry
and st. Johns Cadets of Alexandria.
The republican congressional com.
mittee has its headquarters at the Nor
mandie Hotel in this city, and is already
engaged in sending out campaign mat
ter. Chairman Babcock says he is con-
fident there will be republican House
to support a republican President in
his protective tariff policy.
A democrat from Seminary Hill.
Fairfax county, Virginia, here to-day,
says that he, and SO far as he knows,
all the other democrats In that neigh
borhood, are in favor of Mr.. Willard for
Congress.
a Fairfax county, Virginia, farmer,
here to-day, observing large number
of idle negroes on the street, said there
was plenty of work for all of them in
his county, at fair wages, but it seemed
to be impossible to induce them to go
to the country and work there for q
living; corn bread and bacon and the
songs of the frogs and whipporwill, do
not compare with the delights of the
idleness and vices of city life.
A recent visitor to Warrenton. now
in this city, says that judging by the
dress, carriage, style, sports and pro-
nunciation of some of the young men
he saw at the hotel there, an untraveled
rnan would suppose they were English
men.
A. II. Spilman has been appointed
postmaster at Reva, Culpeper county,
Virginia, vice G. E. Royston, resigned.
VIRGINIA AS FIGHTING GROUND
1t is stated on pretty good authority