Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.
WASHINGTON, August q
vain

The report OF the chesapeake q
OHIO Railway for 1895, which has been
submitted by President N. E. Ingalls,,
shows that the gross earnings OF the
.cad nave reached the large aggregate
OF SO, 22l .l3l, sum which has not
beeu exceeded save IL 1893, when the
worlds fair was in progress at Chicago,
and even in that year the excess was
Only about 800 900.
Secretary Hoke Smith will sever his
connection with the Interior Depart
ment on Saturday next, the 18th OF Au-
gust. He will devote this week to
clearing up "odds and ends" and finally
disposing Of guch departmental work as
has been prepared under his direction
and is ready for his signature.
Senator Butler is devoting mis- atten-
ton to correspondence. The work Of
distributing populist literature will not
begin until tomorrow or Wednesday.
Secretary Edgerton reports heavy
mail, the information in each instance
being favorable to the success OF the
fusion Presidential ticket.
The executive committee Of the sill
yer national committee will meet here
tomorrow night. "We will send out
more li,erat1e than anybody" said
Vice Chairman Stevens. 1--WE will
open up the food gates about Wednes
day and begin sending documents to
every section Of the country. We pro-
pose TO have as complete variety a.
can be selected. At the presen. mo-
ment We are confining ourselves TO hav-
ing printed Thousands ofpieces OF litera-
tude from plates now in the possession
ofthe democratic committee, the views
set forth being in accordance with those
We wish to promulgate. The speeches
Of Towne and Sibley will be translated
into German and Scandinavian.
a Lynchburg democrat, here to-day,
says that many OF the people who sign
ed the call for gold meeting in tina,
city will vote the straight democratic
ticket, and that, though good many
OF the employees Of the railroads, min
ing and manufacturing companies in
the State have been compelled by the
fear of losing their places to express
themselves in favor of gold, they are
ashamed OF having done so, and will
ease their consciences by voting a.
they really think next November
Superintendent Kimball is informed
that lightning struck the North Beach
Nd, life saving station this morning
doing considerable damage and stun
ing three of the crew.
In consequence OF other engage
ments, Mr.. Ii. c. Bell, of the pension
bureau, will speak in favor Of free sill
YER at Lsesburg, Virginia, Tomorrow
night, instead Of on Wednesday night
as be said be would do last Saturday
Mr.. Rixey, the democratic candidate
for Congress in that district, will bt
present on the same occasion, and {
large crowd is expected, as the Lou
doun county fair commences there to
morrow. 1t is said by Leesburl
people, here to-day, that Loudoun vii
give the biggest democratic majority il
November she has given for many pre-
vious years.
At democratic headquarters to day
little news had been received up 10 one
o'clock, but all that had been received
was favorable. The demand for cam
paign literature from Virginia is phe
uomenally large, and to supply it alone
would Decessitate more money than j;
on hand. The democratic campaign
this year is being fought by poor men
nearly all the rich men of the party
having gone over to the republicans, 81
that money is very short at democratic
4 .adquarters, and nearly all the work
done there is voluntary.
Republicans rs well as democrats
here commend Secretary Smith for the
course he has pursued and say he has
done himself great credit by it, and
that his colleagues in the Cabinet, il
they live long enough, will find out that
they have made great mistake by not
following his wise example.
From Virginia it is learned here to-
day that in the Lynchburg and in some
of the other districts Of that State, Of
forts have been made to induce the re-
publican Congressional nominees to
withdraw, go thatlgold democrats could
be put up in their places, but that all
Of them with one accord have refused
to do so, and say az they should do,
| that if democrats want TO defeat their
own party's ticket, they should come out
openly and vote the straight republl-
oan ticket.