Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette.

WASHINGTON, August Is
A goldite from West Virginia here
20 day. says the people of his State
have gone wild on the silver question
sud that it is conceded there that free
silver will carry all four Of lis Coueres-
sionsl districts. The railroads ano
mining cou,pdr,rs, u. says, are all for
gold, cut treir Aorh ,nen Are all for sill
Yer, aud that . j, .,iis of making tiv
utter see the error CT their ways, the
s,rmer have employed men, 10. Ia
+ .auz, them into Mckinley clubs, FOL
;bat would re too open, but To go
,moos them lii the mines anu work
hops and talk TO them OF the evils of a
'fifty-three" cent dollar.
A real estate ageut of this city Says
nat two thirds OF the real estate here
Is mortgaged for more than it would
now bring at forced Gale, that the
banks are lending little or 10 money,
that money was uever more scarce in bis
memory, and that ne hopes there may
oe free silver coinage or anything else
thar will increase the amount OF circu
lating medium.
After evading the process ofthe court
!or some time, Maj. George A. Armes,
.retired army officer, was ARE 'ted this
.f,ernoon at The office Of his attorneys,
IN Washington, on al order Tor his ap-
prehensiou issued by Judge Cole.
The prevalent impression on the sub
ect among democrats here is that the
management of the democratic cam
,aign neither from this city or Chicago,
nas been nor will be any thing to speak
of, but that the democrats will win the
tight by maiu strength and awkward
ess. They have no money, nor are the
men at the head of their organizations
good managers, but the plutocrats have
8 conducted their part of this campaign
that they have set the vast body of the
poor people against them, and un-
less the latter can be bought by the
million, which is improbable, they will
vim, as God must be on their, side as
ne has made so many of them.
The President to-day committed the
punishment OF Thornton Alexander,
convicted of murder in the District of
Columbia, and sentenced to be hanged
"a November 9th next, to imprison-
nent for life The Ppresidcnt states
shat in his opinion the evidence does
not establish such deliberate and pre-
me 'itated homicide as should be pun
ished by death. In the case Of j. p.
Wells, convicted in Virginia of illici'
distiling and sentenced to three mouths
Imprisonment and fiue 800, the Pres
ldeut refuses to interfere. The SEN
tenco has nearly expired and the Pres
ident refuses to pardon on the ground
If sill health" which is advanced.
There was conference at democrat
ic headquarters this morning, among
those present being Senators Jones and
Faulkner. Mr.. Howell Of the Atlanta
Constitution, Representatives Richard
,on and McNIilin of Tennessee, and
,thers, but nothing OF importance Was
determined upon. The intelligence re-
ceived from Pennsylvania was OF the
most favorable character, ard goes to
sustain what Senator Cameron said
months ago, that Pennsylvania is free
silver State.
The railroad people here are very
much provoked with the newspapers o.
lis city for the sensational and exag-
serated accounts they have of late been
publishing of alleged accidents aud at
rempts to derail trains on roads run
hing out of this city to the South. One
If the conductors says he got dispatch
rom his superintendent asking for the
particulars of an attempt to throw bis
rain off the track, an account of which
nad been printed in a Washington news
PAPER, He says his answer was that
40 knew nothing of such an attempt,
nut that he would ask the engine er.
He subsequently learned that negro,
o hauling some rotten fence posts, had
'ccidently dropped one of them out of
mis- wagon on the track. but that the 10.
connective, in going over it, did not even
stop.
The executive oopmittee of the ma
tional populist committee wee called to
meet at noon to day, bat at that hour
there were only four Of the nine mem
bers at the Shorehem. Senator Mariou
Butler, of North Carolina, chairman,
having this morning joined Messrs.
Edgerton, OF Nebraska, secretary,
Washburn, OF Massachusetts, and Reed,
Of Georgia. The three members of The
committee who were here yesterday,
Messrs. Eigerton, Reed and WashburD,
we're joined this morning by Senator
Marion Butler, J. r. Sovereign, of Ar
kansas, Ex.Master Workman, K. of L., and
DR.. C. Taylor. Of Pennsylvsnia. whp met
shortly after noon in sen.to Buffers room at
the Shor, h4m. They were in session shout
AN hour, but agreed upon nothing They
will probably have headquarters both here
and in Chicago.
Mr. Andrew Lip comb, OF Alexandria c'un'
-, who spoke gt The democratic meeting IN
Cnlpeper yesterday, says be heard Of no god
men there, but that several republicans there
told him they intended to vote the free silver
ticket Tslking about report III news,
psper of this city OF y largo detection of gold
democrats ipAlexandria, he said there are not
twelve gold democrats in Alexandra, so far as
he knew.
Heavy rains are reported in southern
Iowa and throughout Missouri and Ar
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