Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. July %.

Mrs. Unicy Sutherland appointed post
master, vice n. NJ. Sutherland, resign
ed; at fernando, Franklin county, j.
P. Galloway, vice r. f. L. Fralin, re-
signed.
People from Georgia here to-day say
that Mr.. Du Bignon, who was the gold
candidate for L. S. Senator there, and
all the other original gold men. will
give true faith and allegiance to the
mandates of their party's highest au-
thority-its national convention. They
don't 60 into convention and refuse
to abide by its arbitrament because
they are outyoted three to one. That
isn't democracy, according to Georgia
democrats.
James Smith, the negro who murder
ed Miss Margaret Drown at Seat Pleas
ant, Nd, last night, was captured this
morning by Sergeant Bryan, OF the
Washington police force, at No. 80
East Capitol street, the city residence
of the mother of the murdered girl.
Smith has made full confession of the
crime and is held awaiting requisition
papers from Gov. Lowndes, of Mary
land. He admits that he attempted to
assault Miss Drown, who resisted until
he choked her into insensibility. Smith
seems to have followed exactly in the
lines OF the negro Ford, recently exc
cuted in this city for the murder OF Elsie
Kreglo. When he failed to accomplish
his purpose he cut his intended victims
throat to prevent her identifying him.
The Washington city police suspected
he would come to the East Capitol
street house, where he was formerly
employed, and they had the place
watched. When he reached there this
morning the authorities were notified
and he was arrested. He made no re-
sistance.
Secretary Herbert to-day disapprov-
ed with a qualification that he must
not do it again, the sentence in the case
of Assistant Paymaster Webster, l. ;.
n, who was courtmartialed for con-
duct unbecomiDg an officer and gentle
man, involving the failure to return
money which he had received from his
clerk.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Judge bidder, prominent Ohio demo
crat and pronounced gold money
man. He is utterly disguised with the
prevalence of the silver craze, as he
calls it, among the farmers in his State,
and says there is every probability OF
its success there. He says those pos
sessed of it seem to be beside them
selves, and that he had to leave oil the
gold bug he wore as badge, because
they would come up to him and after
inspecting it closely, would say it was
one of the bugs that got into their
wheat and almost destroyed its value.
1t is supposed that Convention Hall,
which has standing capacity of ten
thousand, will be engaged for MIR.
Bryan to speak in when he shall come
here next month. II the weather be
too warm, however, some of the com
mittee on arrangements say they will
build stand and shed with sounding
board, on the Malone lot, and let him
speak there.
All the candidates for Congressional
nomination in the 8th Virginia district
have been invited to the barbecue al
Falls Church next Tuesday, aud most,
if not all of them, it is said, will be pres
emit.
1t is currently reported here that the
federal officeholders have been given to
understand that such of them as may
vote against Bryan will not be molested.
John Sheridan, of West Virginia. who
was to-day appointed government d.
rector of the Union Pacific Railroad to
succeed Consul General Lee, lives at
Piedmont, w. Va, and is about %
years old. Until the last democratic
convention he was national commit
teeman from West Virginia. MIR. Sher-
idan is an experienced railroad man
and has large coal interests in his State,
being a member of the company OF
Black, Sheridan and Wilson. He has
been an active democrat in his State,
but has never held q public Office be-
fore. 1t was ascertained by inquiry of
Secretary Hoke Smith, under whose
department as Secretary of the Interior
the appointment falls, that he had not
been consulted in the matter, and that
he knew nothing of the appointment
until it was announced. Postmaster
General Wilson appears to have been
Mr. Sheridan's sponsor.
1t is positive fact that the president
of one of the leading national banks
here has become so alarmed by what
be has read in the Wall street newspa-
pers of the terrible work of the popu-
lists, that is of the democrats, according
to those papers, that be has confessed
his fear that they will come after him
and demand that he share his boarded
money with them.
Ex-Governor McCreary, and present
Congressman, from Kentucky, is here
today. He is classed among the
cuckoos, and says that no body cen
now tell how Kentucky is going, but
that the prevalent impression there on
the subject is that Bryan will carry it.
The feeling among the democrats there,
he saws, is that the members of the ma
tional democratic convention were fair
ly and regularly elected, and that as
they nominated ticket in perfect ac-
cordance with the usage of the party,
they, as good and true democrats, must
support it.
Well-informed New York and Balti-
more democrats here to-day speak ~
the most confident terms of the success
of the democratic ticket in both of their
cities and States also.
DR.. Kyle, ofBrandy station. Cuipeper
county, Virginia, has sent a dead pie to
the medical museum here, which il
truly two pigs liz one, as every ono of