Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-09

to-day was secretary Lamont, VINO Is
understood 10 have gone to New York
yesterday intending 20 return this after
noon. Secretary Olney stayed at the
: White House an hour before resuming
MS work at the State Department. The
! meeting to-day was said TO be Of al IL
| formal character.
The final session OF the annual con-
vention of the National Association OF
Life Underwriters, was held here to-
day. Milwaukee was selected as the
next meeting place The following off,
GERS for the ensuing year were elected ::
President, D. :. Hendrick, Washington,
D. c.: Secretary. E. ". Christy, Cleve-
land: Treasurer, Eli D. Week, Itch
! field, Conn. The convention adjourned.
The mystery about the runored sale
OF the Saacoast Line is as great as ever,
and Mr.. Elliott, one OF the presidents
ri that line, who passed through here
| this morning on his way TO Richmond,
| said ne was certain the Southern Rail-
way Is not the purchaser.
The Virginia democratic association
OF this city is the only one ofthe several
democratic organizations here whose
certificates deportation, for regis
tration and election purposes, don't
have 70 be endorsed st democratic
| headquarters.
Mr.. White, chairman OF the demo-
cratic committee OF Fauquier county,
who was here yesterday evening, says
the democratic party in his county was
never il better condition than it is now.
and that Bryan will get a larger ma
jority there than is usual.
Il is announced that shortage Of
between $1,000 and $1,000 has been
found in the accounts OF DR.. A. c. Pat
terson. the assis; Mt physician IN
charge OF the criminal ard homicicsl
wards OF the Government Hospital for
the Insane on the outskirts OF this city.
known as ST. Elizabe Alum. The
deficit does not come out of govern
nent funds, but out of sums paid by pri-
vate patients. DR.. Patterson, his friends,
and DR.. Godding, the Superintendent,
OF the Asylum, the letter Of whom Is
the bonded disbursing officer OF the in
stitution, have already made good the
deficiency.
4 private letter received here to-day
from ex-Congressman Goode OF Vir-
GINA, now receiver OF broken nation
al bank at B=dfrd, in his State,
says the farmer IN all that region
seem to be una inously in favor Of
free silver.
Senator Money OF Mississippi is inst
here from ST. Louis, having stopped Oh
the way to make speech in West Vir
GINA. He says the South is solid for
Bryan, and that the only doubtful State
in the entire West is Iowa. He looks
upon Bryans election as an assured
fact and says suc1 is the general i'm
preston in the West.
/ K. T. HUBBARD was appointed post
master at Boiling, Buckingham county
Va, to-day, vice T. E. Miller, resigned
All the political news received here
from Ohio il to the effect that thai
STATE will go for Bryan at next months
election, and so certain are the ricf
democrats OF Ohio living here that such
will be the case, that one OF them, Mr.
Mclean, yesterday sent to national
democratic headquarters in Chicago the
largest check tha, has so far been re-
ceived there.
1t is reported il re that such letter
has been sent By me administration &c
Consul General Crittenden at Mexico
now home on iurlough, in relation tc
the information he has given the public
in respect OF wages aud the cost Of iv
ing in Mexico. that he will resent it by
resigning his position.
billiard F. Regland, who was to have
been married in Atlanta next Wednes.
dav, committed suicide here to-day by
inhaling gas.
The following extract is from speech de-
li7ercd by Mr. Wm. Mckinley. OF Ohio, il
the House Of Representatives, May I, 1890
and will be found on page 1855. volume u,
par. ), Congressional RscDrd, last session
When merchanfise is the cheapest men are
the poorest, and the most distressing expert
ences in the history OF our country-aye, il
al human history-have been when every
thing was the lowest and cheapest measured
By gold, for everything vas the highest and
the deare:t when measured b. labor"