Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
A telegram was received at army
headquarters to-day announcing the
death of Captain Addison Barrett, mill
tary storekeeper, Quartermaster's De-
partment, at San Francisco, yesterday
of pneumonia. He was born liz Mas
sachusetts, and entered the service as
q sergeant in 1862. He was brevelted
a major of volunteers in 1865 for gallant
and meritorious services during the
war. He is the last of the military
storekeepers in the Quartermaster's
Department, Congress having provided
for the abolition of this grade with the
death of the incumbents.
The President to-day made the fol-
lowing appointments: James A.
Keaton, of Oklahoma, to be associate
Justice of the Supreme Court Of the
Territory of Oklahoma; Robert A.
Habersham, of Portland, Oregon. to
be surveyor general of Oregon, John
G.. Cowie, Of Pennsylvania, to be mar
shall of the Consular Court of the
United States at Tientsin, China: and
Otto Fries to be gunner in the navy.
The democratic campaign book of
1896 has been completed. The book
begins with the admonition of Jeffer-
son in his first inaugural address, to
bow to the will of the majority.
Assistant Secretary Hamlin Of the
Treasury Department has gone to Buzz.
Yards Bay. Secretaries Carlisle and
Francis are there now and Secretary
Oiney is within easy reach. 1t is be-
lieved here that conference is i'm
pending to determine the position the
administration will assume towards
government officials who are taking
the stump in favor of the Chicago nom
inees and have been criticising the ad-
ministration.
Judge Fleming, who spoke in Alex
andria last night, says he never ad-
dressed more attentive and apprecia-
tive audience, and that if the working
men of all the other cities of the coun.
try be as intelligent and could under.
stand points as readily as those who
listened to him on that occasion, Mr.
BRYAN would be as good as elected.
The Judge will speak at King George
Court House on the Sd OF October and
at Fredericksburg on the Both inst.
Judge Rixey, democratic candidate
for Congress in the Alexandria district,
and Mr.. Lipscomb, democratic elector
for that district, spoke at Falls Church
last night. They say the assistant re-
publicans will cut no figure in their
district, and that the free silver ticket
will receive a large majority there.
Mr.. Seymour White, of Fredericksburg,
who addressed the voters of Lancaster
county, Va, yesterday, passed through
here to-day. H says every voter in
Lancaster warts TO know all he Can
about the silver question.
Messrs. Stilson Hutchings and JEFF
Chandler of this city will speak in
Richmond this week if the State demo
cratic committee will appoint a time
and place.
Mr.. J. D. Smith of the fusion electors
Of Minnesota was at democratic head
quarters here to-day. He gays not only
his State, but the whole Northwest is
in favor of free silver.
A letter received at democratic head
quarters to-day from the secretary of
State of Iowa says that State is perfect
ly safe; similar news reaches there from
from Nebraska, and letter from Texas
says the fusion of the republicans, pop
ulists and goldites there may reduce
the democratic majority to one hundred
thousand.
A row of frame buildings in what is
known as "Hell's Kitchen, in south
west Washington, was destroyed by
fire between eight and nine o'clock this
morning.
A rumor that Attorney General Har.
mon has called for the resignation OF
Joseph Il. Crouch, Assistant United
States District Attorney for West ylr-
ginia. cannot be confirmed at the De-
partment of Justice, as Mr.. Harmon is
away on his vacation. Mr.. Crouch Is
running for Circuit Judge in his State
on the democratic ticket and the story
goes that he has been asked to either
give up his Office or surrender his can
didacy. The belief is expressed by Off
Gals at the Department of Justice, that,
while some correspondence on the SUBJ
ject has taken place, no final decision
in the matter has been reached.