Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON, Sept. Is.

Correspondence OF the hie1anurA 7azette.J
WASHINGTON, Sept. Is.
Lord Chief Justice Russell, accompa-
MED by his wife and daughter, to-day
visited points of interest in this city.
United States Attorney General Har.
mon, Justice Harlan, of the United
States Supreme Court, and General "A.
w. Greedy, Chief of the Signal Service,
escorted the visitors. The party start
ed early, visiting the White House
shortly after nine o'clock. Lord Rus
sell went to Mt. Vernon this evening
on the electric cars.
Mr.. Lloyd Smith, Commonwealth's
Attorney for Northumberland county,
Virginia, and Mr.. Willard, member of
the legislature of that State from Fair
fax county, passed through here to-day
for Richmond, to hear Mr.. Bryan's
speech there tonight.
People from Richmond, now here,
say that Colonial John Popham, we'll
known in Alexandria, is now on the
stumpin Virginia, advocating the cleo
ton of Mr.. Mckinley.
Immediately upon the arrival of the
Bryan party in this city tomorrow at
ternoon, they will be taken to the Met
| ropolitan Hotel for luncheon. An i'm
| promptu reception will also be held
there. The meeting will be called to
order at o'clock by Thomas 3. Kalb-
fus, chairman of the general committee.
Col. James G. Berret, will be perma'
nent chairman. In addition to the
Presidential candidate, addresses will
be made by Mr.. jeff. Chandler, Sena'
tor Faulkner, Mr.. Andrew Lipscomt
and Mr.. Thomas F. Grady, of New
| York. An immense crowd is expected
and if the weather be favorable viii
certainly be present. 1t will be com
posed not only of the people of this
city, but of all the surrounding country
While the seats on the stand can only
be had on tickets, admission to the
ground will be free, and the speaking
can be heard just as other speakers are
on the court greens in Virginia
Though there are comparatively few
seats on the stand, the demand for them
is not only importunate but unreason
able, one Ale1andrian asking for 81
many as three hundred. He got one
Vice. President Stevenson has been invited
and has accepted the invitation, to presid
over the meeting of the National Democrati
Club Association at st. Louis on the 3rd proI
limo. Mr. Stevenson is as much in favor o
the democratic ticket as Mr.. Cleveland is op
posed to it. Mr.. Cleveland has had little o
no use for either OF the good and true demo
cratic Vice Presidents who were elected witt
him. He you'd not even 90 to the funeral o
the first one, Mr.. Hendricks.
J. P. Barney was appointed postmaster a
Meadowville, Chesterfield county, Va to-day
vice n. V. Clayton, resigned.
Among the letters received at demOcrati
headquarters this morning was one from tn
chairman Of the State democratic committee o
Missouri, in which he says his State is sur
for Bryan by large majority and probabl,
will send solid free silver delegation to Con
gress.
People from Pocahontas, here to-day, sa.
the depression in the coal business there Ia
affected politics, and that the feeling in favo
of free silver has increased there and is still
on the rise.
A letter received here this morning iron
Mr.. Garrett, chairman of the democratic com
mittee Of Loudoun county, Va. says, in OF
feet, that free silver is all the go there, tina
many of the voters in the Quaker settlement
there will vote for free silver, and that
proper e1ertion be made the county will Civ
her old-time thirteen hundred majority 10
the demo cratic ticket.
Passengers from the Valley Of Virginia VIII
arrived here to-day on tho train from Stras
burg say there WAS q furious haistorm Their
early this morning which broke much of tn
glass in the windows there and did other SORT
of damage in that locality. They say the.
don't think the storm crossed the Shenandoah
| river.
Norfolk people hero gay that Mr.. Young
who was nominated fol- Congress by the dem
ocrats of that district yesterday is very popu
lar and will make an excellent snd ethcen
representative He was formerly clerk OF thu
| court in Norfolk.
The Palmer and Buckner club of Indianap
oils has decided to vote for Mckinley and Ho
bart, thus boiling their own ticket The
boiling faith in the members OF that club must
be strong indeed.
Miss Margot Hobart, niece of MI Garrel
! A. Hobart, the republican candidate for Vice
| President, made her debut in the Theatrical
profession with Chss. E Blaney's "a Boy
| Wanted Company playing at the Opera
| House here last night, and did tolerably well
| in the small part assigned her.
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