Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-25
what newspaper in Virginia has doaed
it's readers with more, and worse
politics than the Richmond Times:
FROM WASHINGTON.
TCorrespondence Of the Alexandra dazette.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. %.

WASH1NGTON, OCt. -.
SIT. Clements has been appointed
postmaster at Friends Mission, va.
George S. Hobbs, auditor of the
Southern Railway, has resigned to take
effect at the end of this month, to De-
come general auditor of the Main Cen.
trail Railroad. He was elected to TINS
Office at meeting Of the Maine Central
directors at Portland on October 70.
He has been here three years. Presi-
dent Spencer has not yet announced
his successor. VII.
twas stated positively at the White
House and at the State Department
that up to noon to-day the answer OF
Spain to the United States had not
reached the President or Secretary
Sherman, nor had they received the
cable communication which it is said
Minister Woodford sent from Madrid
last Saturday. Secretary Sherman did
not come to the White House during
the morning, and Assistant Secretary OF
State Day has gone to Ohio, so that
there was no opportunity for confer
ence on the Spanish-Cuban situation,
Attorney General Mckenna was with
the President for quarter OF an hour,
presumably in reference to Union PACING
hallway affairs. Although the Spanish
answer has not reached the President,
the expectation about the White House
is that he will be advised on the SUE
iect during the day. If Minister Wood
| ford has sent q lengthy cable on the
subiect it will be communicated as soon
| as the cipher can be translated:
The famous Judge J. T. Mackay,
formerly of South Carolina, who re-
Gently addressed the Virginia demo
cratic association of this city, is now
making republican speeches in Mary
land at the request, he says, OF Post
master General Gary.
The conservative people of this city
of both parties are utterly opposed te
the jineoism and 6iibusterism that are
prevalent here, and say the Territorle;
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma
should be admitted as States into the
Union before Hawaii and CUBA, anc
criticise the action OF men 10 the ser
vice of the United States taking promi
nent parts in ovations to escaped
Cuban prisoners. 49,.
The city is bare of Virginia politi
clans to-day of either party, and no pc
litical intelligence from that State i:
attainable.
The administration persists in its de
termination to sell the Union Pacific
Railroad to the Morgan syndicate a
the appointed time and thereby to sub
| iect the people of the country to the los
of twenty million dollars; but it mus
not be forgotten that that loss is leglii
mate result of the last administration
A change in the schedule of the Mt
Vernon Railroad will soon be made, by
which there will be one more morning
train from Mt. Vernon-and the hours
of some of the other trains be altered
A ticket station will also be established
at st. Asaph.
| Owing to the continued business depression
| and the rumors of war with Spain, stocks anc
| bonds have experienced another fall. Ever
| those who deal in such securities here nov
| concede that prosperity has not arrived.
A conference OF some of the democrats in
terested in the Maryland campaign was hell
here Saturday night, at which every one VIII
was present said that from all he could leari
the tight had already been won, aud was $
conceded even by his republican fiien9s
Some of the most prominent of the latter in
Guiding the republican U. S. Senator from
that State, they said, have given up the Stat
as irretrievably lost, for this year at least
The impression Of tho,e here most familia
with the subject is that nothing will be done il
the matter of the Cuban affair until Congress
shall assemble and consider that matter.
The engagement of Miss ALICE Belknap
daughter of General Grants Secretary o
War. and MI Paul May, formerly one of tn
attaches of the Belgian legation here, ha
been declared of. Mr., May is Hebrew snt
rich. ~,
Unless he is reappointed, Prof. Fanciulli'
engagement as leader OF the Maine Bant
will terminate next Saturday.