Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-01
serted last fall. have put up a ticket of
their own for the coming election.
Their vote will be small, but their ma.
lignancy is venomous.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. l.

While the Southern Railway Com.
psny sustained a good deal of loss by
The recent destruction of the power
house here, it was fully insured, except
for the plans and drawings fits bridges.
It has secured Office room for it's clerks
who were employed in the burnt build
ing. 10 the National Theatre, the Postal
Telegraph and the Corcoran buildings.
Collector Brady, of the lower inter.
nal revenue district of Virginia, was
here this morning. He seems to think
that the Lynchburg convention will not
cut much of figure in Virginia poll
tics, but that it would have been better
for the republican party there it it were
not to be held. Mr.. McCaull, however,
who is also here, says the figure cut by
the convention will be such an one as
will open the eyes of the President to
the deception that has been practiced
upon him by the executive committee,
all of whom either hold Office or hope
to do 80. Langston, the negro ex.Con-
gresham from the Petersburg, Va,
district, but now living here, is one of
the delegates to the convention appoint
Ell by the Virginia republican club OF
this city, and will attend with other
delegates from the same club. He says
that, owning eight thousand dollars
worth of property in Virginia, he natn.
rally has some interest in the State and
in the republican party thereof.
An Ohio democrat now in the city, in
talking to-day about the alleged pros.
perity that Assistant PostmasterGen
Heath reports as so prevalent in that
State that every body has caught bag
fulls of it, says he is pretty conversant
with affairs there, and that his own
knowledge and that of all his friends Is
directly contrary to what MIR. Heath
says, and that all the talk of renewed
prosperity is for effect upon next
months election.
New York democrats here to-day
say that while the platform adopted by
their party there last night did not en-
dorse the Chicago platform as it should
have done, its nominee for Mayor is q
silver man and that the ticket will be
supported by every democrat in the
city who has the success of his party at
heart.
The taking of testimony in the case
of the lease of the North Carolina Rail
road by the Southern Railway Com
PAW has been concluded here and been
resumed at Raleigh. Nothing was
educed here to prove that the lease was
INVALID in any particular.
The return of the President has
brought back large numbers of office
seekers. Among them is Senator De.
Doe, of Kentucky, who wants to fulfill
some of his promises to the republicans
of his State. He says the result of the
election there next month will be close.
AS people here have very little to do
now, large crowds still surround the
scene of the late fire and watch the
fall of the walls that are being blown
down by dynamite.
The official reports to Surgeon Cen
eral Wyman of the Marine Hospital
Service regarding the progress of yell
low fever in the South show the follow.
ing results yesterday; New Orleans, "a
new cases, 3 deaths; Edwards, Miss,
80 new cases, no deaths; Biloxi, Miss.
"a cases, death; Mobile, Ala, 6 cases,
l death; McEnery, Miss, 2 new cases,
no deaths; Ocean Springs, no new cases
and no deaths.
The following fourth class Virginia
postmasters we're appointed to-day !:
Atlee, Gideon Flippo, Gladesboro, Mrs.
Mary G. Marshal; Longhollow, Mrs.
Jennie 81. Pratt.
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures
during September shows the receipts to
have been SCI 1888 ,096, and the expen-
ditures $25, 368,815, an excess of ex-
penditures over receipts of s., 435, III.
For the three months of the fiscal year
the excess has been $29, 0l5,954.
The President to-day appointed Newton c.
Bates, o. s. N, Surgeon General and Chief of
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the
Navy He succeeds Surgeon General Tryon.
John Wedderburn and Company Of this
city to day were disbarred from practice be-
fore the interior Department as patent attor.
neys or agents. The action of Commissioner
Botterworth is based on section 487 of the
Revised Statutes The firm is held to have
been guilty of gross fraud and unprofesson-
al conduct" The Postmaster General has
been notified of the finding, which was made
after q long investigation following COM
plaints of other attorneys who filed charges
against the firm,
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, accom-.
panied by Representatives Bingham and
Wanger, State Chairman Elkius, State Sena-
tor Scott and DR.. F. NJ. Brundage, of Luz
zerne county, called upon the President to.
day and urged the appointment of Henry D.
,aylor to diplomatic position in South
America, and DR.. F. NJ. Brundsge to a con.
sulats.
Secretary Long has instructed Admiral ST.
card, commanding the North Atlantic squad.
ron, now at Yorktown, Va, to have all of the
vessels of the squadron rendezvous at Boston
before the 21st of Oc.ober to be present dur.
ing the celebration of the centenary of the
launching of the United States frigste Con-
stitution.
The Cabinet meeting to-day WAS devoted
almost entirely to the consideration OF the
Span:hh situation and other foreign affairs
At the conclusion of the meeting one of those
who attended it ssid that the discussion had
not eveutusted in anything definite and that
no immediate action would follow.
Bannadine Di Nunzio, who was recently
arrested at Hartford, Conn, charged with O
felonious assault on little Dora Ak, was
brought to this city this morning and later
committed to Jail.
DIsCARDED GIRLS SUIcIDE.-At
Bluefelds, W. Va, Lettie Stevenson,
the seventeen-year-old daughter of a.
s. Stevenson, of Graham, committed
suicide Wednesday night because her