Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-06
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.]

rcorrespondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.
Mr.. Frank Hume, one of the largest
wholesale and retail grocers in this
city, being asked this morning if the
alleged revival of business had affected
his trade, said it had not and he
didn't believe it had improved that of
ANYBODY else. In the fall of the year,
he said, storekeepers had to lay in sup
plies. or close up, and that, therefore,
their purchases were little increased,
but that the sales this autumn did not
even equal those of the fall of last year.
The President to-day appointed Au-
gustus G. Seyfert, of Pennsylvania,
consul at Stratford, Ontario.
The daily bulletin sent out to-day by
the Surgeon General of the Marine
Hospital Service shows the new cases
of yellow fever yesterday to have been
as follows: New Orleans, IS; Biloxi, s;
Scranton, 2; McHenry, 2; Edwards, 9;
Militia Yuma, 1. There we're no new
cases at Ocean Springs. The only
deaths reported were two at New Or
leans and one at Edwards.
Two officers of the engineer corps,
Major Powell and Major Rossell, the
latter in charge of river and harbor
works in Florida, have declined offers
to become Captain Carter's successor
on the Nicaragua Canal Commission;
No further tenders of the position will
be- made, but an officer will be selected
and ordered to the duty. The engl-
neer officers do not like to 60 because
there was considerable vigorous criti-
cism of Col. Ludlow in Congress on ac-
count of the conclusions reached by
the commission.
Among the indicted persons arraign'
ed before Chief Justice Bingham to-day,
was Thomas Varrick Hawkins, colored,
who the S1st of last August robbed the
safe of Collector Davis of nearly $4,000
and fled to Canada. He plead guilty.
Mr.. J. S. Scanlon, of this city, recent
Iy appointed vice consul at Jamaica,
died there of yellow fever recently.
Some of the delegates to the Lynch
burg convention have returned here
and express themselves as delighted
with every, thing that took place
there. They say that fully ninety per
cent. of the Virginia republicans were
represented there and that the national
administration must recognize it as the
true representative of the republican
party in the State. They say Mr.. Nc
Kinley cannot afford to ignore the ma
tive born members of the party in Vir.
ginia and bestow all his favors upon
men who have come to their State from
the North and who fought against it dur
ing the war. They also say that though
General Walker was not there in per
son, he was in spirit, and that they are
assured he is with them, heart and soul.
Beginning next Sunday morning a
fast mail train will be run over the
Pennsylvania Railroad every day from
New York to Washington, scheduled
to leave New York at 2:10 a. m. and
arrive in Washington at 7:40. This
will enable the publishers of all the
leading dalies in New York to place
their papers on sale here several hours
earlier than heretofore and to make
direct connections with the west and
south at this point.
Congressman Lamb of Richmond was here
re terday. He says the only thing his party
| in his State has to guard against at the com.
| ing election is the listlessness naturally
caused by the lack of opposition. His party,
| he says, has nothing to divide it, and is solid
| and if anything, more in favor Of silver than
ever.
A democratic member of Congress now
| here said to-day it seemed to him as il
Mr.. George would be elected Mayor
of New York, and he hoped he would
be- as he stood on the Chicago platform,
| which must be the democratic platform
| until changed by the next national democratic
convention. The majority rule, he said, is
| the foundation principle of democracy, and
| the idea of men calling themselves democrats,
! repudiating that principle, is absurd.
There were many callers at the White
House to day. VIM. B. Plunkett, of North
Adams, Mass, whom President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley visited on their recent trip, was the
guest of tho President at breakfast this morn
ing Col. John n. Taylor and wife, of East
Liverpool, o , who are old friends OF the Pres
ident and Mrs. Mckinley are guests at the
White House. They will remain several
days. Col. Taylor is one of the largest pot
terry manufacturers in the country. Among
the consular appointments which will be an
nounced in the near future will be that of
Rufus Fleming, of ohia, as consul at Edin-
burgh, Scotland. Mr.. Fleming is managing
editor of the Cincinnati Times.S'ar.
Virginia democrats, here to-day, say it is
pretty we'll settled that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
will run against Senator Martin when the
election shall take place. and that there is q
good deal of curiosity in that State as to
whether he will continue his fearful silence"
as Mr.. Lloyd Smith terms it, on the silver
question. They say that unless he shall
abandon the goldites and come out squarely
in favor of the Chicago platform, he will
stand small chance of success, as those who
are not with them, are against them.