Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorrsspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Oct. Z.


Mr.. Ryan of Loudoun county, Vir-
GINA. was here for snort time to-day.
He says politics are very quiet 10
his county now, even among the repub-
]icans who seem to be active in other
parts of the State. At their last meet
ing there, he says, none of the promi-
nent members of the party in Leesburg,
he hears, took enough interest in it TO
be present. Mr.. Ryan speaks very con-
fdently of his own reelection as Speak.
or of the House of Delegates Of his
State.
The two factions of the republican
marty in Prince Georges county, Mary
lAud, have, they say to-day, made an
agreement by which they can poll a
united vote next month. But as
that agreement involves the withdraw
al of some Of the nominees of each fac
ton, and as none of them wants to
withdraw, the impression of some OF
the republicans of that county who
come here is that the division between
the two wings is as wide as ever.
A New York democrat who arrived
here this morning says there are ru-
mors ahoat there of deal there be-
tween Senator Plat and Mr.. Croker,
and that the probable outcome will be
the election of Mr.. George as mayor OF
that city, as he stands squarely on the
Chicago platform and will therefore at.
tract all the democratic vote except
that which is purchasable.
Secretary Long. fearing that the per-
sistent aggressions of this country and
the bullying disposition it manifests
towards all other nations will produce
their legitimate effect, has recommend
ed in his annual report an appropria-
ton of $3.50, 100000 for ammunition for
the navy.
Chairman Jones of the national dem
ocratic committee is here to-day. He
is by no means enthusiastic over the
Tammany nomination in New York
and thinks it has too much of the silk
stocking and mugwump element in it.
He says be and all other good demo
Gratis are as much in favor of free silver
and all the other planks of the Chicago
platform now as ever.
Mr.. McCaull, the republican nominee
for Governor of Virginia, has returned
from Lynchburg. He laughs at what
the Agnew wing of his party say about
the convention that nominated him, and
says it is as devoid of reason as it is OF
fact. The headquarters of his party,
be says, will be established in Rich
mond and be in charge of Mr.. Wickham,
and that he, McCaull, will make a
thorough canvass OF the whole State,
delivering sometimes as many as three
speeches day. he Is in good spirits
and is confident of polling the full
strength of his party.
A Virginia republican here to-day
Sho had read in this correspondence
some daye ago of the large number of
empty houses in New York and Phila-
delphia, says he is just from both those
cities and that the number stated is
under rather than oYerestimated, a real
estate agent in the latter telling him
there are forty, instead of twenty,
thousand such houses in that city.
Whether that indicates property or
the reverse, he says, he doesn't know,
but that it is true he is firmly convinced.
The commissioner of pensions issued
the following order to-day: Hereafter
no attorney shall be permitted to ex-
anime the reports of examining sur
geons in any pension claim except
upon the personal order of the COM
missioner or of one of the deputy CON-
missioners."
The President to-day appointed the
following consuls: Rufus Fleming, OF
Ohio, at Edinburgh; Samuel A. Macal-
lister, of Delaware, at Barbados; W..
W. Ashby, of Spotsylvania county,
Va, at Colon; Edward Nye, of Dan
vile, ILL.,, at Hankow. Mr.. Ashby was
endorsed By the Agnew wing of the
Virginia republicans.
There were large number OF callers
at the White House to-day, but only q
few saw the President as he spent a
great portion of the forenoon with AS
sistant Secretary Day of the State De.
partment, who is practically the head
of that department.
Surgeon General Wyman's bulletin sum-
mariaing the yellow fever situation for yes
terday gives the results as follows; New
Orleans 46 new cases, 5 deaths; Scranton,
10 cases, no deaths Edwards; 16 cases. l
death; Biloxi cases, death; Mobile, a
cases, no deaths Nitta Yuma, 1 case, 1 death !;
Ocean Springs, no cases, no deaths.
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