Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.
The chief and, indeed, only topic OF
here to-day is the possible
result of the election now in progress,
aud about that, all is speculation, no
one man knowing more than any other.
There is no doubt of the fact, however,
that while the democrats are hopeful,
the republicans are anxious. up to
three o'clock this afternoon nothing
had been received by telegraph that
would indicate the result in either
Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky or New
York city. 49,.
An Alexandria county man here this
M ,rning said the roads in that county
That were repaired last summer and
this fall, nominally, with sand and
gravel, are in worse condition than
thew were before, as the recent rams
have washed out the gravel, and the
clay on them is so cut up and mucky
az to be almos. impossible.
Messrs. Frank Hume and James h.
Clements, of Alexandria county, who
voted in their respective districts 10 day,
saw small vote was polled in each by
either democrats or republicans and that
many of the republicans, black as we'll
as white, voted the democratic ticket.
A negro ex.State Senator from the 9TH
Congressional district named Wor.
sham here to-day, says his peo-
Pile did not vote. Mr.: LOUIS
Winston and another white democrat
of Richmond, who were here this morn
ing, said there was no use IN their
staying home.to vote. as the democratic
ticket was safe. All the intelligence in
respect of the election in Virginia that
has reached here today is to the
effect that little or no interest
is manifested in it by the democrats,
end less by the republicans. Compare
lively few Virgiuians went from here
to vote at their homes, aud one of them
applied to the Virginia democratic
association of this city for the use Of
q bicycle to reach his voting place, and
another one for transportation as far as
Four Mile Run.
Among the visitors here to day is Dr.
Bradley of Prince William county, Vir.
ginia, who has recently returned from
the Isthmus of Panama, where he was
q. S. commercial agent, which Office
has now been abolished. The Doctor
spent two years Of continuous service
on the isthmus without any apparent
injury to his health.
AT the Office of the commissioner o.
internal revenue to-day it was stated
that no application for the removal o.
the Office OF the internal revenue collec
tor for the lower district OF Virgins
from Richmond to Petersburg had YET
been received there.
One of the recommendations WITCH
8 cretary Alger will make in his an
nual report will be ln relation tc
tbs reorganization OF military bands
The bands in the United States army
at the present time are the same a;
they were forty years age. Each con
siss of % men, two detailed from each
company. They are allowed Sl5 pei
month, the ordinary pay of an enlisted
soldier. The musical unions protest
against the employment of these mer
either as band or individually whel
they come in competition with them
selves. The Secretary will recommend
adequate compensation Tor those who
are engaged as musicians at differen
posts and for different regiments. he
will also recommend that bands be In
creased to 80 or &c pieces. 1t is proba
BILE that salary of $50 per month vii
be recommended for the leader and no
less than S25 for any member OF The
military bands.
The Agricultural Departments
monthly crop bulletin to-day says: "A'
whole the month proved very fay
orable for gatbe ring outstanding crops
more particularly cotton and corn, bu
in the States of the central valleys wa!
too dry for following, seeding arc
termination of grain. AT the close o
the month nearly the whole of the cot
ton crop had been gathered. Scarcity O
labor interfered with picking il
Mississippi and Louisiana, and rains
have caused some injury to the crop
over the eastern portions of the Caro-
linas ard Virginia. In Arkansas and
Texas the crop is turning out better
than anticipated.