Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-13
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Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
washington. Sentemher 13.

Minister WI at his call on he Stat,
department this morning said tina
China was now waiting for the power!
to move. Pekin had been taken anC
The ministers rescued; that part of the
work had been accomplished. The
powers hesitated to take the next step
/ this, he said, they were as SOW tC
action as they had previously charged
China with being He doubted wheth.
er the imperial family would teturn to
Pekin as long as the allied troops re-
NAMED there. They would certainly
be reluctant. 1t was probably for this
reason that Earl Ii had been given
plenary powers,
The War department hos placed the
transport Mcpherson at the disposition
OF the citizens relief committee of New
York to transport supplies 10 tn des
titute people OF Galveston. II is ex-
pected that the MCPHERSON will leave
within ~ hours and sail direct to Gal
weston. II is suggested that the relief
committees of cities 10 reach OF New
York by rail place themselves in touch
with the chairman OF the relief commit
tee of that city in order that clothing,
supplies and food be promptly forward
ed to Galveston.
The Light House Board this morning
ordered the lender Mangrove now at
Mobile to proceed to Galveston with
supplies for the relief of light house
stations on the Gulf coast.
The revenue cutter Galveston which
was at Galveston during the storm and
which it was feared was lost is safe.
Miss Clara Barton, accompanied by MIS-.
! Ellen Spencer Mussey and corps AZ assist
| ants, will leave Washington tonight for Hous.
| ton, Texas Th will arrive Saturday night
! at Houston, where stores will be ready for
them to distribute Miss Barton said this
morning that in her experience with floods
| she has new known a pestllence to follow q
| flood.
General Superintendent Kimball, Of the
| life saving service, received the following
dispstches this morning from Superintendent
Hutchins a. G weston: Keeper and five OF
the crew of Galveston station landed at Texas
City. One surfman and keepers wife missing,
supposed lost. No word IN, ID the other stations.
Fear worst. Cannot estimate loss of life
thousands" San Luis is the life saving sta.
ton al the extreme of tho island. Tbs other
di patch follows: Keeper at San Luis
station two surfmeD, wife and two children
arrived in surfboat. They report station
wrecked. Four snrfmen remain in portion
of bulldog still standing"
Senator Tillman. OF South Carolina,
is here today, on his way to Wscon.
siu, to speak for the democratic ticket.
He says he won out on every thing in
his own State at the recent election
there. In respect of North Carolina
affairs be says the Northern republic
cans had to have their howl but the
people of that State are tired of the
fuss and trouble and danger necessarily
incident TO Unrestricted negro suffrage,
and will have no more of it, and that
that fact may as we'll be recognized now
as ever.
Oae OF the best informed and pracii-
cal democratic politicians of the coun-
ry Col. Bright says that every thing
from Texas to Maine, and California to
New York, now looks as ii Mr.. Bryan
will be elected by an immense majority.
L. |. Green was appointed postmas-
Ter al Zaza, Essex county, Virginia. to-
dsy, vice G. L. Croxton, resigned.
Ex-senator German says he hopes to
90 able to address the demOcl ats Of
Lynchburg during the campaign, but
that he doesn't know now when he can
| do so.
Bettina Gerard, well known in Alex
andria, has been divorced from her
fifth husband, Philip Schuyler, and will
soon be married to Frank Turner, also
an actor.
From Alexandria county, across the
river, it ia learned that the ne 70 who
| assaulted and robbed the ticket agent
At Arlington junction and VINO is now
IN Jail will be indicted and convicted at
| the September term OF the court, and
that old Mr. Gamble who cut Conway
1t Jackson City will be indicted. Quite
plumber OF the young men Of the
county went to Fairfax Courthouse this
morning to ride in the tournament that
was held there this afternoon.
Colonel Bdndle, of Gloucester
county, New Jersey, who was receiver
OF pubic moneys 10 Kansas under the
Buchanan administration, IVES among
he golfers at democratic headquarters
today. He says most of the men in his
State of any account and who are re-
,pected by their fellow ciliz ns, have
come back to it, and will vote with
their old political associates. He als)
says that from all he sees and hears at
home, he is induced to believe, and not
merely to hope, that New jersey will
be- sgain included in the democratic
column. All the letters aud kilograms
received st headquarters this MOI ming
contained not only favorable but it,
spring intelligence and was to the
elf ct that DENT cratic prospects every
wnere were bright. From New York, it
was learned that cold caculators put
t a. state down for Bryan.
At the brokers' offices here today
stocks were quoted steady, wheat and
corn strong, and cotton stronger.
People from Gainesville. Virginia. here to-
day ray large crowd Is expected at the dem.
, ocratic flag raising and barbecue there to-
morrow. Mr.. &. N. Harper, president OF the
| Virginia democratic as, ociation OF the Die
trio of Columbia, will preside at the meeting
snt Mr.. Andrew Lipscomb Of BlexiDdria
| u.,u who mos pr. sid tial elpctor fOur