Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-09
Letter from Richmond

lOOlTe5pUnueHUe u CDe LAlS6ROu.!G UaEetts.
RICHMOND, Va, December 1.-The use Of
the ball of tho House of Delegates was granted
to-day to ". W. Berry, esq, who will lecture
Tuesday night on ''The Comic Side of Life"
Mr.. Berry was at oro time editor Of the Rich
mond Enquirer. and a gentleman we'll calculated
to know the comic side Of life. Some Of bis
stump speeches duriog the Walker ampaigu
we're worthy Of Vance.
MIR. Hunter, Ct Alexandra, was prompt this
session in getting bis dog bali before the house.
A stranger coming to Richmond just now
would BIO struck at once with the lact that tho
Legislature is meeting under the new salary re-
duction bill. The hotels are comparatively de.
serted, and the membsr who ooce discoutsed
politics and smoked cigars in tbs gay crowd
throusing the hotel corridors now sips his tea
and BAYS sweet nothiogs to tho boarding house
keepers pretty daughter. While this may not
be so legislature like. still it may be said to have
softenlpg Influence on some of the most obdu-
rate bachelors il the General Assembly,
1t can be said 10 all trulh that there are
many members who really did not desire to
come back this gear, aad when they did come
they came for bu.iness-no doubt about that,
Therefore it is safe to say that much real Juai
ness will be transacted this session.
The prospects CT tho James River Railroad
are improving, and the passage of the bill is
now probable. lt will meet With some olDosl
ton 10 the House, aud probably none in th@
Senate.
Fer the benefit OF the publ; schools aal tho
anxious teachers therein it may b9 stated that
the schools will be placed On mere secure basis
bn ,DE 40. N bn cic
will get their money, There is 20 division #
sentiment on Ibis poiIt, read ulster aud debt
payer being alike agreed that tie schools must
be saved, although difftring ia the mode ct
doing so.
Your correspondent Was struck with What
has seemed to be a willingness 90 the part of
both factions 10 the legislature to come together
ADD he so remarked to live me1nbor. 'Ah |"
said the member, these are only little legislative
courtesies thas are due. There ere sunG things
in the legislative life that newspaper men eau
not understand 90 there are some hlngS smc9g
the newspaper men that Legislators csunCE uu-
derstaud. You just wait until s5tIl: q month
and there will BIZ the dashdcs5 iir2o you ever
saw"
10 body az large So the Legislature Of Er
ginia if reporter keeps bis cars on the alert
he can geoersly bear one good story. And so
it was when a Senator Stepped 10 the Huuao
this morning he was sccosed by Delegate
from cvuaty 10 the Alexandria Senatorial dis.
trict who ut onoa proceeded to tel! MS traihe,
members q good story 90 the Senator. The
Senator he 5aid was recently speaklng az =
Lu5lic meeting ct which there were old ard
youug ladies. some Of whom were loud 10 their
applause of the hits made by the Senator Who
is handsome man. Somehow tie Senator
undertook to say word to the male portion q
bis audience aud begao to take up in coId way
for those men who Sometimes Indulge s little toe
much in the ardent and be concluded ir this
ay:-"We eli my friends the ladies' sometimes
indulge too and that's what's tha meter with
Hannah.
Then from enoDg the front bench lead OF
hoopskirts and silks rose Ia ms ,sIl5 faTy the
form Of spiDster we'll preserved, cpd ~ sue
stood up ia the assembly the river breeze "a
looseued her hair and added the fioi5hag tou,h
es to this strange sepescence Of g WoEan yct
imbued with fire of wild Meg Mcir2cs herseit,
She rushed upon the astonishea speaker aud as
she brought her p.raso! down ca hi upi!'ie!
head she said I'LL teach you how to say
am druuk. Yoa ara a base liar" Her pane
was Miss Hannah.
1t is understood that D.. Robioso1, ot Nor.
folk, will oppose the James River Railroad bill
when it gets 10 the House. This will be the
frs. subject perhaps upon which there will be
any debate.
Several Of the judges of the Cltclit Courts
Who are TO be elected ia few days will have
opposition, but what tie s:rcogth OF II - can
not yet bs determined.