Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-18
VIRGINIA NEWS,

VIRGINIA NEWS.
new poatotioe will be estabishtd in 8 lev
dsys OF Olive, Culpepcr county, balweeu Crl-
pepper q. II. and Homeland, with Z. w. Haw.
klos as postmaster.
From statement Of the condition Ct the f.
natc!s OF Winchester We learn that the hordsd
dobt OF That city is $40 900. and TIC annual i'm
| ter%st thereon is s., l35-s largo portion Of tho
debt bearing per cant interest.
The Count do Sibourg has b5tn Irnuutcd
| from tho consulship at Kiobmvnd to tho French
consulate at Baltimore. Whether the ctfiao
10 HIcbmond will DO closed or !slt in charso oil
a subordinate remains to DO seen.
! The board Ct directors of tho nuv bank ct
| BtryyIllo met recently aud exceed Mr.. A.
! Moore, IT,. president, and Capt. j. X. Nuau,
cashier The institution will bs knowa es the
bank of Clarke Couuty, and it wilI be opened
of business about the first Of NEXT April.
Ia view of tho destruction in birds 10 tbs vi
clnlty OF lInrag, Pege county, by the hard win
ter and deep soo4, q subscli plion list hay been
circulated among lovers of huuIing to raisc
fund for purchasing birds in other States. The
subscrptlon so iar will purchase over tbous.
and birds.
! MIR. Goodc, Hho is o member of the York
town commlssou, has rtceivtd O letter from
General Garfield % tho sui cot Of tho cele-
bratlon. IN which tho President elscs expresses
much iotcres: 10 the coming centennial osIcbra
ton, and says that he will do all ia his po1cr
to mako 1t success.
| Noedham Z. freeman. OF Dinwiddie couuty,
was Indie cd at Richmond yesterday Ter forgery
10 connection with postal money orders.
ITO vas at once put on trisI aud pesded guilty.
he will DO sentet cd to day. H 8 w;f1 and
four little children, taO of thom twin babies,
were 10 court.
| Tho Richmond core sponieot of tho Pstert.
burge lndex-Appeal says: There Is cousid-
cradle loterce! manifested 10 rcadjuser S:ato
official C roles IS to who will be the nominee of
tho reacilster gubernntorial convention. 1t
seemed to be c,ncsdel until T,cIutIg that Au-
ditor John Il. Massey one of tho pioneers of
that peculiar poIi'icsl faith in Virginia would
bc honorcd with that distinction almost without!
opposition. Sioco the last election, however,
and particularly withlo the past two months, the
irlcldj OF that official do not seem to DO so sure
OF bis ability to stclre tho nomuali9u. 1t is
said that Gen. Mshoue prefers that his utina,o
personal friend and political coad tutor, Gel. W.
Il. Cameron, tho present mayor Of Petersburg,
should BIO tho party'5 staadard bearer in tho
approaching Contest IT this BIO true, that geo
tleman will probably have az advantage ever
Massey before coaventon, although tic latter
Is certainly the stronger Of the tw, before thu
people.
| WASHINGTON FRUGALlTY. - Washington
6:ys correspondent, is described by sensational
ootrespoLd,uts as a city of extravaganza and
almost Arabian Nights luxury. In reality it
is 6 city Of frugal salaries and Ct a CONSTANT
etfors to liva i0sie of them. DO not think
any of our present Cabinet officers live bayond
their official iucomas, exscpt, perhaps, the SEQ.
rotary of Stste, WHO has mary daughters, and
whose house is largo aud must be very eXpen-
slvc. and who has to mako up 10 tho diplomatic
c'rpsln splrltnous attentions what they do not
receive at the White House. Secretary Schulz
pays SIS. COO yosr for bis furnished house.
His style OF living is that Of thorough gen
tleUau. but-dres; for his family aud ALT
docs not indicate en- expenditure OF moro than
three or four thousand more. This admioisira.
ton does net eulertaio the multitude as the
Grant administration used to DO. Then Score
ttrlcs Fish AID Chandler used to give largo even
Jog receptions, to include O who bad called upon
tho ladies of their families. Delicate refresh
ments were provided, and their houses would
BE- throDged with middle people with sufi >
cleDt number ef the upper grade Of Official and
diplomatic and political guests mingled 10 to
give the assembly semi air Of distrcon.
Department Clerks mourn those hsyc1n days.
Tho peas3ntest memory | have Ct such
crowded occasions is of dear Mrs. Fish's FACE,
81 ststtly yet 81 material. as she would stand
By her beloved husbands side from clock to
l2 o'clock ssyiag o KIND word TO each conner
and ger, mskicg each ono feel LARGO ard
Doubtful serSJ of having heen entertained by
queen among women; or Il ,chariah Chandler,
with bis rugged. honest old face, the cnbodi-
mens Of au accomplished political host No
man cculd give politicians party better than
Mr.. Chandler. 30 h these men were lich.
You have heard, perhaps. the story they tell of
Mr. Fish saying to Mr.. Chandler when hc had
newly come into the Cabinet: "CbandIcr, you
wont koow how 10 spend the whole of your
IS coo salary. pay 5000 year for my
house. aod 81 GOO to my private secretary, aud
what puzzles mo is to know Whist to 90 With
that other $4,000" Nobody blamcs poor
man in the Cabinet for not entertaining tie
ton Of those free handed, cordial days was
mora the peoples Washington than this Of
to dsy.
The DEBT QUESTION IN TENNESSEE
Rather significant action was taken in the Ten.
nessoo House CT Representatives, Wednesday
Oh resolution to appoo. joint committee to
entertain any proposition tina: the holders of
Tennessee bonds may desire to make to the
Legislature. A motion to table the resolution
wac lost BY vote Of Al to 81. An amendment
providing that the Committees irq1lry shall
| only tx.end to what is known as the State debt