Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-06-11
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondence vf the Alesa. Gazett.
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WASHINGTON. D. o., Jcnc II, 1881
MIR. Pituey, the treasury agent, Whoss co
counts ar, reported 10 b, crookod, was brought
bsforo the committee nos Investigating tho re-
ported pec1lations 10 tho Treasury Dlpsr meot
this morning and Was gus ioood under oath
regarding thcse psculalioas re!u ;ed to testify.
MIR. Bell. the Assistant Secretary Of The To-
terror, WILL it Is said TO day, hHv, TO walk the
plank. AS he is pronounced Grant MAJ, his
removal will b, considered as another slap at
that faction. ard b, remembered and resented
accordingly.
1t is reported to day that the civil sns enter
ed here yesterday sy }. A. Walsh, the Star
| route contrsc.or, against s. T. Brown is the
be ginning OF tho end OF tho criminal suits that
| will be entered 10 the Star route s8iodIc. aud
| that Walsh Y i'll tura States evidence.
The papels 10 the Whitaker csso have a.
| rived OF the Department Of Justice hero, tu!
| the decision in that cas-, will probably DOT be
announced uoIil mkt winter In the moan
time Whitaker viii draw lis pay as cadet.
Judging from the Dumb.r Of p3teuts in tclc-
picnic aid elcoric light apparatus it would
seeem that business in those lines is having
| tremendous boorn. There are $50 patents for
| telephones 10 which there are IS lnlerfereDces.
aud It's patents fer cleo re Lights, aud appIio,,
| tioos for $50 others srs pendlog.
| There is great deal OF talk here about the
| business sud real estate boom that is siid to
| have struck Alexsndris and several 10
quirits we're made of the Gszhto's co.reapou.
| dent TO dsy respecting the value of property
| there. As regards tho iro1 works to be
established there, it is understood that opera
| lions will be commcnoad at what is now kuowa
SIS tho Agnew works during the naxttWo wet Ks,
| Just time enough for tho utc linety. whica has
been made at tic Navy Yard here. end which
| is now coupIcted, to DO moved there AID put 10
| position. 1t is also stated that tho present
occupants CT the Pioneer Mi Is hay, been not-
| fed that they must veoae that bulldog IS it
will BIO wanted Immediately. 10 tdiitiou to Tie
paint manutsctory TO be established at ths
plaster mill, nenr the A. & W. H. r. depot, il
| is understood that anothtr ono fer the manu-
facture OF copper paint, ir1m the crts aloDg the
Midland Railway, and which is used for the
| bottoms of wooden vessels as it repeIs barnsoea,
il to be established 10 the building 90 north
Union street formerly used ass soap t,o;oiy.
Jutg, NoWl;u, Postmaster Of the House Of
Representatives, who fell aod brake his koee
| psn hero some time ago, has 50 far IecJvc1ed
| as IA bo abe Leave bis house.
|
| almc 81 as Well known lnd as popular il Alexan.
| dria as no is 10 this city, wi bs the maorging
EDITOR CT the new Critic. witch is to come out
ue2t Monday cLllrged aud greatly iap:o9td.
a gentleman from Meg Geo.g coun!5. Va,
| nov III tho CITY, says that Mahonsm iG that
| section OF tho State 10 repIdlg On tho wane ard
that the judge of the couotg court, judge Hun
| ter, WrO Wss elected as reaC uStr. HtlJ still
briicvir g that the State debt should BIZ read
! jastod. has lott the Malone party on account CT
lis rad C lisD, aud NV votes the regular demo
cratic ticket.
Letters received here to day from Richmond
state that the ticket that seems mss. popular
among the democrats il Payne, Tlisg and Me-
Kinney. and that should the republicans noui
nsto ticket. wbioh is improbable. it will be
Wickhsm, Yost and Beach.
Cars CON manced iunniog this morning on The
extension # tho Belt Line sreo. railway to the
7th street wharf.