Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-26
FROM WASHINGTON

Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette :
WASHINGTON. D. c., August 26, 1882
1t is understood that there is quite boom
i'll Fairfax lands, and that many of the
English settlers in Fauquier county have
sold their lands to the Dunkards who have
come there from the Valley counties of the
State, and are looking for farms in Fairfax,
especially in that part of the county nearest
Washington.
The Commissioner Of Education has pre-
predared a full report of education in the
South. Itappears that Delaware and Texas
are the best educated Southern States. In
Delaware and Kentucky the school fund
| for colored people is confined to the taxes
paid by them, but in the other States the
whole fund is divided proportionately to the
population regardless of color In Virginia
the school population is, white 214,S27,
colored 246,SS0; enrolment, white, 1872
1876, colored 6S,600 percentage of at
tendance, white 4S, colored 2S. Total ex-
pcnditure for both races S94S, 109
a gentleman from Fairfax county, Va.
who tavors the nomination of Mr.. Holmes
Conrad for Congress in his district, says that
he has no doubt that Mr. Barbour will be
renominated without opposition, as Mr..
Conrad's name will not be presented to the
convention unless it be apparent that he
can be nominated, and that the action of
the several county conventions so far almost
renders that an inpossibility
Judge Garrison, of the 1st Virginia dis
trlct, who was renominated without opposi-
ton by the democratic convention at Tap
pahannock yesterday, will meet his Ma
honeite competitor at King William Court
House in d. cussion next Monday. A we'll
informed gentleman from Westmoreland,
one of the counties in that district, saws that
Mayo is not as strong as Round would have
been, that he will not get all of either the
re publican or readjuster vote. and that
Judge Garrison's majority will be at least
twenty five hundred.
General Malone, who is still in the CITY.
has had all the Virginians in Office here
politely informed that he will be glad if
they call upon him. 1t is understood that
there are many Firginians in office who hail
from other States, and this invitation of the
Generals is ruse to get their names so as
to assess them for his election fund. 1t is
also understood that though IN several of
the Congressional districts of his State men
have been nominated who it has been said
were not his fay orites, the fact is that every
one nominated has been the man he named
and that the report that his favorites have
been defeated is only sham to Offset the
effect of the true assertion that he dictates
all the nominations of his party
A gentleman who was present at the Ma
hone convention in the 5th Virginia district.
says the Mahoneites there are as much split
up and disorganized as they are in any other
part of the State. He says that the fact
that Malone wrote letter there forbiddinp
the nomination of Judge Clairborn, of
Franklin county, who considered himself
the dark horse of the convention. has ir-
ritated that "lizardn worker and all his
friends; that Scott, the nominee, who is
storekeeper of the Penitentiary. is utterly
incapable, by lack of sense, education and
experience, of conducting campaign. and
that this was rendered so apparent by his
speech accepting the nomination, that the
man who had seconded his nomination rose
in the convention and stated that he had
been mistaken i'll the identity of the man
he had supported, and that Scott now re-
allies his unitness for the nomination and
will probably sell out to Sims, as in the
Malone letter referred to the General
said if the right man was nominated ten
thousand dollars would be sent to the dis