Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-21
FROM WASHINGTON

Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON: ID. c., August 81, 1SS2.-A
gentleman from Fairfax county here on
Saturday said that Mr.. Farr is not only tn,
member of the House Of Delegates from
Fairfax county, the Superintendent o
Public Instruction Of the Statc-the salarie;
of both of which places he drew when the
Legislature was in session-the Mahoneile
readjuster candidate forCongress from his dis
trict, but that, in addition, hei is the contrac
tor for the erection Of i public school house
in his county, and that five days in the
week he spends there handling brick to
save the expense Of Il hand, and the sixth
ne spends in Richmond, attending to the
duties OF the office Of Superintendent OF
Public Instruction and to editing the Eluca-
ttonat Journal Of Virginia! The gentleman
also says that the school trustees stopped
work on the school house referred to for
several days recently. because the contrac-
tor used Stacked lime in the composition of
the mortar, and also that the paper upon
which the contract was written cannot be
found. Another gentleman from the same
county, a Northern man and re-
publican, informed the GAzErTE's CORE
spondent Saturday morning that Mr. Farr
would not get either the full republican or
readJuster vote Of his own county, and be-
sides that many republicans in the Accotink
nelghborhood, Il Northern settlement and a
strong republican precinct intended to vote
for Mr.. Massey.
Engineer Melville is expected to arrive in
this country in about three weeks. Ar
engagements are being made by naval officers
to give him grand reception both in New
York and in this city.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Colonel Skinner, who commanded the lst
Virginia regiment in the civil war The
Colonel looks as well as he did twentv-one
years ago, and he wasn't bad looking man
then.
Senator-elect Riddebergcr left the CITY
this morning for the Valley, where he has
some political appointments 10 fill. He
says that Judge O'Ferrall, the democratic
candidate for Congress in his district is a
very good fellow, but that John Paul will
beat him. Mr.. Riddleberger, however,
hasn't much reputation as a political
prophet.
The star route trial, considering the few
people in the city, still draws toerably
good houses. The wonder Of the uniniti-
aleu Continues 10 De why men indicted for
stealing ten dollars are compelled to be in
court during their trial, while the star
reuters, who are indicted for stealing hun
dreds of thousands, are allowed to walk
about the city during the progress of their
trial. But the law is now, unlike it used to
be, a respecter of persons.
The chairman of the Ohio republican
committee is the reputed authority for the
statement that his party reapportoned his
State so as to give the democrats FIVE and
the republicans sixteen Of its twenty-one
Congressional districts, but that he thinks it
probable the delegations will be more even |
ly divided, and that he would not he sur-
prised if the democratic half should turn out
to be the larger
With regard to Pennsylvania, prominent |
republican politician from that State who
was here yesterday, informed a personal
friend that he feared the democrats wonid |
carry seventeen Of the twenty eight districts
in that State, as many republicans seem to
be determined to put down bossism ire
spective Of consequences.
Several of those who left here to attend
he funeral of the late Senator Hill have re-