The Evening critic., 1882-06-13
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.

The board OF directors of the Washington &
Western Railroad date w. & o. have inaugu-
rated a new order Of things. All the officers OF
the old company have been replaced by young
and active men, and the prospects are that the
road Will be made both paying institution
and an accommodation to the travelling and
business public. Passenger and freight rates
are to be reduced % to 30 per cent, and close
connections are to be made with Washington.
Hector Mclean is the superintendent, and
Major Wharton, of Washington, the chief
engineer. Yesterday an engineer corps was
sent out to make surveys for the extension OF
the road 10 Winchester. When tho Baltimore
Cincinnati & Western Railroad Company, the
purchaser at the late sale OF the Washington
Ohio Railroad. first took charge of the road,
the old croakers, because Of the failure of the
purchaser to comply promptly with the terms
OF the sale by depositing with the commits
clared that when the time for the next pay
ment rolled around the road would have TO be
sold again. Now that the new managers are
in, the said old croakers. . have chimed in
and are loudest In the general hurrah. Alex
andrians are in some respects a peculiar poo
ple-one day up in the clouds; the next, down
at the heel. just now everything Is "boom-
Ing" There are many kinds offs booms An
iron boom, manufacturing boom, ship
building boom, a general improvement boom,
etc., etc.
The army worm has appeared in the coun-
try surrounding this city. "They have come
like an army with banners and are playing
the very devil with the craps" SO an old coun-
tryman, with a big chew of tobacco In his
mouth, said in the market this morning.
Atwo-mile trotting race, Alexandria horses
took place at the far grounds yesterday after
noon in the presence OF a large crowd. There
were but two entrles-Ramrod, owned and
driven by Henry Herbner, 25O-pound saloon
keeper, and Touch-Me-Not, owned and driven
by John Wenzel, 1OO-pound baker. Ramrod
dragged his 250-pound saloon-keeper in a
length and a-half ahead OF Touch Me Not,
with his 1OO-pound baker.
The City Fathers Will meet tonight to dis
cuss things in general
John Cats, of this city, whose fondness for
horse-nesh got him into the penitentiary, has
been pardoned out by Governor Cameron
Ex-Governor william Smith, of Warreton,
an old wheelhorse OF Democracy, has turned
his back on that whisky-drinklng party, and
Will give tho temperance people of this city
some local option tany next Wednesday night
Mag. Lucas, a depraved white woman, who
has been an inmate of the Aims house for
some time past, came Into tho city late yester.
day evening, filled herself with vile whisky,
made the Buzzard Roost neighborhood lively
with her profanity, kicked her negro lover,
"Mumps," in the. ego and then rolled into a
ditch, where Officer Crump found her heels up
ward and had her hauled in a wagon to the
station-house, from whence che will go to the
corporation farm for the heated term.
The new Alexandria Ferry Company held @
meeting to-day for organization and TO make
| arrangements for the placing on the route be
| tween this city and the Maryland shore, at al
| early day, of the steamer Virginia.
The Yeatons of this city have gained sui
in Chicago which increases their cash $4,000
| The baseball fever is raging with grea
| violence In this city. Yesterday the A. d. b. A
| and nine of Greenwelis school played Z
| game, with the following result: A. u. b. A.
| ID; Greenwelis, 8.
The Corporation Court Is In session. A good
| deal of chancery business was transacted to
| day. Tomorrow the violators OF Alexandria's
| Puritanical Sunday law will have hearing
| and probably have their barroom licenses re
| voked.
| DR.. Jones will build a residence on the corner
| OF Prince and Pitt streets.
| The Alexandria Light Infantry, after being
| inspected by Colonel Francis L. Smith las
| night, gave street drill. This company ii
| one OF the best In the State.