Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-02-10
EDITORIAL BRIEFS


-Alexandri" now boasts first class
hotel-i lesidcratum for some time past.
Judge John I. LoYci! has sold an inter-
est il the Warren Sentinel to Samuel !
RoIte MiiIar and Joha ". Randolph
Mr.. William T.. Dodge OF New York. (
whose death was nIentioued in yesterdays
GAZETTE: va, the :lthcr-in-aw "f Mrs. 4. /
g. r. I;n.lgc. Of this city
Tn" -tonn predicted b. Virgins. to
hay" haf" taken place Yesterday. didn't
come oil. and j; i now in order ;ot W 10
sic" down.
OF Isl clerks temporarily appointed in
the nitcd States Pension Office, 800 have
passed the probationary term and been re,
ceiTed int" permanent fellowship.
fla train We're RIM from Washington TO
this city between one and three O'Clock in
the evening it would h" Il urea, accommo-
darion
Winchester mas seven cigar factories
that turn out two and a-ha!: million cigars
annually. Steiner :: lohc'+ factory here
'f'''i' 'ilIl- Jht tl!d' Ilis.ii..
The Senate yesterday. by Il vote OF -
10 u. rctusGi to put salt "n b.. free list. 1t
ciit'"i~ i!ep"opi". but, a }!r. Vanderbilt;
says d-n tie people.
Fifty thousand collars is to he appro.
priatcd this session ior the improvement, of
the James River Some fthis sun should
be applied 10 tilcrn- the water at Rich
m0nd.
If Pion-pion.> object waS. IL: lie said
simply 10 arouse public attention to the
weakness q! The French republic and the
| need o. :. stronger set u! men in Office he
has succeeded admirably.
"A colo"cd woman named Rose lIaMb!cS
apparently died on Thursday, in l.ynchburg.
and WAS Shroudcd for burial. but came to
life again Yesterday morning Later IN the
day she died. but couldn't make it the sec
ond time.
We have received the first number of the
Chimes" .im"ican. the new Chinese paper
just started in New Gork-a most interest
ing hcbdomada. which will be kept Oh file
| for the pcrllSal Of the habitucs Of the GA
ZETrE Office
An exchange says that every man who
travels over the country roads about this
time ls an advocate Of a revision and i'm
provcrnent ofthc public road laws. When
he amt advocating hes calssin'-which is
about the same.
If some people would croak less, and
work more, eXhibit more enterprise and less
disposition TO dcprcciatc themselves and
everybody nOund them, what different
community this would be in 4 little while.
and how much hotter it would be for all
concerned
The GoTcrn0r-Gcncral Of Canada. Mar
quis of Lorne, in his address III the opening
OF the Canadian Parliament Yesterday, ACCT
dcntally. it is supposed. omitted any men
ton OF his visit to Richmond-an oversight
'""e It - n"pcu VIII not ne resented 10y The
good people Of the capital city.
--AleXandra's Historian. W. +. Came,
esq, who is The correspondent of the Wash
lnSton Star from this city, like all literary
men. delights 10 live in the past. and there
fore puts down Captain kemper as still
Mayor Of the city. although that gentleman
has been out OF the Office about three wears
Mr.. Frank X. Foster told a Congress
lonal committee yesterday that the average
wages OF a female operative employed in the
New England mills is but $3.50 per week.
and that their condition is deplorabe. We
should think the poor women needed some
protection from the rich monopolsts.
The Philadelphia R"cord thinks it conf
cal that Senator Hale, from the logging
camps Of Maine, Senator Davis, from the
high-seas of West Virginia. and Senator
Logan, the one-time admiral of fleet of
prairie schooners." should he acting as q
subcommittee on naval affairs
A letter from Mr. Jefferson Davis. writ
ten at the time he was President of the
Confederate States addressed to three men,
bcrs Of the Maryland Legislature, and bear
ing date, Montgomery, May %, 1861, will
be found in another column. 1t bears date
about two months before the battle of Bull
Run, and pleads for peace and deplorcs the
necessity Of war.