Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-02

EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

ED1lUhl6L BhlEtS.
"A regular spring evening-provocative
of laziness
Mrs Stonewall Jackson and her daugh-
ter are in Richmond.
Baltimore yesterday turned ont one
hundred and nine doctors
Malone was put OH the Senate Con-
ference Committee on the tariff as dernier
resort
Mr. Justice Field, of the C. S. Supreme
Court, expects To visit Japan during the
coming summer.
-Parnell is coming to this country 10 at.
tend proposed land league convention TO
be held in Philadelphia.
The public debt statement issued yester-
day shows decrease during the month of
February of 81 $500
1t is telegraphed across the ocean that
the Prince of Wales yesterday visited Prince
Bismarck, remaining an hour, Ominous.!
They are importing shoats into Clarke
county from the West The crop of young
hogs is short, but Clarke's q short county.
Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit repub-
lican, was yesterday chosen to succeed Mr.
Ferry in the United States Senate Poor
Ferry, his troubles came all at once.
-Four Of the Penitentiary guards who
purchased their places from Malone mem
bers of the last Legislature have been dis
charged. The members go unwhipped of
justice.
"A wooden factory is to be started in
Richmond. The buildings are all here for
first class factory and al that is wanting
is the motive power. Who is the man with
capital and public spirit enough to give it
an impetus? There's money in it,
The London Telegraph says that there
never was "a worse prospect for the wheat
crop in these islands at this season Of the
year than there is at present The very
serious consequences involved in this an
ticipaton can hardly he over-estmatcd.'
Now let the spectators 60 in and-some-
body will get bit
--Fennor says MARCH, will probably enter
quietly in the majority of sections, but will
speedily give place to its usual buster and
storm. There will, he says, be great deal
frain with stormy periods along the At
lantic seahoard. He promises early indica-
tons OF spring, with unusually warm pc
RODS, but threatens wintry weather the first
of April.
The Rockingham Register commenting
upon paragraph in the GAZETTE upon the
appointment Of negroes TO manage the pub
lie schools says: I'VE will never quietly sub
nit, and we believe the people of Virginia
will never quietly submit to have the pub
lie schools for white children in Virginia
managed by negroes, and Governor Came
ron and his party will soon find it out"
The dispositions taken in the Massey
Wise contested election case in Culpeper
show that the tax receipts were issued bv
the Malone collector TO his party friends
in the several districts of the county and
were used to qualify voters and voted upon
without having been actually paid for. 50
that not less than two hundred and fifty
people in the county voted on these re-
ceipts and hence were illegal voters.
Three of the Naval Academy cadets
who were engaged in the demonstration OF
the "Oth of January, and who refused to
apologize 10 the superintendent and express
regret al their conduct, have been dropped
from the rolls 1t is thought in few days
the trouble will all be over at the Academy,
and that the rest Of the cadets who are serv-
ing out Imprisonment on the Santce for en-
gaginS in the late disturbance will he re-
moved to other quarters. The cadets who
were dropped went to Washington yester-
day to lay their grivances before the Navy
Department with hopes Of being rein
stated.