Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-03
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
$. Brown Allen wants 10 run Tor

EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
$. Brown Allen wants 10 run Tor Con-
gress in O'Ferrall's district-but it's no use.
1t is said that Governor Cameron can
take two ''schooners" before breakfast any
time.
Baltimore is to have coffee exchange
Having lost nearly all her aagar trade she
is now going in on coffee.
George Drury and Ida AIoxley, of
Washington, aged respectively eighteen
years, have eloped on matrimony intent.
The Staf1ordians have been very much
excited over free bridge to span the Rap.
pahannock and the legality of its construc-
ton is now to be tested.
James 3. Edmunds has been nominated
by the President as Commissioner of the
District of Columbia vice Morgan. Mr..
Edmunds is an Iowan and democrat.
A country exchange says; Our editor
was OF duty part of the week" which, re-
marked fellow looking over our shoulder,
accounts for the improved appearance ofthe
paper.
DIR. Wise in III address before the
superintendent Conference in Richmond,
yesterday said that old William and Mary
College was in every respect suited for
State normal school.
-~Governor Stephens, of Georgia, is quite
sick. He finds much trouble in retaining
nourishment, and considerable fear is felt
that his well-known enfeebled condition will
prevent him from rallying,
--To-morrow-Il lie dies, we're mihi Iestus.
atras; exemit curas. Or,
"nf ali the days are in the week,
dearly love but one day;
And that's the day that comes between
\ Saturday and Monday"
Hon. Dudley NJ. Duboise, who was in
the Forty second Congress as a representa-
tive from Georgia, died yesterday at Wash
ington. He was born in 1884, and during
the war was Il general in the Confederate
army.
Never trucr saying than that of the
Petersburg Mail: The life of the republic
can party has been prolonged in the past by
the mistakes of the democrats" Then let's
learn wisdom by experience and next time
go in to win.
The blasphemous boast Of Ingersoll that
he would resent al insult from the Almighty
on the Day of Judgment is akin, though less
dramatic, then that uttered some years ago
in Paris by printer who had imbibed soci-
alistc and skcptical views. The latter on
one occasion said SHOULD reach heaven
If there he such place--and find the AL
mighty an autocrat, would plant cannon
in the celestial streets and lombard the
throne eternal :.
AT the meeting Of the Reform Club last
night one of the speakers isreported to have
said that ut the trial OF Amiss, at Staunton
the counsel were all under the influence oil
liquor. Now temperance speeches and ap.
peals are all right, hut to descend to person.
alltcS, even in such a cause, is unwarrant-
able. ana he who can not discriminate be.
tween criticism and defamation should
"hoId his tongue" y lack Of judgment is y
decided lack Of brains
A prize was offered in Paris in 1875 for
the best drama on the theme of the Ameri.
can Revolution, and the successful piece has
just been put on the stage. In it Washing.
ton is represented rs driving the English
out of Virginia. with the help of the French
at The outbreak Of the war; then he chases
them to Rhode island, where the armies
have another great battle; and finally, there
Is Ii terrific contest III the streets Of Boston
on the morning ofJuIy 4, l776, which results
in the immediate proclamation there of the
independence Of the United States. This
play was selected as he hest ol' one
hundred pieces offered