Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-30
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

EDITORIAL BREFIIlES.
1t is feared some of the jurymen in the
star route trial will shuttle of this mortal
coil with old age.
The question is asked if Senator Tabor's
night shirts cost $3.50 each, how much would
one for David Davis cost?
1t is said ut one cent mile a round
trip ticket to the sun on train making for
ty miles an hour would cost 81, 100000.
Samuel 1reuaeus Prime, in his travels
in Europe" published in 1866, prophesied
that Gladstone was the coming man in En-
gland.
Connecticut complains oftoo many law
yers. The way to decrease the number is to
follow the apostolic injunction and cease
going to law.
Judge sherard, OF Winchester, who
went to Baltimore three weeks ago to have
cataract removed, has returned TO his
home with his sight restored.
1t will be seen that the Court of Appeals
has decided that the Commissioner Of Agri.
culture for the State has no right to collect
taS-laS on fertilizers.
toy. Cameron says that the rumor that
he had been rendered and refused the Post
master'Generalship was utterly without
ioundation-as every sensible person knew.
| &C. 2. Snyder, Of Kanawha county, and
one Of the best ''stumpersn and ablest law
yers of West Virginia, has been nominated
By the democrats for Congress to succeed
Mr.. Kenna.
The President has not yet taken any
action with regard to the vacancy in bis
cabinet caused by the death of Postmaster
General Howe, and it is stated by authority
that no action will be taken before next
week
--Dorshemer of New York, expresses
the belief that the vote Of the Empire State
in the next democratic national convention
will be cast for Senator Mcdonald, of In
diana II Is further said that Gov. Cleve-
land fayors Mr.. Mcdonald as the next dem
ocratic presidential nominee-But these are
all rumors.
The number of suicides in Paris some
years ago caused resident of that CITY to
place sign on his premises forbidding par
ties committing the rash deed on his premi-
ses. From telegraphic reports the number
In this country is on such steady increase
that such sign along side of the one
forolddlng bill posting will probably be ne
cessary.
"A funny young man of Troy seized q
mnch smaller specimen of humanity and
held him at arms length over the railing of
a bridge thirty feet above the surface of the
ice cold river. The boy squirmed, the
young man lost his grip, and down into the
water the boy went. The would-be wit was
thereupon compelled to treat himself to u
cold bath in order to save the life of the vic
tim Of his practical joke.
The Judiciary Committee of the Massa-
chusetts Senate favor the passage of a vote
of censure upon Governor Butler for criti
cising, i'll an 'undignifed and unhecoming
manner the methods in which the lecisla
ture conducts its business. where,non
the committee suggest that it is forced
to the conclusion that his excellencv
had never read the bill" which formed the
basis of his structures upon the legislature,
except, III parliamentary phrase, by the
title"
There are many thoughtless people in
the world who continually croak over the
extravaganeies of those upon whom fortune
has smiled more benignly than upon them
selves. They never seem TO think tina; the
rash expenditures of the opuent afford liv-
ings for myrads of poorer people, The is-
sue OF the French revolution conclusiyely
proved that the one class was dependent
upon the other. And DOW il is officially
stated that Mrs. Vanderbits recent enter.
tainment distributed S25O,O0o among the
working classes of New York.
The Court of Appeals has decided
against the democratic School Board of
Portsmouth and in favor Of the Mahoneites.
The points in this case seem to be substan-
TALLY these: Some time ago it was discoy-
cred by the city council Of Portsmouth that
the old school trustees had failed to qualify
in the time prescribed by law. Their sue
cessors were named and entered upon the
discharge Of their duties. The fact of the
failure of the old school trustees to qualify
in time was called to the attention of the
State Board. That body, elected an en-
tirely new SET of trustees. The case was
finally carried to the court, and the decision
places the Mahoneite appointees in posses
sion Of the schools Of Portsmouth.
The Court of Appeals Yesterday