Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-02-28
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

The pump retires Mr. Smoot remains.
Good!
Can nothing be done by the Corporation
without middle?
Mr. Edmunds, it is stated. will not &C
cept the position oiPresident pro ten. of the
Senate.
w. II. Mosby, brother Of the Colonel,
has. some how or other, been appointed
postmaster at Liberty. Bedford county
1t is more than probable that the other
six fish benches in the market will be rent
ed soon, which will break the combination.
LII takes two auctioneers to sell four
fish benches for i've dollars, on which sum
they are paid a commission, why can't the
clerk OF the market perform the duty for
nothing?
Coy. Cameron has gone OIL on another
expedition" against the oyster dredgers.
These expeditions are said to be very
agreeable episodes, and vary the inonotony
of the duties Of the executive.
In New York recently it is said game
Of poker was played by several railroad
Kings, III which one of the participants lost
not only all his small change but three very
fine locomotives. Kingly, truly; Kings al
ways play for big stakes.
-"Mashing'' is of gypsy origin 'masha-
Va" sgnilying fascination by the eye or ia
king n''-so we are informed. When girl
looks at u fellow out of the right corner of
her left eye he doubtless feels 'mashava,"
or-mischievous.
John Paul has been nominated by the
President for Judge ofthe Western District Of
the State to take the place OF Judge Rivcs,
retired or full pay. Straws are indicative
of the way The wind blows, and Paul takes
bird i'll the hand to two in the bush al
ways. Recent developments showed him
plainly how the eat would jump.
A divorce reform league is TO be formed
in New England, and meeting for that
purpose has been called at New Haven 1t
will be no easy task to revoluionize society
to such an extent in the land OF advanced
IDEAS where isms terminate and ''lree
love" blossoms as the rose-though it don't
smell as sweet.
The School Superintendent Convention
III Richmond yesterday adopted resolu-
ton calling on the Virginia representatives
in the United States Congress to vote for
the national school bill, the provisions of
which. according to some of The best inform
ell on the subject, may prove very disastrous
to the system.
John :. Wise is TO summon prominent
democrats in Richmond to prove that their
party paid the capitation taxes Of voters
which may be 50 in some cases. The differ
ence between the democrats and Malone
ties is that while the former pail for their
receipts the latter did so only semioc-
casionally.
1t is reported that the muldle in which
the corporation and the auctioneers got this
morning i'll regard 10 the question as to who
should sell The fish wharf and benches was
settled hy one of the latter paying the
corporation 81 for the privilege, the other
Offering to perform the duty for nothing.
Vide the Auditors report at the end of the
year.
Poor .Jorsensen, whose habtaton in a
room i'll the Customs building in Petersburg
gave color 10 his title Of citizenship, and to
his holdings scat in the House of Represen-
tativcs, now. since he has been dropped, has
been banishea TO Washington territory. as u
land agent, with the hope held out that he
may one day come back TO Congress when
that territory becomes Il State.
Doubtful things are very uncertain, for
whereas yankee" Allen was 50 very conf
dcut Of stepping into. the shoes Of John
Wise as L. s. Attorney for the Eastern Dis
trict of the State, il doth appear that one
Edmund Waddill, jjr., one of the new made
Malone judges, al present presiding over
the County Court of Henrico, has received
the appointment. Ii is said that Allen, who
is 4 republican Of the straitest sect, and his
friends are quite indignant, but, rs Mr..
Toots would say, that's of no consequence.
Another victim Of the Western Iunatic
Asylum poisoning died yesterday And
now it is attempted TO fasten the great crime
upon some of the unfortunate inmates, as
we are informed BY dispatches that among
the patients are several Guiteaus, who con-
ceve that they are commissioned by God to
execute men who they can and by whatev-
cr means" Then SO much the greater reason
why, ii such was the case, and twas known
that greater vigilance should have been ex-
ercised by the officers Of the Asylum. 1t
was not so under the old management.
War on the Chesapeake
Governor Cameron, Adjutant General Nc
/ Dnnnl LII nnl Major IL na.in. Ac IL. III