Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-04

office be was induced to take the one re-
ferred 10 for fear of the ridicule to which
he would have been subjected if he had
gone back home without one.
a gentleman interested IN the Potomac
Manufacturing Company of Alexandria here
to-day SAYS syndicate has now taken hoid
OF the affairs Of that company, paid OIL Its
debts and is now raising the requisite capital
To commence at an early day the manufacture
Of plates for the construction of iron ships:
The name of the company Is to be changed
to that Of the Virginia Iron Ship Buldlng
Company. The rollers will be erected on the
comuany's property north OF Wolfe street,
and as soon as the work has progressed far
enough the construction OF an iron steam
ship will be commenced He spoke in the
most sangune terms OF the assured success
Of the undertaking.
The rumor that there is woman IN the
Clarence Barton case, anda Virginia woman
too, is denied By those who know her, and
who say she has not gone away with MN,
but is still in the city. As usual in such
cases Barton's personal friends are the chief
sufferers.
Neither the Secretary nor Sergeant-at-
Arms of the Senate has yet returned, ana
the o!lice-seeKers who are awaiting their
return are DtcOlliuS SiCa tSb iSaie "isti ~
ferred hope.
Ohio people here to-day, that is of the
Cincinnati Iagpirer's way of thinking, say
the defeat Of Mr. Pendeton and the election
of Mr.. Payne to the Senate in his stead, are a.
sure as anythings that have not actually
occurred.
A republican from the Valley of Virginia
here to-day says that the proposition fol
General Malone Mr.. Rives and Mr.. DeZ
endorf. the respective chairmen of the three
anti-democratic organizations in Virginia to
unite in n call for Il State convention to ap
| point delegation to the next national re.
publican convention is generally approved
| by the republicans there, and also that there
| will he no combination Of the forces If 1t he
understood that General Malone IS to be
| the boss.
A gentleman from King George county
| Virginia here to-day says it is hard to tino
a white Maboncite there now and that the
| improved behavior of the negroes since the
| election is apparent throughout the county
| They had become almost unbearable preVl'
Gus to the election, and but for the way that
| election went he says, there would have
been bloody work, for the white people had
stood about as much as could we'll be borne
| and if driven any further the Danville at.
| fair would not have been circumstance
As it is, he says. the negroes are now be-
having themselves very we'll, and the rela
tions between the two races are apparently
very friendly.
4 meeting of the House Judiciary Com.
mittee was held to-day. The Presidential
succession bills were considered, but no &C
ton taken upon them.
4 letter has been received at the Treasury De-
partment from Michigan stating that pork is
Struggled from that State into Canada in large
quantities and exported from thence to Europe a:
Canadian product.
Among the bills to be introduced in the House
| next Monday will be one TO extend the bonded
term for whi-k"y. The friends of the bill say il
will pass. but Mr.. Randall says it will not.
R. ". Cowan. of North Carolina, was appointed
assistant discussing clerk Of the House to-day
Southern men now having share of thu
House offices.