Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-10
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

summer
In the midst OF Lent, and very few il
anv fish. Pretty hard on the orthodox.
The streams are full, the wells are full,
the earth is full, and water rents keep up.
The weather yesterday was decidedly
pluvial, with u slight electric display, and
Christians had to practice their profession
ut home away from the giddy throng.
The story Of the hanging of an sin
fernal" revenue officer in Floyd county IS
discredited in the neighborhood, however
much it may be believed in Washington.
Dick Farr is on trial. Put him through
course of photography and hell resign for
he declined to accept Marshall Mccormick 5
banter to spell twelve consecutive words
correctly.
Nobody apparently being willing to
boom Grant that individual undertakes the
task himself, and has gone into the reception
business by way of keeping himself before
the public.
The new wings to st. Mary's Church
prevent any distraction from the services,
as those in the body of the church find 1t
impossible to see around the corners, and
rice rers0.
An exchange tells of young lady who,
after happy marriage of six months, on
being asked if she was much troubled with
cold feet simpered hesitatingly, and with
simplicity replied "Yes-yes ;but-they'r re
not my own"
Devious are the ways Of men Should
Judge Meade be ousted the status quo, twxt
prosecutors and prosecuted, remains asaate
bdlum. Continue the Judge, and the ap'
pellate jurisdiction comes in, and the status
changes Ell nos mutumur IN Ills.
Without reference to the eternal fitness
of thing 90, there seems now to be more than
ever an iusatiate desire for Dotoriety, aud
the
Rage for fame attends both great and small.
Better be id than mentioned not at all.
Since Page McCarty has entered the
arena, there Amt 50 much "blood and thun'
der' as of yore, and in fact it doth appear
"My va'or is Ger ainly going it is sneaking
off. | feel it oozing out, as it were at the
palm of my hands"
And now the willy politician is elongat'
ing his neck, and straining his eyes to dis
cover the future candidate of the opposing
political parties, but,
Optics sharp it needs wecn
To see what is not to be seen"
--Muhdi, the SUI being pronounced as in
"mute," and the "h' strongly aspirated, sig
uites in Arabic inspired, whereas Mahd, as
it is now generally spelled, has no meaning
or significance whatever, and does not con
vey any political idea or bearing upon the
condition of affairs in Soudan.
Its no wonder that our own people
and foreigners. too, believe that the West is
still given over to savages and banditt
when such names as the following are found
on the map of Dakota: Shirt tail Bend
Whiskey Flat, Puppytown, Wild Yapkeye
Ranch Squaw Fiat, Rawhide Ranch, Loaf
er's Ravine, Toe-nail Lake aud many Other
euphonious designations.
| -NiIlards proposed tri p to Europe fol
the benefit of his health, has been postpon'
ed. His wife retains the $3.50 900 palace or
the Hudson. and the family still occupy
their New York residence, the interior O.
which resembles an Italian palazzo. In the
meantime the stockholders of The Trans
Continental Company are threatening suit:
g. D,f 10 4 tl,n hala
given to deceit.
The last report from Richmond is thai
there will be no extra session of the Legis
lature, the ground for the surmiSe being
that number Of democratic Senators and
Delegates who had signed the request upon
the Governor for an extra session have
Withdrawn their names, and that it is i'm
possible to get the necessary two.thirds in
each branch for the call unless some of the
republicans SIGN it, which is not probable
The Senate has adopted q resolution to ad
journ on Saturday next by which time all
important measures can be passed, and il
80 why the necessity ofan extra session?
When the bill to provide colored direc-
tors for colored schools and white directors
| for white schools was under consideration
in the State Senate on Saturday last, Nor.
ton, a colored coalitionist, made respectful
speech in opposition to the change contem-
plated By the bill, contending that it was
calculated to do vast injury to the present
system of public education, so far as his race
is concerned; and he added the colored peo-
pie Of Virginia are perfectly we'll satisfied
for the whites to have the management OF
this important branch of the government.
One of the greatest objections to the pend
ing proposition is that in many sections of
the State it would be impossible to iud se-
groes qualified to assume the dictatorship
of the school system. Norton's head is
level On the school question.
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