Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-17

thinks that portions of the county VIII Pun
On quite suburban look. he said the
question of building great national pridge
to the memory of Gen. Grant, from airing
ton across to Washington City, would DC
agitated this winter, with considerable pros,
pect of success, and Congress be memoIialIeo
to convert the surplus land OF the Arlington
estate, about 900 acres, into an eA-
detrimental agricultural garden directly unI
der the supervision of the Agricui'utai
Department at Washington.
A we'll informed and thoroughly posted
democratic politician from Virginia, IN lne
CITY to-day, says he can already count Sky
rnemhers of the Virginia Legislature who
are in favor of Mr.. Barbour for U. .. eena.
tor If that be so Mr.. Barbour is already
elected, for though sixty be not majority
of one hundred and forty, the whole nnm-
her of members, it is majority of the one
one hundred members who will compose
the Democratic caucus to nominate q Sena-
tor. and a nomination is, of course, equlVa-
lent to an election.
Among the strangers in the q. S. Supreme
Court to-day is Judge VIM. J. Robertson, of
Virginia, who ia counsel for appelees in the
case of H. G.. c. Paulsen vs. the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company, to enforce an
alleged lien upon the property OF the rail-.
road company and compelling the payment
of $40 ,14O. alleged to be due as accrued IN.
terest upon bonds of the State of Virginia
issued for the construction of works of inter
nal Improvement, upon the idea that the
money spent by the State can be followed
wherever it has gone.
Congressman Dunn, of Arkansas, accom-
panied by Mr.. Silcott, an officer OF the
House who is native Of Virginia and has
many friends and relatives in Fauquler
county, in that State, will go to that county
TO- morrow on hunting trip. Senator War
ner Miller, better known as wood-pulp Mill
Ter, because when member of the House
and sworn TO abstain from legislation IL
which he was personally interested, he was
active in his efforts to have the duty on wood
pulp retained, though he was at the time
and is now largely interested in the manu-
facture of that article, and the same man 10
whom General Malone addressed his letter,
previous to the late election, denouncing the
people of his own State this same Senator
Miller, accompanied by General McCook
Secretary of the Senate, started yesterday
for Chesapeake bay, to shoot wild ducks.
Congressman O'Ferrall, of the Rocking
ham district in Virginia, who has been here
for several days past arranging quarters for
the winter, will return to his home about
the end of the week and will not be back
probably until the 5th proximo, on which
| day the democratic caucus of the House
| will be held to nominate the House officers
| None of the other Virginia Congressman ex'
cept Mr.. Barbour are expected here before
the end of the month.
The following changes in the 4th class
postmasters of Virginia were made to-day
Cascade, Pittsylvania county, A. X. Vena
BILE, vice Geo. G. Venable, resigned Elk.
more, Northampton county, Jas. A. Smith
vice D. F. Gordon, resigned.
Ofthe two most prominent candidates for
| the U. S. Senatorship from Oregon, one is
| the notorious "Landaulet" Williams, and
| the other man who had become SO noto
| rious in the East that when he went to Ore.
gon he changed his name from Nipple tC
| Mitchell. The g. o. p. in Oregon must be re-
duced to low ebb when its choice is re
stricted to such material for Senator.
The Maryland democratic association O.
this city has stricken the name of Congress
man Findlay from the list of its member.
ship because of his desertion of his party in
| the last campaign. 1t has also proposed to
consolidate with the Virginia democratic
association of this city.
Congressman Randall had long inter
view with the President last night at the
invitation Of the President, but Congress
man Curtin, Of the same State, who called
at the White House yesterday morning with
out an invitation to make recommendations
about federal patti onage was told by the
| President that such recommendations could
not then be listened to.