Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-27
LETTER FROM RJGEMOND.
...cenco Of the Alexandria GAZETTE.

The busiest man III Richmond is J. Bell
Bigger, clerk to the House of Delegates. \
great deal of his time is taken up Dy those
who have friends candidates for Office and
who want list of the members OF the
| House.
There are about nine candidates for
each OF the few appointments General Lee
will have to dispose of, mono of which will
be vacant, save private secretary and mes
senger, for q year. as the out going Gov
arnor has tie privilege of appointing for the
| fist year of the new Governors term. There
ara not great many candidates for the
offices within the gift of the Legislature.
Colonel hIarye has no opposition for the
Authorship so far, aud as he has given sat
isaction the chauces are that he will have
none. The most Of the other basement
offices are in q similar state.
For Public Printer Col. Hankins, who
has been in charge of tho Dispatch printing
| house for twenty years. has rendered very
effective party service, and who is well
! backed up, is an applicant, and present in
dications point 10 the defeat of Mr.. Derr,
| the present Incumbent. Richmond furnishes
large part Of the campaign funds and her
share OF tho speakers, bu! when it comes to
parcelling out the ci!ices she generally gets
left.
The impression here is That Judge Stuart
will get the Speakersnip. Pollard is as good
| as out Of the race, bu. ar.iE.ii, Of Han
over. who was candidate $50 year, ago,
is again in the field.
The Senatorial question: occupies the at
tention not only Of politicians Gug almost
every one elese. The Richmond delegation
stands: For Barbour, for Daniel, 5 iOr
Staples, l, ard one don't know who ho is
| for Tho Staples ulan viii vote fer Daniel
as between Danir! AID Bar;jrur The pop
uar vote of the CITY is decidedly :nr Bar
| bour. and ha& this question been mad. an
issue before the election there are seveia!
gentlemen who are now entitic;! Ia seats in
| the Legislature who woul5s have been left at
home Strange us it may seem, there are
quite number Of politicians who, two ears
ago, after Mr.. Barbour do"ned Malone.
were willing, SO lar az they were concerned,
to make him President, 50 grateful &ero
they, are now beginning to frame excuses
by saying that Alexandria already has
cuough-iEe Governor, Auditor and Speak
er OF the House OF legatGs--iorg citing the
fact that Mr.. Il. did not work exclusively
for Alexandria, but at least some other
portions Of Virginia came in for some Of the
good accruing from his magnificent political
generalship. f,he people Of Virginia ever
intend to reward Mr.. =. for what he has
done for them, now is the time. Americans
memory is not very long, and two years
from now they will forget that they are in
deb;ed-to Mr.. Barbour at all.
A portion Of the knights of Labor organi-
cations here is opposed TO Barbour because
herunsa washington grocery" AS vide their
organ here, which says: Virginia needs on
tho floor of the United State Senate Il sound
statesman 10 represent her interest. Has
Johu s. Barbour, the Washington grocer,
ever showed any OF the qualities of q states
man 2" Such is fame
Business is no great shakes hero. The
new city hal! is not quite flushed yet,
neither is the up town hotel nor is the Odd
Fellows temple. IL fact, since begin to
think the foundation stone of neither has
yet been laid. But the cold weather flag is
got TO be mighty high on the mast when
Richmond gets left, for haven't we dug the
foundation for the Union depot? and,
thanks TO Messrs. HENSON Il Kendler, The
new Mozart bali will he opened early in
January. And what's The matter with the
electric lights? Haven't we already got
the poles? No. take it back; we did have
them, but the wideawake city engineer, for
some good reason, no doubt, ordered them |
down. Our water is just a little red |
This may sound strange TOP those of your
readers who know Richmond water; but it |
is fact. had doubts myself-let glass of
it stand for an hour or so and found enough |
OF red mud in the bottom of the glass to
start & brick yard Oh the half.shell. Oh, |
guess not you can't keep us down
Next TO the U. S. Senator agitation, the |
biggest thing on the street corner is Shall |
Wren be paid, and who dislocated the tenth
or Meredith?
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