Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-17
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.


year.
Eugene Higgins retired from the appoint
ment division of the Treasury Department
yesterday. He was democrat and De-
lieved in putting democrats in.
And go, Notwithstanding the opposition o.
Hoar, Ingalls, ct i'd omne genus, Lamar nus
been confirmed as justice of the Supreme
Court. Now let the heather rage.
The town authorities OF Lexington, va,
are seeking TO have the Valley Railroad
ebons located there. All the R. & D. chops
cbonld be located at Alexandria and its
offices also.
Because man, who borrowed $500 and
went to California ia reported to have made
slO,COOO 900 it is not expected that every
fellow who wants to make loan' can
"follow suit"
Two young medical students out in Iowa
are to be sent to prison for six months as
soon as they graduate, for robbing grave
It would be prudent foi them to postpone
their graduation.
Riddleberger raised himself in the estima'
ton OF his constituents several degrees oy
his vote for Lamar yesterday, and the re'
c,rding angel will blot out several past of-
fences on account thereof.
1t now appears that over one hundred
persons persisted in the great blizzard that
prevailed in the Northwest last week, and
vet people prefer that climate to that of Vir'
GINA and other Southern States.
According to accounts, Kentucky, or so
much thereof as is occupied by the Hat
fields and McCoys. must be delightful
country TO live in, although little un-
healthy for the immediate relatives of the
respective families.
The fond anticipations INDUCED that the
locally famous Hay Scales case-Fleming vs.
the City Council-had ended, it appears, is
'delusion and enare," as an appeal is to
be taken. The laws uncertainties and the
laws delays are synonomous.
The Mormons in Utah initiating the. DEM
ocrats of Virginia in their course on the
debt question, are out herodiDg Herod in
their opposition to polygamy, thus hoping
to obtain admission as q State into the
Union and securing thereby their rights as
State and freeing themselves OF federal
inter ference.
Miss Amelie Rives, of Virginia, society
lady of scarce twenty. five summers, with
exceptional advantages of person, manner
and mplishments, and great belle, has
published in Harper'S Magazine story that
places her at once In the front rank of Amer
lean story tellers-No imputation on the
ladys truthfulness.
It looks very much to uninterested spec
tators. as if the "buls" and "bears" were
managing European affairs with an object
in view. But it is hardly likely that they
Can induce the nations to 60 10 war for
their benefit And the people are of the
opinion that those who would the quarrels
make are the only ones who should fight.
II saw Mark Antony offer him crown i
yet twas not crown neither, u was one of
these coronets; and, as told you, he put
1t By once; but, for all that, to my thinking,
he would fain have had it. Then he offered
it to him again; then he put it by again ;
but, to my thinking, he was very loath
to lay his fingers off it," Aud--you know
the rest
Our legislators are practising bad tricks.
In the State Senate yesterday when the con
tested case of Ellis Vs. Houston was being
considered and question arose of voting
upon the resolution sending the committee
on elections to investigate the case, the re-
publicans and two democratic Senators who
oppose an investigation walked out of the
chamber, and left the Senate without a
quorum.
Mr. Hale's speech In the Senate last week
on the civil service is pronounced by the
New York SIN "pretty small potatoes" In
reference to the Senator's charges of fraud
and corruption the San says: "Mr. Hale's
father-in-law Zach ChaDdler) knew more
about fraud and intimidation at Southern
elections than anybody else. and he knew
that they were only practised for republican
benefit Since the democratic majority re-
sumed its natural place there has been little
fraud or intimidation in the Southern cleo.
lions. By inquiry 10 Rhode Island, in Mas
sachusetts and even in Maine, Mr.. Hale
might acquire stock of information about
fraud and intimidation which would be gen.
une, but not. to the credit of republicans"
THE VoTE.-The following is understood
to be the vote on the confirmation of Mr..
Lamar:
Ayes-Bate, Beck, Berry, Blodgett, Brown,
Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke. Colquitt, Daniel,
Faulkner. George, German, Gray, Hampton,