Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-09
EDITORIAL BREvITIES.


Notwithstanding the reports that Mr..
Blackburn will have to look to his laurels for
q reelection, and that he Is to be opposed
By Proctor Knott, Mckenzie and others,
"Joe" will get there all the same without
much trouble.
The chief Dominion quarantine officer be-
lieves the Asiatic cholera will reach Canada
next year. We hope the officer ia false
prophet and believe be is, but if his predic-
ton proves true it is hoped the extradition
treaty will be abrogated as soon as 1t arrives
even if it includes Silcott.
DINNERS, luncheons, wedding banquels,
and FIVE o'clock teas have been taxing the
endurance of society people of New York
pretty severely during the past week. So
they have hereabouts, with the difference
that here it is hard to get the dinner, lunch
con, &c, and that the fellows don't propose.
ABILL will probably be passed by the
French Chamber to subject all foreigners to
a capitatiop tax of "a francs per snnum.
The officially recorded number offoreign res.
idents In France is at present over l.3OO,O0O,
but the Rationale asserts that this figure is
very much under the mark. But 80 long as
there is Paris people will go there.
Capt. Bassett, the silver haired attache OF
the Senate, says he once boxed Senator Cor.
mans ears, and that when page German
was up to all sorts of pranks that the imagi-
nation could contrive. Well, he does not
appear to have gotten over his fonduess for
"pranks," especially political, yet; but
that he didn't get even with Bassett no one
will believe.
Queen Victoria has lately been occupied
with cattle shows aud auction sales. Attic
Brmineh ham show she took first prize, 100
guineas, with shorthotn bred upon her
own farm near Windsor, and also gains d
eight other prizes. She ought to attend the
Fauquier and Loudoun county fairs, where
she would find it more difficult to carry off
the awards.
Phoebe Couzns wants to know what right
Senators or Representatives have to intro
duce election bills for the control of votes
In the South or elsewhere In the States, and
quotes from the U. 8. Supreme Court that
"the Constitution of the United States does
not confer the right of suffrage upon any
one :" ergo, that Congress has no right to be
putting its finger In the pie.
Austria and Hungary are underneath
three feet of snow. and drifts have blocked
the railroads and highways. In Vienna
S coo laborers have managed to keep the
thoroughfares clear, but the price OF food
has risen twenty to thirty per cent. Ittook
1000 soldiera and railroad men six hours to
clear the line from Miramsr to Vienna for
the passage of the train carrying Empress
Elizabeth.
The New York fire department have
contributed 81 ,046 to the Worlds Fair
guarantee fund of that city. Now how
much will our boys contribute to have the
fair in Alexandria, which is by far In every
respect the most eligible and best place yet
mentioned. When the bill IL before Con-
gress let Mr.. Barbour or General Lee have
an amendment Inserted having the fair
right here, and everybody who comes will
say It's the most hospitable place they ever
struck, besides being close to Washington
and Mt. Vernon.