Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
special Correspondence of the ALEXIS. dAzErrs
c,rrI.1o.roAr ID q lima 1890

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WASHINGTON, D. c.. June 5, 1889.
As anticipated, the Solicitor of the Treas
ury yesterday ruled that it would be q vic
latiou of the law for the managers OF the
new Catholic University here to engage
distinguished foreigners for some Of the pro
iessorships in that institution.
People from Georgetown here to day say
the talk about turning the bed of the c. d
o. canal into railroad track is all gabble;
that the flood, by running the canal, has
only done what the B. & o. Railroad Com
psny has long wisbed to do, and what il
would have done if it had bought it under a
foreclosure, for the reason that thereby il
secures q monopoly of the coal carrying
trade. They say the proper thing to be done
under the circumstances would be for the
government to appropriate money enough
to extend the canal to the Ohio River, and
widen and improve it along it's entire length.
Senator Barbour says as soon as all inter.
ruption to railroad travel shall be removed
he will convene the Virginia State demo-
cratic committee. He says that committee,
in addition to fixing time and place for
the State democratic convention, will also
pass appropriate resolutions in respect OF
the two members of the national democratic
committee who have died since the last
meeting of the State committee, Chairman
Barnum. and Mr.. Dawson of South Caro-
lima, and that at acting chairman Brice's
request he may have fewremarks to make
on those resolutions when they shall be
presented.
MAgnus Robinson, the young colored al.
exandrisn who couldn't get Gen. Mahone's
signature to his application for watchman's
place in the Treasury Department because
the republican committee of his city would
not endorse him, says Frederick Douglas,
who went to see Secretary Window in his
bshaii, was given to understand by the Sec
rotary that the federal patronage of Virginia
was practically at General Mshone's dis.
posal...
Congressman Bowden, of Virginia, being
asked day lift Yves really true that Gen.
eral Malone was recogniz d by the admins.
tration as the head and front of the republi-
can party in Virginia, replied: There is no
longer doubt about it,"
Congressman Browne, of Virginia, was
notified by the Postotlice Department to
day that postoffice had been esta bished at
Broadwater on Hog Island, Va, with g. r.
Westcott as postmaster Mr.. Browne was
also requested by the Department to name
a postmaster at Pomona, Westmoreland
county, Va, vice Coleman Pitts, removed
heard at the Postoffice Department his
morning that the work of removing 4th
class postmasters 10 Virginia had again been
suspended.
Attorney General Miller, in talking with
Virginia Congressman yesterday, asked
him if he was surprised that the applicant
for Solicitor General from his State bad not
been appointed. The Congressman replied
10 the effect that be oonld not say he was.
The Attorney General then went on to say
that the administration did not think Mr..
Blair measured up, by any means, to the re.
qniremenis of the place He also said he
did not think change would be made for
some time yet in the Office of assistant dis
srict attorney for the eastern district of Vir-
ginia.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Mr. Pierce, prominent democrat of south !