Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-09-10
FROM WASKINGT0A
Especial Correspondence of the Alexandria easesse'
WAeu1nnrnH d O. Sept. 10. 1881.

Special Correspondence Of TIE alexandra o"0o''eJ
WASHINGTON. d. O.. Sept. 10. 1881.
Work on the extension OF the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad to its proposed connec-
t,on with the Virginia Midland Railroad at
Fairfax Station has been com masoed Cd tps
MARYLAND side of the Potomac. The rcsd
vill hegin at Knowles Station on the b. q
O.. near Rockville, thence sonthwesteriy q, co
a mint near the Chain Bridge, where IL Wiil
cross the Potomac, thence up Pimmet hun
tn I.aueley,and lheace on to Fairfax STATION
via Fairfax O. Il. ,..
THE p)sn and route of the Washington
and Arlington Railroad, nov In progress OF
construction, for that portion OF 1t Witnin
the government reservation at Arlington,
have been submitted to the War Depart
ment. and after slight notification, have
been approved. Quite large force is now
employed in the construction OF the roao
and the work Is progressing rapidly.
One of the parties who frequently visit
the Monte Carlo OF this city, the south end
OF the Long Bridge. says the report that an
effort will be made to incorporate that sell
Element and make town OF 1t, With its OWE
laws and its own officers, Is incorrect. and
that OF all the people there he knows pot
ore who would favor any such scheme. ld
fact, be says there are but three or four
people gho really live there, that ID sleep
there.
The order for making Secretary Blaine's
house In this city ready for occupancy Is
highly 1elished by the people OF the State
Department. who, since MIR. Blalne's ab'
sepce. heve been almost utterly ignored by
the President. The latter's friends. how
ever. are not so well pleased. as they think
II indicates al attempt on Mr.. Blaine's part
to increase bis boom, though he ought to
know that his bealth would not bear the
bother and annoyance ofthe campaign. Inc
same people are also terribly put out at the
fact that poll taken of the delegates to the
New York State republican convention,
showed that of the I'll delegates, only lb de-
clsred themselves for Harrison, nearly ell
the others being for Blaine.
Corporal Tanner, ex-Commiseloner OF
Pensions, who 60 successfully insugurated
the system OF expanding the hundred mil
lion surplus the democrats left in the Treas
ury Is here to-day, after aD extended visit
to the G. a. r posts in the North and West.
He ssys the gist of what he heard 10 those
posts is that the members thereof
favor Ager for President, but that as
thew know they osn'G have him,
their next fayorite is Blaine. he also
saws there ia nothing ITO" the talk oil q
Blaine and AIger ticket. as Aiger will either
have the first place or none at all. When
asked il he heard any thing about Harrison,
he said yes, great deal. hut that being
consistent Methodist be could not repeat IL.
An Intelligent and reliable gentleman
from Cuipeper, hers to-day, on his way to
Boston, says he doesn't think the democrats
10 that county will be bothered by the
farmers Alliance, which organization there,
he understands, is Teskening every day by
the withdrawal Of Its more sensible MEM
hers. 10 Fauquier county,on the contrary, he
learns that some trouble is anticipated,
though to what extent i5 uncertain.
Geo. w. Tlder was to-day appointed
S. gauaer at Slate Mile, Va.
Abscnteeism is another ono OF the charges
against the present administration that can be
sustained without any trouble. Among those
most distinguished for it arc mentioned Mr..
Raum, commissioner Of pensions; Mr.. Porter, gu
perintendent of the census, and Mr.. Proctor, Sec-
rotary of War; each of whom has been absent on
full pay and travelling expenses besides, moro
than half of his official term.
a Fairfax county, Virginia, farmer here to day
SAYS this has been the heaviest mast year since
the war, and that the shucks on the corn are also
unusually heavy. Such condition, he says, is
cons idered Indicative of hard winter, but that
this has been an exceptionally rainy sumner,
and that as we'll known ell signs fail in wet