Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-03-30
,een Malone and Langstop

,r,erv,ew between Malone and Langston,
and having brought about the truce between
hose eelf-consti.uted leaders, he thinks II
very hard that as he !s an applicant Tor tna5
indgeship, General Malone. who hopes TO
nro65 By the truce, should have loined With
those who sre trying 10 have Judge Paul az
pointed, and is naturally by no means as
strong q Malone man now as he WAS before
he met with lhs usual fate Of peacemskers.
The selection OF Mr. Foster by Secretary
Baioe ss the envoy to negotiate reciprocl'
ty treaty with enaip, Ia said by the demo.
Gratis here to have been very il.-adVised
act, ss Foster mas record as an agent OF
Spain to collect fraudulent claim against
this country, and is that agent still.
The following is the only change In the
h class postoftices in Virginia that was
made to-day Cavatts, Tazswell county, 81.
A. Hartman appointed postmaster vice NJ. l..
| Whit, resigned.
The Supreme Court of the United States
to-day refused to grant the application for
a writ of habeas corpus In the case of Dick
Dancan Us. Mccall, Sheriff of Bexsr county,
State of Texas, in which it was sought to
bring into question the validity of the entire
penal code Of the ate of Texas.
Ia short talk with the GAzETTEs cor
rasDondent this morniug, Senator Barbour
q lid b. 9 recent visit to California was rev.
elstion to him, and that the half Of what be
Jaw of the Pacific slope had not been told
him. Every body out there, he said, seem
ed 10 be prosperous, and that the wages oil
common lsborers there was three and three
dollars and a half day. He said all man
had to do to get rich there was to start fruit
farm and wait three or four years. He also
witnessed the most satisfactory illustration
of the practical advantages of irrigation, and
saw farms as rich as the Mississippi delta,
which, until artifcialy supplied with water,
were arid wastes. The only drawback In
the country, he said was the absence OF coal,
bat t is confidently expected that Goa! de-
posits will be found there. Mr.. Barbour
SAYS he met few Virginians. Among them
! being two from his own section of the State
Young Taliaferro; grand con of the late
Cassus Lee of Alexandria, who is station
agent of the Union Pacific, near the top OF
the Rocky Mountains. and young Wiche, a
nephew of DR.. Gordon Of Culpeper, who ia
civil engineer on the same road. MT.
Barbour says that until the remains
of Senator Hearst were placed in q
vault, the party accompanying them we're
as Quiet AID sedate as any other funeral
party be had ever seen. and that on their
way back they were as well behaved ss any
other equal number of men confined TO-
gether ia moving cars for six days, and that
| during the entire trip ho never saw sing
man under the /, fusnce of liquor. Mr..
Barbour SAYS be has seen by the GAZETTE
since he returned that some people charge
! him with having defeated the DILL to admit
the Norfolk and Western Railroad into this
CITY, but that no man at all familiar with
tie facts OF the case will cay so, as all such
| knoy that hs Was the friend of the bill iD
all its stages.
The grounds south of the White House
and those OF the Arsenal, Notwithstanding
the damp condition thereof, were crowded
to DAY with children and their nurses, who
were rolIicg and picking eggs. Many case
of Group will be the result.
At the Kincad trial to-day the testi
mopy of the defense was continued, the
prosecution objscliDg to emost every ques
ton asked witt s by defendants counsel
Bishop Ryan, who is i'll at Providence
Hospital, is reported to-day as better
Tho Department OF Justice has received the re
turn of the Alaskan District Court to the writ is
sued by the Supreme Court asking that cause bt
shown why a writ of prohibition should not Issue
in the tGso OF tho schooner Say wAtd, libeled FOL
violation Of the law prohibiting sealing in Beh
ring Ses 1t will no fled in a short time by At
torncy &c crsl Miller or Solicitor General Taft
and no reason is now known why argument should
OF he proceeded with the second Monday in Apii'
People hero to-day from the Valley Of Virginia
say The snow storm of las: week wss ono CT the
severcst ever experienced in that scciio OF the
country. Roofs were crushed ny the light OF
tho snow at Trout Royal and strasburg, and the
train OIL the Manassas road was unable to get into
Front Royal Saturday morning.
The President to-day appointed Thomas Fl
Carter of Helena, Montana, TO be Commissioner OF
the General Land Oftico, vico Lewis A. Croft, re-
signed.