Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-05-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Tspeo;al Correspondence of the Alexandria Gasette
WASHING TOR, .. O.. May 5, 1891.

Anxiety has taken the place of bouyant
hope 10 tho minds OF many who have made
investments In the numerous new towns
that bsve been recently laid eff nea. this
city, north Of the Potomac. 1t is feared that
8 great dea! CT The mopey &c invested Is just
go much lest.
People hare iran Olic, who know the
par.iea taking sbout Establishing full ure
factory in Alexandria. sag If that city Will
sell the P!oneer Mil for deferred taxes. end
turn Ii q. building over to the parties referred
70. they will Start factory there that will
at once give business air to the whole
plscs, and start boom that will be peims.
nent. a sale would at least force the own
ers to pay the six or eight years taxas now
dua or the Mill.
Dr.. Bailey, who got the famous charter
from the Virginia legislature allowing the
Virginia Athle.io Club to have supreme
police control OYER f9e thousand ceres OF
land in Virginia, Ia here TO-DAY. His friend
Col. Cab. Maddox esys the Nav Workers:
who sre to crgaDiz, under that charter ana
TO srpDlv the money to buy the land, lay 10
off and enclose it, have eent agents mere
Who have inspeoted not only the Gentle
m gn's Driving Park near Alexandria, but sll
tho land between here and Alexandra on
both sides Of the road, end that those agents
have gone tack with favorable report
and that be thinks the company will soon
be crsen'zad, ard the land be bought and
arranged for all sorts of sports.
Judge Sener of Virginia is here to day.
He is iust from visit to the southwestern
portion OF his Safe. He Gays there Is no
more doubt Of the increased prosperity ct
Lgnchb burg and Roanoke than Of that which
Ia passnt to oil Who now see those places al
ter an cbsenae of fcuc or fve years. The
judge still thinks that Aarrison sill be re-
nominsted, and that Rlaiae's nomination
would provoke al an.sgonisn from which
Harrison would ha exempt. He says he
thinks Seastor Da5iei will BE Reelected
without opposiiion.
a gentleman from Front Royal here to
dsy says the inr5rsucs on the furniture fac
tory destroyed bv fra at that place last Sun
day night wss ST.. 500 and the soes about
1913 600 He also says that though most
everybody thinks the fire was caused By gu
incau6iary, there ere some who ascribs 1t to
a meteor, IS ops Rss observed from the
couatry &c fail IN or near the town short
time before the Ere comm snced.
The following la the only change Ia the
4,h c!ass poafo tiices CT Virginia that was
msde to-day L:ug Dale, AlIegbsny county,
S. NJ. Avis aDuointed postmaster vice o. q.
Morris, resigned.
Felsnds OF the late Capt. Flank Hol!inss-
head Of the oid kqla Creek aud Mt. Yer
non steamboat lines, say be left no Will.
The estimated vSlue OF his estate is thirty
ti9s Thousand dollars, tbs most Of which goss
to his relatives in Baltimore
Tns ANefican Medical Association met
here to-day in Alhsngh's Opera House, and
vna welcomed by MIR. Rose, one Of the Dis
trict ccmm ssioperp, Dr.. Briggs OF Nashville,
the preeident then delivered his address.
Among the nis,a bers Is DR.. Bedford BrowO,
oil Aiezandris.
gentleman from Frcderick-b1 Virginia,
here TO dsy, ssys that Nc Murdsugh OF that tuwn,
who is to establish pickle factory in Alexsndri',
is thoroughly equipped for the businefs, and that
if rickling can be made success in Virg mia he
is the man TO do it. Ho is tho con of the late
Rev DIR. Muriaugh, of the Episcopal Church in
Fredericks burg.
An ex.ofiicia Of the State Department says the
New Orleans flair is being treated in Italy solely
for political effect in that country. He also says
that Baron Feva hsd obtained flrlouRh before
the occurrence Of the sfAir referred to, and that
tho austrian Minister WAS on furlough whom MIR.
Kelley Was rt jectcd by the Austrian court, end
that s successor TO Mr.. Kelley WAS appointed as
soon as tbs Austrian Minister returned.
Mr. Thomls. fumsrly of Warren county, Viz
ginis, but row real estate agent in this city,
says he is il daily re ipt Of inquiries about Alex
sndr;a property snd that the dema' d for proper
" in Alex sndiia ia stesdily IL c:eaf ing.