Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. Is.

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of professional honors by unswervingly,
treading the beaten path OF the law ana
by regularly graduated ascent, every
stage of which, from country lawyer TO
city LAWYER, from District Judge to Cir
cult Judge, and from Circuit Judge to
Judge Of the Supreme Court, was In
natural and judicial succession, MT.
Justice Lamar, on the other hand, was
called to the like honors after career
of extraurdiuary vicissitudes, in winch
the life of the camp and the battle iieia
alternated with that OF the forum ana
the hustings: almost without probation
as a legal practitioner, but with thor
ouqh theoretical and practical knowl-
edge of great affairs of State, and with
we'll. earned national renown as an ora
tor, statesman and leader of men. And
nothing could better illustrate the wide
.cjpe and variety of the functions of
This high tribunal than the fact that,
Notwithstanding their wholly dive
training and experience, each of them
found here fitting field for his own
ps C lliar gifts and attainments, and each
in his own line proved himself an &C
cession and an ornament to the bench.
The Hawaiian affair is the chief
thing talked Of at the Capitol to-day,
and the news from Honolulu TO be
brought by the steamer expected to
arrive at San Francisco on Thursday, IS
looked forward to with great interest.
Superintendent Jas. F. White, in his
annual report to the PostmasterGe
recommends the passage of bill which
provides that there shall be withheld
from the salary of every person EN-,
ployed in the classified railway mail
service, one per cent. per annum OF his
salary, which shall constitute fund TO
be known as 1.-The Railway Mail Ser
vice Relief Fund" and he applied to
the relief of any employee who, in the
line of duty, shall be permanently in
lured or disabled, or, if killed, that the
sum equal to one years salary shall
bs paid to his widow or children.
Secretary Carlisle this morning ac-
cepted the resignation of George w.
Lyon, surveyor of customs at the port
of New York.
Representative Swanson of Virginia
was here yesterday, but went back to
his State to attend wedding.
Mr.. James E. Clements of Alexan-
dria county, here to day, says public
meeting will be held at Falls Church
next Thursday night in the interest of a
proposed electric railroad from Wash
ington and Georgetown to Falls Church,
via Ballston.
Col. Robert Christie, who defended a
Young LAWYER from Alexandria named
Cuvilier, charged with soliciting prac
tice here, in the police court of this city
last Saturday, and who was let of with
a light fine, said in the course of his re-
marks that according to an old Eng
ish proverb one man might. steal a
horse while another one could not look
over the hedge. This lad only peered
through, and yet some want him pun
ished."
Representative Meredith, internal
re,e Tue collector Shepherd, together
with Messrs. Burgess & Popham, whose
distillery in Culpeper county was re-
Gently seized by internal revenue OIL
GERS from Alexandria, were at the
Treasury Department all the morning
on business connected with that seizure
The matter was not settled definitely,
but it is supposed that it will be and
that the compromise offered by the
owners of the distillery will be accepted
1t is understood at the Capitol to-day
that the House ways and means CON-
mittee, in the tariff bill it is preparing
will carry out the expressed wish o.
the national democratic convention, land
nut as many of the necessaries OF life
and raw materials on the free list as
possible, and leave it to the House first
and then to the Senate, to say whether
thew shall remain there or not. Ac
cording to the latest reports concerning
the bill, both iron and coal will be OF
the free list, all income tax will be i'm
posed, sugar will be untaxed, but the
sugar bounty be repealed, and the
tax on liquor be increased, as that viii
not be Objectionable to the distillers.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices of Virginia were made
to-day: Alonzaville, Shenandoah coun
ty, Isaac Swartz appointed postmaster
vice B. F. Coffelt, resigned Orands
Shenandoah county, M. NJ. Orndorfi
vice P. NJ. Hotel, resigned Rock
bridge Alum Springs, Rockbridge coun
ty, J. A. Frazier, vice w. J. Cosby
dead.
Mr.. Foster, one of the receivers O.
the Richmond and Danville Railroad
who has just returned from an inspec
ton trip over that line to Atlanta, says
that business is improving all along tie
line, and that greal deal of cotton is
being shipped. He speaks in the higl
est terms of the efficiency of MIR. j. S. B
Thompson, the superintendent of the
line.
Mrs. Platt, wife of Senator Orville H
Plat, of Connecticut, died this after.
noon in her rooms at the Arlington, in
this city. Towards the close of the late
extra session Senator Platt returning
home one evening found his wife lyinp
insensible on the floor of her ro> m
stricken with paralysis. Her rec, ,ver,
was almost hopeless from the Iirst an,
her absent children were Summoned /,
her bedside and were present at he
death.
Mr.. Cleveland Will be at the Whit,
House and attend the Cabinet meet
ing tomorrow, but he will decline t,
receive any callers, except those whom
he wishes to consult. Until the mes
sage is completed his doors will be opel
only to Cabinet officers and a few 9th