Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
of the Alexandria Gazette.
WAauTnJGTON AUp 16.

RUIZ W hDdlNU1UN.
ICorrespondeuce of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.
Mr.. w. D. Dabney, Solicitor OF Claims
for the State Department, has Deen
elected professor of common and statute
law at the University of Virginia by the
Board of Visitors of that institution,
and has accepted the position. The va
cancy was created by the death OF john
B. Minor who held the position for nifty
wears. Mr.. Dabney was great favorite
of the late Secretary Gresham. While
serving as one of the attorneys OF the
interstate commerce commission, he
argued case before Judge Gresham in
Chicago, and so impressed the latter
that when Mr.. Gresham became Score
tary of State he sent for Mr.. Dabney
and offered him the position of solicitor
in the department.. Mr.. Dabney was
graduated from the University 20 years
ago. Prof. Minor whom he succeeds
was his instructor in law. He is known
best in legal circles as the author of a
standard work on railroad law.
Thomas P. O'Connor, a lad oils. was
buried to-day, having died from injuries
received at fire in drug store where
he had been employed. His death YVES
the third of a series of casualties in bis
family, his father having fallen from q
building, and his mother having been
burned to death.
The Ancient Order Of Ribernians pro-
pose to endow chair of Celtic philolo-
ey in the Catholic University, with 3
fund of $50, coo, and have it occupied
by Mr.. Heneburg, now of Oxford, Eng
land. The dedicatory services Of Nc
Mshon Hall of Philosophy, to take
place on Tuesday, October LIST, will be
one of the most notable events OF the
Catholic Church in this country. The
Papal delegate, Mgr. Satolli, Cardinal
Gibbons and every archbishop in the
United States and Canada will be pres
ept.
1t has Just leaked out that the rea-
son why the late proposed tour OF some
of the national democratic committee
and certain democratic spell binders to
theWest was indefinitely postponed was
the fact that Senator Morgan had been
invited to be one of the party, and, as it
was feared that in his speeches he would
not hesitate to speak of the President
aud tbs CUT koos as he found them, and
az it was Well-known that he could not
be muzzled, and as his invitation could
not be Withdrawn, the only way tc
avoid dissention was to abandon the
whole trip.
One of the engineers who surveyed
the proposed Northern Neck Railroad,
here to-day, says that from Falmouth
down to the extreme end of the line on
Chesapeake Bay, the road bed can be
constructed at exceptionally cheap
rates, as there will be but little cutting
and filling, and only three short bridges
on tho whole line, and they of trestle
work. The proposed western extern
sion of the line, he says, is via Manassas
and Winchester, to the coal fields OF
West Virginia.
Democrats from Alexandria county
here to-day say they think the county
| is fairly entitled to the next delegate
in the Virginia legislature from the
district composed of that county and
the city of Alexandra, as Mr.. Hume
is the only delegate the county has
had in recent years. They also say
that if the democrats be disposed to
tote fair the friends of Mr.. J. E. Glenn.
ents will urge him for the place.
It is said at the Office of the Mt. Yer
non Railway Company here to-day that
arrangements are being perfected as
rapidly as possible for the completion
of the gap in that road from this city
to the Alexandria Driving Park. The
road, as previously stated in this cor
respondence, will cross Four Mile Run
a short distance west ofthe point where
| the Washington and Alexandria rail-
road crosses that run, and there its
new power house will be erected.
The executive committee appointed
by the silver wing of the national dem
ocratic party at the recent silver con-
ference here, are in session in this city.
They are already considering the quail
fications of the men proposed for chair
men of the separate State committees
and will, they say, be very careful in
their selections. 1t is said that either
| Mr.. Jones or Mr.. Otey, both of whom
are Congressman, will be chosen for
Virginia, possibly the latter, as he lives
in city, while the formers home is in
the country.
Senator Gibson, of Maryland, was in
the city to-day. He, like all the other
Maryland democrats who come here,
says the regular democratic ticket will
be elected in his State next November,
and that the opposition of the "Cleve-
land democrats" will only stimulate the
regular democrats to greater exertions.
There mas been so much trouble at
the government printing Office with the
compositors and their unions and their
pro and anti civil service predictions
that the superintendent has determin-
ed to have as much ofthe work IS posi-
BILE, certainly the whole of that on the
Congressional Record, done by typeset-
ting machines.
James W. Pos president of the National
Republican Vigilant Association, says that up
| to date 1S States and 40 colored republi.
can club, have responded to the call for
national convention at Baltimore, October 8.
The clubs will have three delegates each in
addition to the regular State delegations. The
conventions chief work wilt be to formulate
q general plan of organization to solidify the
colored vote and reclaim that which has here
tofore acted with the democratic and other
parties The indications are, he says, that
this will be the largest political gathering of
colored men for years.
BAsEBALL.-The baseball games of yester.
day resulted % follows: Baltimore II, Bos-
ton 10; Philadelphia %, New York 9 Brook.