Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-19
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.

even interested before he Is relieved
from duty. He knows he gets his salary,
and he don't care continental about
the other fellow. General Ship
bas the army craze bad. He is an
alumnus and it is strange that he should
SO persistently urge an army detail In
preference to his own graduates. see
he mas recommended q Lieut.. Price OF
the army, provided he can get the de-
tail. Who Lieut.. Price is nobody knows.
I do not know that he is even q 'Yir.
ginian.' am afraid that they are so full
of the army fad, that they will take a
Yankee born rather than one of their
own graduates. know of some young
graduates of the V. M. L, and Virgin
ians too, who can fill that place with
great credit to themselves and honor to
their State;who have done honor to their
alma mater and their State in similar
position in other States, and yet they
are turned down because they are not
W. st Pointers and in the army. hope
the GAZETTE will keep an eye on this
unwiss policy and 60 for it. The alumni
are with it."
The recent decision of the Depart
ment of Justice in the case of General
Ransom calls to mind the fact that
Judge McKenna of the o. S. Court fol
California was appointed under pre-;
cisely similar conditions, and raises the
question as to the standing of the
many opinions he has rendered While
on the bench.
An old member of the bar Of this
CITY. we'll known in Alexandra, says
the suit of Meades VS.. Burke, in this
CITY, should never have been brought
as law and equity are both in favor
of Mr.. Burke, and as he has always
been willing to transfer his guardian
ship to any body legally appointed te
receive it. In the case of MIR. Spear o.
New Alexandria, he says, the prosecu
ton must of course be dismissed, as the
charge on its face can not be sustained
That the property at New Alexandra
is not as valuable as it was supposed
| 1t would be at the time of the boon
might lust as we'll BIZ attributed to the
members of the national administra
ton as to Spear, though, he added will
o wink, it would be difficult matte
now to serve notice on them.
The Mt. Vernon Railroad is almos
completed between the Aqueduc
Bridge and Arlington, and cara will b.
| running on it this week. Work on th'
road at 1871 and B streets in this city il
also the progress.
Secretary Morton says the proposed
crank scheme of devoting the unused
part of the Arlington estate to the pur
poses Of sooialistic communil,
amounts TO nothing. and that wher
Congress shall consider the question o
turning it into an experimental farm
b (, will have something to say. Severa
people from this city and from Alex
andria county will go to Manassas OF
the 2lst to hear the Secretary's speech
Ex-senator Butler of South Caroline
had q talk with Senators Harris ant
Jones of the executive committee o
the silver democrats here this morning
| and advised them to incorporate thu
| following planks in the platform upor
| which they are to make their coming
campaign inside the limits ofthe demo
cratic party, and upon which. he says
any body the national democratic con
yeption may nominate can be elected
| 1st. Repeal tax on State bank circula
ton. 2ud. Admit silver to coinage OF
terms of equality with gold at ratio
| of 16 to l. 3rd. Retire greenbacks anc
| coin certificates. 4th. National bank!
surrender their charters and take GU
State charters under national superyi
sion. 9th. Take the government ou
of the banking business. 9Th. The gov
eminent ought to stop issuing lone
bonds. It's revenues ought to support
it. fit is necessary to issue bonds al
all, they ought to be issued of small
denominations, in order that our owl
| people may invest in them. If the ta1
on State banks be repealed, the Senator
says those banks will gladly receive a
par all the silver dollars that may bt
offered them in exchange for their notes
A prominent democrat from Mont
| geometry county, Maryland, here to-day
who is not personal admirer of Sena
tor German, says the recent letter O.
the democratic nominee for Governor
of his State is entirely satisfactory &c
the democrats thereof, and that if there
was any considerable democratic dis
affection there before, it was entirely
removed by the course of the Balti
more Sun in advising the election Of
the republican candidate.
n. 8. Biscoe, of Michigan, son Of
Major Biscoe, president of the Virgins
democratic association of this city, and
a graduate of the Virginia Military In
stitute, has been appointed Assistant
Peymaster q. S. N.
| Among the visitors here to-day i:
Mr.. Cab Maddux of Virginia. He says
that Mr.. Walton Moore of Fairfax
county will be the democratic nominee
for Congress in the 9Th district next fall
and that Mr. Marshall Mccormick OF
Clarke county stands the best chance
| for the nomination in the 7th district
About the race tracks in Alexandria
| county, Mr.. Maddu1 says they are try
| ing to beat the players, and the players
are trying to beat them, and that IL
such fight the devil is sure to get the
hindmost.
The people of Chapel Point, Charles
county, Maryland, who want the new
court house of that county built there
instead of at La Plata, have employed
ex- Governor and ex Senator Whyte o.
Maryland as their counsel, who has ap
piled for an Injunction 10 prevent the