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Correspondence of the Columbian Fountain.


ALEXANDRIA, February 25th, 1916.
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Correspondence OF the Columbian Fountain.


ALEXANDRIA, February 25th. 1916.
Mr.. EDITOR: The festival at the Post Of
tice building, continues to meet with the most
liberal encouragement from our citizens. The
spacious hall, in the third story ofthe building,
is beautifully illuminated every night, while
beauty, radiant with misles of welcome, causes
many bachelor, unwittingly enticed into the
snare, TO leave minus not only his money but
his heart.


The friends of the several candidates for the
Mayoralty having concluded their laudations
of their favorites, with which they have filed
several columns OF the Gazette for week past,
have turned into battle, which they carry on
by the same means, each one affirming that
his candidate is no 'drone," &c. SC. leaving it
to be inferred that the rest are.


VIM. Veitch, Esq, having received the
nomination Of the lst and Cd Wards in pub
lie meetings, seems likely 10 succeed. But
Charles L. Stuart and Robert Brockett, Esqs,
the former backed by similar nominations from
the Sd and 4lh Wards, will make consider
able run, and perhaps prevent his election.


| am glad TO observe that nearly all the nom
inees Tor Council are teeto,allers, as it is mat
ter of great importance to present an undivided
front in that body on several ques'ions-the
most important of which is the sale of liquor
on the fish wharf, where, Of late years it has
been carried on in open violation Of law, and
in defiance Of resolution Of Council passed
by very large majority.