Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-01-02
By Yesterday Evenings Mails.


NIRGlSIA LEGISLATURL.-ln the House OF
Delegates, 90 Thursday, the Speaker present
ed various communications from bank ON
GERS in this STATE, responsive 70 res0iu'iohS
adopted some time since -,
The cashier of the Bark Of the Valley
lW;pchester) reports that bat one demand iy
hrokers was paid in 81 ecie during the twelve
months preceding tie date Of suspension,
and that was 70 "a broker without the 5 ate
for 81 900. During the same period. how
ever, l29 demands Of brokers without the
5 ate, amounting IN the aggregate to $685.
All, were paid by checks on \ ribern cities
NJ demand was paii within tie same period,
in specie or It's equivalent TO any broker With
in the State.
The Speaker also present ID q petition 81
merchants Uf fredericksburg, praying that
in any future revenue bill, property aud
capt. | employed IN mercantile pursuits may
be taxed at the same rate, and IN The same
manner with property and capital employed
10 manufactures and agriculture.
The appropriate committees were lnstruc-
ted to enquire toto the expectancy
OF making the presence Of three magl'-
trates sufficient TO preside over grand jury
or any criminal trial, except examining
courts.
Providing for king Of the census of N'r-
giniI, pursuant to the provisions o. the u
sttutOn.
or publishing digest Of the laws OF Viz
gina.
OF reducing the license tax upon ordlns-
ries and houses of entertainment, IN cases
whore their yearly value is less than sou.
o! incorporating company TO construct
railroad bridge over the OHIO River, at Par
ksrsburs, in the county Of Wood, or OF au'
thorizing the Northwestern Virginia Rail
road Company to construct such bridge.
REVOLVING MuRDER--Su-sEX c. H., Va,
Dec. 3Oth.-Our community has been star
tied by one of the most revolving and cold
blooded murders that has ever been commit
ted il this sec ion. II occurred Chri. tmas
moruins--tle victim was a husband, a"u the
perpetratU his own wife. From her COZ
iession, the particulars seem t be briefly
these: % CHRISTMAS morning, JOSIAH Free
man the husband Of the woman, threatened
TO kill her; 50 after reflection, she thought
she would get the better Of It, and kill him
While be was ASLEEP, she seized gun, anG
fearing the springing of the hammer would
arouse him, she opened the pan, and ap-
plying a coal Of ire tie powder cXpiO-
ded, the whole charge grazing his forehead.
He raised up, and remarked, that she had
done wrong, when she Instantly struck him
over the head with the gun, knocking him
senscless. The blow was given with -uch
force, that the barrel Of Tie gun was bnd'y
bent. While in this insensihle cOEdlu II,
she seized a knife and cut his throat. Sal
fearing, as she says, THAT the w'Td m;E1t
again blow breath in his body" she took an
axe and tu:chered the body 10 shocking
manner.
She has been duly committed to Jail for
trial. Cor. Petersburg ErP.
PAINFUL AcCIDENT-L. '. Shearer, OF
this county, whilst engaged in hutcher'ns'
last week, met with painful accident. lie
war assisting in pulling hog out Of the ho'
water, when, ty some mishap, tie tut CT
tanning the heated liquid was overturned,
and in its fall threw him from the latiorm,
and the water running over hin scaIded BIN
very seriously. So .ccere was the pam INA,
apIreheusions of locijlw we're cntertAlIed
by his physician. - WincheStcr Eep.
The Norfolk Herald announces tho death
of Fortescue Whittle, esq, which occurred
at bis residence in the county OF Meckiet-
burg, Va, on the 2Cth Of December. lie
embarked in commercial pursuits in NortoIk
in 1903. and was largely engaged III coa'-
merce during the trying times incident to
the war of lSl2.
X!ck Overs. the unfortunate man who cat
his throat in Norfolk, on Saturday last, died
Tuesday night.
Geo. Rhodes, a respected citizen Of Rock
ingham Cvunty, died suddenly OF paralysis,
on Wednesday List.
CONTAMINATED.
Trojan Horse.