Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-04-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
40 show TIE very age and body Of tie 7a"es'

only the products OF Their OVID larhs i'oln
their wagons along the streets, mo0irg ifoui
place to place, are not iilb!e to the special tax
as produce brokers.
The Select Committee orthe House OF Hep
rcscntalivcs on the Postal Telegraph sester
day instructed their Chairman, Mr.. "asn
burrc, TO report tavufably on the House Dill
establishing postal telegraph system
la the trial OF Mcfarland at New York
Yesterday, for tho killing Of Richardson, sew
cral witnesses testified that the prisoner was
Insane at the time. Large crowds were III
Attendance at the court room.
A bill introduced by Senator Cragen yester
dav allows to the widows and children Of
officers and men lost on the Oneida twelve
months extra pay, and in the case OF 10 Wild
or or children, to 60 to the parents.
In California the attorney General has
rendered an opinion that until the law OF the
State is changed. or Congress adopts some leg
isla:i N on the subject, the County CLERKS are
bound 10 refuse to register the coIored voters.
Surgeon Sudtards and paymastcr Yates,
with forty nine sailors and marines OF the crew
OF the i'll lated Oneida. arrived at San francisco
Yesterday from Yokohama, on their way to
New York. -.-..'.
Havana dispatches say that every day num-
bcrs of the Cuban insurgents seek the protcc-
ton of the Spanish camp, and avail themselves
Of the amnesty Proclamation ofCaptain General
De Rodas.
Assist INT Postmaster General (rerrel)
having completed his Improvement OF the
postage stamps to take the place Of those now
iu use, they are ready Tor issue.
LoUDoUN COUNTY. The Spirit of improve
meat in iIcesburg is sill onward. Mr.. Rcbt.
W. Gray is busily engaged 10 rearing hand,
some brick Store House, nearly opposite the
Reamer Hotel, on King ST., and the Leesburg
Foundry, of Messrs. Norris 4 Cockey, which we
| noticed few weeks ago is nearing completion
| The eugene and other machinery is already re
ceivcd, and will soon by ready Tor work.
| An cngiuc aud other machinery destined fos
| the Loudoun Marble Company passed through
| Lccsburg one day last week, and will soon be
| at work in the marble Gcposles south OF Goose
Creek. This looks like business.
Mr.. Conrad Grim, nearly sixty years age
! opened his eyes upon the beauties OF nature, IL:
| revealed i'm tho blue hills OF Loudoun, and
| from thar day to this has lived within ten miles
! of Leesburg, the county seat, made his first ap
| pearanca upon our streets on Monday last.
| Tradi,ioDaliy, lie learns that when child he
was once carried to the DiStrict-beyond that
| he has no kuowc edge OF ever before having been
SO far lrom home rs no Monday, when IN this
town. Several coorcd people are now confined
in the jail here upon the charge OF robbng hlnl
OF watch sometime since, and to his suppos!-
ton that they would have beeo tried on Mon
day, are we indebted for his presence 1T bat
timc.
On Monday n4 hit last the store OF Douglas
4 SeiImau II i4ecSburg was robbed or some
| small chause, and TWO or three gallons OF liquor.
| \ colorcl man has been arrested charged with
| the robbery.
| DR.. James Lcith was or Tuesday SEN
to the insane Asylum at Stanton.
The Potomac lroa Furnace UOmpany O
Lou1oun have sold 70 Fl. Thomas, Esd, o
Philadelphia, their Furnace and Ore Banks
| situated Un the Potomac rivor opposite the r.
OF Rocks, iol sou. 100 We lave not learned
what disposition Mr.. T. proposes to make o
| the property.
| Oar friend, Mr.. Feo;on II. Henderson,
havin4; bccr rcIlcscd oi his political disabiIi
tics, has teen Appointed by Judge Keith
| Commissioner in Chancpry for the Circuit
| Court OF LoGdoun. No better appointm en
could have been made -Lom{om .Uirror.
The REGISTRATION or VOTERS. is Oh.
vious that the commissioners appointed to lay
off the COZ n;;es into townships must act with
promptness in order to prepare the people for
the general elections in May. The General
Assembly, seeing the impossihility CT com,
mcnclng tic registration OF voters on the day
fixed i'll the &C. first passed for that purpose,
tbnr In
tlmc for one week, viz: uuti the first Tuesday
in May. To prepare for that work, the
counties arc first to be laid off into townships.
The county commissioners arc TO appoint a
registrar Tor each township, aud the regist1 ar
Is to give at least ten days notice Of the time
anu rIaca "i holding Il registration. Even
under the amended act this notice will have TO
be pcS;.'; cary rs he 23d day OF April, and
only a few days are leit within which tn C
work Of the township commissioners Can -
done. Hence il is important that these com-
ms,)a>rS should enter at once upon their
work when informed oi tntir appointment.
-Hjchmon1 Wig.
\ WoMAN's RIGHTS ScENE.-Parnassus is
sending its occasional tribute Of praise to mark
each step of progress which the world takes
woman in Wyoming, having been summer
ed Tor jury duty, leaves her sleeping and I'M
conscious baho in charge Of the nurse The
innocent a@akes and iitath up its voice, and
viii not be persuaded 10 lay it doa again no,
not Tor all The bottled milk in Chrstcndom :;
whereupon the nurse sets her misery to tuneiu
numbers, and thus sings:
Mice little baby, don't get in fury,
Cause mammals gone to sit on Jury"
The explanation seems to have been salts.
factory, Tor the faithful chronicIcr concludes.
And Immediately the tender offspring shut
up."-Nc,o Iorl; Com.
THE VIRGINIA HORTICULTURAL and Pc
mooglcal Society holds it monthly meetings,
reported by those who attend to be highly in
tercsting We hare received copies of an essay
on pruning The grape vine, by DR.. s. Preston
Davis, and anothcr by Franklin Davis, On the
culture and general management of apple or
chards. Both, contain much practical intor-
nation unon subjects OF i'm pcrtance to the