Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-05-13


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Miscellaneous Items.
The board of health in Washington are dis
cussing with the city what shall be done Will
the city canal Letters were received on the
subject from Prof Joseph Henry and others,
giving their views scientific and otherwise, on
the subject and the oral views of others were also
taken. Gen. Meigs said it Was lmpractlcable
to convert the canal into Il covered sewer, aud
General Capron advocated the cutting off the
sewerage from the canal altogether; others,
practical men, advocated opening the canal to
navigation with as little delay as possible.
David R. Mckee, of the N. Y. Associated
Press, was on Thursday married to Miss France:
f. Dunn, daughter of Assistant Judge Advo
cate Dunn, Of the Bureau Of Military Justice
the Rev Dr.. Edwards, Of Baltimore pastor Of
the Second Presbyterian Church, performing
the ceremony. There was present, among 9th.
ers, President Grant and h1rs. Grant, Judge
Advocate General Holt, Senators Morton, Cole,
Casserly, Stevenson Sherman, Corbett, Morrill,
Of Maine, and Trumbull, together with nun
ber Of relatives of the family
The President has directed that General n.
Michler be relieved from duty as Superinten>
dent OF Public Buildings and Grounds, and that
General 0. +. Babcock, Aide-d Camp to the
President, be assigned to duty rs Superintcn-
dent in his place General Babcock will still re-
tain his position upon the President S staff
Judge Blatchford ofNew York has ordered the
restoration Of the property left by Commodore
Bainbridge to his heirs The property was
in stock Of the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, which has been sold by the National
City Bank, and Duncan 4 Co., with whom it
was hypothecated by relative Of Mrs. Jour
dan TOR borrowed money
The Taxpayers Convention of South Caro-
lima has adopted resolution requesting the
Legislature to inaugurate system Of proper
tlonal representation, to retrench the State ex-
penses, to prevent an increase OF the public
debt upon any pretext, and to amend the cleo
tlOn law so as to prevent wholesale frauds
A MATTER OF Two MILLIONS s-Gust;lvus
Schurmann married in ls45 in Europe, and a
few years afterwards he abandoned his wife
and TWO infant children, and elopcd to America
with one Catherine Bengels, :; factory girl,
taking with hina the greater part of the joint
estate of himself and his wife He settled in
indianapolis, where he lived with Catherine
Bengels as her husband until her death, in
1855. He had by her five children, and he
in her own behalf and thai of her children
brings suit for such interest in Schurmann' s
estate as is provided in their antenuptial con-
tract In her complaint she further alleges
that after the death of Catherine Bengels Gus
ravus Schurmann recognized the plaintiff as
his lawful wife, and endeavored by divers letters
and other ways to induce tile plaintiff to leave
her home at Aix-la- Chapele and live with him
at Indianapolis. When said Gustavus aban-
doned plaintiff he took with him, of the joint
estate or acquisitions Of himself and plaintiff,
about $50, 600, leaving her about $54 900 The
property owned by Schurmann in Louisville
and Indianapolis was all acquired by him since
his arrival in this country, and belonged to the
said community estate provided for by the ante
nuptial contract. The plaintiff claims the full
one-half and one-sixteenth of said estate in fee
simple, and one-eighth for life. Schurmann
left an estate in Indiana and Kentucky, chiefly
in the two cities of Indianapolis and Louisville,
Of the value of upwards Of $2,000,0O0. The
rents of the real estate in Louisville amount to
about $23, 900 per annum. The annual income
of the decedent amounts to over $1,000. In
the hands ofthe defendant, Charles Post, the ad-
ministrator appointed in Indiana, there is over
100000 in cash. Plaintiff prays that the real
estate in Kentucky be placed under the control
of the commissioner of the court rs receiver.
REGISTERING A LErTER.-A citizen went in
to the postoAice at Clarksyiuc, on Friday, says
the Roanoke Valley, with money letter to be
registered. The postmaster got down his big
envelope, his blanks, his pen and lux, his book
Of Instructions, brakes Plantation Bitters
almanac, with Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
receipt-book Then he drew up his stool and
sat down Citizen told him, Mr. Postmaster,
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