The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-09
LOCAL NOTES.

|, st. Patrick's Day occurs on Sunda
i this year.
The Hastings court opened again thi
morning, but tried no causes.
f The annexation question will agai
come before the City Council on Monday
Rain fell here last night, and tn
weather to-day has been damp and cloudy
future. "
The sound of the saw and the ham.
mer is heard in City Hall Just now. From
lts appearance it has long been unused to
such sounds.
The Potomac river mail boat ran on a
sawyer last night, causing some detention.
The mail will reach Richmond between
and o'clock.
The Senate yesterday passed resolu-
ton declaring that VIM. FL. Richardson is
the acknowledgement of this State. 1t is
supposed that the House will concur.
Huge piles and ridges of snow still
lie around promiscuously in our streets,
ana at some points on the sidewalks, the
remains OF the snow storm of one week
ago.
There was meeting of the Church and
Union Hill Building Fund Association last
evening, at Cones school-house, on Broad
street. This company starts under the
falrest auspices.
There was another sale of the assets
OF the Plttsylyania Bank yesterday, and
In lhe aggregate sum of $4,000 was realized.
Ihe sale took place in front of the custom
mouse, under the direction of VIM. Ira
Smith, assignee.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
company have determined to lay the whole
OF the New River and Greenbrier divisions
OIL their road with steel rails, as the min
eral traffic both east and west is expected
to be very heavy as soon as the whole line
is opened.
The business houses on the south-side
OF the dock complain of the unequal taxa
tlon imposed upon them, while they are
denied improvements given to more favor
ed localities. Citizens on Western Broad |
street make the same just complaints. The
present City Council is suneoual', TO fine |
duties assigned them, and these causes of
complaint will scarcely be removed until
a new and more energetic city government
is established by the people.
THE WILL OF THE LATE HORACE L. 1
4 hENT.-Ihe last will and testament of the
late Horace L. Kent, was few DAYS ago
admitted to record in the Chancery Court
d ,, TINS city. The following extract from
.llis document has been paraded in the col
imns OF our city contemporaries, and
through them and the letters of cores
)ondents has found its wav into the papers
u the State generally:
10 my daughter --, who has done
% much to ALLEVIATE my affections. but who
still deeply and tenderly love, I give as
N evidence of the beauties of her doctrines
u secession and rebellion, doctrines and aims {
yhlch have reduced me from affluence TO
,,esgary, and as she yet thinks perhaps
hat The Lost Cause will be regained /
ne may think my bequest as valuable /
aore so, possibly, than the same amount 1
lven IN Yankee securities. give her the t
viz: Twenty-Five Confederate I
onds of K, P. & Co., $25 900 eighteen 9
ervants emancipated by secession. SO 900: |
and bank stocks, $4,000: all n
~ claims against the so-called Confederate n
overnment for the wanton, cruel and n
Icked destruction of my property on the
4 of April, 1865, 100000. / could con- !.
nue. the list to the extent of more than =
ar million of dollars, but the above q
Ill suffice. She will see what the effect U
secession has been, but for which I Il
'uld have left all my children handsome II
Il
This provision of the will of good and p
stman seems to have been carefully ex-
acted from its context for an unworthy :,
lrpose. The effect which it has, whether % %
tended or not, is to cast reproach ,lpon =
9 memory of departed citizen, and we ~
el called upon, reluctant as we are to luz 'D
ch matters before the public, to defend
at memory from unjust ilnputation, Il
well known that Mr.. Kent was q firm Il
ID unfllnching Union man, never faltering ce
the darkest hours in his devotion to the So
use OF his country. This is his only Of
ice. Ia.
The bequests mentioned above must be
Ken simply as a fatherly rebuke. as in en-
proofs of his own superior iudg- 10 lo
snt upon the result of momentous aues- SUI SUI
ns-and not in the heartless and rnre- sS q.
ltlng spirit which this publication would =
ilcate. For the will Immediately pro-
sds to provide in precisely the same gen. !
,us and liberal terms for the daughter all m, a.
led to as it does for each of the other Il
rs. ST
we regard it as simple act of Justice. thdil hi
only to the memory Of the dead. but 81 81
0 to the surviving relatives, that this ex-
nation should be made in connection
ia the extract published above, which :,
yes the inference that this daughter was Y
oily disinherited. - '
RUNAWAY HoRsE.-About one O'Clock
afternoon, a horse attached to a CITY NE
press wagon, taking fright in front of the
'tofilee, ran off up Main street at a rapid /
e. On reaching Ninth street, he took to
pavement on the east side of that tho
glltare, and as he passed on up to Vir-
ia Hall, made a terrific rattle among the
IS and posts with which he came in con- .
!. Through the efforts of parties who
eavored to stop him in his mad career.
was Indilcnd Of tLat .it I. IL = -