Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-03-23
From Richmond.

The House amendments 10 the Donate bill
to provide Tor the election of electors OF 'rcSl-
dent and Vice President were concurred III.
The House bill relating To arrest, commit
ment and bail was passed.
The House bill providing for holding >es-
sion of the Court Of Appeals at Winchester,
was paSscd-ayc;, ~ noes, /,
Among the bills placed on the calanlar was
one to amend the act Of Incorporation of tie
Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank Of Al,
exandria,
The oyster bill was under consideration
when the Senate ahurrcd.
I'm the House Of Delegates the bill to pro-
vide artificial limbs To those who lust theirs
during the war was taken up and the vote ky
which the Senate amendment was re jrcted re
considered, aud the amendment agreed to by a
vote of ) ayes to % uocs. The amcnducnl gives
money to all who lost their arms to the value
each of an artificial arm. and the value IN mon
cy of an artificial lee to every person entitled To
such leg who cannot use It,
The House concurrcd in the report of the
| Conference Committee on House bill III rcia-
ton to fence laws, and passed the following
bills To provide for the repair Of the
Capitol; to amend the code in relation to
the duties and compensation Of The Attorney
General i!slructing the Treasurer not to re-
c.jve West Virginia certificates as any part vi
the dcposits required By law Of foreign ll>ur
ance con,anies land also declaring that this
State is not responsible for and will not pay
any portion Of the debt SO ccrtlicatcd), with
| Senate amendment Joint resolution instruct
ing the United States S: majors from this State
to vote for the repealo the duties on tea and cot
fee 10 prevent prize lighting and the IL citing
of cocks, dogs, &C., in the county OF AlexaIl-
lria to authorize the supervisors ct i'uck-
bridge county to increase the compensation ol
the superintendent of the poor III SAID county ::
| to amend the 9TH section OF the act TO appro
| pirate the income from the proceeds "t the
educational land scrip AMI 10 amend the c'"tt:
in relation to criminal procedure.
The consideration Of the Senate tax bill WAS
resumed, when the motion to strike out the
| third section, imposing tax oil Il per cent. on
the voluc OF collateral inherl;anccS, was reject
/ ed by Is ayes to It noes.
An amendment to the 9TH section cx,mpting
| the libraries Of all licensed ministers Of the
GOSPEL from taxation, was also rejected. The
bill was ,trther considered till recess.
At the night session ni the House. The con
si,lcratiun Of the tax bill vas resumed and The
18th section amended 81 as to make the spcc
| fc license tax on every commercial traveller ~
sample merchant So Instead of s Iu!'. Il, ll'r
lr,Scd by the Senate.
Pending further consideration, the House
adjourned.
Ex-tiovcrnor Henry A. Wise delivered his
lecture on "1'hc Physical Structure Of the
! United States and its possible influence upon
the future of the Country. in the Hall of the
House Of Delegates yesterday afternoon. =.
MANAGEMENT or Coal BURNING STOVES.
The sudden and mysterious sickness of the
Arnold family in Frederick county, and the
death of Mrs. Arnold, have led to various con.
lectures as to the cause, some assembling 1t TO
noison in tea, and others canned fruit, while
the impression is said to have prevailed with
some that it was gas from the stove, as the
SYMPTOMS seemed to he those common IN death
frou such cause. We understand that >eve.
raj scientific and professional gentlemen of our
city, among them Prot, \. K, Smith, are Of
the latter opinion, and that the cause was the
| cscape of carbonic oxide, or coal smoke. into
the apartment where the family was gathered.
The gas referred TO is coorless without sulell or
taste but even more irrcpressible aud poison
Gus than carbouic acid gas, though it does not,
like the latter irritatc the respiratory organs.
1t is the product Of imperfect combustion. and
it is generated in enormous quantities by the
large fires OF close furnaces. If the flow OF the
gas be in any way irregularly obStructed, the
sudden admission of fresh air or oxygen to 1t
may result in serious explosion. Its escape,
even in small quantities. while not producing
an apparent immediate result, cannot but be
injurious to the general health. When eScap-
ing in large quantities it produces such results
as we're witnessed in the Frederick county case.
Similar cases have come under the extended
observation of the medical gentlemen before
referred to. We have heard vi one case where
the smoke pipe leading from the furnace be,
coming choked up, the poisonous gas escaped
into the sleeping apartments OF tany,and the
mother awaking, depressed and dizzy, aroused
her husband, who promptly threw up the WIN,
doWs of the honse, and thus saved his whole
household, all of whom were Frustrated, and
some of them even insenslble. Cases are Ire
quently reported in large manufacturing estab-
lishments where asphyxia or insenibity to the
workmcn has been caused by the inhalation Of
this gas from the large furnaces This dis
closes to houscholdcrs danger Of which few
of them are aware and at the same time incul-
Gates the necessity of intelligence and pru-
dencc in the proper management of coal burn
ing stoves and furnaces by themselves and
their servants, as well as the thorough ycntila-
ton of houses. Among the indiscret!ons none
is more common. when room becomes over
heated than to close the lower and open the
upper door of coal burning stove, thereby throw
ing out into the apartment what, even in small
quantities is an iusidious poison. --Bah. SM
| VIRGINIA AND TENNEssEE.-ln the Ten
nessee Legislature last week the following ac-
ton was taken in regard to the settlement Of
the boundary between the State OF Virginia
and Tennessee:
Messrs. Gibson, Earnest and Greene were
appointed as Joint committee to settle the
boundary between Tennessee and Virginia.
Mr.. Ridley said the question bad not been
settled in lSU2, but in 1888. The decision ar
rived at seventy years ago had been affirmed,
and it was supposed the dispute had been clos
ed forever.
Mr.. Gibson explained that in surveying the
line between Virginia and North Carolina, be
fore Kentucky and Tennessee were erected IN
to Independent States, there was a difference
of seventeen miles between the surveyors rep
rcsenting the two SattcS. In lS2p, after Ten