Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-02-02
From Richmond.

From Richmond.
/ Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. !
RICHMOND, Feb. 1.-The Senate has 6ualy
ordered to its engrosslnent the assessment bill,
and the House of Delegates, after spending
about two weeks in the discussion of the land
scrip bill, has LAID it aside aud taken up the bill
to dispose of the States interest in the James
River and Kanawha canal, the discussion OF
which has now been continued for two days,
how much longer it will be, deponeut saith not.
Tomorrow the funding bill is the special con-
tlnuing order.
In the Senate to day bills were reported to
authorize the Circuit court Of Culpeper county
to hear and determine the petition OF James
w. Barry, of said county, for divorce vim
culo matramonli !; and to Incorporate the Bank
of Berryville.
Bills were introduced to dispense with the
concurrence of the husband in the conveyance
of property to which the wife is entitled, and
to enable the wife to relinqush her right OF
dover without his concurrence to incorporate
the New Market bank Of Virginia; providing
for the payment ofinterest on certain coupon
bonS of Virginia held by the Union Theological
Seminary for the relief of the sureties OF }. I.
Robertson. late sheriff of Page county; to in
corporate the Washington, Cincinnati and 81.
Louis raroadcompany;and toamend the act COLI
timing the payment of interest, &c, to the IN
corporated colleges, &C., in tn State.
The committee on privileges and elections was
directed to enquire into the expeuiency OF re-
districting the State for mcnbersof the House
of Representatives. in accordance with the new
apportioumcnt act Of Congress.
Senate bill declaring dogs to he personal pro-
perty, and in relation to the larceny thereof
was rejected.
Senate Bill! to amend the law in regard to
the Court OF Appeals, and for the purpose of
hearing causes at Winchester, was re-commlt
ted
The following bills were ordered to be en-
crossed To amend the charter Of the Potomac
aud Manassas Railroad Company to amend
the code in regard to fishing in the Rappahan..
mock river, and to provide for the collection OF
taxes for 1871 in towns not having separate
organization, ETC.
The bill authorizing accused parties to testl-
fly in their own behalf in case of misdemeanor,
was discussed until adjournment.
In the House of Delegates bills were report
ed, to take the sense of the voters on the ratlt-
cation of the amendment to the the COnstltu-
ton, striking out the usury clause; amending
the code relative to arrest, commitment, and
bail ; amending the law in relation to jurors IN
civil cases, and to authorize the county judge
Of v estmoreland county to appoint special
commissioners to revise the land books of said
county.
An adverse report was made upon the bill to
prevent the sale of personal property OF sure
ties until the personal property OF the principal
is exhausted
The House adopted the report of the COM
mittee on courts declaring it inexpedicnt to le-
gslate upon resolution calling for equal rights
to persons of all races, by vote Of 81 to Is.
The House refused to reconsider the vote de-
ciaring it inexpedient to impose additional pen:
alties in case of school superintendent and
trustees failing to perform their duties, etc.
Bills we're passed to simplify declarations in
actions against insurance companies with
amendments J to amend the law in regard to
abandoned tllrnpkes ; to establish State
board of health and vital statistics;and to amend
the code in relation to criminal proceedings
against convicts.
The House refused to dismiss the Senate bill
to prohibist the sale Of liquor on Sunday by a
vote of 81 to 81.
A bill was introduced and placed on the cal
endar to prevent forced sales OF personal prop
erty The bill provides that creditor is re-
uuired to exhaust the real property before the
personal property is liable under execution, and
when debtor has no real property, the per
sonal property is to be liable to the lien of the
execution, but to be sold on three years time.
1t also changes the law relative to forthcoming
bonds heretofore or hereafter to be forfeited.
Nj. Neale, of Alexandria presented the res
oution Of the city council of Alexandria asking
the General Assembly to amend the 9th clause
of the 18th section of the public free school law.
Philip T. Dunford, veteran Of the war oil
1912, died in this city to-day.
The reported sale Of the Richmond and York
River Railroad to the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company proves to be untrue.
A PENITENTIARY CONvICT KIILED.--The
Lynchburg News says Information was re-
ceived here yesterday that Henry Cousins, a
colored man who was some time since convict
ed in Judge Garland court for burglary and
sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years,
was shot and killed on Tuesday last on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Cousins had
been hired to work on the road, with other
convicts, and was attempting to escape when
he was fred upon by the guard and almost in
stantly killed. Cousins was noted thief and
burglar, and had long been under the surveil
lance of the police Of this city, but it was only
last summer that sufficient evidence could be
obtained to convict him. for the crime of en-
tering the dwellings Of Mr.. Slaughter and Mr.
Sledd, and stealing large quantity of silver
ware. He was tried and sentenced to five
wears in the first case and three years in the
second
The report of the late DR.. VIM. B. Ball, one
of the Virginia Fish Commissioners, is pub
lshed. The substance is that all the desirable
varieties of fish are easily to be raised in the
fresh water streams of the State, and, In some
instances, successful attempts have been made
to introduce them. In most of the navigable
ply of all descriptions of fish has been materi-
ally lessened, and they are likely to be entirely
destroyed by artificial Instructions, such as