Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-09

Mir. Thomas advocated the adoption Of the
minority committee report but before vote
was reached The Scnoic adjourned.
Tn the House of Delegates, the following bills
we're reported Ixtcniing the time Tor cor
recling II" ~; :,;:l,I,ni 81 lands throughout the
Commonwealth !: Ii Incorporate the Virginia
Iron Mining Chemical and Manufacturing
company IL Incorporate the Iuray Savings
Bank Of Virginia : for protection OF persons
engaged in iny hunting 10 amend certain
sections Of the free sch1ai ar ~ repeal the
18th section of the free school act.
\ resolution WAS adopted calling or the audi
tor Tor information ~ 10 the different dates that
the public debt was contracted: for what it was
contracted, and the time in which the different
bonds were 10 hc redeemed, and also. the
u,nount Of such bonds us were registered, ami
such as were coupon bonds.
The Speaker made Il personal explanation III
relation to the appointment of the committee
ON the part oI the House, OF the JOINT commit
tee 10 inquire into the huanc.s ri the State !:
Mr., Hanger said he saw FROM statements IN
some. Of the papers that the impression prevailed
outside, and az he vas intormed,t 10 certain rX
tent in the House, that the Chair was, III some
scn-c Il party to al agreement SAID TO exist nc
,yern IhuS, who had decided to pass this JOINT
resolution for Il special committee. As 10 the
manner in which said committee was 10 he con-
stitn.rL He desired distinctly to state that
tue extent ii hi> knowledge Was that such q
resolution WAS Ia be introduced, and that he
| had u0i uar could ilr, under his Srn>t u! duty
| "a himself and the House, eyer become Il party
| TO any agreement Us To appointment Of commit
tees and that he was also DESTROYS Ia remove
| any impression that if he had been i party to
an agreement that lie could afterwards have
proved iaitless to it, He did not intend to
| discnss the composition o.! the committee lur-
| thcr than to say. that it was constituted III h!S
opinion according to Parliamentary iaw and
| usage. -,
Bills and resolutions were introduced As iol.
lows bills to charter the Virginia Land, Man
ut;cturing ana improvement company ; to
amend the registration law resolutions is ("
| the cxnediency Of increasing the pay OF Jurors
| and TO require parties electing trial hy jury TO
pay the expenses Of such trial N ~ the ex-
peieucy Of requiring all sales Of real prop.
erty for the payment of debts, nc, contracted
| previous to the 10th of April, 1868, 10 be on 4
credit Of not less than ten equal nsta!mcntS,
payable annually with interest from day OF
/ sale and shall bring its full val lie to Ie :lscrr'
tanned By three diSlnterested ircehodcrS' hc-
fore it shall DC 4 legal sale; aud as to the ex-
miency Of providing more definitely the man
ner Of fixing the county levy. T.
SAD STORY. - Between / and ) clock on
Sunday afternoon police Qgevle and NUM-
Der of citizens found lady on Main street
near the corner Of Twentieth who had been
| lying in q dangerous condition with an cpl!ep.
| tic fit She was taken to the First station
| house, where medical aid was summoned, and
her Suiicrugs comparatively relieved. When
! sufficiently recovered she gave her namc IA:
Mrs. Priscilla Miller of Charleston, $ e. She
is apparently about forty. five years Of age, aud
had plcasant countcnance and light hair and
| blue eyes. Her maiden name, she says, was
| Hunt. Ter family, or a portion OF them, re.
side IN the country not far from Charleston.
During the siege of that city in the late war
she was struck by i piece Of shell, and it Is
from this cansc, says her physician, that she is
so oIcn attacked rs she was OH SUNDAY Her
husband was killed while in the service Of the
! Confederate States She has son, however
twenty years Of age, who is now cadet nj
| West Point having gained admttancc there
| through the influence Of 4 northern relative.
| It was while on 4 visit TO that city that Chica.
90 was visited with the recent great contagra-
| ton. Her sisters husband here lost his life
in the flames From the grief which this be
reavrmcnt accustomed his wife, she lost her
| mind. aud while being taken to The insane aSy.
lum in Jacksonville, Illinois, died, leaving one
child, a girl. Mrs. Miller being the nearest
and perhaps the on relative in that locality,
The child fell to her care TIL" Mayor of Chi,
caeo. through his influence and ali secured,
4 pass for the two from Chicago to Charleston
via Baltimore which last named city she lett
on Saturday evening, reaching Richmond ON
Sunday. Having brothcriu.law in Peters
burg. it was her intention and desire 10 have
reached that city yesterday Ia Baltimore she
| SAYS she remembers having seen her niece the
last time. but now cannot recall to her recoec-
ton anything beyond that fact. nor does she
| know how she came on Main street At that
hour. The girl has not since been heard from.
! Rich Di$
PoroMAc FIsuERIEs. The Governor OF
Maryland in his message to the Legislature Of
that State tins retrrs'Ao the Potomac fishery
difficulties:
As the seine haulcr cannot fish each his own
shore, 50 the OILERS have 4 trouble, and they
cannot drift on one side OF the river only for,
az We all know, the currents follow in the bend
of a river, and thus the net Is carried irSt
| from one side and then to the othcr--no i'll
Maryland then in Virginia. According to 4
compact, but no: the boundary line. Again, il
any one finds it an object to violate the law by
fishing in any particular way on the Maryland
shore he makes the Virginia shore his base OF
operation directly opposite, and vice versa.
Thus. practically. such II person has M 'rnme.
date and sai; retreat considering that ii wonld
not pay, as now, TO follow the course of law
through the executive departments of the two
States.
These two latter difficulties must be settled
between the two States or we must assert Our
boundary linr To the Southern bank Of the
river. The people have right to demand AZ
ton on the part Of their State governments.
Chilling or drifting nets for fish is every year
assuming larger proportions as TO material and
labor 1t is cheaper and more profitable than
seine hauling, as a general thing, and it is well
for all interested to RECOGNIZES the fact at once
and provide accordingly -to oppose it sto lose.
The great controversy between the seine hau'
/ III, tt,o ,ffn