Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-02-26
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The Rockingham Register says:-"We
learn that some days since the bed Of DR. yriv-
er, some distance above Nashville, suddenly
sunk forming large sink hole, into which all
the water in the river now sinks The opinion
of those who have seen this singular phenome-
non is that the hole in the bed OF the river is
sufficient to swallow up the entire stream when
the river is at the ordinary height No one
has attempted to account Tor this strange phe-
nomenom.
The Mer-will case which has been under
argument for four weeks past before Judge
Wexford. of the Circuit Court of Richmond.
was adjourned Friday until about April LIST.
Before adjournment Judge Wexford issued all
interlocutory decree diSposing of matters about
which there was no dispute by council of any
Of the constants
About o'clock last Saturday morning the
gaming apparatus seized by the police during
the recent raid in Richmond. was publicly
burnt in front of the City Hall. The value Of
the tools and furniture thus destroyed: was
about $4,000.
Wolves are plentiful in the mountains Of
Craig county, and especially on Potts Greek
A gentleman living in that section recently
killed five. A reward of twenty dollars is paid
for each wolf killed. At this rate killing these
animals might be made profitable business.
The Culpeper Observer says that J. W.
Green Esq, of that county, we'll read, able
and practical lawyer, designs to open at an ear
ly day, Law School at Culpeper z. Ii. where
young men can qualify themselves for practice
General Lilly telegraphs that Cen R. II.
Baily, of New Orleans, has bequeathed seven
tv thousand dollars to Washington and Lee
University. Cen g. w. g. Lee is one of the
executors of the will.
TRANSFER TICKETs-A question Of interest
to street-car passengers was decided Saturday
in the case of Thomas j. Davis against the
Washington and Georgetown railroad company.
The plaintiff complains that transfer ticket
emitting him to 60 up 7th street was refused
because he did not get on the 18th street car at
the point of junction, but walked up to near
the Patent Office and got on a car there. In
other words, the case involved the whole ques-
recognize transfer tickets not presented at the
the company that they had the right to make
the regulation that transfers should only be re-
ceived at the junction to prevent fraud on the
company On the other hand, it was main
tanned that the bylaws or regulations in rela-
ton to transfers set up by the company are not
authorized by law or their charter and there
fore are void. Judge Macarthur instructed the
jury that if they thought the rule in relation to
transfers which made them good at the juno
ton only, reasonable one, they should find for
the defendant, otherwise not. The jury deci-
ded that it was not reasonable. or authorized
by the company's charter; returning verdict
for the plaintiff, with damages of ) cents-the
price of the ticket WASH Star.
AVAILABLE INVENTION +. Sheltman,
of Christiansburg, was in the city yesterday with
his machine for measuring, registering, and
indicating the distance run by, and the speed
of locomotives, carriages, and all kinds of run
ming machinery, for which he obtained patent
sometime since The DR.. returned yesterday
in which his machine was put to practical
narrow slip of paper the distancet ravelled over,
of the train while in motion We understand
that during the trip a record of the time was
kept by telegraph at the Railroad Office in this
city sent from the depots along the line, and
upon comparison with that noted BY the
Doctors machine, the two were found to cor
respond precisely. This successful experiment
would seem to establish beyond doubt the
merit of the invention, and we doubt not it will
soon be introduced ON all railroad trains, and
applied to such other machinery as it is desira-
bile to keep correct record OF.
The machi merry is simple in its construction,
and by no means complicated and We are in
formed can be manufactured for a small sum
jNe'cs.
About one hundred men are employed on the
new feeder of the G. & o. canal near Little
Falls, and it is expected the work will be Gem
pleted iu two or three weeks. Every effort will
be made to have the canal ready for navigation