Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-26
FROM RICFsHEDSD.
PAYMENT OF INTEREST SUSPENDED.

RICHMOND, Dec "A. --Thc Governor has
signed the bill repeating the act for the pay
ment of interest, so that the interest on the
State debt cannot be paid without further
actment OF the Legislature. This WAS not an
tcipatcd, although it was thought the bill
would he allowed tn bccUuie Il law without The
assent of the Governor.
The act preventing officers Of the State from
converting public moneys received ny them into
coupons, has become law without the Cover
nor approval
THE CAPITOL.
A number of peniteutary convicts are at
work cleaning up and getting the capitol ready
Tor the rcassrmbng Of Tie Legislature That
there should lave been ,uch an accumulation
of dirt in such u short line Is rather ast0nl,i-
lug, but as the session IS expected ~ DC Il ar"
tractcd one, this ''hOusc cleaning will have II
answer for Sunctlule
MISCELLANEOUS.
Miss Matte Baker daughter Of Mr. Eiijah
| Baker, aged about twenty years, Was seriously
burned, to day. by he. clothes taking fire from
IA grale. before which she was sitting. She ran
down Stairs, where her mother and brother anne
TO her relief, and by throwing shawl over her
person, succeeded III suppressiug the flames,
not, however, before her clothing was almost
entirely consumed and her body burned 81, that
her situation is considered prccariuus.
| The number of deaths reported In this city
last week. was forty-ulne.
| Seventy-ive marriage licenses have been is
sued by the clerk OF the Hastings Court So far
this month, niue Of which were issued yes
terday
The small pox has made its appearance in
this city, and eighteen cases are reported. 1t
is said to be OF mild type, only one or two
deaths having occurred.
| The Italian emgrants who reached here t7om
New York have all gone 10 work. There are
among them number Of carpenters, stone
masous, bricklayers, BARRIERS, tallors &c.
Tht Governor has permitted TO go into force,
without his signature, the act repeating the act
authorizing the boards Of supervisors Of certain
counties to impose / tax on dogs.
pEouoD.
LoUDOUN ITEMs-A gentleman in Louloun
whom the war left in pccunlary difficulties, and
who has been struggling ever since to relieve
| himself Of his liabilities, received Christmas
gift of fifty dollars from his two daughters
the results Of the labor o.! their leisure hours
during the year, which was paid to creditor.
| This is an example worthy Of limitation and
COMMUNICATION, Is 1t not?
On Sunday last the thermometer stood II
degrees lower than it reached last winter, and
two degrees lower than at any other time dur
ing the past month. The Potomac is frozen
across solid, and the ice in this vicinity mcasu
res from six to ten inches. Some of the old
citizens think it the cJidcst snap, We have had
for many years.
Eli Brdsall son of Benjamin Birdsall, re-id-
ing near Lincoln, was thrown from runaway
team during the past week, AID had his leg
! fractured in two places.
The second annual meeting Of the stockho!d
crs Of Hamilton Building Association will be
held on Friday the Sd Of January. -Londoun
Enterprise.
Mr. Frank Wise, formerly of Lecsburg, but
at present. citizen Of Eureka, Nevada was III
town few days ago. He was in good health,
and speaks III glowing terms OF his ar-diStant
northwestern home. Dame rumor says that
when he returns, which he proposes To do in a
Maryand's fair daughters.
| 4 ruln0r was current on our streets last week
that negro man named Brooks, living three
or four miles from Lecsburg, had killed his
wife by cutting her throat. But it wasn't 50.
He merely exercised the prtrogativc of kind
husband in giving her sound gg!ns, which
the neighbors say she deserved. Hence the
| report.
The friends of Dr. Chas g. Edwards will re
gret to learn that he is detained III Washing
! ton city by an attack of scarlet fever. The dis
ease is of mild f1rIu, and it is thought will,
10 few days. yield to medical treatment:
There was service in the Episcopal church
OF this town Oh Friday, at which time mis-
siouary sermon was delivered, and prayers were
offered up for an increase of !aborers in the
missionary fields of the church.
The finest ice gathered in this section for
several years, is this season being stored away
by ice CATERERS Ii is from six to eight inches
thick, hard as flint and clear as crysaL.-Lo~,
tlom Mirror.
BURNING OF COLUMBIA, S. CA Wash
ingtoD dispatch to the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal contains the following rather " sensational "
statement and which requires further contor-
nation, before it will be believed
Gen. Sherman was examined before the
American and British commission to-day in
regard to the burning of Columbia He de-
MED that he had issued orders to burn Column
bia but admitted that the army was greatly
xasperated against South Carolina, and said
that this evaporation was increased by Gen.
Hampton's rear guard firing into his camp a
nipbt mr. ts,o heforn entering Columbia, which