Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-01-04
VIRGINIA NEWS.


a large number of the manufacturers of tobac-
co in Richmond, Petersburg and Darr.lIe to
prosecute claim for retundlng, to them the
amount of tax that has been collected oy the
y. S. government during the past tour years
upon manufactured tobacco Intended Tor eAporL
tation TO foreign countries The amount OF
money realized from this export tax IN Virginia
alone, is probably over s2OO,UoO: The manu-
tacturers contend that the acts OF CONGRESS I'M,
posing this tax, are in Conflict with the cons'1-
tutional prohibitions on the power of Congress:
which declares, THAT no tax or duty Is to De
levied on any article exported from State.
The Richmond correspondent ofthe Peters
burg Index writes :-"If a man might safely
bet on ANYTHING the General Assembly is likely
to do 10 the future, it would be, that coupons
are not to be received for taxes. the decision OF
the Supreme Court of Appeals to the contrary
notwithstanding. | think that is settled: Two
or three bills have been already prepared which
will accomplish that object, though | believe
it is conceded that the General Assembly, II It
does nothing but let the presen! laws stand:
will work the same end
The following amounts have been paid into
the State treasury by the State repositories TOR
interest upon the public money 10 their hands
for the month of December at the rate OF four
per CT per anuum: Richmond Banking and
Insurance Company, $l.l5o. 80; Planters Ma
tional Bank Of Richmond, 81, l33. ~: Union
Bank of Richmond, 81. l20. 81; First National
Bank of Richmond, 81. l3S.O5.
The Clark county Courier says 1--WE hope
our farmers will not neglect the partridges that
habit their lands, now that this deep snow is
upon us. If nothing is done towards supply
ing them with food, it is more than likely they
will all perish from starvation before the sno"
disappears.
The Lynchburg News of yesterdays says
"a car load of live turkeys, numbering seven
hundred, arrived here from Tennessee yester'
day morning, md were shipped to the lAlcxan-
dria market last night by way OF the Orange
| railroad.
The Piedmont Eirginian says THE con
tractors, Messrs Braxton l. Co., on this end
of the F., o. l. G. r. r., went to work or
the lst inst with il yiln.a1d II th" weather h"I,i:
good they will complete their Contract IN tht
specified time.
The Stanton Spectator says :-"On the day
the Legislature repealed the law taxing dogs
the dogs near Arbor Hill. in this county, cclc
brated the event by killing sixteen sheep bc
longing at the county almS house, and ten mori
owned by farmer in the ncighborhood.
Joseph Alley, aged eleven years while play
ing on the ice on the canal in front Of the Trcdc
gar Iron Works, at Richmond, yesterday even
ing. broke through and was drowned. Another
boy who fell III at the same time escaped.
1t is stated that Mr.. Alex. NJ. Mo~elcy
editor OF the Wing will, ina little while, return
to his farm 10 Florida and for several mouths
rest from literary labor Mr. y. 3. Meade, 0
Winchester, will supply his place.
An aged colored man named Jack Armistcat
was killed on Tuesday hight by falling from
SCOTS bridge, al Fredericksburg which he Wa
crossing while intoxicated.
l-~---- Ia ~l:1~ c"..,,"r". nn the Virgins
and Tennessee railroad Wednesday night, nea
Shawsvlle.
Mr. R. L. Saunders, aged sixty.three years
died very suddenly in Richmond, Oh Tuesday
of congestion of the lungs.
The second term of the session of Washing
ton and Lee University commences on the frs
Of February, with faculty Of fine attalnmcntS
Small pox has almost entirely disappeared
from Charlottesville.
Two colored men We're frozen to death il
Augusta county during the late cold weather
There were forty. seven deaths in Richmon,
last week
1t is proposed to extend the corporate limit
of Richmond.
PRINCE WILLIAM ITEMS. We take the fol