Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-15

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Sunday School room. Devotional meeting next
Tuesday night at the rooms ut II o'clock.
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LOCAL NEWS.
THE WASHINGTON AND ALEXANDRIA TURN
pIKE-A Hunter and others vs. the Washing
ton and Alexandria Turnpike Company. This
case was heard before Judge Keith at Chamb.
ers last evening. After full argument the
Judge held that the application for the super
sedeas was premature, and that an appeal did
not lie to the order of the County Court of
Alexandria appointing viewers to examine into
the condition Of the turnpike. The superse
IDEAS was on this account dismissed. But the
Judge further decided that the said proceed
Ing commenced against the Washington ard
Alexandria Turnpike Company in the County
Court of Alexandria by Hunter and others re-
lators, with view to a suspension of the col
lection Of tolls on the turnpike, could not be
sustained under the provisions Of Chapter 81
Of the Code of Virginia, as amended by the
ac, of July 18th, 1870, but that the prosccu-
too against the company for failing to keep
the turnpike 10 repair must be under the pro-
visions of the original charter of the company.
This puts an end to any further litigation IN
relation to the turnpike in the County Court Of
Alexandria, and it Is supposed that application
will be made to the next General Assembly Tor
further legislation on the subject. D. l. Smoot
for Hunter and f. l.. Smith and s. L. Beach
for the turnpike company.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. The Commit
tee on Public Property met last night to con-
slider an application from the President of the
Board of Public Works, asking for room in
hus 60 nd
Guided to recommend to the City Council the
passage Of resolution directing the Commis-
sioners of the Sinking Fund to serve notice
upon Messrs. Kilgour aud Chiffon to vacate
the room rented by them at the expiration of
their year, which will be the first of next May,
In the meantime the Board to rent an Office
The committee selected this room because it is
the only one 10 that portion of the building
large enough to accommodate the Board In
this connection the committee thought it i'm
portant that the Mayor should have an Office
other than the one in the station house, used as
police court room, therefore it would be 10.
expedienr to remove that officer from the room
now occupied by him on Royal street to make
room for the Board Of Public Works, as has
been suggested by some.
RAILROAD RECEIPTS The following are the
receipts by the w. c.. V. NJ. & G. S. R. r.
for the week: Corn 800 bushels, wheat 1915
Ia, onions 25, beans 40, potatoes 10, chest
nuts 10, barley 4, seed, 6 bags and Ii boxes,
ground bark ZIG sacks, ground sumac 20, 100,
lime 10 bbls, -four $50 bbIs, tobacco II boxes,
game boxes, buckwheat -four 66 bags, apples
.lS7 bbls hay lS9 bales, fresh beef $50 lbs,
whiskey Is bbls, wanuts 4 bags, geDsing 9
bags, dressed poultry ? boxes, dressed hogs "a,
towels l2 coops, sumac 355 sacks, butter 36
bbs and frkius, eggs 81 bills, spikes 50 Kegs
calves &c., 10 head. apple butter Dbl, vinegar
3 bbs, leather II rolls, feathers sacks, plows
b sheep skins 5 bales, cabbage 262 head, hides
As bundles, wool sacks taIIow bag. blooms
1885 lbs tan bark 81 cords, pumpkins rs, iron
3,3ll lbs, rags 8 POO lbs, empty casks 81, oak
lumber 1000 feet pine lumber 5000 feet, dried
fruit l26 bbls and bags. cattle and sheep cars
piles cars, GROSS ties cars, trees car, stone
cars.
The following are the receipts by the W. d
o. r. r.: Wheat 2,759 bushels corn 1866,
oats l,O55, buckwheat 49, rye IS, meal JOG,
potatoes PIG, -four "A bbls, apples $40, cider
26 bbls and casks, butter 25 bbls and frkins,
eggs 10 bbls and boxes, poultry ~ bbls, fowls
% coops, calves 20 head, sheep %, COWS 5,
horses 2, rags bales, hides 9, sumac l,735 lbs,
old iron 2S7, casting 200, plows 4, wood cars,
stock | car, milk ~ gallons.
CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY -Jnage
Keith pres,ding Ball vs. Corbet; motion for a
new trial overruled.
Marcy vs.. Philips; for damages resulting
from fire kinded by defendant to Ourn brush;
verdict for 5000 damages, which was reduced
to SIPS, and accepted by plaintiff.
johnson VS.. Roach ct ais; motion on forth
coming bond.
Huoter vs.. A. & w. R. R. Co.; removed to
Circuit Court for the Corporation.
Court adjourned till Monday morning.
ANNIVERSARY SERMvN.--The meeting OF
the Baptist Sunday Missionary Society, to-mor-
row at D. m., promises to be extremely inter
estiug. TIE gifted minister, Rev. DR., II. a.
upper, who is to preach the annual sermon at
the request of the society, is especially known
III Richmond and the South generally as Cor
responding Secretary of the Baptist Foreign
Mission Board The committee have done we'll
IN securing DR.. Upper for the occasion.
Coal TRADE The receipts Of Cumberland
coal at this port for the week ending to-day
We're as follows: By American Coal Company,
9o,I4l tons; byJ. 2. Agnew, 1000 tons; by
hampshire 4 Baltimore Coal Company, 2,436
tons. The shipments from this port during
the same period were, by the American Coal
Company, 5,466 tons; BY J. P. Agnew, 800
tOo>; aud by Hampshire & Baltimore Coal
Company, 1884 tons.
HE MARKET this morning, was we'll sup
p'ed' but without any change 10 the prices Of
meats or vegetables from our quotations last
saturday. Butter is from 80 to 40 cts. per ID.
'Ood supplies of poultry and game.
on account of the heavy decline in the dry
goods market, Pretzfeder 4 Bendheim have