Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-03
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LOCAL NEW >.
T,p L1BRARY.-A regular monthly meeting
~, Directors of the Library Company was
lli last night; present, S. H Janney, esq, Presi
''',. nm. and Ncssrs. BIackbu Leadbeater Kemp
u. E~,urh Latham and Snowden. Mr.. French
q, ,nnnpted on the Committee GU Room.
w.. tbrary Committee reported the purchase
t,,;,.t,,p new volumes, and were authorized
u ,n.tr further purchases. The treasurer
!" J.. , verbal report of the financial condition
"u t,S. company, aud the subscriptions were or
u ,.,j +, he placed in the hands OF the Libra
us,V' t,r c,)lec,iou. Mr.. Kempcr, from the
.,nm,tea ON the concert, reported progress,
''''' .h,t il was expected the concert would
a'' - 4 about the 23i After some routine
r'''o the Board adjourned. The following
,i.. Inv, lust been placed on the shelves of
p w., I;Ir,rv and others will shortly be added
t ir,l Hinton. the GuardsmaD, by ChaS. Lever;
HN nnan Question, by Jas. De Mile; Agatha
i u" ny Miss Mulock; John Halifax Gen
, .'",'h r Miss Mulock; Thrown Together, by
T, ,. Montgomery; Lectures in America,
-. T.nIall: kcnncth My King, by Salle \.
Er,ct Nathalie. by Julia kavanaugh; Vanity
w. nv Vim. W. rhackeray; Little BobtaiI,
\" " - ;yer Opti:; and Ovid Copper6ei, by
Charles Dickens
r,ue FISHERY. The late prevailing good
u.,,ber has not increased the receipts OF fish
% the ,ypcctcd extent, but the demand is limit
Il and even the few that arrive meet with Slow
sales, principally from this city aud Washington
Inr,.r,:s. About twenty-five thousand her
r,ur two thousand shad, and u fair supply OF
r.k and perch have been received since yes
,rr,lav. The prices this m rulDg We're us fol-
lnw>: 10 to $ll per thousand for herring, Is
~ SO per hundccd for shad, aud rock and
p.rch AZ from Is 10 % cents bunch. Among
the receipts yesterday were 900 fine shad that
had been eau. hit by Capt. Enock Daviss gang
Of OILERS, composed Of himself, his four broth
els and three other men. They We've Sold at
highest MARKET quotations by Mr. James Wat
kn>, agent Barnes and Smith, who are 81
lins at Nunjcmoy, caught one hundred shai on
nu. DRIFT vftheir net yesterday. Ten thousand
herring, a fine lot of rock and perch, and L few
>ha,i, the largest cargo Of the seuson, arrived
this afternoon from Arkendale, in addition to
the receipts mentioned above.
FEES OF JUSTICES The following is the
act declaring aud prescribing what fees JUS
fire OF the Peace may charge for services con
nrr,cd with the trial Of warrants for small
Claims, approved March s. 1873,
Whereas. doubts exist as To the fees which
i,>,iccs Of III. peace may charge for services
connected with the trail of warrants tor small
claims: To Remove which,
l. BE 1t enuctc{ by the Gcncru assembly
Tina, every iu>tc: ol the peace may, Tor the trial
hv warrants n which the commonwealth ls not
the Plaintiff charge inr all services which he
may pcrtnrm in such cases including the lSsu-
10 Of warrants AID SUBJ ,c as, the swearing OF
Witnesses the taxing OF costs aud issuing OF
executions, fifty cent, and 20 more, which shall
ic tax 4 in the costs and recovered as other
casts are.
>. All acts and parts OF acts inconsistent with
this act are hereby repealed.
;. This act shall be in force from its passage
Police Headquarters Two prisoners
wrc at the station house last hight Tor disorder
IL conl.,c'. One Of them was 6ned aud dis
charged by the Mayor this morning, and the
uihcr. who was broken armed stranger, was
sent nat ol the city. \ colored woman named
Martha Henry applied there last night for the
arrest Of crore1 mau nlmcd John Dudley,
vino hid assaulted h r because she went to his
hauS: Tor her husband, whom he was hardening
bat as hi> house was about five miles out III
t'c counlry, the ,rran: was not issued Two
coorai omuhus drivers for fighting over bag
gage at the St. Asaph street depot, were ar
rested by oii>vr Capdore, but were discharged.
RAILROAD CHANCES Owing to the with
dr,wal Of the trains OF the o., ~ 4 NJ. Il. K.
Company from the Alexandria and Washing
ton Railroad, the services of two OF the gentle
manly conductors on the last named road are
no, required, but those gentlemen still retain
their connection with the road, Capt. Phillips
as baggage master on the local day train, and
Capt. Patterson as brakeSman on the night
train Captain McComb, late of the A. Il f.
K. f., and Capt. Reagan, are the only two
conductors now on the ROAD.
TIE CRops.-A correspondent q the Wash
:nyton Star writing from Vienna station on the
". O. r. r. ays:-'"rhc peach crop will in
al probability be failure III the county (talr-
fax. the severe weather this winter having
Killed the bud. Other fruit will probably come
on. all right if we escape late frosts. The
spring is very back ward Very little farming
has been done as yet. A few of the farmers
lave Sowed some oats, but the weather has
been very uuiavorable to their coming up
The prospect, though, now is good tor some
SPRING weather.
TllST NOT LEGISLATORS. Que of the mem
bcrs Of the Virginia State Senate, from re-
mole district, who stopped at the Mansion
House. in THIS city, during the late luaugura-
i,n borrowed from MIR. John LauegaD,
VINO prcslteS over the spiritual concerns OF that
hotel, cape, promising to return the same on
his return iram WASHINGTON that night. The