Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-03-27
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writing from L1uluun county, declares that
the people Of Virginia are determined at the
ballot box, to enforce certain amendments TO
the constitution. which lie thinks arc ab>"ntc-
" demanded 10y the necessities I'll Tie hour
The changes he demands are: o. \ ;'cr-
NAL session OF tho Legislature. ~ The as
srmbing of the Legislature on The ilist We'd
nrsday in January. (3). \ reduction in mum
bcrs of one half of both Houses of the Assem-
Div. (4). Limiting the session to sixty days.
The Conservative members Of the General
Assembly met iii conference on Tuesday cvcu-
ing for the purpose of discussing he Senate
resolution endorsing Governor W aikcrS plan
for the assumption Of tha debts Of the State
| by the Fedora! government In :hc beginning
| there was quite full Attendance, but before
the time for taking Il vote the conferences
| found itself without L quorum, and no DECISIVE
action was taken The prevailing sentiment
seemed to be ia favor of sustaining the rcsolu-
| ton.
The Loudoun Eut rprsc says --'l,argc
quantities of hay are now balcd and scnt BY
railroad to Washington aud Alexandra, aud
the prices obtaiucd are sufficient 10 dlrcct par
tlcuiar attention to this crop. Straw ais, l'as
been baed in Loudoun and sent to Washing
ton, aud has returned heavy profit to the
fa-mer-heretotore this article has becu Is
tcclucd by our people, Of SO little value that
il has been suffered to waste III the fields.
The u. S. Marshal Of the Richmond district
has received the Presidents warrant Of pardon
for George W. II. Wilcox, convicted ny the
u. S. Circuit Court, III that city, OF mail rob
berry about Two years ago, aud now III the Al
bauy peutentiary. Wilcox was sentenced To
ten years confinement.
Mr.. J. G. Holialay prominent lawyer Of
Portsmouth, fell from the ferry steamer on
Tucstlay morning and barrow y escaped drown
| lug The wheels IT the boat passed over Ills
budyyet he was rescued without serious INJURY.
Mr.. James r. Bridges, an Old and highly
respected citizen Of Richmond, died III thar
city on Tuesday evening from apopicxy. The
deceased was i'll his siXty-fOurrh year, aud had
spent most Of his life in mercantile pursuits.
Mr. John Mosby died at Mediums River
on Sunday last He was formerly merchant
in Charlottesville, of the firm of B. 4 j.. Mos
by. and did business there upwards ct thirty
yeas ago.
We have received information Of the death,
at his residence in Albcmarlc, Of Major ". 8.
Brown, at the advanced age Of eighty years
This venerable gentleman Was s0ldlcr OF the
war OF 1872.
Norfolk, Petersburg and Lynchburg have
appointed committees to urge the early COM
pletion of a railroad frcm Clifton Forge. on
the Chesapeake aud Ohio railroad, 10 Lynch
burg.
Twenty-Five thousand three huudrcd and
eighty-six letters, pack agcs, circulars, etc,
were mailed from the office of the Auditor OF
Puclic Accounts of Virginia, for the year end
ing March LIST, 1873.
The officers of Harmony Division, Sons OF
Temperance, of Richmond. have received a
cordial and sympathetic letter from Schuy-
ley Coliax, with regard to the affairs OF the
division and the temperance cause gencraIiy.
George W. Elder, vice president Of the Old
Dominion steamship company, died in New
York GU Tuesday morning lie was about
iouy.avc years Of age, and mad Eeun III about
a month
Mr. Edwin Wilson, a w>llknpwn tobacco
manufacturer of Richmond, died on Tuesday
in the itty-third year OF his age, after brief
illness of pneumonia.
The Atlantic Irou Works Company. III Nor
fix, have paid off their workmen to whom the
company has been in arrears for several mouths
past.
The schooner Joseph Ellis has arrived at
Richmond from Charleston. S. c., laden with
iron taken from the monitors and other vessels
sunk in that harbOr during the war.
The Petersburg Appeal chronicles the suicide
in that city, on Tuesday, Of Mr.. George p.
| S,l MI l.,
from ear to ear, and knife lying near by.
David Killer died on last Friday, at his res
dence pear Hamburg, in Page county, Of apo
plexy lie had lived to the ripe old aye Of
three score aud ten.
A meeting Of all parties interested in build
ing road from Woodstock to WardnnSvlle
will be held in Woodstock on Monday, April
It'll, court-day
Eighteen sheep were killed and eighteen
mangled by dogs, near Harris ,nburg, this
week.
The railroad engine house at Woodstock is
to be purchased by two citizcns Of that place
and converted into mandatory
Mr. p Murtin, of Stafford county, recently
ordered from Orleans, France, one thou>ald
choice pear trees.
Bishop Whttle administered the rite Of con-
frmaion to seventeen persons 10 the Epi>co-
pal Church in Charlottesville on Sunday.
INTEREST DURING THE WAE-Thc follow
ing bill, to amend the code in relation to inter
est, has passed both Houses Of the General
Assembly:
|. Be 1t enacted, DC, That the l4th section
of chapter Ia Of the Code Of Virginia edition
of 1861 be amended and re-cuacted so as to
read as follows
A. The jury in any action founded on con-
tract may allow interest upon the principal
due, or any part thereof aud fix the period
at which such interest shall commence. And
in any action for cause arising hereafter,
whether FROM contract or from tort, the jury
may allow interest upon the sum found by the
verdict, or any part thereof, and Tx the period
at which the said iutsrest shall commence. If u
| ,,ar.lict be rendered hnrnaftnr which hnns LOT