Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-31
Letter from the West.

correspondence OF the Alexandra Gazette.
MARIETTA, MARSHALL Co., Iowa, May "a,
1878. -Iimes are getting desperate with the
fartucrs out West, and if Congress docs not,
next winter, do something to regulate the
treightirg on the railroads and the commerce
between the States, the West and Northwest
will will tnkc the lit and then it will be the
hardest JeAd 0U.
The Spring Is very backward out hcre-about
a month later than usual. 1t is now raining al
most every day, and the Iowa river is up over
the low grounds adjacent about mile 10 width,
while it commonly is only forty or fifty yards
wide Scarcely any corn is planted, and the
ground is 80 soft we can't get on the field, but
wheat and oats look we'll. There is plenty of
fruit, where there are trees old enough to bear.
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U. S. SUB TREASURES -Ex-Mayo Hall,
in the Unicd States Circuit Court in New York
yesterday argued the demurrer taken by him
against the indictment charging George +.
Dunniug with having embozzled money 10 the
Sub treasury in that city, Mr.. Hall cnntcndlng
that the indictment was drawn uuder the statute
Of 1923, which he claimed WAS repealed by the
statute Of 1866. La the course of his argument
he said that the Sub-trcasury act had been re-
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intended TO repeal that part of the act which
clerk who drew the BILL the whole act was re-
paaled, aud 20 passed Congress, since when the
Sub-trcaSury is not legally in existence. The
District Attorney admitted that the blunlcr
had been made, but that Attorney GrLera
Williams had decided as the intention VA.
only to repeal the copyright clause the relna u
der of the act is still 10 force. Decision is re-
served Ex-Mayor Hall says there are mum
bcrs OF such cases pending, but none will prob
| ably be called until the next Congress meets,
when the blunder will be rcmedied.
| WAGES OF MARRIED WOMEN. -Last winter
the Legislature passed an act declaring that
the wages and compensation Of married wo-
nleu for service and labor performed by them
shall be free from the debts and control Of
their husbands; that employers might pay such
wages and compensation directly to such mar
rled women, aud that payment to hem should
be tull discharge, and acquittance Of the en-
| ployer.
Under the common law the labor Of a wife
belonged to the husband; he alone was entltled
to compensation tor work done By her, and il
the employer paid the wife and she disposed of
the money without the authority of the hus
band or without handing it over to him he could
recover the amount from the employer. Under
our law the money generally otthe wife belongs
to the husband, but under the provisions Of the
act referred to above her wages earned by her
labor are free irou his control aud from all
liability for his debts Louisville Courier Jour-
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THE LAST OF THE LINE.-The Washington
Star remarks that ''Chicf Justice Chase was the
last of his hae: that neither he nor his broth
crs-who all died before him-lett any male
descendants aud that therefore his branch Of
the family name will become extinct. The
same may be said of his two lustrlous prede
ccssors, Judges fancy and Marshall, and this
makes Of the matter curious coincidence.
As far as Judge Marshall is concerned, this is
an entire mistake.