Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-09

COUNTY CoURT.-An adjourned term OF the
County Court, Judge Sangster presiding, COM
menced to-day.
Virgil P. Corbett was relieved of an errone-
Gus assessment.
Geo. Franklin was relieved Of an erroneous
assessment.
VIM. Ford was relieved of an erroneous as,
sessment
John West was appointed special commits,
soner to settle the administration accounts OF
l.. W. Reid and James H. Reid, admnlstra-
tors of j. Fl. Reid, decd; and OF john A.
Field, guardian of William Buckingham
children
Ordered that from and after this date the
terms of this court will be held on the fourth
Monday in each month, until otherwise Or
dered.
W. T. Walker and W. T. Walker & Co.
were exonerated from erroneous assessments.
Alexander Hunter Us. Alexandria ADD Wash
iugtop Turnpike Company. The Judge decld-
ed that although the facts do not declare
literal abandonment, yet there appears to be
an abandonment within the spirit and mean,
ing of the statute, the company having 1alleo
to fulfil its duties under its charter. The pub
lie interests require that the road should be
declared abandoned and that fact certified to
the Township Board of jefferson township.
The defendants gave notice that they would lille
bill of exceptions to the ruling of the court
to morrow, to which time the court adjourned.
This is the case 10 which certain citizens OF
Alexandria are applying to the County Court
for an order declaring the Alexandria turnpike
abandoned, so that it can be taken possession
of by the county and improved.
The RAILROAD ACCIDENT. The Culpeper
Times 10 its notice of the accident on the Vir-
giuia Midland Railroad Oh Monday last, says !:
I'VE never saw such a wreck and so few OF
those aboard not more seriously hurt. we
found among the passengers decided feeling
in favor of the engineer of the freight train,
aud as equally decided against the conductor
of the passenger train. We, however, could
not see the business of the latter. We took
great pains to learn all the facts, and must say,
that whilst we commend Mr.. Reyes, the engl--
neer on the freight train, we are DOT prepared
to condemn MIR. Fossett, the conductor on the
other. We regret this mishap, because this
road under its present management has been
freer from such things than any other road
within our knowledge. y
DEATH OF CHAs WHITrLEsEY.-M Chas.
w uIlSlGScy ulCu dI uls iCSlOCuOC w AibcS oe'
in this city, at an early hour this afternoon.
He came to Virginia as captain 10 a regiment
from Connecticut. At the close of the war be
opened law office in this city, and soon after.
wards became editor of the State Journal. He
took an active part in politics, as radical; was
| for time Attorney General of the State, and
was afterwards candidate for Congress and
contested the election of MIR. Lewis Mckenzie.
Since then he has been praticiug law and been
| u S. Commissioner. He is spoken of by those
who knew him best as a kindbearted, though
sometimes inpusive man, and his death is re-
GREETED by large circle of friends and acqualn-
tances
THE LATE DR.. SpARRow.-Th students at
the Theological Seminary have erected in the
chapel Mural tablet to the memory of Rev.
| DR.. Sparrow, on which is Inscribed as follows ::
| REV. WILLIAM SPARROW, DID,,
Professor in this Seminary,
From A. D.. IS4l to A. D., 1874.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
March y, l9Ol-died IN
Alexandria, Va, January H. 1874.
'Not slothtul in business tervent in spirit !;
| serving the Lord" Rom. l2-ll.
Erected by the studeuts-session lS73-74.-
! Southern Churchnadn