Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-02-18
FROM RICHMOND.
LEGISLATIVE.

RICHMOND, Feb. lin the Senate, to day,
the bill 10 relation to chaio-gangs was reported
from the House, with its disagreement to the
Senate amendment. The bill was taken up
and the Senate insisted upon its amendment,
| which prohibits the carrying Of chaiu gangs
outside Of the couuties in which they are or
gained.
! The House amendment to the Senate bill
| prohibiting the sale of liquor on Sunday, OK
ceptiug cities and towns from It's provisions,
was rejected by vote of % to TO-
The House amendment to the Dnt res)lu.
ton extending the time for COLLECTION Of taxes
and county aud township levics for TIC year
| 1873, was referred.
| The House joint resolution appointing joint
committee to visit certain localities for the pur-
pose OF locating luuatlc asylum, Was also re-
! terred.
| Bills were reported from Committees 10 re-
latlon to delluue; IN relation to Vacancies III the
office of Governor and Lieutenant Governor;
to enable married women to insure the lives ot
their husbands; to erect toll bridge across
New River, at Mount Crawford, Rockingham
county; to Incorporate the st. George Church
Society, OF Fredericksburg; to authoriz, the
Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society TO
borrow money; to authorize the appointment OF
trustees for benevolent societies having no lands;
| to authorize the Valley Mining and MauuIic-
turing company II b 'rruw m1ary. ~; III re-
lation to aids to the Governor; to amend tie
charter Of the Female Humane Association I'll
Richmoud city: to authorize certain commits
souers to sell land in Winchester bei"n1i.g
to the Winchester Academy; aud to amend
the charter of Randolph Macon College.
The resolution recalling the joint Resolution
with reference to the removal OF the library vas
definitely postponed.
Mcssrs Wynnc Mofott and Laxson were
appointed committee on the part Of tic Sep
ate to examine the Capitol.
Messrs Terry and Eubank were appointed
committee on ths part Of tie Senate TO cx-
amine iuto the recent detalcaton in the oIil:,
of the Secretary OF the Board Of Com missiolcrs
of the Sinking Fund.
The bill providing for the lease of the pcn-
Tertiary was under consideration when the Sc:.-
ate adjourned.
In the House of Delegates bills were in
troduced to amend the charter OF the town Of
Scottsve, aud to provide for taking the sense
of the people upon calling a Constitutional Con.
ventlon; also resolution TO enquire luto tbs
expediency Of grading certificates of free
school teachers; and a petition of Samuel Nil
lcr 5 executor for bill to give effect to tesla
tors's will.
4 bill was reported for the protection OF
hooking birds in Westmorelaud county.
\ bill making appropriations for repairs To
the Capitol, was reported.
The committee 90 the Chesapeake ana ii>
tributaries made report, which was ordered
to be printed.
Bills to prevent dogs from running at large
in Winchester; aud chartcrlug the Richmond
and and Trans-Alleghapy railroad company,
were passed
COURT OF APPEALS
10 the Court of Appeals, to-day, among the
cases disposed Of were those of Gwynu VS. D.la-
plane, in which an appeal from decree Of the
Clrruit Court Of Alexandria city Was refused,
aud MarShal trustee, VS.. Sinclair ct ais; III
which an appeal was allowed from decree of
the Circuit Court of Fauquicr county.
The Court adjourned until the 9Th day Of
March, having disposed of large amount of |
business.
CASE OF PAGE MCCARTHY.
The Governor, to-day, granted pardon to
VIM. Page McCarty convicted of ducling, and |
who has been in Jail uuder sentence of lmprs-
onment for six months, 10 addition to a fac of
$500. 10 granting the pardon, the Governor
sad 1ncrc Is out one ground upon which |
executive clemency should be exercised in this
case. 1t is proved by medical testimony of very
high character that the condition Of the prison.
er is such that his life would be greatly im-
perilled by further Imprisonment The liit OF
the citizen may not be taken except in purSu-
ance Of senteuce lawfully d, caring its tvrte
ture Pardon is granted 10 this case solely De-
cause it is necessary to save life The reasons
upon which clemency is invoked in the numcr
ously signed petitions filed in the case, are
wholly uisapproved, and it must not be doubt
ed that the penalties Of the ant-dueling act
will be iufeSlbly enforced, so far as their eu-
torcement is devoved upon this Office.
MISCELLANEOUS
An act of the Legislature to be in force FROM
March LIST, appropriates six thousand collars
for the purchase of artificial limbs tor maimed
soldiers not already provided
j. Richard Mo!air, formerly of Alexandria,
has been tried in Manchester for an ALLEGED al
tempt to poison his mother-in-law, aud &C
quilted.
\ delegation of colored ministers called on
Gov: kemper yesterday, and were respectfully
received. Their request was that The sentence
OF hanging DOW pending against Horace Ven
able, for pushing Mary HoUes 10 one OF the
canal loci Ks at Richmond, and thereby Causing
her death, be commuted to imprisonment for