Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14
Congress.

In the Senate, yesterday, MIR. Window Of
fered resolution that the committee be instruct
ed to report amendments to the River and
Harbor Appropriation BILL providing for sur
veys FIR water routes of transportation between
the Mississippi river and New York, between
the Ohio river and the Atlantic Coast, and
from the Mississippi to the Atlantic via Ala
bama Mr.. Window gave notice that he would
ask the Senate to take up this matter after
the Finance and Civil Rights bills have been
disposed Of A bill was reported to ineorpo-
rate the Seaboard Coasting Company of the
District of Columbia. MIR. Davis made long
speech in support of his bill to reimburse the
State of West Virginia for losses incurred by
the war, and Incidentally plead for the claims
of all Southern loyalists OF the same nature.
The currency bill was discussed at some length
and went over uotil to-day, when Mr. Sherman
will move TO have the subject disposed Of
In the House of Representatives the bill for
the better protection of life on steam vessels
was discussed, amended, and passed. One i'm
portant feature of the bill is that it aboshes
compulsory pilotage Oh coastlng vessels A COM
munication was received from the Secretary Of
War inclosDg letters from the chief engineer
of the army and the commissioner of public
buildings and grounds, asking for an appro
priation of 81, $50 to complete the superstruc-
ture of the Chain bridge, above Georgetown.
The general deficiency bill was taken up, when
an amendment was offered to reduce the item.
$500, OOO) for furniture, carpets, &C., for the
Treasury Department. A lively discussion arose
on the subject, when the eXtravagances of gov
ernment officials were severely commented on.
The item was reduced, and the bill passed The
Senate bill for the distribution Of the Geneva
award was referred to the Judiciary Committee
with leave to report at any time
SALE OF BLooDED SToCK.-At the sale Of
fancy booded stock, which took place yester
day afternoon on the farm of Mr.. Charles E.
Cofiu, at Muirkirk, on the Washington branch
of the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad, the fol-
lowing were sold to Virgiuians:
EIvina, snowy rcd and white COW, got by
Eleventh Duke, of Thorndale, out OF E vina,
to James Nj. Byars, Of Glade Springs, Va, for
$500
EIvina, another handsome member of the
EIvins family, got by Piantagenet out Of EIvi-
na. She is three years old, and was sold to A.
NJ. Bowman, Waynesborough, Va, for $500.
Arabella, of Muirkirk, a light roam heiter, by
Earl of Oxford out of Arabclla, to j. NJ. BY
ars, Glade Springs, Va, for $3.50.
Spring Beauty and Spring Beauty I'd, mother
and daughter Owing to the age of the calf,
they were sold together The mother was got
by Eleventh Duke of Thorndale out of Sallie
Willis. The daughter was got by Royal Brlton
They we're sold to S. D. Redmop, Winchester,
Va, for $3.50.
Rosamoud. handsome white heifer, by
Royal Brton out of Rosamond Seventh. AS
it was stated that she had lost her calf, and as
her color was not popular, she brought but
$3.50. She was purchased by A. NJ. Bowman,
of Waynesborough, Va, for $3.50.
Knight of Prince George, roam yearling,
got by Sixth Earl of Oxford out of Anita, sold
TO George A. Qunby, Leesburg, Va.
Blossoms Briton, red yearling. by Royal
Briton out of Blossom, to S. W. Frickland,
Jonesville. Va, $3.50.
Royal Briton, jr., red and white yearliug,
by Royal Britou out of Arabea, to A. G.
Meem, Mt. Jackson, Va, $3.50.
Murkirk Laddie 3d., red roam calf, three
months old, by Royal Briton ont of Nellie, to
Joseph Wilmer, Rapidan, Va, $780,
This herd was we'll known to the leading
breeders of the country. The lowest price any
one animal brought wassl0O, and the highest
Mulrkirk Gwynne, 1925, and making for the
lot an average price of about $3.50.