Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-11-23
IL COMMUNICATED,
NUMMUNIEATED.
]. ia his communication OF the l9th instant

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gays:
s'Remarkablc Legislation he question now
is, What is the City Council going TO do with
St. Asaph street grade -
Employ civil engineer who understands
has business, and has experience in grades,
cutting aud filling; this should be the first thing;
one who shall have due regard u the grade
Of streets, drainage, &C., and take advantage
of things as be can adopt them with economy.
Let his suggestions, alterations, &c, be sub
nitted to committee for inspection, who shall
view and report to the City Council for confr-
nation, and not be allowed TO begin before be-
lug approved by the City Council; this should
be required 10 all cases where cuts or Filings
over TWO feet, and material alterations OF the
curb line are to be made. these Safeguards
will give more satisfaction to the people, and
save mouey from from being spent 10 trultess
endeavours at Improvement, aud with some re-
gard to their financial condition at this time.
| understand that the St. Asaph street I'M
provemeDt" is not done by the Board CT Public
Works but the City Surveyor gave the grade,
and the Superintendent of Police was ordered
to work to the grade so established, by au-
was not appointed as an engineer. | do lot
think be Processes to be one. This duty was
thrust upon him by virtue Of his office as City
Surveyor by the bill that created the Board of
Public Works, which tied the hands of this
Board aud prevented them from employing any
other as their engineer.
j. says THE Common Council has voted
ten times on the subject, and each time in an
opposite manoer." Ii he be correct, this shows
that the Council ordered the work 10 be done
without being we'll informed, SO as TO come to a
correct judgment. Now, the question, who is
to blame? is the Council who are presumed to
be the representatives and guardians OF the
people, or is it the people, who elect such rep
resentatives to the Cuuncll
Particular attention should be given to as
sumiug authority The law gives to each -
all the power that is necessary aud all that is
intended they should have in general. The
City Council should watch with jealous care
that their prerogat!ves are not lutrluged upon
that law shall not be made to cover hat which
has been done unawluy, after the fact.
We want men in Council who will iuforln
themselves aud see what is required, aud what
is necessary, and use the public funds with due
regard to an economical expenditure. Retrench.
They must remember there are many things
We would like TO have, but we arc too poor at
this time to get them How many for himself
will say. Yes, that's l..
DEATH FROM DRINKING. "A young lawyer
named John D. Ellis, was found dead 10 his
Office on Four-and a-half street, near Louisiana
Avenue, Washington, on Saturday night, under
rather strange circumstances. 1t appears that
another lawyer in the same Office had received
from client as a fee key of port vine, and
that he invited FIVE or six to drink OF 1t. All
who drank suffered symptoms Of poisoning aud
four of them are still in dagger. The A>So-
cated Press dispatch says that Ellis, III com
paoy with three other practitioners at the bar,
sat 10 the law office of b Webb and drank po:t
wine from twenty gallon key Ellis aud
another Of the party were taken sick aud vom
tied freely Dr. Walsh was called 10 and pro-
nounced Ellis sickness, acute apopIcxy. lie
prescribed for him and the man went To sleep.
About four o clock the jantor OF the bulldog
left and he was still sleeping. When the jan-
tor came back at eight clock, h lis Was found
dead on the floor. Ooe of the others is srIl
very sick. The quantity of wine remaining IN
the key was measured, and if it was full When
they commenced drinking, the four Of them
consumed three gallons They tapped the krg
at D. NJ, aud il was ST when physician Was
called in.
DEATH OF JACKSON MoRToN-A telegram
announces the sad Intelligence Of the sudden
death of jackson Morton, at his place Dear
Milton, Florida. on Friday morning last. COL
Morton was we'll known and highly esteemed
throughout the State. He was born 10 Orange
county, and was brother OF Hon. Jerry Nor
ton, Of that county. He was about 50 years OF
age at the time of his demise. lie graduated
at William and Mary College, and shortly al
forwards moved to Florida where he carried
Oh perhaps the largest lumber exporting busl-
ness in the United States. He Was sent to the
u. S. Senate 10 1850 At the breaking out OF
the war ne took sides with the South, and Was
elected to the Confederate States House OF
Representatives from Florida The downfall
of the Coutederacy was terrible blow to him,
and one from which he never entirely recover
ed The intimate friend Of Clay, Webster, K.
NJ. T. Hunter, and the galaxy Of great men in
Congress with him, his house in Washington
city was their lavorte resort. He was man
of rare integrity, wonderful geniallty, loving
husband and indulgent father, ever the friend
OF the needy and distressed; and a true type OF
the old Virginia gentleman.
POLITICAL ARRESTS IN GERMANY. -lo the
German Relchstag on Saturday Deputy Lleb-
koecht offered motion for the release of sew
eral Democratic Deputies who are now 10 prl-
son. Herr Windhorst supported the motion
and in the course of his speech hlned at the fire.
ouencv of arrests, remarking that even az anu
bassador was not safe Bismarck replied to
Wipdhorst. He said the Deputy had failed to
show that any of the arrest made by tie Gov
ernment were illegal The frequency ofarrcsts
was due to the increasing frequency of infringe.
mepts of the laws. This was even the case in
the grades of society whose first duty was to fos,