Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

lu Richmond, yesterday, HttIe SUI VI Capt'
w. Nj. Killum fell into culvert attached
to which il chute, used to carry the water
across the street to ravine some thirty feet
deep. The bottom of this chute being very |
slippcry the little fellow was carried through,
and fell on the rocks below, injuriDg himself 80
severely that his condition is very critical.
A party Of young men from Fredericksburg
killed black snake of remarkable size day
or two ago, 10 Stafford The Fredericksburg
Herald says: 1t must have been an old inhab.
liant as it was the length of railroad sill, and
thick in proportion.
Fruucis E. Brooke, died at his residence,
St. Julien, 10 Spottsylvania county, Cd Friday
last. Mr.. B. was son ofthe late Judge Francis
Brooke, of the Virginia Court of Appeals. He
was one of those urbane, easy gentlemen, OF the
| olden time
w. D. Coleman, late Secretary of the Viz
| giuia Board of Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund, has become clerk Of she weaving shop
10 the State Penitentiary
There is great dissatisfaction in the rural dis
tricts and villages at the enormous tag on liquor
dealers, and scores refuse to take out the IL
| cense
James Gresham, John Wheeler, aud a color
ed boy named Robert, were drowned last Mon
day, whilst Clustering off Milton wharf, 10 the
Rappahannock.
W. H. Scott (colored) of Fredericksburg, has
received an Office in Washington worth $40
month.
There will be hereafter a daily freight line
over the R. +. & P. Railroad, between Rich.
mond and Baltimore.
Strawberries were selling in Richmond on
| Saturday at 10 cents quart.
MEMORIAL TO NJ f. MAURY.-A proposition
has been made for the erection by contributors
from the mercantile communities OF all nations,
| of lighthouse upon the coast OF Brazil as
memorial to the late Commodore Maury. The
idea of a lighthouse memorial, to be placed on
the Rocos Banks, originated with Commodore
Jansen, of the Dutch navy, but he looks to the
inauguration of the measure 10 America. The
Virginia Legislature has passed resolutions ap-
proving the idea, and the Baltimore Board Of
Trade have adopted a resolution OF cordial sym
patty with the enterprise and recommend its
most favorable consideration by our merchants
and others, though they do not think it comes
or complete the plan by which the object may
ing formed in his city having 10 view the fur
therance of the same object. Maury's discov-
cries in regard to the inshore current of Cape
St. Rogue, the most eastern projection of the
coast Of the South American continent, and
the great practical advantages that followed to
| navigators are among the reasons for the looa-
ton of the proposed lighthouse. The propri-
ETY. of the Baltimore Board of Trade express
ing sympathy with the plan is manifest
| from the fact that to a Baltimore sea
mau, Captain Jackson, commanding the brig
w. H. D. q. Wright, of Baltimore, be-
longs the honor Of being the first to demon.
strate the accuracy Of Maury's st. Rogue sail
ing directions, benefit which the maritime
world FASTENED to acknowledge. Gen. +. Fl.
Smith, supcrinteDden of the Military Institute,
OF which Maury, in the last years of his life,
was professor, expresses, 10 letter to friend
| Trade is moving in the matter, and suggests
that the Secretary of State of the United States
should be requested to ask the consent of the
| Brazilian government to erect the proposed
| memorial on the Rocos Banks, after which
contributions should be received and the money
deposited 10 one of our banks to the credit of
| the Maury memorial fund. Gen. Smith states
| that, as sooD as authority is gotten from the
Emperor of Brazil and the enterprise started,
be is assured Of cooperation by letters which
he has from Germany, England, and Italy.
The Royal Geographical Society of England
has rendered its cordial support. -Ba.h. San.
STEAM ON THE ERIE CANAL-The steam
canal boat City of New York has made the
trip between this city aud Buffalo in six and
a-half days, including stoppages at Utica and
Syracuse to discharge and receive freight. The
boat left New York on Saturday, the 9th inst,
at 'half-past FIVE O clock p. M, and arrived at
six o'clock yesterday morning. This marks an
| important era in canal navigation between the
tWestern lakes and tide-water There is no
reason why the through trip from Buffalo
should not be made in five days. and then the
old canal boat drawn by horses will speedily
disappear 1t will be interesting to learn from
the canal authorities whether the new steamers
threaten any dagger to the banks-M T. Her.
Fence Law.
The following is the act passed at the last
session Of the Legislature ordering an election
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