Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-22

the ship yard tor repairs. Several lows OF
oyster boats and ther vessels have passed here
today for Washington, aud as heretofore stated
channel navigation is unim peded. Intelligence
received from lower Maryland is to the effect
that the ice which had closed up the rivers
and creeks has generally broken up and naVl-
CATION is again open.
ANNEXATION -Iu the Virginia Senate, yes
terday, MIR. Herndon, from the Committee on
Courts Of Justice, offered the following joint
resolution
Resozued (the House of Delegates concur.
ring), That the Governor of the Common.
wealth be and he is hereby authorized to re
quest the Attorney General Of Virginia to ap-
pear and defend the suit No. lS6, now pending
in the Supreme Court Of the United States un.
der the style of Phillips against Payne.
This suit is for the retrocessioo of the coun.
ty and city of Alexandria to the District Of Go
lumbia.
POLICE REPORT. The following cases have
been reported at police headquarters since yes.
terday afternoon:
VIM. Thompson aud Edward Hill tramps,
tor vagrancy, we're discharged by the Mayor
upon prOmlse~t 10 quit the city.
James Kelley, colorcd, for assaul;ing his
wife, was discharged by Justice Padgetl upol
payment Of COSTS and his recognlzaDce to keep
the peace for six months
SIX dodgers were accommodated at the sta.
ton house last night.
MARINE Observation-Disclosures at the Marine
Railway has been dull for some time, but from
present appearances will not continue so much
longer. The tug boat Keystone is now on the
nd n al bnnt &c IN ri
construction. The steamer Harbinger, and the
tug boat Potomac are lyiug there also, and viii
probably 90 on The ways, and the steamer Key.
port, of the Quantco line, was expected there
to-day to be hauled up likewise.
TRESPAss CASE The wife OF Justice Jcn-
kins, colored, of Arlington, was before Justice
Ausliu, of the county, last night, upon the
charge of trespassng supOn, aud cutting, and
taking Wo ID from the farm OF Mr.. JAS. Roach,
now occupied by Wesley Baker, colored. Mr..
Close appeared as COUNSEL tor defendant, and
Mr.. Stevens for the prosecution, and after a
lengthy trial the case was dismissed at the cost
OF the prosecution.
UNPLEASANT SIGHT People, especially wo.
men, while under the Influence of liquor, should
avoid the vicinity of railroad tracks A mid
die aged member of the genter sex. who had
drank until she was almost blind, was stagger-
ing about north ST. Asaph street, yesterday
afternoon, and barely got off the railroad track
before she fell and cut her face severely by
striking 1t against rock 10 the street.
THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT-The De-
mos,hcnean Society of st. Johns Academy will
give dramatic entertainment, for the benefit
Of the library of that school, at Peabody Hall
tomorrow night, when the Cross of st. John s
aud the Limerick Boy will be produced 10 ex
ceeut style, judging from the way the actors
perform their parts at the rehearsals.
FAIRFAX COUNTY CoURT-The December
term OF he Fairfax Couuty Court adjourned
last night, about nine o'clock, when the jury
in the case of Alice Burgess, coored, charged
with intauticide, which had occupied the court
all that day ADD part of the day before, brought
in verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was
discharged.
STREET IMPRovEMENT.-Mr. w. A. Smoot
having waited long and auxiously, but in vain,
for the improvement Of the lower end of Prin
cess street, has commenced the work OF repair
ing the thoroughfare at his own expense, and
has already mended the carriage way from Lee
to Union street with brickbats and coal cinders.
DEATH OF AN OLD ALExANDRIAN-Mr R.
|. L. Wilson, a native, and for long time a
merchant OF this city, died at his home on
Royal street last night. He had been in feeble
health tor some years past, but was out on the
streets a few days before his death, which re-
suited from paralysis.
New RECToR.-Among tho passengers who
arrived here this morning on the steamer Lady
of the Lake, from Norfolk, we're Rev. Mr..
Dame and family. They went at once to the
rectory of Christ church, OF which church Rev.
Mr.. Dame is now the rector.
The WASHINGTON FERRY.-Both the
steamers on the Washington ferry liue, the
City OF Alexandria and the City of Washing
ton, were running on their regular hourly trips
to day, and will continue to do so as long as the
river remains open.
The OTTMAN CASE Judge Hughes sus-
tains the Government 10 the attachment of
money turned over to Ottman by HaIleck, and
by Ottman deposited In the German Banking
Company, OF this city. This case arises out Of
the $4,000 Treasury robbery.
CLIFTON SAW MILL Thomas Moore, re.
ceiver, rented at Fairfax Court House to-day,
the Clifton saw mill and fixtures, by public
renting for the year 1876, to H. S. Turbel, Of
New York. for $3.50.
One of the negative forms at Halls photo
graphic gallery fell from the third story win
dow to the pavement below, this morning, and
was smashed, but fortunately struck no one In
its descent.
Weather Probabilities.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Oil q. m.-For the
Middle and Eastern States, stationary and
risinu ha sonfh -Suinda rarflu