Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-02-26
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LIE DaA VI utea yuuntE' ""'Gee'oh Aie ny
one Hthe colsrfd log oates % Tuesday last, who
Has confined forjsteahng battbe flames we're
De Observation-Disclosures mueH damage was done.
A colored female prisonerjust over the room
where the fire was kindied, suffered greatly
from the heat and smoke before the jailor re-
moved her: The Jail was insured, d
| II A Dskrafmau Fss ptqAFrRbeggTshs corn
bause NJ MARSHALL Met oIm!ekA near Berry
vile, Clarke county, one nie ht last week, ex-
AHMED and locked up 10 Jail for trial. The
next morniug Mr.. McC, moved with compass
sion for the oolored man. went to the Jail aud
| paid the expenses for his confinement for the
night, and set him at liberty.
Mr.. Ashbury Hoskinson and one of his
horses came near being drowned in the Catoc-
tin creek, near Short Hill, 10 Loudoun county,
on Monday last. Mr. II. was eudeavoriDg to
cross the creek With load of wood, and was
not aware of the existence of ice under the cur
rent of water, which gave way as soon as the
! team got we'll 10 the current, and came near
taking them all down.
The Loudoun Mirror says that considerable
| Sickness, with an unusual per centage OF NOR
tality, prevails 10 some sections of that county.
1.-The measles, which ravaged our own commuo-
ity some time since, has become disseminated,
and the rigorous aud lnclemeDt weather has
been peculiarly favorable to the development OF
pulmonary affections
William Robinson, the negro who killed
Eliza Roy, colored, about the middle of Jaoua-
ry, at Sparta, i0 Caroline county, and who has
been confined in the county Jail at Bowling
Green awaiting trail, escaped night before last
and is at large R1bnson killed his victim be-
cause she refused to marry him.
The grand jury of Clarke county have found
true bills against James Milton, jailor, for
neyligeutly permitting the escape of VIM. Tay-
lor, colorcd, charged with house. breaking;
against John Cooper, colored, Tor robbery;
and true bill against George Rowland, for the
} larceny Of forty FIVE sheep.
The auditor of public accounts is engaged in
mailing to the treasurers of the different coun
ties of the Commonwealth copies Of the act, ez-
tending the time for the collection of the rev
enue Of 1874, from the lst day OF March, 1875
to the LIST day Of June 1875
, 1t is said that the James River and KaDa-
wha Canal Company and Chesapeake and Ohio
!, Railroad Company have or are about to enter
into contract for the construction OF railroad
from the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio at
Clifton Forge to the canal at Buchanan.
An eve belonging to Mr.. VIM. G. Wood in
the upper part of Orange county has borne
fourteen lambs in FIVE years, and has raised
, eleven of them. Of the first litter two
were frozen to death and the third was killed
by something.
A colored girl about IT years old, living on
the farm of Col. John Willis, of Orange county,
was accidently thrown in the fire by her broth
er while 10 playful scufha With him last week.
and was so badly burned that it is most prob
able she cannot recover.
Hamilton, in Loudoun county, has been 10
corporated by act oftbe Legislature. John H.
Hughes is to be Mayor, J. B. Franklin, Re-
corder, and j. Milbourn, Sergeant, until the
regular election ID May.
The statement published last week that Mr.
, Hatcher of Loudoun county, had detected, in
the persons Of two young men, Thomas and
Silcott, the mysterious stoners OF his house, was
not true
The people of the White Post neighborhood,
in Clarke county, are making an effort to have
new mail route established for their benefit
either from Newtown or Millwood
Mr.. VIM. S. Carter died very suddenly at
his home, near Mcton's Turnout, Louisa couu-
ty, of paralysis of the heart, on last Thursday
morning.
The Gordonsville Gazette says that MIR.
Frank Cowherd lost foe buck last Monday
night, killed by ours The buck cost $50,
when lamb.
DR.. VIM. H. Taylor has been elected Pro-
lessor of Chemistry at the Richmond Medical
College in place of Dr. r. S. j. PEBBLES, de-
ceased.
| Hdrey Page, the Chesterfield incendiary
who burned the property of Colonel Rufin,
has been sentenced to be huug on the Both day
of April.
The Conservative voters of Clarke county,
have resolved to adopt the primary elecioo
system 10 making nominations for county officers
| CHANGE OF VENUE. In the case Of Lycur-
gus Little, on motion of Major Holmes Con-
rad, counsel for the prisoner, Judge TurOer
has decided iu favor of change Of venue, and
fixed upon Winchester and the 22nd of March
as the place and time for his trial. The pris.
oner was brought from Winchester to Berry
vile on Monday morning, and on allghting
from the carriage in which he came, be was
warmly shaken by the hand by some OF his
friends aud when 10 court attracted some no
tice. He was looking somewhat paler and
thinner than he did at his trial 10 October,
1873. He was returned to the Jail in Win
chester. Clarke Courier.
COMMUNICATED.
The disgraceful condition of por ton OF the
sidewalk at the St. Asaph.street depot, speaks
poorly for the efficiency of our Superintendent
of Police. His attention has been freque ntly
called to this nuisance, and if no law can be
found or means obtained subscription will be
started and money obtained, from those persons
compelled to travel over the railroad to abate
| said nuisance and repair the street A sad