Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-06-14
ALEX ANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER

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| King and St. hsaph Streets and we're, there
iorc, unable to pay the property. holders one
dollar damages; and, also, stated that the road
had been ruu solely for the benefit Of Alexan-
dra, to build up the city; and having slgnally
tailed 10 their laudable and generous enterprise
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Rcso1red, By the City Council of Alexan-
dra that they deeply sympathse with the A.
& w. II r. Co., and in view of the great sac
r6ces the Company have made to build up the
city, and feeling unwilling the Company should
be subjected to further loss, they earnestly re-
coumand that the Company select some other
terminus
About $50 the revenue bill came in from
the Aldermen, and was read by the clerk.
When the tax Of 50 20 cents on real estate
was up Mr.. Evans moved to insert 50 90.
Mr.. Brodprs explained that when the dis
coun, was taken off the amount remaining was
oDlY los cents.
Mr.. Evans sid tina, uptil the Finance Com
mitee reported what had been done with the
MOI, that had been already collected he would
not vote to give them authority to collect
more.
Mr. Hughes asked if the Finance Commit
tee had not within the past Two or three months
comnyomiscd some tax bills at half rates.
Mr.. BrodcTs responded that when bills bad
br.u standing for ten years the committee had
tax FIVE years taxes because The law did not
authorize disraint for taxes of over five years
sta dIrg. =
NJ. HugheS-On what property was tha'l
Mr.. Broders-Mr. Pterpolnt's property. :,
Mr.. Evans moved to postpone the bill until
after the coming in Of the annual report OF the
Fiuarce Cammi' tee, and Of the Com mlssloners
OF the Sinkiu. Fund.
This motion was agreed to without debate.
My. Latham moved to reconsider and urged
the adoption Of the bill.
Mir. Evans replied.
In the course of the debate it was stated that
moaey had to be borrowed to carry on the opc-
rat!nus of the city government.
Mr. Hughes desired 10 know By what author
ity III Finance Committee borrowed money.
Mr.. BrodcrS explained that the Finance
GonllItce had merely received the notes au-
thor;zcd by the Council.
The Board refused to reconsider.
Mr. Broiers, FROM the Finance Committee,
gave notice under Chap. I'LL. Sec. IL. Of the
: Code. that some officers had failed 70 give bond
as r quired by law within fifteen days after their
elccti,u, and that he Code prescribed 10 such
case "the sold committee shall renort such
failure to the City Council! at their first meet.
ing thereafter ADD the City Council shall pro-
coed to elect another person to ill the place OF
the person SO falling.
Or being asked what officers had failed Mr..
B. said one Of the collectors, and be believed
thr Mayor, werc all he could cal! to mind.
Mr. Hughes moved that the Board of Alder
men be invited in to the chamber for the pur-
pose OF fiug such oticas but their being some
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. about the number Of officers
who had failed TO giye bond, Mr. Evans moved
! 30, tl,n ba t.hl nd m orr n
wa adopted, aud the Board then adjourned
until to. OF ght.
Is MEDICINE A SCIENCE PIT is nica qucs-
ton, in mauy cases, which has done the most
hurt, the disease or the remedy ? Whether, fer
iostarcc, the child S health suffer more from the
!nlestiaal parasites which vcX him. or from the
destructive purgatves employed as anthclmln-
tie; WHISTLER the cancer or the k1lfe produces
death more speedily; whether calomei and qul
line bc not pretty uuch such friends to the
sick man a$ La Fontaine's good naturcd bear
,sas &C tn gardner, whose mouth he crushed
while lIyiug 10 brush the flies of as he slept.
|, is au equally nice question to determine
whether there ever really did occur q critical
period in any disease, when the direct action
If uediciac, per SC. did turn back the waver-
ing lie irom the yaTGiug jaws OF death to the
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grating The possibility Of such rare occur
renee wc do not run TOO great risk, as a rule,
10 be able to profit by it ? These are nice
questions, as nave called them, nor does the
present condition OF medicine entlt!e Us to cX-
poc 10 see them answered. For these reasons,
a!Uong many others, medicine cannot be called
a science. Ii must net be supposed, however,
bat The doctor 5 office Is to become q slntcure
because bis drugs arc voted rubbish and his
mctt DDS talser. % the contrary, We shall need
him quite a. nuch, and his advice will be more
valuable 10 us than ever. He will not nave il
! IL his pywcr to do harm, and consequently can
Civ Ms undivided energies to the pursuit OF
good 1t shall be his Office to teach us the tala-
cy of piysc. He shall present to our minds 10
al! its h0rrld array the atroclous enormlty OF
medicine as once it Was practlccd, aud SO shall
: save many poor sufferer amongst us from
unconscious suicide He shall be our perpetu
al ueacon light against the lroD- bound, lmmit.
gable ioadstooe rock OF quackery, where so
many fair kccls lie uotmey wrecked. lo fine,
he Shall become to us the counterpart of that
Invaluable member Of another profession,
kncwo as the chamber -lawyer, quiet man Of
skill and experience, who abouuds with all the
WISDOM and uuction Of pertinent counsel. aud
vino never takes his client ioto Court, where he
Is bound 10 Loose. no matter how his case is
dccid d-PMH North american.
| Discovery OF TIE MISSING GIRL, FANNIE
HUMrHREYs.-It will be remembered that We
noticed a; the time the mysterious disappear
arca % toe night OF the 18th of March last, OF
Miss Fannie Humphreys, about Is years of
age, from the residence Of DIR. James a Will
son, in whose family she was living as do
nestle From that time Till the first of last
week her friends heard nothing of her, aud
ccud get 90 clue to her fate or place of con-
ccaimcnt Las: week it was discovered that
she was at the house of an cid man panied
German in Jennings Gap about five miles from
Ghurehvi!!e, whore she has been since the time
Of her mysterious disappearance. We have
teen informed that she states that on the night
Of the 18th of March she secreed herself 10
the cyracrib where she remained till the next
right when she Was taken to the house OF
German whore she has remained till this time.
Bcpg SO near Churchville aod the oeighbor-
E.! hood in which she is we'll known. II Is verv re-