Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-09-08

the Datient refuses to taste 1000 OF any klnQ or
| to drink water. She is SO obstinate IN this par.
ticuar that it has been twelve days since she
has taken nourishmGnt OF any description, or
swallowed drop OF water She has not had
lucid interval since the attack, but has Slept
some Her conduct in the cell Is boIstcrouss,
and indicates no bodily pain. She will sing, call
the names of acquaintance, whistle, curse,
lump and WaIlow about about on the floor. Ii
you speak to her she will answer you but not
inteligently. Several physicians OF this city,
were to have visited her yesterday, but nc be
lieve they did not The doctors DO not agree
in estimating the character OF the attack. Dr.
A. A. Rowland, Of Christian county, pr0n0un
ces it monomania while others say that it is
clearly hydroDhobia. -LOulsUiHe JoH1n0I.
WAsuINoTON ITEMs.-G!cason 4 Glenn coal
merchants ofG street wharton Saturday were
awarded the contract FOR supplying the Navy
Yard with $500 tons Of Allegheny mine coal.
The same gentlemen Oh the same day received
contract from the Treasury Department for
1900 tons of the same kind Of coal The ov7 rates
CHARGED by these gentlemen seemed to strike
some of our District coal merchants with con-
stenation. Whiie the railing rate for coal in
~
Glenn arc charging bat 81 per ton. Inls price
it is understood, will continue until their Old
stock is exhausted.
William Remington died yesterday morn
ing, at the residence Of his sOninlaw, blr. Il.
NJ. O(futt, GEORGETOWN. Mr.. Remington had 81
rived at the ripe old arc ot0nn hundred and i've
He was born 10 Montgomery county, Mary
land, but came when quite i young man to
Georgetown, where he has resided ever since
Gen. Ramsay, commandant at the Washing
ton Arsenal, has awarded to Mr.. i. RecsldGe
the contract for erecting stone and brick wall
thirteen hundred feet long, oa the north front
Of the Arsenal erounds, at the following rates
For foundation excavation. IS ct PEI cubic
yard: stone laying, per perch, 81 %; brick,
Der thousand, 81 IS: wall coping, IS ct per
Iineal foot.
The force in the Naval Construction Depart
ment Of the navy yard has been Increased by
taking on nearly one hundred additional hands
-calkcrs, carpenters ard jolncrs, tor the pur
pose of completing the reftting OF the y. ).
steamer Neipsic, which the government has
ordered to be finished by the first proxmo.
4 band of Strolling gip5ieS are now cncamped
on the suburbs Of our city, aud occasionally
some of them ind their way upon our streets.
During the performance Of the B!ack Crook
Washington last night the burning OF a piece
of eauze caused an alarm OF fire from behind
the scenes The large audience behaved admir-
ably, however, and no serious Injuries are re-
ported.
On Sunday last DR.. Boynton, pastor OF the
First congregational church., resigned bis po-
sition as such, to take effect Oh the 45h Of
March next, when MS term as chaplain ct the
House will expire.
Thirty-two com ositors were discharged from
the government printing office On Saturday IN
consequence Of lack Of work. Other dis
charges, it is said, will follow unless Congress
has an extra session.
Elk Mayor Addison, OF Gcorgctown,w:l 0 Was
in very prccat'ou5 condition las! week IS rap
idly rcgaining his health.
Mr.. THOMAS DoNoHO. -Charlcs LannGn,
the we'll known author Of the Summer III the
Wilderness, has lately been writing some let
tiers to the New York Evening Post, and ia
one of the last numbers Of that Journal be
pays the following tribute to we'll known and
highly valued citizen Of Washington, Mr.,
Douoho, who was connected with the National
IntelIieencor for full half a century:
"Ihc chief business man and book keeper OF
the InteigeEcer establishment, and the warm
personal friend Of the editors, was Mr.. Thomas
Donoho. He was bora in Maryland, and vas
connected With the Journal Tor about fifty
years, and during ali that tine never made but
one visit to the Capitol. Like Gales and Sea
ton, he won and commanded the highest re-
spect of those who had business with them.
When the Intelligenccr Office had been sold,
and an entire change made in affairs Mr..
Donoho was asked to continue there on duty, to
which request he made this characteristic re-
ply: No. | carnot be happy over the grave OF
the IntcI!igencer;' nor has he, as We under-
stand, ever had the heart even to make 4 visit
to the Old quarters He asked one boon Of the
new proprictors, however, which vas, that
they would give him the old signocarl OF the
Office, under which so many famous men in
the oldcn times had passed into the sarctums
Of the editors. The request vas granted aid,
Mr.. Donoho deposited it in safe place at the
shop of cabinst-makcr, with the injunction
that it shall form part Of his coffin when he
comes to die"