Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-08


CRooUEr This disease, though not per-
haps so general at last Summer, still prevails to
very alarming extent Itattacks all ages ex-
cept children under three years Of age who are
fortunately exempt. 1t is most severe at wa
tering places, country boarding. houses, and
the like, and is found 10 less degree in the
back yards of cities. The symptoms are the
! desire TO ..... ....-.
"Come into the garden, Maud, .:
and drags iortk wooden mallet from long
casket-shapeG box on the lawn Other pa
tients, attacked in like manner, seize like maj
lets, and proceed to knock inotensive balls
through wire arches until they-the balls-get
red, black, and bue in the face and proceed to
collide with each other and get knocked about
most unccremonlously.
"A popularity Of the disease is the uucon-
troable desire on the part Of every patient to
give every other patient unstinted advice. ln
some stages, the patient grows irritable, and
throws down the mallet and wanders moodiy
i1om the lawn. These incipient attacks OF in
sanity arc otshort dur alton and need not occa-
sion undue anxiety. The patient is to be treat.
I'd gently, and kept in cool place for short
sime when nature itself will react and restore
,lc mind to its normal condition. The disease
rarely continues after dark, though IN some ca
>es it hps been known to inger Or until 10
u'c!ccE. As there appears 10 be no cure tor
this ailmcut, which has become epidemic, and
Is aso ieartully contagious, we are glad TO IN
nource, on competent medical authority that
ii is not necessarily tatal.--N I. Star.
CARLoTTA The Princess Louisa of Austria
recently received tor the first time the sacra-
,ph nh 10 nj n
the imperial iamily-more than wedding
even Her aunt, Carlotta, Maxmian's un
fortunate widow, took sudden interest ip the
ceremony, and procured jewels to give to her
young niece. For moment did her atten-
dants nay, even the doctor: imagine that
ray of light was to fash across that poor be.
widered brain but when the door opened,
aad the little figure attired all 10 white, with
the snowy veil throwD across her head and
bosom, pauSing for moment on the threshold
advanced joyously toward her, some souvenir
Uf her own youth, some Temembrances or the
veil and flowers must have come across her, for
she dashed the jewels to the ground, and selz
ing the hands OF the Princess Louisa, covered
them with kisses, looking all the while into
ncr lace with such vacant, lnquirl09 expires
ion that the poor child. quite overcome, sob
bed aloud After while she grew more calm
and locking about in search of the eweFcase
which had fallen to the ground, she shook her
head mourntully, and taking from her neck the
chaplet and cross which had been given her by
the Archbishop of Mexico, and from which
she has never parted since the day of her en-.
trance into that city, she placed it on the arm
of the princess. winding it round and round
many times and after kissing the cross with
passionate effort, sunk back again upon the
inflow and remained still and motlonless, with
closed eyes and compressed lips, dead to all
around, as she is in the habit Of doing for
many hours together.
THE REWARDS OF PUBLIC LIFE. The letter
Of poor Provost Parado sounds like monody
as We read it, 50 soon after his death. A young
man who had risen to the height of his profess
sion 10 France, who fourd at forty every avenue
to distinction open to him-a seat in the Acad-
emv, the Cabinet the confidence Of his soVcr
cgn, legislative renoWn, cmlnence IN literature,
world wide fame in country in which his fame
was divided with Hugo. and Saint Beuve, and
Berryer, wcarily turning from them all, with
sense of safety and sadness, and yearnlng,
hoping for rest and study IN the quiet Republl-
can Capital, only to fnd turmoil and confusion,
and q bitter exacting war; and no relief but
death. This letter tells what killed Provost
Paradol. How sadly the unfortunate man sums
up his life. He had disgust" for the press
which he served 80 brilliantly. He could not
he O legislator without being demago2ue. tie
could not 60 iu the Cabinet without the allena-
ton of friends, nor could he escape from politics.
So he communed with destiny being as he
coptesses, "superstitlous. and sought rest
where he found grave. 1t was because the
q rewards and opportunities OF public llte we're
* as irutlcss as the fab,ed apples that turned to
< ashes. that this exquisite and truthful nature
i. was shattered and broken, and Provost Parado
:. sought relief in that PHILOSOPHY which
teaches men that lit is better to take up arms
IS against the slines and arrows Of outrageous
s fortune ~. T. Standard
\ BULL FlaHT1Na IN LoNDoN-The recent
& attempt to Indulge in bull fighting is thus des-
cribed by the London Times: ''As the en-
tertalnment at the Agricultural Hall, described
in the papers as Grand Spanish Entertain:
nent OF Bull fighters, was at its height, ard
the fourth bull had been pierced by an arrow
at the end OF which sharp stud was liked, the
secretary OF The Royal Society tor the Proven
lion of Cruelty TO Animals jumped over the
naIriers into tic arena, followed by several OH
GERS ct The society and of the police. 1t was
not apparent 10 the audience what was the
object of this sudden Intervention; but upon
the secretary taking possession OF the arrows.
and indicating to the Spanish troupe that no
further performance would be tolerated, yelts
anu tAtCidttohS AHeO thc null lrOuli nuBuftuS'
OF rouGhs present, and general rush was made
into the arena. Many efforts were made to
mob the officers, and take from them the ar
rows seized apparently for evidence but the
officers fought their way gaIlantly out Of the
hall. PROCEEDINGS will he taken at once against
the troupe for cruelty" Eo,ire success at.
tended the prosecutions. The hull fighters
We're driven out OF England, and MIR. Colam,
the Secretary of the Royal Society. has been
presented with god medal of the highest
class by the French Society, ard another medal
by the Brussels Society. ...
a FRENCH WIDow's GRIEF III, sympa-
thiz, sincerely with your griet," said a French
q lady TO recently widowed friend, ito lose
4 such husband as yours" 'Ah, Yes, he was