Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-19
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
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Miscellaneous Items.
TERMS uY sUBscRIPTIoN-IN ADVANCE.

year 1851 the late Empr Of France (ther
Eugene Marie de Guzmap) would have mar
ried, in Paris. young VIM. q. Rives, son of ths
then American minister only one Aunt Judy
Rives," a Virginia matron, intertered anO
broke off the match, the Countess being "tot
fast for old Virginia views of social sobriety.
But the Boston Courier declares that there II:
no foundation whatever tor the story.
The steamship Crescent City, from New Or
leans. reports that on October 18th, in the
Cult of Florida, she passed quantities of wreck
ed material all day, consisting OF buwarks,
spars, deck planks, and portion Of water
logged hull; five miles south of Cape Florida
saw ship ashore. no wreckers about, but ap-
psrently just gone on; twelve miles north oi
Cape Florida saw schooner on the bach.
Schwarz, of Breslar, gives simple method
whereby water may be run through lead pipes
without becoming poisoned. The pipes are
filled with a warm, concentrated solution oil
sulphide of potassium and thus left fol-
about fifteen minutes, when an insoublc
suphide OF lead will be formed within, and
line the pipe.
The twenty. second annual report of the
Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati shows q
large increase in the commerce OF the city as
compared with the previous year. The total
value of the trading articesimported amounts
to $3l3,O00. 900, being $3S3,0OO,OO0 increase
over last year.
A special 10 the Telegram from Key West,
dated l7th, says that the steamers Cuba and
Gulf Stream were four days getting to the
wharf. The Cuba reports having felt the hur-
rioane seventy miles out. The naval squadron
and monitors all safe.
The most liberal decision ever made at the
internal revenue bureau is that widow need
not pay tGr new licence on the death OF her
husband ii she continues trade That her
husband buys and pays for shall not be taken
from the widow at his death !! !
The island ofSt. Lucia, West Indies, is bad
ly infested with snakes. The government was
late y notified that 10000 had been destroyed
in six months following the offer of reward
for their destruction, and that only ESQ out of
the grant therefor of f300 remained.
Dr. Samuel Dickens, the late male survivor
ofthe Bolton Dickens vendetta, in which so
many OF both families lost their lives, was killed
by the accidental discharge of bis gun while
driving in his buggy near Raleigh, Tennessee,
on Wednesday last.
All the leading hotels and restaurants in
New York have advanced the price OF cham
pagne. owing to the growing scarcity of that
luxury in that market, as result OF the Euro
pean war. The domestic manufactures 40
doubt will come to the rescue.
Captain General De Rodas OF Cuba has is
sued an order iberatng 1000 apprentlced ne
eroes captured from slavers IN 1855, 1856, 1857.
The French mail steamer Darien has been lost
fifteen miles to the windward OF Guatanamo.
All hands were saved
A letter which we haze from Nevada City,
Colorado of the 9Th inst, informs us that MI.
Elijah S. Fryer, of Baltimore, who was sup
posed to have been killed by Indians short
time since, is still alive.
The unpleasant taste of Quinine is entirely
destroyed by taking it in weak solution OF
licorice, formed by dissolving the latter ln wa
ter or by merely letting the llcorice dissolve 10
the mouth of the patient
German physicians have found tiDcture
of the leaves of the Australian gum tree TO be
remedy for intermittent fever. DIR. Lorlnser
gave it to ffty-three patients, of whom forty
three were completely cured.
At recent meeting of the San Francisco
Academy OF Sciences, one OF the members eX'
hibited specimens of animal, which had been
preserved without change by the use OF carbollc
acid.
The last decree of the Empress, issued at
the Palace OF St. Cloud, was to the effect that
DO trained skirts would be admitted upon any
visitors during the summer season.
The most stylish weddings to take place this
winter arc to be managed in the simplest and
plainest manner, with no bridesmaids. grooms
men or ushers, end no reception
During game Of base ball in Eliz lbeth, n.
D., on Saturday, Edward Cory bad ono OF his
eyes knocked out by blow from club which
40 outsider was carclessly handling.
They keep up running against time on the
Mississippi river, and will probably do so until
steamboat load of passengers shall tiod them
selves from time into eternity.
". }. Clarke, one of the victims of the Ma
uonal Hotel poisoning at Washington thirteen
years ago. recently died at Indianapolis.
THE HORRIBLE ATTACK made by Siberian
bloodhound upon two serving woman on Stat
en- Island was briefly mentioned by telegraph
1t seems the two girls were reclining on the
grass in front OF MIR. llassenburg's villa, at
New Brighton, when suddenly, without any
warulng or provocation. the bloodhound ran
toward the younger. Bessie McNulty, who,
having always feared him, retreated. The
hound betrayed the fercest desperation, aud
with lowered head protruding tongue and
hashlng eyes darted after her. Shrieking with
terror she wildly ran away, springipg N her
frenzy over the terrace-a distance OF some six
ieet. Before she touched the ground, the
hideous beast had lcaped upon her, and buried
bis long lang like teeth In her shoulder and