Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-09-12
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When the Atlantic Hotel, Cape May, was

burned on Aug 20, lsG9,a Philadelphian, na1p-
ed Chas Rubicam, lost trunk containing
So, 1000 in currency Months afterwards Mr.
McNakin, proprietor Of the new Atlantic Hotel
received ainote from au old servant stating that
she knew all about Mr. Rubicam's $4,000 :
After an easy search two detectives found the
woman, who informed them that Il cOlOred
waiter, named r. S. Clarke, had rescued the
trunk and its contents from the flames. Clarke
WIS found on Wednesday last in the employ Of
the Broadhead House, at the Delaware Water
Gap. He denied that he had Intended to steal
the money, and asserted that he had invested
it in houses in Philadelphia. which he WAS
willing to turn over to the equitable owner.
Accordingly on Friday last the deed was made,
aud the property conveyed to MIR. Rubicam.
The New York Herald is, for all practical
purposes, a great corporation 1t employs from
FIVE to six hundred men. The mechanical de-
partment is filled with skiful and intelligent
workmen. In the intellectual department it
has force of from thirty to forty city reporters
and an editorial staff Of twelve or fifteen men,
besides its correspondents in every part OF the
world, and its many paid contributors in all
parts of the country. But then its prices for
advertising, and its advertisements, enable it to
support the immense expense.
The Cambridge (Md.) Herald notes, under
the head of Strange circumstances, the eu-
couraging facts that citizens of that part of
Dorchester county have begun to pay off the
mortgage debts upon their farms, and goes on
to add that in some instances creditors have
desired them to keep the money at six per
cent, interest, while one year ago money could
not be borrowed in that neighborhood for less
than ten to fifteen per cent. The last circum-
stance follows the regular course OF financial
laws. r. ......
Pass pin through wart; apply Que
end of the pin to the fame Of lamp;
hold it there until the wart fries under the
action Of the heat. A wart 50 treated will
leave. IF the Wart is hard good method is
to cut it off with knife or scissors, and apply
little caustic to the roots. If the wart has u
narrow neck, tie silk thread or horse hair
around it, and it will soon drop off, A little
caustic applied to the roots will prevent it from
growing again. U.s.. ....'.,.. ...
Naf1cheff, the Russian, who has been sen
fenced to death for conspiracy against the life
of the Emperor of Russia, was at one time u
tavorite servant of the Emperor Nicholas,
vice of the late Emperor, the present Emperor
Alexander III, detected him i'll the attempt
to steal money from his fathers desk. Meta
chef never forgot this discovery, and hence
his recent conspiracy. s.:. -. 20 I
A Saratoga belle is described by John G.
SAKE, in a letter to the Albany Journal, US a
poetical selection:
"Hark to the music of her borrowed tone;
Observe the blush that purchase makes hcr own;
See the sweet smile that sheds its beaming rays;
False as the bosom where her diamonds blaze.
A youthful couple from Poughkeepsie are
now enjoying their honeymoon at Saratoga
The contracting parties were exactly of the
same age--seventeen. They were born on the
same day, and the day OF their marriage was
their seventeenth birth day They sphced
themselves with the consent Of their pa
rlents. ...... ....
4 girl nine years of age arrived at town IN
Central Iowa recently, having travelled, un-
protected, all the way from Western Kansas,
and bringing with her two sisters, one an in
fant, which she carried in her arms, and the
other three years DID, Her parents had enll
grated to Kansas and had both died there, and
she determined to return to Iowa ..-,
The wife of the Hospodar of Roumania,
beautiful and highly accomplished lady, is said
to possess Que accomplishment that greatly
pains her husband She is confirmed klept0-
maniac and her mental alteration in this dl-
rection is well knoSn at all the stores IN Bucha-
rest, where she makes her purchases =,
One of the results of Partisan perplexities Is
that tho modistes of the city arc said to be
losing their artistic taste. Hatters and boot
makers also suffering from the prevailing mil
itary, political and financial decadcuce, are at
their wits end and produce only eXecrable
styles for their customers heads aud feet. a.
Mr.. Edwin Forrest, the tragcdian, has been
the guest of his friend, James Oakes,of Boston,
for the last two weeks, and has not been in bet
ter health for years. Forrest is not yet sixty
seven, and designs more than one campaign on
the stage before ho retires.
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