Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-07-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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tess d Elda, once the dancer Fanny Elssler.-
The ex. Majesty, il King on the ground floor,
is merely worthy husband on the first, where
the Countess lives.
The reported announcement Of the cOmmu-
tation of Lbbe Garrabrant's sentence to im-
prsonmeut for life proves to be false. 1t was
published on the authority of the Clerk of the
Court of Pardons, who so tcegraphed, and
MIR. rurlle Libbe' counsel informed the girl
that her life was saved. But the telegram
seems to have been the result Of some iucxcllsi-
BILE bluuder
In New York and Boston the victims Of
suDstroke are numerous. La Boston twenty
deaths were reported, and in New York yes
terlav the Coruncrs were notified of over forty
deaths. In Baltimore yesterday the average
heat was placed at one hundred degrees, the
same as on Monday, and although cases OF sun
stroke were numerous but lew deaths were re-
ported.
The counsel for Stokes arc attempting to
prove that Fisk did not die from the effects of
the bullets shot into his body by Stokes but by
NAL practice On the part OF physicians ouch
testimony is annihiialed by physicians OF ac
knowied ycd merit.
An airline railroad between New York and
Philadelphia was placed under contract ycstcr-
day. When completed, the road will place
| the two cities in closer communication than Is
now had, aud it is estimated that the road VIII
cost ST, 900, 900.
The Board Of Trustees Of Dickinson College,
at the annual meeting, unanimously elected
the Rev. James A. McCauIey, ID. d., PreSl-
ding Elder of the Washington District to the
Presidency Of that in>ti. ullou. The Doctor
has accepted the position.
''probabties" is determined that no point
Of interest in the country shall escape his vigil
lance lie is now placing an observatory
upon the summit OF Pixies Peak. fourteen thou
sand feet above the sea level and double the
altitude of Mount Washington.
Fanny Jordon a Cincinnatian, whose add
ventures abroad, particularly with the youth
full King of Bavaria, have afforded food for the
foreign correspondents, arrived ut New J DIRK
on Saturday in the steamship Main, and went
at oucc to the house Of friend III Brooklyn.
The qualities of carboIc acid as dislniac-
tant are well known. 1t is believed by somc
medical men that the carrying small quantity
! of it upon the person, and the washing with
carb0llc acid soap, act to 4 certain extent as Il
safeguard against some contagious diseases.
Thomas Crahbe, rear admiral in the \. 5.
navy, died at his residence. in Princeton, \. D.,
on Saturday night, aged cighty-t"ur years.
Admiral Crabbe has been CONNECTED with the
navy for over sixty years.
Mrs Barnard one of the woman journalists OF
Washington, has bccomc--wc rcal-as>i>tant
editor of the Washington Chronicc. She is
said to have had ample experience as a reporter
and to be au efficient journalist
The French court martial has ordered the
execution Of female Communist just declared
guilty of killing soldier during the struggle
between the Communist and the Government
soldiers for the possession OF Paris.
At a mass meeting in San Francisco, it was
resolved to raise $lO. 1000. 900 for the conStruc.
ton of the Thirty Fifth Parallel railroad. A
committee was appointed to canvass for sub
scriptions.
| \ man died in Baltimore yesterday from
drinking ice water whilst he was much heated
THE BUDDHIST Priests ANpTHEIR TEMPLES.
A correspondent in China gives an interesting
account of the devotion oil Il Buddhist priest, as
it was recently illustrated by one of the sacred
order who came to Shanghai to raise money Tor Il
temple at Suchou. The project had started
ten years ago, but after 81 600 Of the SIS, 900
required had been collected religious interest
auguShcd, and the stones had not been added
with that dispatch which promised any doncs
| pointing heavcnward in some generations
Something desperate was therefore necessary,
and with such desperation did this priest come
equipped that he offered to allow himself to be
locked in a wooden box for seven days, during
which time he would remain in an upright po-
sition, without food or sleep His copsecrated
ambition was gratified, and cage provided for
| him, just his height, and with bottom so nail
studded that his feet should only have sufficient
space between the spikes to rest, with Il couple
| of Slight bars in front Of his arms The natives
were allowed to prove the geuuineness OF his
! Imprisonment by locking him in, and about
| thirty padlocks made him secure, only little
space at the bottom being open for the adlnis-
sion of air. The poor devotec endured his tor
| turc with remarkable fortitude and came out at
the end of the designated time not so much the
worse for wear. His pulse stood at sixty. four,
and his skin though hot, was moist. After his
release his cage was broken up and soon sold
for enough to pay for the temple as high as
$500 being paid for single relic
NATURAL CASA PHENOMENON INTnE On.
REGIONS The TitusviIle Courier Of the 9th
givcssthe following interesting particulars Of
Newton well, on the Nelson farm, six miles
north Of that city: 1t has been down about
twenty days, has continuously poured forth
such volume Of gas that it was found impoS-
sibe to pump it, as the valves would not work
The tubing was pulled Wednesday, land the well
was cased in order to let the gas blow off, so
that it might be pumped. After the casing
was put in, the sand pump was lowered for the
purpose of agtating the well, and the gas raised
a column Of water, throwing a solid stream into
the air hundred feet. The noise was terrific,
and could be heard for distance of more han
two miles The noise was something like the
loud roar Of thunder and when the column burst
at the top it threw the water each way for ff.
teen rods from the we'll The water was cx-
hausted in about twenty-five minutes, and then
a column of gas followed, rising with trcmen-
dous force fifty feet above the derrick The