Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-08

DEATH OF CHEF JUSTICE CHASE. On
Monday night at 10 o clock, his usual hour for
ret ring, he said, ''Good night, and left the
room. These were the last words he spoke OK
cept, perhaps, that the next morning his ser
want understood him to say, Fire, motonng
toward the fire place.
Tuesday morning, at 80, his servant enter
ing his room found him reposlOg quietly With
his band under his face, as he habitually lay.
Approaching the bed few minutes later the
servant saw that the Chief Justice was seized
with spasm, his features being convulscd and
slight foam appearing on bis lips.
Doctors John G. Perry, Metcalt, and Clark
we're at once summoned, and it was pronounced
an apoplectic attack, with paralysis of the left
side; the paralysis of the attack of June, 1870
was of the right side, and had virtually disap-
peared, there being still very slight traces of it
in the lips and right hand. This attack was
the more unexpected, from the fact that Mr..
Chase was assured by his physicians last sum
mer there was no longer any danger Of the re-
currencc Of paralytic attacks From the attack
Tuesday morning he remained entirely uncon-
scious his head was motionless, while the right
arm was restlessly active. Convulsive spasms
required frequently during the day, and the doc
tors finally placed the patient under the influence
of chloroforu, which was applied on a hand
kercEicf, whenever the spasm was seen APP
preaching. Its effect was immediate, ALI
unremitting attention that care and affection
could suggest found no response. At a few
minutes after a. N. it became evident he was
sinking fast, his breathing became more and
more labored, until finally, at 10 o'clock pre-
cisely Wednesday morning,i it ceased altogether.
Spasmodic twitching beginning with the lower
portion of the body followed, which lasted
few seconds and then all was still. There were
present in the room at the time Senator Sprague
and Mrs. X. G. Sprague, the Chief Justices
eldest daughter, Mr.. NJ. S. Hoyt and Mrs
Janet Hoyt, R. G. Hoyt, Mr.. Edwin Hoyt
and Herman Barney.
DISCOVERIES AT PoMpE1L The SHELTON of
young woman was found, with curious brace
let on her arm, a broad, massive gold one,
formed Of great heavy rings soldered together
But the most remarkable one is painted mar
Bile Venus which was found in the garden of
the same house. She is about metre high,
and, he says, is really beautiful, although the
effect Of the colo1ing is startling. Her hair is
yellow, the eyeashes and brows black; yellow
chlamys which covers part of the body has
blue and red borders on the inside folds The
left arm leans on smaller statue which is also
painted with yellow, green and black drapcries;
the left hand holds the apple Of Paris The
nude parts Of the body are painted; it is in per-
feet preservation excepting two fingers of the
right hand, which are wanting. But to our
modern eyes this ancient colorjug of statues
can never be agreeable; it cheapeps the marble
and gives the same effect produced by those
repulsive wax and wooden statues made in
Paris. Uniting We may grow used to-; some
statues are really improved by soft, darkish
hue being given to the marble The effect of
Story's Jerusalem, for instance, is heigh tened
by the solemn brown tinting he has upon it.