Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-08-12

PRESENTATION OF 4 BABY.-A Mrs. King
had surprise at Shawncetown. Ill., the other
day. Ii was IN accident that Mrs King hap
pencl to be at Shawncc,own She did not in
tend to 70 there, but the steamboat Jennie
Howell on which she was travelling struck Il
suag and sauk 10 the Ohio river. Several of
the passengers were truwDctl, aud among them
some children.
Mr. King had child on beard whom She
lnourned a. lost, and was taken to Shawneetown
without her babe. The Jennie Howell sunk
deep in the water, and the next morning men
! went out to the vessel to recover the bodies OF
, the lost Soou after daylight mattress WAS
discovered floating in the cabin. which was till
ed with water nearly to the ceiling. Upon
examination a child, little boy, was discover,
ed on the mattress sleeping as peacefully, as il
.. nothing unusual had happened. His bed was
soaking, but still sustained its living freight
In due time the child was sent to Shawnee
town, where the other passengers had been
Landed the evening before. It's coming
made an excitement among the wrecked travel
ers for more than one mother hal lost chi.
drcn by the disaster.
1t was a touching scene when Mrs. King re-
cognizsd the child rs her boy whom she mourn
ed as los Tor nearly twcntylour hours. The
preservation Of Moses in the bulru>hes vas not
So miraculous as the safely OF Mrs. King ) boy.
He had been to>>in" about Oh the waste Of va
tiers iu the cabin al! night and was brought to
his mother awe in the hour OF her deepest
affection.
SMULTANE0rS DEATH or Two SISTERS -
The family of Mr. John A. Mcdowell, Of VIII
miugton, Del, were sadly aft ctcd on Wedne$-
day, 9Th inst, two of his daughters dying at
nearly the same time The Commercial says
that they were accomplished and promising
young girls, one being nineteen years OF age
and the other seventeen. About Christmas
time of last year Esther was attacked with the
heart disease, which proved fatal about T.
o'c clock on Wednesday, Jennie, the younger
sister, having about three weeks ago been at
tackled with typhoid fever, with which she was
suffering at the time of her sisters DEATH was
! 50 affected by the circumstance that she too
brcathci her last twenty minutes after the
death oil her sister. A few moments before her
death, being in scn'I-delirium state, she OK
claimed Give me my things, give NE my
things | see my sister going, and she Is wait
ing Tor me.
Pur AGREEMENTS GS WRITISG.-lIow many
misunderstanding arise from the loose ways
in which business ,uatterS are talked over. and
when each party puts his own construction on the
conversation the matter is dismissed by each with
the words "All right: all right. Frequently
it turns out all wroug and becomes aQaeStlon
for lawyers and the courts. More than tire
f,urths of the litigation of the country would
be saved if people would put down their agree
mcutS in writing aud sign their names 10 it.
Each word 10 our language has il peculiar
meaning, aud meuory may by the change of
its position In sentence, convey al entirely
different idea from that intendad. When once
reduced to writing ideas are fixed. and eXpcn-
sivc lawsuits are avoided. --lnr,i"'a R"nt
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