Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-28
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VIRGINIA. NE 30
| Thu laie Hon, B. 3. Douglass, tits said. ma
his life insured for considerable amount
CHARLES Harris, colored, CT Richnond' "as
fatally burned On Thursday By the c2p!oh'ot VI
ca oil lamp.
The City Gaslisht Company, Of Norfolk, mas
reduced tho proa CT gas tr1:l >" 20 @Z.oV PIX
one thousand feet.
John #. Cook stabbed Baldwin LuEcS9 u:
On Christmas Dav, ia an STRAY at New hatl'
more, Fauquier county.
The people of Montgomery county 10 Te,
cent large mass meeting unanimously declared
against any Increase of taxation 10 meet inc
interest On the State debt.
Hon. Elliott NJ. Braxton is announced IS
candidate for Congress from the i!rss dlstiiN o.
Virginia, to fill the vacancy caused by tic ucash
Of Hon. B. B. Douglas.
| The printing cfic, of the Farmvo N!ercuTy
} having become tho properly, by purchase, OF
the Euslish and American Bank OF tarmTile.
tho publication Of tho paper has CEASED Tor :ac
present.
: The store Of Hopkins Il Bro, nj liu0!lng
Creek, Acoomac county, was burned doWn, W!sh
considerable loss, early Thursday marnlcg, tbs
fire catching from an oVerheated stove. ihe
schooner Poulaon, 7i0g near ~, waJ slightly
, damaged.
] An old negro womal, uamod Susan Savage,
= liyiog Mono in Bram5!ctoD, near Norfolk, !nct
} violent death 10 3 sinQular manner On CHRIST
, mas eve night. She laid down on pallet o.
| the floor to indulge ia smoke from her pipe.
She dcz4d of to sleep, and her clothing taking
3 fire from the pipe, she was burned to death.
Z Her charred remains Wero found next morning.
by the neigh bcr5.
Miss Heines an elderly maiden lady, lcsi5-
, ing with her niece, Mrs. Hess, at Cul pepper &
! H., was badly burnod on Tuesday might last,
, aud cied yesterday from Eer inluiics. Is aIl'
pears that she was short tlr!o Ego parslyzcd,
and that she was alone IL room near q stove
when her clothes caught Ga Gic and she was
unable, owpg to her stAIcsIon, to eZii1gu::h
the fire or to make an cutlery.
A negro man named Lawrence McCoy, !!ylOg
= il Norfolk county, was run over BY lfelgnt
train on the Atlantic, Mississippi and OHIO
, Railroad on Christmas eve Eight and eli: q! 70
= pieces. the accident occurred near Providence
Church lste at night, while The old man was
, crossing tho track 90 the public highway: The
! evidence before the jury established The TACT
= that The train engineer was cupahle 10 not CIV,
ing thu proper alarms, and warrants were Is:u;G
= fer the arrest of the conductor hnG eEg!aeei.
Among the passengers on he Richmond,
Fredericksburg end Potomac Railroad the other
night, arriving from Washington, were two vino
: attracted more than ordinary attention. They
, were MIR. Charles S. Kline, aged seventy One,
and his bride, uee Miss Parker, aged t97nIEg.
They elonea from Charles Ci7 county on last
|! Wednesday. and we're married in We=hlugtna
I % Thursday The bridal couple then took 81
+. hying trip Narth and are now ca their way
= home Mr.. Kline is good looking sen!lcuao,
J., tell, erect and Will preserved, and the 5Iit Is
o beautiful and accomplished brunatte. Miss
4 Parker had been visiting friends liz Charles
-, City, where sho net her future l1:baui. The
- couple eloped, it seems, Tot b5cau:a they hc1
to, tut because they could. Aco3rdng IL he
D Richmond State the old gentleman said ne was
= gay ADD festive ard thought RAINING CT to 81
0 married vas more romantic iEsn st2ci9g III
q home.
/ TIE SEA SERPENT. -Captaia William j..
j. Nelson, of tne ship Sacramento, which reached
u this port about the middle Of last month, st.er
. sixteen months voyage to AusrAlia China
. aud adjacent islands, ard is nov at ri=r H.,
o East River, has seen the seq serpeat. Il have
{ never bad any confidence 10 t?e yarns whtca
have bsea told froo, time 70 tnc ay saamen
r about The sea serpent" lie SAID to Weird re-
r porter, fer you know wattr dogs have lac.
e ulty for stretching thnes little, hu! must
e confess Try opinion is changed siace l saw this
monster. Whether il Tas the real sea acroenS,
s ! | don't know, but call it thet or whatever else
you have mind, i: vas certainly very arrange
= creature. I never saw anything Iiks it beUca
t 10 ali my forty eight years exnereoce at Sea-. -
= I'VE left New Y ork on July IL. 1877. ADD sail
= cd for fifty eight days With lair wiads snd no
e unusual incidents. Abont neon on tic forty
f ninth day, in lat. 80 So north and long, 81
west, the man at tho wheel-John Hart was
f his name-noiced au I'm nense motln1css body
@ lying en- The surface CT the sea oaly shGrt dis.
f tanoc from the ship. The sea al the time vas
!. very quiet aoG the OH ecs vas ia p!siD sight,
4 The animal bad the appearance ef n very largo
. snake cf from fifty TO sixty feet ia length, aud
9 lay perfectly motioniess upon the surface Of the
. water, with its tail only, end smali portlon oil
q The body ueer it., submerged. The body Of tho
serpent was about the siZs CT an ordinary flour
f barrel. The head vas like an alllgator's, end
q the mouth contained rows Of teeth. The o3or
r OF tho beast was yello8sh broWc. About tcE
e feet from its head was large pair Of diprers.
D When first aeen by Hart its head WAS raised
z some three feet above the surface ct tee sea-
q The man must have been wild at the sight, for
: he howlcd down to me that there was a see
8 serpent uear by, If he'd said anything else
G but sea serpent d haTo gone right up, taS
I that word staggered me. and [ SIMPLY sat down
=. aud laughed. l went up 10 lew minutes,
though, and saw the creature short way
= sstern. Ever siuce that day I'm satisfied that
the sea serpent EXISTS. For the rect of The Voy
D age the sailors were on the lookout for more"
" y World.
WnERE TIE CERIsTNAs Toys COME FRoM-
,, Few children know how many weary hands have
E made their Christmas toys in Germany and
Franco and England, whore hands instead of
machinery are employed, and probably they
priced to learn that comparatively few of the
playthings which are scattered abou. so many
| hesr:hs and nurseries are made in Amarics.