Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-08-14

piece ct freehold properly in Park Lime,
Mayfair: covering 100 square feet. for &c..
| 500. This il ct tho ratio OF s $50 600 per ;ccc,
| and shows the value CT lard ia London. Tie
DftEl purchase Of tho corGcr Of Wall und
Broad streets. ia New York city, few yeas
| esc, Was $3.50, 900 gold for CTS tquar, feet, or
at the rate OF S2l 100000 per acre.
A YOUNG GRASS W1DoW.-Thrao years
ago there arrived il tic city Of Miancap.lis,
from Illinois, mother accompanied by two
daughters, orc about 70 and tic other less thar
Is years Of age. Tho girls we're pretty and q:
tractiVc. and shortly after The arrival of the
family the eldest daughter married O young
druggist wGo is engaged in business at the
present TINA en- Main street, not far lrcm polio,
headquarters. 10 duo tine az heir Yves bcro,
which eVont WIS duly chroniclcd by father,
| mother, grandmother aad young Ga1t, oil of
whom resided with tho young married couple
| over tho husbands place OF business.
About year sloce IL vas noticed By those
Intimately acquainted with the family that the
two sistors were not on such terms Of Intimacy
| as should be cx;cc:cd. Tho yourgtss rshtcr
had developed 1870 very proppsSassinv 20
map, aud, although Int lG years of npo, was
w0msn!ke II her arpaar.tcl cod msnneGs
As time passed. very Daughty tualols f,ll1weL
| tho tiist whispers, which wc7o to the eff tina.
tho married man had Gscnlod his lawful wife
and thst her sister had sDcceedtd to tho vsclDt
| place IN bis household a1d slftc;ilui. All this
| tlnl2 however the vile. TO lha CusIl0 world,
| was mistress CT tho household. ard now aDd
then the sisters Vcro seep Together GO The street:
| Tho matter cUcluateG short tire aga whe3
| a petition for divorce uas filed By tho vile in
| tho Circuit: Court Of jackson ccusty, who asked
not only Tor 40 ahc:l late arnn,ai0n, but for tho
| care CT her chi!i aad tJr alimony. Tho hus'
| bnad did not tight Tho matter, although the
| charge was that OF ''cl yiag the society OF
other women, and 10 cue tmo tho divorce
| was granted. is soon as tho urc lssary paDcrs
| were recorded, tho w|c lett tn house where
| she catered as wifa, acc. Dauicd by Ter child
and personal ctf,cs, AID IL uow rcsiliag in tho
eastern vsrt ct he ctY.
Immediately upon her departure, her youog.
er sister was proclaimed az the lawful wiie of
the young druggist. auG from Information OBJ
| talned, II Is k1oWn thst the couple vera mar,
RED at Ple asaut Hill, July IS. hy the Pfes5y.
tellsn mlrislcr Of that place. The Case has
been putlc Ern9gr:y for soue days, and
tho young wife a1d mother who was
SO grossly outraged acd malrcased has tho
| Sympathy Ct q! her trest5. It is said that tho
| bother Of The girls. VINO returned to ll!inoig
several cIonths ngo, is yet in bIissiul iynoranco
Of the lee: that her sou in law has discarded ORC
daughter and taken another to Ills bed and
board, all within tho short apacs OF three
days.-Ne,o York exchange
not - BAD AVTEE ELL "A German rhysi.
Clan hes started pleasing theory with regard to
insanity. II is hu thinks p mistaEo TO look uo-
on 1t rs an unmtl gated evil. 1t ID in many csses
oooa fslhsr than tho reverse 10 tho per3on liz
Hledlste'y affected. Tho loss OF reason lands the
sufferer from sea of trouble into one of com.
parstlVe cRlE1-oteE into ono OF comparative
hspElness; ard attempts 70 restore such person
10 sanity would be cruel rether than kind. More
over, ne insists that without O certain amount of
insanity success in life. in tho ordinary accspta.
ton OF Inc term, is quite impossible. All emf.
nent men, ne contends, are decidedly moro or
less med.
dany OF them are dangerous monomaniscs
whom It would be desirable on public grounds
to shut up, but who nevertheless achieve grand
careers end are credited with doing g vast
amount OF good. This fslse notion he attributes
to the fact That The grea. mass CT mankind are
also Insane and quite unsGle to distinguish BE-.
tween good ano evil. Whole nations sre he
says, occasionally se;zsd like individual per.
sons, Win stacks OF madness, and, led by emil
ment n.dmen, either to destroy themselves or
their nelghbors These paro1ysns are, he sds
mita, undoubtedly dangerous; but when mad
ness il bonded with just sufficient self control to
Keep 1t from beraying itself it is nervous energy
and enables the lunstic to exercise immause in
huence over lis fellow creaturee.
ASSAULTED AGAIN.-John Z. Harris, tne
coloTed democratic orator from Virginia, is hay
ing rough tire north Of the Potomsc Last
week no was twice violently assaulted in Dss-
ware by men of his own race VINO bad no toora.
ton for co'ored man who talked democracy.
Thuttdsy last Harris attended pic.Lic f 8
colorec post at South Chester Pa, but rs soon
as his political antocedents became known he
was knocked down and beaten and severely III
jured. The report of the assault in the Philg.
deipha Pfess expresses the hope that Harris
will not again appear th.ro and thus antsg.
oniZo his colorod brethern"