Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-29
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

A tWeve-year old girl in Buffalo scared
herself to death by reading Virgins proph-
ecy.
John Brown was faithful servant of
the Queen aud his death will be a source of
deep regret to her.
The Chicago Democratic convention
yesterday nominated Mayor Carter II. Har.
rison for reelection.
Hon. Thos. H. Herndon, member elect
TO Congress from the first district of Ala
bana, died at Mobile yesterday, aged so
years.
Governor Butler it is said has Joined a
young mems Christian association And
now let him bring forth fruits, meet for re-
pentance,
Certain silly women in Cleveland have
been detected eating arsenic for the purpose
OF giving their countenances an aesthetic
pallor
Some further evidence in the Western
Lunatic Asylum poisoning cases was taken
yesterday but nothing of any Importance
was developed.
Harry jenkins of Baltimore and Kate
Mott, of Leesbnrg, realized their dreams of
bliss yesterday and may their days be long
and their happiness unalloyed.
DR.. James H. H. Warfeld, who died
near Laurel, Maryland, recently, served as
surgeon in the Confederate army during
the war, being in Gen. Eary's division.
Ex-senator Gordon gives an emphatic
denial to the statement that he contemplates
changing his residence TO Florida with
view to being elected to seat in the L.
S. Senate
The First Comptroller of the Treasury
has rendered decision revoking the one he
had previously given in the Ochiltrees case.
The latter will now receive his salary as
congressman.
"A counterfeit nickel has made its APP
pearance which is so skillfully executed as
to deceive even the most expert, except up
on careful examination. Therefore look
well to your hicks
Philadelphia boasts wig maker who
carried letters between Napoleon and Jose
phlne and also bore dispatches from War
saw to Paris. 4 shoemaker in this city once
told us he supped with the great emperor.
At meeting in Dublin yesterday of the
committee Of the Irish National League Mr..
Timothy ID. Sullivan, member of Parlia-
ment for Westmeath, repudiated the charge
that the league was connected with the
Irish dynamite party in America. ODono-
van Rosa and Sir William Harcourt Home
Secretary, he said, must fight their own
battles.
III 1850 Mr.. John Porter, of Phlatlel-
phia, bequeathed ten thousand dollars TO a
Presbyterian church with clear directions
that the money should be used for the sup
port of the pastor. He died soon after
wards, and the church officers protesting
TO misunderstood the provisions of the will.
went TO law, and 50 far have spent Sc, 100 Of
the original sum.
"A prominent congressman" is authority
tor the statement that the relations between
Senator Logan and Secretary Lincoln are
very harmonious, and that neither will an
tagonlze the other in the fight for the presi-
dental nomination. The prominent con-
gresham is about the only person, we sus-
pec!, who, for moment, ever really thought
either of them would be seriously thought
of for that position
-Great lnen often suggest mpracticabe
remedies for recognized evils For instance
Beecher at large mass meeting in Brook
iyn few nights ago urged that law be
passed limiting the number of liquor sa-
looms, believing such action the first step in
practical temperance reform. Such no.
ton put in practice would only consolidate
the so-called evil, and greatly enhance the
receipts of those fortunate enough to obtain
licenses