Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-02
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.


A st. Louis belle in the process of max
ng her toilet was timed. Four hours by
clock.
"A colored woman in Portsmouth VINO
had been correcting an obdurate child oy
lowering it to the bottom of well has neen
arrested in that place.
Fifty men were arrested IN Plttsourg
for causing the death Of demented woman,
and nine have been taken into custody IN
New York for similar offense.
The residents of the annexed portion
of New York have complained to the au-
thorities that they live in regular panoe-
monium. One hundred and fifty trains pass
their houses daily and the locomotives
attached to each blow long and LOUD DlaslS
Anthony Wass, a lad, who bad been
employed as an office and errand boy IN a
brokers' Office in New York, while reheet-
ing upon the extensive robberies and deial'
cations Of the day, concluded to try his
hand and walked off with five thousand
dollars of his employers money.
A bank suspended in Indianapolis some
time ago, and the depositors clamored for a
receiver in order that an occasional divl-
dend might be paid. They got the receiver
he received everything rendered him, and
has now been taken into custody for embez'
cling $95, 900 from the defunct bank.
Vicious negroes seem to exist IN other
places as we'll as the District of Columbia.
George Reed, negro, a night or two ago
stabbed and killed E. II. Beaumont, the
station agent at Ely, near Cedar Rapids
Iowa, because the latter elected him from
the depot for profanity and vulgarity.
A drunken man undertook to walk
across the track in front of an advancing
train at Johnston's Ferry, N. c., night or
two ago and was killed. The same train
few miles further on ran over and Killed
negro who had drank himself stupid and
laid down on the track for a nap, utilizing
the rails for pillow.
"A. ]. Nellis came from New York State
to Erie county, Pa, this week to collect
ROYALTY from farmers for using an alleged
infringement OH d hay fork. At Fairview
crowd of 200 farmers mobbed Nellis and
made an unsuccessful attempt to lynch him.
Magisterial interference rescued Nellis with
the rope around his neck.
We have all been taught from infancy
that there are thirty thousand living things
in each drop of water, though the man who
counted them has never been found. A
German scientist now says that every cubic
foot of air contains fifteen million insects,
and travelling man says that the country
hotel beds he has been sleeping in must be
built entirely of air.
Three million dollars worth Of chewing
gum is sold annually in the Eastern States,
mostly to school girls. The article is moth
ing more than paratline wax, favored, COL
ored and nodded into various forms to catch
the eye of the school girl public. The wax
itself is white, odorless, tasteless sub
stance and is harmless. 1t is made from
petroleum tar, the black residuum of coal
OIL
An idea of the depravity Of youth in
large cities may he formed from an instance
which occurred in New York this week.
A boy was arrested for stealing. He had
stolen money from his mother, robbed his
sister and stole jewelry from lady to
whom he said he was an orphan boy.
When the court, on entering his name in
the record, said, "You have no occupation %
he replied with the greatest composure,
ayes, have; beg and steal"
There will be discussion on the sub
ect of Baptism at Riverton, that is expect
ed to last from to 16 days. The dispu-
tants will be of the Baptist and Methodist
persuasion. An item in this column two
days ago announced the fact that political
disputes and weather observations, had
tendency TO superinduce cholera wherever
that scourge breaks out; but it is undeter-
mined as yet what effect religious contro-
versies have on the disease.
"A boarding house keeper in New York
a day or two ago discovered strange cat
in his kitchen with its head tightly squeezed
in tin milk pitcher The landlord endea-
vored to e1tricate the cat in vain, the feline's
claws tearing his hands for his trouble. In
his perplexity he threw the animal over the
fence but unfortunately it was met by Mr..
Bergh, who caught it and procuring can
opener released pussy, and had the boarding
house proprietor arrested and fined for
cruelty to animals.
The remarkable fact that twelve.year-
girl had given birth to two inch infant in
California was copied from an exchange in
to the GAZETTE few days ago. The story
evidently evolved from the following item,
which is going the rounds: A little child of
Woodland, CAL, aged about two years, has
been ailing for some time, and as the local
physicians could not discover the cause, the
parents took the child to San Francisco,