Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-03-04
Alexandria Affairs,

Reported for THE EVENING STAR
| THE NEW ELECTION MACHfNERY-The new law
provides that instead OF veSing the appointment
OF the comnssones,vho hold the national and state
elections in the judges of the county. a commission
shall be chosen In each county select the Judges
to hold the election In the various districts Messrs
\. I. Ramsay. }. \. Marshall and Edgar Varied
nave been selected as the electoral commission OF
this city.
\ Poisonous BrrE.-Mrs. Germann. whose hand
was bitten by VIM. Coates. In his raid her money
drawer. now suffers very greatly from the effect OF
the bite. her arm having iniamed and swollen, re-
Qulr1ng medical care.
COUNTY APPOINTMENT.-The board OF education
at Richmond has appointed Mr.. A. B. Grunwell
superintendent OF schools for Alexandria county.
Judge W. A. Cave not having been confirmed by
the senate; but the senate has confirmed the ap-
pointment Of Mr. Grunwel.
POLICE REPoRT-Josiah Handy and VIM. Raglan,
colored. arrested BY Lieut. smith, are held at the
station-house this morning. At the last mayors
court Pat Cartwright. coored. was sent TO the chain
gang for GU days for stealing meat from the market
stall OF Moses Heller, and W. Coates to thee same
punishment for an attempt to rob the till at MI.
Gerinann confectionery.
NOTES.-The telephone COMPANY here has now a
switch board for three hundred telephones. and the
subscribers are now mounting in number EDWARDS
two hundlcd.-Cnas. Ward. late superintendent
OF the upper ship-yard. has left for fiOrdl.-A
little colorcd Child named Wilson injured yes
terdaE by the explosion OF a lamp In house on
Patrick street, near the Lee school building.-A
mere nominal premium has been obtained this year
for the fish benches in market. No offer Of more
than one dollar was made. Four dollars only has
been realized by tie sinking fund commissioners ON
| the premiums OF this year-The HydrauOn
steam lire company meets Tonight.
SINGULAR RESTORATION OF LUSATIC.-A shoe
maker named Ernest Conrad, IS years Old. was ad-
mitcd 10 The insane department OF the allnShCuse
In Philadelphia last December, suffering from mel
ancholia. About week later he quarreled with a
feilOw-inmate. and was reled to the ground by a
blow from an earthen pitcher. He was Immediately
taken to the hospital, and it was found that his
skull was fractured. DR.. Porter removed several
pieces OF bone from the head The wound healed
rapidly, and a marked change in the patents
mental condition was noticed He had formerly
been mOrOSe. gloomy and irritable, but he became
lively and good spirited. 1t Is two months since the
operation was performed. and the physicians eX-
press the opinion that the man viii fully recover
his reason.
MAN CHOICES His WIFE TO DEATH.-Eariy Sun
day morning Peter SchmitZ, UelI-tO-dO carpenter
anu builder Ill Chicago, cEoked his pregnant wife
10 death and went away, Wandering !elpieSSly and
amnesty about the city. He left three children by
former wife, the eldest. daughter OF sixteen. In
the house. 1t appears the stepnother harsh
with them. and they feared to so to her room.
the discovery of the crime not made TIL yeSter
day Afternoon, when the daughter ventured TO the
door and saw her mother dead. The police were
notified Later in the day Matthias SChmtZ, not a
relative, but an intimate friend met the murderer.
and the latter confessed the crime. The other took
the murderer into custody and delivered him to the
authorities. 1t Is known his married life was ull-
happy.