Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-29
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.


,er month for his services to the Norfolk |
base ball club.
The Richmond State says that nosqul-
toes have made their appearance IN tnat
CITY. They have been here for some time
William Collar, of Amsterdam, N. T.,
took bunch of bananas from barrel re-
Gently. Coiled in the bunch lay huge
black snake three feet in length. The oana-
mas came from the West Indies.
One day last week an elegantly dressed
stranger hired row boat and rowed lnto
the middle of the harbor at Erie. he was
seen to divest himself of his coat and kneei
down in an attitude of prayer. Then ne
sprang into the lake and was drowned.
Juan c. Bacha, Of Las Vegas, N. NJ,
representing himself as millionaire cattie
dealer, visited Cincinnati recently, ana was
e,t;ced into hack to visit the 1.atonla rat
track to see some fine stock. He was drug
eed, beaten and robbed of money and checks
amounting to $4,000.
Platter. the negro, who, it is alleged, alb
n,otsd and married demented white
woman, is now charged with being oiga-
mist, 1t is said that he married a colored
girl in Maryland about six years ago. from
whom he had never been divorced, and that
the authorities, urged by the woman's rea-
tiyes, are going TO prosecute him.
While q thunderstorm was passing over
Bucks pond, Louisa county, on FRIDAY
evening last, the water in the pond was
drawn up in spiral column some Two nun
dred or more feet high, and then on sud
den dashed to pieces in every direction INTO
misty spray, then returning to the pond
assuming all the appearance oil huge
AQUARIUM The scene was truly magnih
cent. A very heavy roaring wind accom-
pauied it, which, striking the bluff on the
south side of the pond, very soon subsidized
The Casson App,a tells the latest snake
story, A black member of the ophidiar
brood attached itself to the horns of co"
a day or two ago, and though the ANNA
tossed its head, beloved, paved the eartt
ran first i'll one direction and then in another
his nakesbip "kept his seat" occasionally
gliding his hidcous head in front of the al
frighted COW 5 eyes. This performance LASTED
for three hours, when the animal fell to th'
earth and expired from exhaustion. Th'
snake was killed by some farm laborers
and measured five feet in length.
The accidents which so often happen t.
females by thoughtlessness in handlin!
lighted lamps and kindling fires are appall
ing, and yet they in no wise deter man,
others from becoming victims to such repre-
hensible inadvertences. The death of tn
young and lovely wife Of the poet Longtel
low, which occurred more than twent
wears ago at her beautiful home in Cam
bridge, was of heart-rending nature, bu
almost the same tragedy was enacted in tn
case of Miss Delano, of New York, last Sur
| day. She Was but nineteen years of ag'
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5 led by her remarkable personal beauty
3 While she was adjusting an alcohol lam
3 especially adapted to the heating of minut
} tongs for the curling of ladies' front locks, it
supposed that the flame shot up, setting fir
, to her hair and in few moments she ha
: rushed out of doors, a blazing mass of fir
and in a short time was burned to death
The number Of fatal accidents, too, resultin
from attempts to kindle fires with coal OF
is by no means on the decrease. On Thurs
day last Miss Kate Wroter, about IS year
of age, living at Tates Bank, near Cam
bridge, Nd, was terribly, and, it is thought
fatally burned by the explosion of coal
oil can while attempting TO perform th
dangerous feat.