Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-22
EDITORIAL BREVIfIES.


Two hundred persons were poisoned oy
eating ice cream at Riposto, Sicily, during
public holiday.
The Longwood (Fls) Whisper, q weekly
paper, was recently sold out and out in ex'
change for mule.
The Salvation Army opened its Nation
al Camp meeting at Old Orchard, Me, Sun
day with "knee" drill followed by halle
lujah march.
AT the St. John street New Haven,
Conn., Methodist Church last Sunday
morning The pastor tore up and burner
Maid M mortgage OH tho church property
while the congregation sang the doxoloEy.
The Austin TEX Statesman says there
are persons in that vicinity wO 90 noV se'
bath. on the average, 80 often as once
month. and some who have never been tho.
roughly immersed in water so much as once
in the course of their naturaFlives.
"A lady aged ninety-nine, living in New
Hampshire, has just taken her first dose OF
medicine. An exchange remarks that she
was certainly old enough TO know better,
and can only he excused on the ground that
she has arrived at second childhood.
Mrs. Isabella Law, of Hoboken, had q
quarrel with her husband Saturday night,
and she left the house. She fell asleep on
the stooo and at three o'clock next morn
ing was robbed Of $I3 by two men, from
whom she was about to receive saverer in-
diguities when she awoke.
John Foley, New York ongshoreman,
undertook to psss the night on his doorstep
recently. While INDUCING iu natures
sweet restorer soma person or persons pour
cd coal oil freely upon his clothing aud then
set fire to the same. This attempt to cre'
mate before death soon awakened Foley,
who. after much difficulty, succeeded in
smo,hcring the flames, not, however, until
he was severely though not fatally, burned.
Tho following Geographic dispatch in
III. Richmond Wig illustrates the truth OF
the alase &C, away from home to learn
news: AT Alexandria, Va, Monday night
Robert Meade. former yard master of the
Virginia Midland railroad at that place, and
Albert toiing-worth, night yard-master.
engaged in quarrel, during which Meade
drew his revolver aud shot Colliugsworth in
the back. Collingsworth after being shot
pick ed up d lantern and hit Meade on the
head with it, flacturing hisskull. Ceilings
worth is seriously Injured aud Meade will
probably die"
A mailman has been arrested at San
Dona, near Venice, on the charge Of kid
mapping. He conf sses that he has stolen
aad eaten a number of children because he
was starving. Many years ago pastry
,ok was arrested in the same city on the
horrible charge Of deco; ing little children
INFO his shop where he murdered them and
u sell their ll,,sh in the composition OF his
p.t,i.s. Sual children had been mysteri-
ously disappearing ios years, and when the
terrible tru;hs were discovered the enraged
populacc razad the cook shop to the ground
and hanged the ghouish proprietor.
Alexander Anthony, Of New York in
| au|ged in the modern diversion Of wife
beating dag or two ago. After kicking
his spouse around, tearing her clothes to
shreds aud cutting her in several places, be
left the unfortunate woman with the blood
streaming down her face and proceeded to
poice station, where he swore out war
rant for her arrest for drunkenness. While
he was stating his case to the justice, his
wife, in the plight her husband had lett her,
appeared at the station, and, face to face
with her brutal lord gave her version of the
trouble. Anthony, to his chagriu, was
forthwith made deFerdent instead Of plain
tiff
New York policemen are dangerous in
dividuals to fool with. A man accosted one
of those miuions Of the law few nights ago
and begged the loan of fifty cents offering
to pledge gold ring as collateral. Instead
OF obtaining The loan he was "run in" and
fined five dollars next morning. On another
night Il young man and young woman were
sporting together at the door Of Fourth
avenue residence, when the young man, as
a piece Of peasantry. turned to 4 passing
policeman and accused his innamorata of
stealing diamond ring from him. The
Policeman, notwithstanding their assevera.
tons that they We're only "foolin," marched
tho couple off to neighboring station
house, where they were compelled to stay
till next morning.
Rev. John E. Edwards, D. D., in Har-
per's Monthly for August, has an article en-
titled The Pawnee Panic in Richmond, !
on Sunday, April 81" The account is !
very amusing, but the Doctor errs when he |
says the Pawnee was "a comparatively small
naval craft, hardly worthy of the name
carrying three or four guns and perhaps
forty or fifty men," She was stationed of |