Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-30
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.

Three genuine mummies from feru
have arrived in New York.
The Office of wood. sawyer's clerk IS &C.
casionally alluded to, and now beggar has
been found in New York with valet.
1t cost the Government 5000, 600 to re-
pair the old wooden vessel Mohican-aoout
three time the amount new ana Detler
man-of.war could have been built Tor.
s545 oOS were spent on the Omaha, SIM
liar hulk.
Sanford Clinton Sisco, who is in the jail
in Hack ensack, N. j., under sentence to be
hanged on the 5th of June for the murder OF
Abrsm Gurnee, devotes most of his time to
the writing of sermons. Of such, some
think, is the kingdom of heaven.
Charles Crawford, the defaulting treas
urer of Oswego, N. Y, found himself S6oo
short in his accounts. He confded his
trouble to a parish priest, who advised MIN
to speculate on margins. He took the ad'
vice, and in a few days found himself s2o, ooo
short instead of 5000.
shadow from which all mortality shrinks as
thought it covered misfortune. He spent
his youth amid the doubts of Votalre, ana
in his old age, when dying, he declined the
Offices of the Archbishop. How far the
terrible agony of his last hours might have
been mitigated il he had been possessed OF
a triumphant faith will never be known.
-"If my kingdom were of this world,
then would my soldiers fight" were the
| words of Him who spake as never man
spake." But disciple calling himself
member of the Salvation Army" now
holding forth in Gloversville, n. Y, doesn't
seem to take the hint. He recently cow
hided a newspaper correspondent in that
city for publishing something objectional to
him.
L. Rosenzweig, of Cleveland, O., has
received $4,000 from the Lake Shore Rail
road Company The plaintiff was elected
from one of the defendants trains. 1t was
q limited express, and the conductor refused
to accept regular ticket or money for
Rosenzweig, who was passenger from
Cleveland to Erie. Mr.. Rosenzweig fell on
pile of stones when he was put off the
train, aud paralysis was The result. He
sued for 100000.
Mary Hilliard and others have com
menced an action in the Supreme Court
Kings county, N. Y. against Frederick Smytf
and Henry Alcock, trustees and executors o.
Thomas Cunning, deceased. They alege
that Thomas Cunning died possessed o
] property worth fully $4,000, of which
SIG 500 was left to the plaintiff and others
the balance to be expended in prayers fol-
his soul and the souls of his family and al
the souls that may be in purgatory.
The bottle containing the remainder o
the poisoned water which was primarily the
cause OF ex Secretary Frelinghuysen's death
was sent to a chemist for analysis, and be
sides large quantity Of aconite, alcohol was
found in it. The theory is that the bottle
had bsen filled without washing and hac
been used for acunite liniment at some sta
BILE. Drinkers of all sorts Of bottled liquid:
run great risks. Careless persons purchase
the same and after drinking the contents
nse the bottles for every purpose before re-
turning them, in many instances, doubtless
making them the receptacle for bed bu4
| poison.
| William Sassack, cabinet maker, re-
siding in Brooklyn, secured a patent for q
merry-go.round and for some weeks pas,
has been engaged in building one at Coney
Island. Sassack's wife has frequently tried
to induce him to forego what she termed
his foolishness aud stick to his trade
About ten days ago, while Sassack was in
| bed, she went to his box where he kept his
papers, contracts, &C., and, taking out its
contents, threw them into the stove and
then told him what she had done. She was
much mortified, however, when her hus
band informed her that he had had S400 in
greenbacks in the bundle she had destroyed
That there is much reason for the COM
plants against the modern jury system is
evinced by the following George Steinson,
principal Of the public school at gluten
berg, N. j., was recently sued by John
Dryer in the Second District Court, Jersey
City. Judge McDermott rendered judg
ment against Steinson. The pedagogue
filed an appeal bond. A few days later he
called at the court and asked to be per-
mitted to see this bond. 1t was shown him,
and he left ostensibly to show it to bis
counsel and promised to return it imme-
diately. When the clerk of the court met
Stenson and inquired about the bond the
pedagogue, in an insulting manner, replied,
II burned it," He was indicted and tried
for larceny, and, although the fact was ad
mitted that the bond had been taken, the
jury, to the surprise of the court and prose-
cutor, gave q verdict of not guilty.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The May exports from Baltimore were
valued at $2,403,770.