Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-26
Miscellaneous Items


make his home cbisf5 st Wasliosttp.
1t has been determined to maintain g
guard at the grave of ] Jcferson Davis for at
least month.
a vine company in California last week
received an order from EcglaDd for $4,000
gallons OF sweet wine.
"The snow," reports the Virginia City
New Enterprise, sis six feet deep between
Sierra City apd Tfuckee."
Lord Wolseley is said 10 bs much annoyed
because the American newspapers do net
regard him as great warrior.
Farmer Hudson, of Templeton, San Luis
Obispo county, Cal, pulled beet the other
day that weighed 154 pounds. 1t was feet
long
After AZ yenrs of assiduous labor Mrs. s..
Lizzie Weaver, Bridge;on, n. j., woman,
has just finished crszg quilt of 30.075
patches
An undertaken who died 10 East Brandy
wine, Pa., few day ago hbd been in the
undertaking. business for half century, end
in that time buried about 1900 people.
a Michigan bank president has resigned
his office and parted with his stock in the
osDk because the bank directors insisted
Sundays.
A watch made 10 France during the reign
Of Louis Nv is owned 10 New York, and
stili keeps good tine. Il was made by bsnd,
ard is incloss6 in q 24-karat fine case, which
is ornemeDted iu Louis XIV style, with six.
teen corners
Arab Pasha, now an exile on the Island
of Ces Ion, is said to be frettiug himself into
an esrly cid age. Although but forty nine
gears OLD, he is gray aud thin and very
much unlike the joVial fellow he was before
he fell under British displeasure.
james Burns and James Farrell fought
four rounds near Plymouth, Pa, Monday
morning. When time was called in the last
round Burns was unable to respond. A
ply sician found him badly injured internally
in the region of The stomach. Lockiaw set
10 later and bis death Is expected.
John McCloskay, oil San Antonio, Texas.
had been mourned as dead for nine years.
The other night q bearded stranger appear
ed at the home Of Mrs. McCloskey. SIZE be-
came very Indignant when be took her In
his arms. 1t was her husband. He had
been in the West and made q great deal of
money.
A Birmingham (Ala.) paper claims to have
good authority for the statement that Messrs.
Cooper, Hewitt aud associates, of New York,
ere negotiating Tor ail oftbe property owned
by the DeBardeleben Coal and Iron Com
pany in that section. The New Workers
pay about $10,00O,000 for the property,
| which includes about ~ 600 acres.
Dr. Lewis Meisbsrger, Of Buffalo, a sue.
cessful physician. died in tia. city recently,
aud in his wiilleft $500 for funeral feast
| for his friends, which took place two days
after his death. Champagne and oysters
we're the leading features of the entertain
| ment, and over 200 people took part in the
banquet. a free concert was also provided
in the programme.
A family of eight personf, consisting CT
| mother aud father and six children, were
| discovered in q starving condition near
Moyer, Pa, the other day. Ali of the fami
| Is were 10 dying condition. The father
and mother had been taken i'll from fever,
| and as they lived in an isolated place the
! children could procure no aid. The family
| had reached such stage that 1t is thought
| mono can recover.
| A Gaze, originating at Scale, Ala, in the
! prosecution of DR.. 8. W. Brooks, an allopath
physician, for practicing his profession with.
out having secured license from the State
| board of medical examiners, has just been
decided 10 the Supreme Court of that State,
reversing the decision of the lover court,
which mpot ed fine OF S100 on Dr.. Brooke
and discharging defendant. The Supreme
Court cf the State holda that physician 3
diploma is as good in Alabsma as medical
| board license.
The superintendent ofthe South Dakota
State board of health he's gone to Eureka,
the centre OF the Russian settlement Of Ed
mund and Mcpherson counties, to take
measures for the suppression OF malignant
diphtheria raging among the Russians. The
disease was brought TO the settlement by a
| family of Russians who recently came over,
losing two children Ell route. Thirty deaths
have already occurred. Ose farmer lost
six children, and another Is said to have
buried four children in one grave.