Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-23

A woman has been made insane in Garrett
county, Md, by reading stories OF the Johns
town food.
Secretary Noble has appointed commits
sion to investigate Mr.. Tanners method
OF conducting the pension Office.
Governor Richardson, of South Carolina,
has accepted Dr. McDow's resignation as
surgeon of the First Battalion of infantry.
The board of ordinance and fertilization ia
considering the defenseless condition of New
York city, where it is estimated that mod.
ern gunnery could infct fifty millions dol
lars damage in half an hour.
When the steamer Denmark arrived at
New York, yesterday afternoon from Lon
don, Captain Rigby made the startling
long, had escaped from its cage and was
secreted somewhere on board.
The whaling schooner Sarah Hunt, while
of East Greenland, recently lost boat and
crew in command of Mate John Sharp of
New London, Conn. The boat was fastened
to whale, which sounded" carrying
down the boat and its occupants.
The captain of the Anchor Line steamer
Ethiopia. which arrived at New York yes.
terday from Glasgow, reports having PAST d
several icebergs one in latitude As degrees
50 minutes, longitude Al degrees AZ minutes,
mile long and fifteen feet higa.
The result of the investigation into the
efficacy of electricity as an instrument
of death vii probably result in the repeal
of the New York law providing for the ex-
ecution of criminals by electricity because
of its uncertainty and probable cruelty.
Hon. Samuel j. Randall, who has been
apparently improving 10 health at his place,
has again been Frustrated by darrhea.
While his friends expect him to recover and
to take an active part in tho organization
of the next Congress, they are not at all san
eune that he will ever regain his old.time
health and strength
John Carter, the negro who shot Constable
l.. V. Reynolds at Hinton, W. Va, on Sat.
urday last, was removed to the Jail at
Lewisburg for safe keeping Sunday night.
| At 2 o'clock mob, supposed to be lumber.
men from Towards Creek neighborhood,
took the prisoner from Jail and hung him to
tree about mile from Lewisburg.
1t is now said that twenty-five persons
were drowned by the food in the Little Ka
nswha Valley in West Virginia, last Friday.
so great was the velocity of the water that
in some places the farms along the river
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feet over their entire surface, and the ground
will never be worth anything again. Many
farms are consequently worthless.
On Sunday evening Dan Malone. colored,
% years of age, attempted to assault re.
spectacle white woman, Mrs. Rachael Skin
ner, living six miles from Covngton, Ga.
Her screams brought assistance, but the COL
ored man escaped. Subsequently he was
captured and identified. and confessed his
guilt. Yesterday morning as he was being
brought to town he was taken from the Of
ficer by sixty masked men and hung
1t is said that among Catholics in Rome
no one gives a moment'sthought to the idea
of the Pope's departure from that city, un.
less war wac to break out and the conduct
of the italian government rendered depar-
ture absolutely necessary. In the Italian
senate the other day signor Crispi was ask
ed as to the supposed departure of the Pope
from Rome. His answer was that the Pope
was free to remain or to leave. In the lat
ter case the government would take care
that sovereign honors should be rendered to
him and his safety guaranteed as far as the
frontier AS far as Italy was concerned it
did not matter the least in the world
| whether the Pope went or stayed.