Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-13
NEWS OF n Day


The American Casualty and Insurance
Company has been Incorporated in Baiti-
more with a capital OF 81 .OOO,OO0
The annual report of the National Won.
ans Christian Temperance Union for 1889
shows a total membership o l42,34S.
The entire product of champagne in
France in any one of the last ten years
would not supply London for one month.
Luke Short, of Fort Worth, backed by the
n~ational bank of that place, has offered a
purse of $50. 900 for a fight between Sullivan
and Jackson near Fort Worth.
The heiress who will one day dazzle the
eyes of Washingtonians comes out next
wear. She Is Miss Ellen Werder and will
hold So, 900, 900 in the hand which she gives
in marriage.
The supreme chapter of the world of q
new order styled the Progressive Endow.
ment Guild of America" has been organized
in Richmond with ]. Taylor Ellyson, mayor
of the city, as supreme governor.
Queen Victoria is reported as suffering
from rheumatism and lumbago, the latter
being at times so severe that her Majesty
can scarcely hobble about with the help OF a
stout walking stick.
The coal business is now one of the most
important factors 10 the OF Nor
folk. and is steadily increasing in volume.
Last week 81 600 tons were shipped and
last month nearly 100, 900 tons.
Thomas Cook, the founder OF the great
tourist bureau, Ia dying at his seat In Lei
cestershire, England. He has long since
given I'D any active part In the management,
| the head of the business being his son, John.
The latest discovery in regard to the Car
ia hat he has suffered from recurrent cpl
lepsy since the Borki Railway accident.
That there IL something the matter With
him seems certain, for he has been scarcely
seen outside the triple.guarded walls of the
park at Gatschina for weeks past.
The wedding of Miss Lizzie Prick and
Mr.. Frank Foster and that of Miss Rsbecca
Dodge and Lieutenant Charles Rae, with
/ the engagement of Miss Ellen Bayard 10
Count Lewensaupt, have made quite q stir in
the society world of Baltimore and Wash
ington.
While very cold weather is prevailing in
Canada, the Thermometer at Qlebec regis
teripg 30o below zero, a dispatch from Lsx
ington, Va, informs US that the cherry.
peacb and apple trees are In full bloom and
that the mountains are full of wild tiowors
| ia Iull DlOOu, IiiiSot ~ 500
flowers are blooming.
The grand Jury OF Baltimore in its report
says The great number Of Sunday liquor
cases coming before the grand jury, with
but few true bills and fewer convictions,
teach us that there ia but one course to les
sen this evil, and that 10 the enactment OF
high license, which Ia the true solution.
The Pstten estate In Washington has
been overrated. When Mrs. Anastasia
| Patten died two years ago she was said to
have left an estate of S., 800 900, but 1t was
only half that much. and now it ia barely
81, 100, 900, as the daughters have been In
constant litigation over 1t eyer since their
mothers death.
Hunting and trapping is still pursued in
Connecticut as q business. There are sew
eral traders who make a good living from
the trapping of coons, foxes and other for
bearing animals, and many of the former
living along the Housatonic and Connectl-
cut rivers make many extra dollars during
Ike winter by hunting and trapping.
A young lady In the town of Minsk, Rue
sia, purchased a pair of gloves a la Sarah
Bernhard. Immediately after putting them
on her hands began to itch. The next day
her arms were covered with sores, and q
week later she died of blood poisoning.
The doctors suppose that the skin belonged
to an animal that had sone contagious
malady.
a company called the New Msusoleum
Company has been organized in New York
to dispose of the dead by means of desicca-
ton. A continuous current of dry air is rap
idly forced over and around the l~ifeless body
placed In a sepulchre of solid stone. and
thence ia carried to a furnace, where the
gases are rendered innoc uous.
Four believers In the faith cure, or mem.
hers of the sect calling themselves New
Evangelists, have been sentenced In Brook
lyn TO pay fines varying from 500 to 1900.
or to stand committed one day for each dol
lar of the fine. They bad refused to give
medicines prescribed by physicians for
children suffering from diphtheria and scar
let fever.
Martin M. Mauger and George W. Mau.
ger, father and eldest son, of Washington,
are dead. About ten days ago Mr.. Msuger
vent home from his book Keepers desk at
L~ansburgh & Brothers. with the symptoms
of la grippe, which after a few days turned
into pneumonia. and 10 just eight days he
died. Last Sunday night his son was strick-
en- down by the same symptoms which, IN a
few days turned into pneumonia, ending IN
death Saturday night.
In the wine cellar under the Hotel de
Vile, Bremen, there are twelve caseso OF holy
wine, each case inscribed with the name OF
the apostles. 1t was deposited in its present
resting place 265 years ago. Oae case OF
this VINE, co nsi sling OF 6ve e1hofGs OF ~
bottles, cost 500 rix dollars in 1924. Includ-
ing the expense of keeping up the cellar, In
terest on the original outlay, and apon in
terest. one of those oxhofts would to-day
cost 500. 657 $40 rix dollars, or about $1,000
600 q bottle.
Evidence is given that Congressman in
tend to suppress lotteries, as shown by the
six bills already introduced. These bills
give FIVE different ways for the attainment
Of the desired end. and the passage OF any