Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Floods have dope great damage to prof.
erty in BsrDe, Swi zarland.
The Desd Letter Office OF the Post Office
Department has published q volume OF near
ly sight hundred pages, called street. d.
rectory Of The principal cities, which is de-
signed, hg Furnishing addresses, TO prevent
so macy ietiers going to tbs Dad Letter
0Hioe.
Hail fell to the depth OF fize inches IN
| Fishing Creek Valley, Pa, Friday afiei-
noon. Il lay on the ground TIL Sunday ever
ing, when quite q to- Of ls was collected
| VIM, Zslleis, lrpck fsinar, loaf his whole
crop. Great damage was done 60 corn and
other c!ops. II Was the WORST hail storm
ever known in that valley.
Rev. Edward RainpfoId, eesisien mt rector
OF Christ Episcopal Church In e za6eth.
n. J. who was accused by two of the
gemins OF The town Wish gross immortality,
was resrrested 10 that city yesterday MORE
ing, charged by fourteeD-y ear-old boy with
assault. While tbs clergyman Wasin court
an application was made for commission
10 il Grira into bis sanity. The disgrace of
the sffaic hss prast.sted two 81 his daughters,
who will try snd haze their father removed
to an ssylnm.
Fifteen yoars ago Frank Woosley and John
Broct left Springfield, ohio, to 90 to Tex.s and
| raise csttle WGosey disappeared, and Brock was
suspected OF murdtriog him. Brock narrowly
| ESCAPED lJnchiag EIc devoted the balance of his
life and fortune TO finding Wooslcy, aud succeed
cd in locating HIM last week, thus proving his In
noceuce He VII now sue W"osley for $4,000
damages foe not discovering himself WHOM he
knew Of the sosrch.
Emanuel Scto, spanis:d, in San jose, Cal.
while searching with Il revovsr for his wife, who
hal left him owing TO previoui murderou5 rs
ssuit upon hex yet rdsy shot and killed neigh
Dor named nicholas Smith, who had warned The
woman 10 Il o Soto then detiod The police, but
the .stter followed tiGi into his house and killed
him sitter lumber Of shots on both sidos.
The Union Of American Hebrew Congregations,
composer of representative Israeitos OF the count
~, met in Baltimore yesterday, elected officers
sud sppoinied committees lssac strouse, OF Bsl
timore is the p esideut fdr the coming yea-
c,hcersrn was sout thanking Baron do Hirsch
for mis- philanthropy towards Russian re'uses In
Amer!c,
John Dowd made brutal assault on his wife at
AuIors. H., yesterday, Silk ng her On tho hosd
with hntchet. Then, supp)Girg that he bad
killed her. he stabbed himself to death with
rocket XII ifs Domes,i nfel'city led 10 the trsg-
edy. Dowd WAS man about City yesrs OF age,
and leaves fsmiiy o, nine children.
Tho steamer Danube h ,s arrived at VictoIis, B.
c. from the north with the first catch Of sealskins,
1890. secured outside of Behrng sea. Seals are
reported as Plentiful rs ever. These skins were
shipped down SO thst in case Of the schooners be-
ing captured by the cruisers the oarysesson catch
would be saved.
In tho British House OF Commons yesterday.
Sir Jaues Ferguson said that Communications had
passed between Great Britain and frascs respect
ing the msintensnce OF the status qao in the Med
,terrspean sea- bat the communications ware not
suitsble for public discussion.
I!a rios arncag tho roapcrs III the Vel'etir dis
tine in lrsy eslerda! the troops shot two of the
riotsrs snG wounded nnmber OF others
Eins hundred Jews lot Russ an Poland last
week b cause ordered by the authorities to en-
brace orthodoxy.
A good harvest OF spring whcst is now promised
in Russia