Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-09
INTERESTING MISCELLANY.

Con missioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes has decided that farmer has a
right to retail his tobacco in its natural
state without license.
The Senate on Saturday passed Mr..
Fairbanks bill, appropriating Sl25, 600
for new building for the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing. The build
ing is to be erected on the site of the
present laundry and stable.
Dr. Edward Vanderhauf, physician
who had the ability and the education
to make splendid name for himself,
but who fell into disrepute because Of
his excessive use of drugs, is dead at
Bellevue Hospital in New York. He
was taken there a raving maniac Friday
night and died on Saturday.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Berlin says the annual edition of
Perthe's almanac of the German nobil-
ity. just published, shows that thousands
of walters, coachmen, bartenders, miners
and other workmen in the United States
are recruited from the ranks of German
nobility and the number is increasing
rapidly every year.
The epidemic of typhoid fever in
Philadelphia instead of diminishing un-
der the heroic measures being prosecuted
by the health authorities to wipe out the
disease, continues to spread in that city.
During the current week there were re-
ported to the bureau of health by the
attending physicians 329 new cases and
23 deaths, making total of | ,632 cases
and "a deaths returned since the begin
ming of the year.
The new twenty-five knot Cunarders-
the greatest ocean steamships ever
planned-which are under construction
in England will be marvels of marine
architecture. The vast engines will re-
quire a thousand tons of coal day.
There will be luxurious passenger quarters
and the ocean stock exchange, wherein
passengers will transact business per
Marconigrams), just as though they
stood in Philadelphia or New York.
The Harrison divorce case was argued
in Norfolk on Saturday before Judge
Martin. George f. Harrison, an archi-
tect, the son of Mrs. Julia Harrison, of
the Brandon family, is suing his wife,
Mary NJ, for divorce, and she has filed
a crossbill, both of which were consider
ed that day. Mrs. Harrison is the daugh-
ter of General Walker and has possession
of the two children. She and the chill
dren are living with her father, in Nor
ristown, n. J. The contest is over the
children.
To deepen their patriotism by visit
to the birthplace of their country, &
company of schoolboy pilgrims will
Journey from New York Easter week to
jamestown Island and the historic city
on the James river The pilgrimage,
which is prompted by prominent society
people, who feel the glory OF their
colonial descent and are anxious to
imbue their children with race tradi-
tions, will include the sons of wealthy
parents and pulpils of some of New
York's exclusive schools.
By order of court Mount Airy, the old
colonial estate of the Calvert family,
about six miles from Upper Marlboro,
Nd, will be sold on February 16. The
reason for the sale is that since the
death of Miss Eleanora Calvert, which
occurred last summer, there are about
seven heirs to the property, and the
court has ordered IL To be sold so that ii
can be divided. Mount Airy was
granted to the Calvert family in 1852 by
King Charles /, of England. The old
portraits, silver plate and jewelry are
olon 70 ba sold