Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-02-21
LOCAL ITE Ms.

annual meeting of the Stockholders OF the
Alexandra Library Company, takes place at
the Library Room, this evening, when an
election for President and Directors will be
held and other business of interest to the
Company transacted. The Library Compa-
ny we are pleased to learn is in prosperous
condition. The Library is one Of the most
complete and best arranged in the country;
on its shelves may be found the rarest and
most valuable works, and the room being ele-
gantly fitted up should be place of greater
resort than it is. presenting as it does the
strongest attractions to those who delight IN
mental enjoyment. To the Company our
citizens are indebted for many agreeable
evenings spent during the winter in listen
ing to instructive and entertaining lectures,
and we hope that in return for their trouble
and expense, they will be literally supported,
and encouraged. We are requested to urge
a full attendance of the stockholders at the
meeting tonight
Donations TO THE SouP HousE.-A lady,
81: a gentleman, 81; do. 81; friend, %;
do. 81; lady, 50; a gentleman, $40; DO. -;
do. S.: do. S.; Tauquier, So; lady, s.;
a friend 50: Col. Lloyd holland, of Fauquier,
So: Mrs. holland, So; p Seldner, lot OF
rice; Capt. Eldridge, 4 bushels of Potatoes.
THE CONCERT To-MoRRow NIGHT.-lt will
be seen by an advertisement in the Gazette
that the Wesley Chapel Choir of Washing
ton. assisted by some of the best musical
talent of Washington city, are to give Sa-
cred Concert at Liberty Hall, tomorrow
night. In noticing concert by the Wesley
Chapel Choir. the National lntelligencer says:
The Concert of Wesley Chapel Choir last
evening was attended by a large auditory.
We had not supposed that there were two
such voices in Washington as those of the
sisters Misses TAcY and LIZZIE DANIEL, the
former a contralto, exceeding rich, warm,
and sweet: the latter pure and beautiful So
prano, not to be surpassed, at least IN point
of quality, by any of the foreign vocallsts with
whose names and persons we have OF late been
made familiar. The quartette Il ne'er for
get nv home" sort of deviation from
Sweet home" was executed with exceeding
pathos and finish wrestling applause in spite
of the place Other lady performers were
Mrs. Rutter, of Baltimore, who sung Mighty
Jehovah" from the Oratoria of David, and
Misses Walker, Billing, and Parsons: The
gentlemen yocalists whose exertlons deserve
mention are first, very fine bass, MIR. Daw-
son, also Mr.. Ball. and pleasant baritone,
Mr.. Hodcson. The music generally was Sc
lected with gdod taste, and its execution
showed the care and fidelity with which the
participators had been instructed. The
young gentleman who presided mt the piano,
Mr.. Goodman Adams, was not one OF the
least remarkable of the members of the con-
cert
C.&O. CAyAL.-The water will be drawn
of from the Georgetown level of the canal on
the 25th instant, for the purpose of making
any repairs that may be found necessary,
and cleaning out the sand bars which formed
during the past season, and the deposits of
alluvia, &C., made by the drenching rains
of the last Fall. and this Winter. The ener-
getic superintendent, Mr.. Benton, intends to
make every effort to have all necessary to be
done completed IN five days, so that navlga-
ton NAV be resumed. if the weather permits,
in the first week in March.-WdSh. star.
ALEXANDRIA ITEMs.-During the last fall
we heard something of Il failure OF crops,
but even so, the statistics of the Manassas
Gap Railroad show that part of the Old Do
minion to be pretty well supplied with good
living. There were conveyed to Alexandria
over that line alone, 4,6lS barrels of apples
and potatoes; $3.50 lbs. dried fruit: $50
bushels beans and peas; 81, lT9 barrels -four;
S4.9lO bushels wheat 1872, III bushels corn;
C. $50 bushels rye; 300 bushels oats; $780,
900 bushels grass seed; 1860 pounds poul.
try; l,G5l hogs; $50 cattle; 4, 100 sheep and
calves; ll6, 1873 pounds pork; 500 pounds
beef: $4,000 pounds bacon; butter and lard
22O.3l5 pounds. If these are the results of
a failing or short year, what may we expect
in season of abundance?
The festivities of the glorious Odd are to be
closed with grand concert by the fine choir
of Wesley Chapel, Washington, for the bene-
fit of the Methodist Episcopal Church. La
than has chartered train of cars, and has
his coaches all in readiness, to convey the
Neutrality-suspicious. home about eleven o'clock
the same highland the double advantage
will be that all who prefer spending the
evening in Washington, can, by the same
line, return home to Alexandria before mid
night.
Edward Mansfield, proprietor of grocery
on the Washington road, was found dead in
his bed on Wednesday morning. He lived
alone. A few days before he had bad
hemorrhage of the lungs.-Corr Bait. Sun.
ANOTHER JEwELRY STORE SACKED.-Friday
morning, Mr.. c. W. IIeydon, matchmaker
and eweler, upon going to his store in the
National Hotel building, on Pennsylvania
avenue. discovered that it had been entered
by burglars during the night, and his jewell
nv case stripped, and most of his custom
work taken. An iron chisel, such as is used
by stone-cutters, was found in the store, and
on comparing it's width with the impression
on the door, t was evident that it had been
used by the burglars in forcing an entrance.
MIR. Heydon Immediately notified the police,
with view to discovery Of the burglars
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