Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-03-22

Local BREVITIES. a will b. seen ny
reirrenct 10 all advertisement III another col
umn o! to days Gazette, the Mayor has offer
el a reward ior the detection and conviction OF
any of The inceudiarics who have lately been
at work in this city.
Chicken tlletts continue TO be as frequent as
they were during the winter. MIR. William
Irwin's hen house was robbed OF all ITS con
tyuts Il night or two since, and Mr.. James
Roach, ia the county, bad all his chickens
stolen night before last.
The regular semi monthly meeting OF the
City Council will be held t. ulght,
Mr..,s. Rozburg and Henderson, City AS
SCISSORS, are again On their rounds making the
ANNUAL assessment OF the valuation OF the prop
c,ty within the corporate limits.
Ar engineer corps, under Assistant Engineer
Addison Marbury, lett here this mornIng for
Point Pleasant, on the Ohio river, to locate the
line of the proposed extension Of the Alexan.
dria, L1udouu and Hampshire,or Washington
and Ohio Railroad, from that point to HAnll.
ton, the present terminus OF that road. ihey
exucct to be in the field until next Christmas.
Henry Church was indicted by the grand
Jury ol the county court ot Fairfax county yes
,rrday, for rape committed upon a little girl
named Josephine Brown of this city. His
trial was removed to the circuit court. Judge
II. ". Thomas appeared as his counsel.
The attention Of the members OF the Sun
FIRE Company is directed to anoticc IN another
column of to days Gazette.
Mc.Srs. I~ngersoil and Davis, the purchasers
OF the Thornton property in Fairfax county, have
taken q contract Tor a large number of cross
Ties and other lumber to be delivered in Phila-
drIpLia. The shipments are made 10 TIE regu.
lar steamers from this city.
Cries OF murder were heard near the corner
ul Princess and Henry streets about nine . clock
last night, and it Was lu.norei III that neigh
borhood afterwards that a mau had assaulted
a woman and her daughter on the street, and
cut them both with q knife.
Many persons from this city will, 1t is said,
attend the great chicken fight at Manassas or
Thursday and Friday next.
A wharf is to be erected at Wellington, thu
residence of the late Charles Washington, new
belonging to MIR. Snowden, Il lew miles below
this city. A-ple driver was towcd down tt
that point by the steamer Arrow this morning
1t is proposed to extend the side walk nov
IN progress OF construction from the Stone
Bridge 10 Padge!t's !oil E.te. Oil the Little
River Turnpike. to the Fairfax Theological
Seminary.
\ severe anu sanruinary fight, without serI-
GUS results, however, took place between som
of the female residents ol Hammerdinger
allcy, about eleven o'clock this morning. /
large crowd was attracted by the CIV.
The effect of the order granted by Judg
Underwood, u notice Of which appears unde
the tclrgraphic head OF tu-lay's Gazette, Is t
turn the Alexandria and Washington Rallroa
over from Stevens and Phelps, receivers, t
Stevens and Phelps, General Superintendent
and General Manager Of that road.
The subject of increasing the efficiency Q
the Fire Department by the addition OF uuoth
er steamer is again talked about. With auothe
steamer as good as the Hydraulics, aud as we
officered as she is, incendiaries would not hav'
INV sport in Alexandria.