Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-25


fax county, near this city, a water telegraph
which is said by those who have seen 1t to "orA
with more precision and rapidity than any ap-
paratus of the kind now in use With no trouble
and without any stopping, water is brought from
the spring at the foot of a hill two or three
hundred yards off and empted into trough
near the door in an almost incredibly short time
ODD Fellows CELEBRAr1oN-The Odd
Bellows of Leesburg will participate in the
celebration of the anniversary Of the intro
duction of that order in this country in Wash
ington Tomorrow. They will arrive here at
S clock in the morning and proceed immedl-
atey to Washington. and after spending the
day there will return to their homes on the
train that leaves here at p. ID.
SCHOOL ExH1BIT1oN.-Th members Of the
Patrick Henry Society Of st. Johns Academy
are preparing to give dramatic ENTERTAINMENT
early in May, to raise funds to finish paying
for the arms purchased by the school. L
beautiful moral drama entitled ''The Cross OF
ST. Johns and laughable after piece, cnti-
tied 1.-THE Unwalrantable Intrusion, are in
rehearsal, and the boys expect to surpass their
former efforts.
Quick TRIp.-Capt Frank Keys, one of the
Oldest and best pilots on the river, left hero at
half past five o'clock on Sunday morning last
in charge of the schooner j. B. Vendusen,
Carson, for Providence. He carried her down
as far as Piney Point, where he took the Phila-
delphia steamer George H. Stout, and was
back here again at halfpast six clock the
following morning.
BADLY HURT.-Mrs. W. D. Shepherd, Of
Washington, while riding out to her husbands
farm, in Fairfax county, last Sunday morning,
was thrown out of her carriage on Upton's Hill,
dislocating her wrist and arm, and receiving
other injuries, which, however, arc not thought
to be serious She was taken to the house OF
MIR. Throckmorton, near by, who carried her
back to her home.
ILL.-The Hon. James NJ. Mason, formerly
u. S. Senator from Virginia. and more recently
of the Confederate States at
the Court of St. James, is lying very ill at his
residence on the Seminary Hall, near this
city-so ill that his life is despairod of by his
friends. General nervous prostration is the
disease under which he is sinking.
ATTEMPTED RoBBERY.-An effort was made
last night by unknown parties to rob the
house of woman living on Royal just beyond
Princess street The proprietress discovered
the attempt and ran to the station house Tor
help, but when the police arrived no one was
about
PosroFFIcEs. -Piney Point and Marshall
Hall, Md, being now embraced on the new
steamer service, which is to commence on the
lst of May, the special supplies are to be discon-
tinued from the both of April.
LoUDoUN CIRCUIT CoURT-The April term
Of the Circuit Court for Loudoun county,
Judge Keith presiding, commenced in Lees
burg yesterday. There G=-,-. ."pof'''n' 'iin'-
ina cases on the docket. =
KILLING OF A SUPPOSED MAD DoG.-A
dog exhibiting what were supposed to be
symptoms of madness was shot and killed by
the police near the intersection OF Fayctte and
Cameron streets yesterday.
THE GEoRGErowN BAR-Six or eight yes
sels including the New York steamer K. c.
Knight, were fast aground on the bar in the
channel of the river, short distance above the
Long Bridge, late yesterday evening.
PEnIoDICALs.-We have received from Mr.
Cox, corner of King and Pitt Streets late
numbers of Scribners Magazine, for young
folks, and several pictorial papers
FROST. Notwithstanding reports of Frost in
this neighborhood, we have not yet heard OF
any serious injury to the fruit.
City CoUNcIL.-A regular scmi-monthly
meeting of the City Council will be held
tonight
Mayors OFFICE. Two cases of disorderly
condnct were all that was at the Mayors Office
this morning. They were dismissed after the
friends of the parties had paid the hncs that
were assessed against them.
MAGISTRATES OFFIcE-There were no cases
at either of the Magistrates Offices this mort
NIGHT REPORT -Nightclear COO, though
much warmer than the two prece-.ng nights
There were no disturbances and no arrests after
ten o'clock. Two prisoners and two dodgers
were accommodated at the station house.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fitting. up one Of
the room in the Gazette Ofice; MI II. L.