Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-18
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Rain, hail aud snow to-day. The weather
is very disasrceable.
Some of the confectionery stores are now
crowded nightly b. persons engaged IN railing
for cakes.
A vessel, name unknown, has been chartered
at Liverpool 10 bring cargo OF salt to W. y.
Smoot, Of this city.
Skih l. Gaylords Minstrel Troup gave a
concert last night which was well attended and
highly enjoyed by the audience
\ dramatic entertainment and ball will be
given by the Harmonic Association, at their
hall, on Christmas night.
There is TO BIZ liratcrnal Reunion ol Andrew
Jackson Lodge and i ST. Johns Supper, on
Friday the 27th instant.
One of the largest and finest mirrors in the
city was received yesterday, and now adorns
the Sarepta Hall clothing house of |. Schwartz
4 Go.
The exercises at Mr.. Hcnry's school, inter
rupted bv the proximity OF that school to case
of small pox, will not be resumed until after
the holidays.
\ Fair for the benefit of the Alexandria
Brass Band is now IN progress at the Assembly
Rooms An evening can he spent there very
pleasantly.
j. \. Sca;on, President of the 4th Ward
Republican Club has called u meeting at Odd
Fellows Hall tonight to discuss the subject Of
Retrocessiou.
No clues have as yet been discovered by
which the perpetrators OF the late robbereS at
Mr. GrcgoIy's and Mr.. StorneIs can be de-
tected.
Mr.. II. Stuart Ashby, son of Col, 4. S.
Ashby. left here Yesterday for Houston. Icxas,
in which city he has determined to live for the
future.
Col. B. w. Frobe formerly Of Fairfax coun.
tv. but now of Georgia. is here on business
connected with the proposed canal to connect
the waters of the Mississippi with those of the
Atlantic Ocean, at Savannah.
Captain kcrscy left here to-day with enc of
his tug boats for raft of lumber tor the re-
pairs to the Corporation property at the
wharvcs occupied by the American Goa! Com
pauy, which raft is reported below.
King street, near the intersection OF Royal,
was rendered quite lively last night by the
bands that were playing in front OF the Assem-
blv Rooms and Sarcpta Hall, and by the boys
who were appIauding the performances.
\ fight occurred in the Jail last night be-
tween two of the colorcd prisoners confined
there, in which one Of them, colored man
named Mumps, was badly beaten and would
doubtless have been seriously hurt had not the
kcepers heard his cries aud gone at once to his
assistance.
Since the breaking up Of the Ice in the river
large Aocks Of wild ducks have made their APP
neararcc in this vicinity. The flats opposite
tho civ were covered with them for a time
this morning, and many glance was directed
toward them by amateur sportsmen who were
prevented from going after them By their bus
mess occupations.
Among the signcrs of the petition, now in
the hands Of the Governor, for the pardon of
Thomas r. Byrd, who was sent to the penlten-
tiary from this city for bigamy, arc one hun,
dred members Of the Legislature, a number OF
ladies aud clcrgymen, the jury who tried him,
and nearly every body who ever knew him.
The pctitior is 50 long that it weighs live
pounds.
A meeting of the Directors Of the Virginia
Telegraph Company was held at the banking
house of W. ID. Corse & Co., to-day. Among
the business transacted was the appointment
Of q committee to decide whether or not the
office at Harrisonburg should be renewed from
the hotel to the railroad depot, and the adop-
ton of resolution authorizing the issuance
of 5000 second mortgage bonds.
The merit of business enterprise cannot be
tested in few months. 1t takes years to
bring out its strong points or develop elements
of weakness. The Baltimore Advertising
Agency of Griffin Il Hoffman seemed sue
cess at the start Established 1867, it has
waxed stronger with each year of its existence,
until it has become one of the solid institutions
of the city and acquired patioual reputation for
enterprise and reliability. Baltimore Sun.
Mts-A meeting will be ned at the Colored
odd Fellows Hall Columbus street, tomorrow
nipht. fer the purpose of taking into considers