Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-20
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
MAYORS OFFlCE.-Cecelia Groves, colorcd,
for disorderly conduct, was fined and discharged.
W. d. Watkins, for disorderly conduct was
sent to the work house for sixty days
Alexander Croson, for disordcrly conduct,
was fined and discharged
Mary Beach, for disordcrly conduct, was
committed to the work house for sixty days.
Edwina Cave, for disorderly conduct, was
fined and discharged
Lewis Mauley, colored, for disorderly con-
duet at the canal locks, last Saturday night,
was committed to the work house for sixty
days.
Fillmore Bagcy colored. for disorderly con-
duct on Naors Hill, last Saturday night was
held for further examination.
MAGISTRATES OFFICE-.Iustice White
James Jackson, for un!awfuly OBTAINING a
watch belonging to Henry Simpson, both color
ed, was discharged upon the payment of the
value of the watch
Henry Wilson, on complaint of Mary Brown,
both colored, for bastardy, was held in the sum
of 800 security for his appearance at the Sep
TENDER term of the Corporation Court
Elijah Horsmau, for uulawtully cutting
John Travers, jr., was held in the SUN of 90
security for his appearance at the October term
1.-THE Corporation Court.
NiGHT REPORT Might clear and warm, with
light breeze from the South. Four prisoners
were In the station house.
TEACHERS INSTITUTE. The Teachers In
stitute' for this city aud county will be held
on Monday, Tuesday, aud Wednesday Of next
week, at the room occupied by the Board of
Common Council, over the Adams Express
Office, north Fairfax street. On Monday, at .
a. m., the opening address will be delivered by
the County Superintendent, who will be follow
ed by VIM. f. Carne, on ''rhc Method of
Teaching .Alphabetic Sounds, and by Benja-
min Elallowell, on THE Best Means OF Teach
ing Arithmetic. On Tuesday, the same sub
iccts will be continued by Alessrs Carne aud
llallowcll; and on Wednesday, Francis Miller
will lecture first; and Benjamin Hallowell will
conclude his subject The afternoon lectures
will be delivered by other gentlemen who have
been Invited but who have, not yet, named
their subjects Arrangements will be made in
the hall, which is a very large one, for the ac
commodation not only of the teachers, both of
public and private schools, but of such ladies'
and gentlemen feeling au interest in the cause
OF education as may favor the ''lnstitutc' with
their presence.
STREET RAILWAY Books of Subscri ptlon
to the capital stock of the Alexandria Passen-
ger Railway Company were opened to-day at
the <t National Bank, the Citizeus Bank, and
the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank,
and considerable portion of the stock sub
scribed for The books will remain open some
days longer, and it is hoped that the entire
amount of the stock may be subscribed for
speedily, SO that the work of constructing the
road may be commenced at once. That the
stock will pay handsome dividend is not
doubted, for street railways pay wherever laid,
and there is no reason why one in Alexandria
should prove the exception, and that the value
of the property near its western terminus will
be greatly enhanced is equally undi>puted.
CONSERVATIVE MEETING IN FAIRFAX
After the adjournment of Court at Fairfax c.
H., yesterday a meeting of the Conservatives
present, was held. with II. w. Thomas in the
chair and ID. Nee. Chichester, Secretary, and
the Conservatives Of the county organized in
accordance with the plan recommended by the
State Executive Committee. Able and etfec-
tive speeches were delivered by Judge Thomas
Gen Hunton, the nominee of the party for
Congress, DIR. j. G. Hill and H. O.. Claugh-
ton, all of whom made urgent appeals to their
hearers to vote for Greeley and Brown.
bllAlN DRlDtE. lOI llC elCCLloG VI q
new iron bridge across the Potomac at the site
of the old Chain Bridge were opened in Wash
iugton Yesterday There were Il bids. The
new bridge will be built upon the old piers and
abutmentS aud will be $50 feet long and ~
feet wide The contract will be awarded in a
few days and the new bridge he completed be-
fore next summer. According to recent act
Of Congress 100000 were appropriated Tor the
construction of the work and most of the bids
appropriated those figures.
OPENING OF PUBLIC ScHooIS-Thc public
schools of this city will be rc-opened on Mon
day, September I'd. Permits can be obtained
at the office, ~ Prince street, on Monday
next, aud the five following days, and as the
new tax bills will not be ready in time, the re-
ccpts of last year must be exhibited instead.
The School Board will, probably, provide at
It's ueSt meeting, some method Tor enforcing
the collection of the capitation tax for this
year.
WASHINGTON AND ALEXANDRIA TURN
rIKE-A force of about forty aborers was put
10 work this morning on the Washington
and Alexandria turnpike, lcveline and regrad-
ing Il width of is! feet of the entire length OF
that road upon which to lay railroad track.
She stri p of road required is taken from htty
feet belonging to the Alexandria and Wash
ngton Railroad Company, and not from the
land owners along the road.
LAYING OF \ CORNER SToNE.--The corner
stone of Shiloh Church, colored Baptist
Church at the upper end of Prince street that
was destroyed by fire year or two ago, was
laid at o'clock this afternoon by Lincoln
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