Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-07-05
LOCAL NEWS.

HYDRAULION STEAM FIRE ENGINE w.
The regular monthly meeting of this company
was held on Tuesday night last, Vice President
Nevett 10 the chair, apd 4. G. Kel Secretary
After striking the name of member from
the roll, on which it had been placed without
his having complied with the necessary conol-
tions, the Chair, as a member OF the Executive
Committee, stated that efforts had been iuaoe
during the month by several persons not mem l
bers of the company to compromise the difh-
culties existing with reference to the e-bulldlng
of the front of the engine house. Though
those efforts had been fruitless. they had been
communicated to the committee, aud he would
lay them before the company.
The first had been made by the late Mayor,
who had proposed that the injunction be raised
by consent Of parties and the front completed,
on condition of each party giving bond to abide
any decision of the Courts thereafter awarding
damages to the other. This proposition the
committee considered tair and reasonable, aud,
consequently acceeded to- but it was rejected
by the opposite party, whose counsel proposed,
as a compromise, the giving up OF the whole
matter In dispute by the company.
The Chief Engineer had then interested him
self 10 the matter, and had proposed that as
the right Of way to the second story OF the Gu,
CINE house was in dispute, and rectihcation
to such rectiication the right to build over the
alley ten feet above ground being abandoned
by the other party, and the company paying
the value of the STIR p of land, about three feet
wide and twenty deep. on which the steps
stand, and acquiring fee simple right thereto,
instead of the right of way now claimed by it.
10 the principle OF this arrangement the other
party was understood to assent, and though the
committee had not formally considered it, they
would, in all probability, have assentcd to it
also as fair one, but on being asked to name
price for the fee simple, three hundred dol
lars, or five dollars square foot had been
named, besides the payment of all costs, not
only of this, but of previous suits III which the
company had been victorious, was demanded,
and the Chief Engineer, thinking the demand
eXorbitant, had merely stated 1t to the COM
mttee and recommended its re lection.
The action of the committee was unanimous
" sustained; aud after the passage of an order
requiring all members elect to sign the C1n-
sitution before he next meeting, the company
adjourned.
NOVEL MARRIAGE.-The pilot house of the
ing the scene, and three o'clock, just before the
boat left her slip here, the hour of rather re-
markable marriage The parties, Miss Maggie
led by Rev J. W. Phelps, left Washington on
the two o'clock boat, landed here at half past
two, the preacher coming up into the city and
the expectant couple waiting on the wharf. In
Il short time the preacher returned, when the
three and the pilot of the boat, Mr.. ). Il.
Wood, who had been requested to act as wit
ness, repaired to the pilot house, where, be-
Meath the steamer flag and with the tresses
of the bride, blown from her bluShlng cheeks by
the breezes of the Potomac. the twain we're
made Que according to the form OF the NJ. Il.
Church. The groom was so excited that he
forgot to salute the bride, but the gallant pilot
saying that he was a married man and knew
how it was himself" performed that part Of
the ceremony with due precision The happy
couple then left the boat as she left her slip.
ACCIDENTS. Mr.. James Rose, the proprie-
tor of the wood Saving and splitting establish
mcnt, at the corner of Queen and Fairfax
streets, had several fingers OF his lett hand bad
ly injured there this morning. DIR. French rem
dercd the requisite surgical assistance.
The old bridge on the w. 4 O. Il. X. at Four
Mile Run, which was being taken down, tell
this morning. carrying with it MIR. John L.
Harrison, carpenter, and colored laborer named
the neck and had one Of his feet injured, and
the latter had his arm broken. The sufferers
were brought to this city on hand car and had
their wounds dressed by Drs. Lewis and Powell.
The sloop Dolly Warden, from Washington,
capSizcd yesterday evening oft Coillngswood,
but those on board Of here were rescued by
some Alcxandraus who were spending the day
ut that place, and who went Immediately to
their assistance.
BELATED EXCURsloNlsTs. "A party Of young
gentlemen and ladies from this city visited
Maryland yesterday to spend the Fourth.
On arriving at the Maryland wharf they
We're met by an ambulance which conveyed
them (the ladies', the gentlemen thinking
that it would be pleasanter to walk, gladly
took advantage of the occasion), to Buffers
about two miles from the Ferry. AS
the party were very morally inclined there was
no dancing although the music was on hand.
The day was spent very pleasantly. Some wan
dered off looking for blackberres and others
to shady places where they could hold sweet
converse" undisturbed, and where games were
played and puzzles propouudcd and solved to
the entire satisfaction of those interested.
Some Of the party did not get home until this
morning having been left by the ambulance.
The others returned about ! o'clock on the
steamer Virginia highly pleased with their visit.
TAKING THE School CENSUS Under
recent act of the General Assembly, the taking
Of the school census, formerly done by the
Clerks Of the District School Boards, is here
after to be performed by the Commissioners
of the Revenue. In this city, Commissioner
Campbell has appointed Mr.. Orlando Wood
his deputy for that purpose, and Mr. Wood
has already commenced his work. All persons
between the ages of five and twenty. one, are to
be listed, and, as the city will get about a dollar
from the state school fund for every name
corded, it Is important that the return made to
the Superintendent of Schools should be an
accurate one We hope therefore, that all
persons will promptly furnish the census taker
with the information he requires In 1870,
we are told, the clerks found it, sometimes, diff
tcult to get proper answers to their questions,
as people did not understand their object.