Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-09
LOCAL RRETITIES.

We now have splendid weather. To-day
was one of the finest days of the fall.
A regular meeting of the Greeley and Brown
Club will be held tonight.
A Conservative meeting will be held at Falls
Church on the 10th inst.
The package of the Gazette for the subscri-
bers in Costa Rica is carefully and regularly
mailed from this office; and why it Is not re,
ceived regularly We do not know.
The chain gang is now reduced to one color
ed man who is serving out term IN the work
house, His only partner yesterday paid the
fine that was assessed against him this morning
and was discharged.
Considerable excitement WIS Greeted around
the upper wharves this morning by the chase
of some disorderly sailors by the police. The
deserters were finally arrested and carried
aboard their vessel.
A rumOr was current on the wharf this morn.
ing that the schooner Home, OF Trenton, was
run into by three lnasted schooner and sunk
off Maryland Point on Monday night last, but
its correctness is doubted.
One Of the parties engaged 10 the difficulty
on Royal street yesterday evening" alluded 10
in yesterday Gazette, was afterwards arrested,
but was bailed by Justice White in the sum OF
500 security to keep the peace for six months
The rustic Sunday School from Harrison
burg, which passed through here night before
last for Baltimore, is spending delightful
time in that city. They will give concert III
Washington next Friday night
4 colored man named Scott Butler, for
whom the police have been on the look out Tor
some time past, for riotous conduct near the
canal basin, was arrested yesterday while on
visit here from Washington and properly pun
ished.
Among the petit jurors serving at the term
of the t. S. Circuit Court, now in session at
Richmond are the following gentlemen from
this city: Henry Cook, John Harlow, +. A.
Atwell, d. Mclean, Ii. B. Claggett and j. f..
Henderson.
At the Radical meeting to be held tonight
in front of the Radical headquarters, Marshall
House, speeches will be made by Francis H.
Miller, Judge Hill and Fields Cook Tele:
grams containing election news will be received
during the evening and read from the stand.
The soldiers from Fort Whipple, witnesses
in the case OF r. f. Arrow Of this county charg-
ed with buying clothing from u. 5. soldiers,
appeared here on Monday last before T.. ).
Commissioner Whitlcscy and removed their
bond for appearance at the t. S. Court, which
will commence III this city.
Boats were stopped at the foot Of Cunbcr-
land level, e. T. q. Canal on Sunday night last
in consequence OF the low water, but heavy
rain that night aud Monday so raised the water
in that level that navigation is again umlnter-
rupted and boats that last week could not have
taken on more than - tons are now loading
with lO5 tons OF coal.
NIessrs. T. L. Smith aud II. Q. Claughton
left here this morning and Mcssrs i Is. Taylor
and G.. W. Wattles will leave here tonight for
Richmond. They arc counsel in the case OF
Robinson 4 Son, Henderson u Co., and Wash.
ington l. Herbert vs.. the assignee of NJ. RI
bridge Il Co., to be tried at the term Of the
L. S, Circuit Court now in session III that city.
While officer John Nightcugill was passing
the truck house OF the Relief Hook aud Ladder
Company, yesterday evening, lie discovered that
some children in the habit of playing about
there, had set fire to a pile of waste paper un-
der the steps leading to the second story OF
that building. He cxtinguished the flames at
once, and but for his Timely interference ormc
damage would ccrtaiuly have insucd