Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-10-03
LOCAL BREVIrIES.

Molie Manning Queen of Love and Beauty
and Messrs. Edgar Jackson, B. D. Utterback
and J. c, Gunnell crowned Misses Kate Gun
nell, Katie Butts aud Bette Chapman, Maid:
of Honor. in the order mentioned. Il. Il.
Farr was marshal. j. NJ. Love charged the
knights, and NJ. H. Wells made the corona
ton speech.
Among the subscriptions to the Gazette paid
| TO day was that of gentleman IN the country,
whose agent was instructed to pay 10 advance
| for another year, at the expiration or which
time the subscription would discontinue, as the
subscriber would be dead The same instruc-
tons were given last year, but still the old gen
tleman holds out. There's nothing like the
Gazette for long life.
A milk wagon. seized upon by some urchnS
during the temporary absence OF its owner, and
driven about the streets at furious gait, was
taken in possession of by the police yesterday
evening and tied up at the station house, where
| its driver found it at nine o'clock last nlght,
after having walked to his home IN the country
to look for it, supposing the horse had carried
it there.
A meeting will be held at the colored Odd
| Fellows Hall next Tuesday night, at which, 1t
is stated, speeches will be delivered in favor OF
the election of Mr.. James Barbour to Congress
by Postmaster Cochran, Of Culpeper Z. H.;
| s. Fl. Newhouse, OF Fauquier and John Sea-
ton, R, l.. Mitchell and H. D. Beck!cy color
| ed, OF this CITY, .......
| Some of those who contributed to the ex-
pressed wants of the woman with the baby IN
| her arms yesterday-as did the writer OF this
| item will doubtless be gratlied to learn that
towards dusk she was seen going up klng
street under high state OF alcoholic excite
ment, produced by their llberaty.
A woman's hustle, made, strange to say, out
of man vest, dropped in the market house
to-day, was picked up by an ungaant young!
| mao and exposed to public view, suspended
| from gas pipe until q female vender Of
| ma, ket truck took pole, Knocked the thing
down, and hid it.
Mr.. c. B. Payne, candidate for County
| Clerk in Culpeper. while riding horseback in
company with friend, few days ago, and
during little trial of speed, had his horse to
| fall with him, fracturing his collar bone and
otherwise severely, but not dangerously hurt
ing him.
Local Steamboat Inspectors W. 0. Saville
and j. d. Lowry were here to-day inspecting
some of the stern wheel steamers. While here
| they examined the difficulty existing between
lUC CdIldluS VI tuC AlllDSlOu duO VIC IL
but made no report.
The commissioners appointed to assess land
| damages for a new road to connect the Lees
burg turnpike, near the Theological Seminary,
| with the county road in this county, near the
re ;'dence of Mr.. Anthony Frazier, met yester-
day, but failed TO agree upon report.
Phil Thompson, colored, the man charged
with stealing and saughtering last Thursday
night, a bullock from John Hawxhurst, is re-
ported to have been lately seen in Stafford
county, and constabes are on his track.
John Edemy, colored boatman 90 the j.
c. Stubble6eld, was drowned in the canal, on
-Four mile level, last Thursday. He was climb
ing out of the stable, and. being drunk, lost
his balance and fell overheard.
The colored boy Mcpherson. whose uneX-
planned disappearance from Fairfax county
some months since gave rise to the supposltlDn
that be had been fouly dealt with, has been
found alive and we'll in Cumberland.
At the meeting of the Catholic Beneficial
Society to be held tomorrow night nonlna-
tons will be made Tor delegates to the meeting
Of the Irish Catholic Union, to meet this year
in Baltimore.
AT meeting Of the Relief Hook and Ladder
Company, held last night, a committee was
appointed to supervise the improvements now
10 progress to the building on Prince street
they are to occupy.
10 consequence of decrease in the demand
for the products of the Mount Vernon Cotton
Factory the hands employed at that mill will
work only four days 10 the week after to-day.
Among the strangers in this city yesterday
were COL Mosby and Mr. James Barbour, and
Mr.. J. Y. Brooke, who has just returned from
Europe.
Hotel de Philips and Hotel dc Bivalve are
the names of two oyster stands that have just
been erected opposite each other at the oyster
dock.
Miss Florence Veitch, daughter of John
Veitch, late Of this city, has been appointed
teacher in the deaf and dumb asylum at Fred
erick.
The October term OF the County Court will
commence oD Monday next. The docket has
heretofore been published.
A little child of constable JAS. Burnett was
thrown from horse to-day and badly, though
it is thought not seriously Injured.
The steamer Georgeapna, due here from
| Baltimore early this morning, had not arrived
at four o'clock this afternoon.
A child of Mr.. Sebastian Rabi, who lives
near Reaches Spring, in this county, died
suddenly night before last of a copgestive chill.
Baby carriages and velocipedes sometimes SO
obstruct some of the sidewalks that for pedes-
triaus to traverse them is almost impossible.
Captain Semmes, U. S. N, formerly of this
city, but now stationed at Pensacola, has re-
covered from his late attack of yellow fever
a delegation of Virgioia Radicals called upon
| President Grant yesterday.
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