Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-05
LOCAL KREVlTIES.

AS the tram was passing, near BcaltOn sta
ton, on the Virginia Midland Railroad, ON Sat
urday, negro boy was discovered lying 90 the
side of the track. The train was stopped and
backed, and the boy picked up; when it was
! found that his head was bruised, whether
from a fall or being. struck by the train was
| not known, as he Was not much hurt and went
| off immediately.
Among the case at the station house yester-
| day morning was man who, although he lives
10 Fairfax county, and only nine miles from the
city, has been here but twice since the war and
upon both of those occasion wound up 10 the
station house. He was wounded in the head
| during the war and though sane when sober is
| crazy when drunk
The Lady OF the Lake passed by her this
afternoon with an excursion party on board,
| and though about one hundred ladies and gen.
| tiemen wanted to join the excursion, and were
assembled on her wharf here for that purpose,
she did not stop, probably because she had her
| complement OF passengers.
In consequence of the settlement Of the diff
| ticulty between the B. 4 q. and the PenuSyl-
| vanla railroad companies all passengers by the
Midland railroad for Washington will hereafter
go over the Alexandria aud Washington rail.
| road, instead OF via Shepherd, as heretofore.
The police have been ordered to report the
| names OF all railroad engineers running their
| trains through the city at a greater rate Of
speed than that allowed by law; also the names
OF all persons who allow their unhitched carts
drays and Wagons to stand on the streets.
The Warrenton Index in noticing two COL
ored excursions to that place last week says
1.-THE first was from Alexandria and was made
up Of about 800 persons. We are gratihed to
say they conducted themselves 10 an exemplary
manner
Iu the proceedings of the City School Board,
as reported 10 Saturdays G zette, to Geo. L.
Douglass, should have been attributed the
| statement in reference to the letter of the col.
ored trustees, instead of to Geo. l.. Seaton, as
stated.
The dog cart having been prepared and the
| nets gotten ready, the dog catchers will start
| on their rounds to- morrow, when all dogs with
out the required badges will be in danger of
the pound and the bone yard.
Large numbers of gentlemen and ladies visit
ed the conservatory of Mrs. Pomeroy on Duke
street last Saturday night and Witnessed the
blooming of seven beautiful buds of the Night
Blooming Cereus
| A meeting will be held at nine o'clock next
Sunday morning, 10 ST. Mary's Church for the
purpose Of organizing Catholic temperance
| society.
Reports from all the adjacent country in
| which the wheat harvest has been finished IN
dictate larger yields than were anticipated
The City Sergeant is engaged 10 summouing
| the juries to serve at the term OF the Corpora
ton Court to commence next Monday.
The remains Of the late Hector caches ar.
| rived here from New York last Saturday even
ing and were inferred yesterday afternoon.
The chain gang had holiday to-day and spent
the time with comfortable ease in the cool cor
ridors of the Jail.
Winfield S. Chase Of Virginia has been pro-
NOTED to a first class ceIkshp in the u. S.
Patent Office. ....
The weather to-day was exceedingly warm,
| the thermometer in the shade at noon, stapdlug
| up among the pineties
A grand tournament was held at Herndon to-
day.