Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-22
LOCAL NEWS.

DROWNED The body of Edward P. Will
Hams, a plate printer in the Treasury Depart
mrn,, was found floating in the steamboat dock
At Washington yesterday afternoon. On Tues,
iay night party of the Washington Yacht
club assembled on board their boat, the Ella
Treadwell, which is anchord off the Eleventh.
street wharf, for the purpose of enjoying So
cia chat Some Of tie party expressed a wish
10 90 on shore, when the small boat was got 10
readiness, and MIR. Williams rowed them to the
wharf. After landing he returned TO the yacht,
when another party requested to be put on
terra frua, but not beng quite ready Mr..
Williams commenced baihng out some water
from the bottom of the boat while the party
on the deck of the Tredwell re-entered the
cabin. When they again emerged from there
the boat aud man were nowhere to be seen, but
this did not excite arg alarm, as they thought
Williams had become Tired of waiting roWed
himself on shore, aud gone home, and it was
not until his prolonged absence from his Office
became known that aUy anxiety Was felt about
him. 1t is supposed that while in the act of
baiiipg the water being very rough at the time,
he must have lost his balance and fallen
overheard, and not being able to SWIM was
soon drowned.
ColORED STRlKERs:-Last Tuesday after
noon the colored men eml luyed at the brick
Taris near the Arsenal, in Washington, some
nf whom are from this city, decided TO strike
for higher wages. The bosses did not appear
annoyed by their action, and Immediately EN-,
ployed new set Of hands to 20 to work yestcr-
day morning the strikers, as Is their CUSTOM,
not being disposed to work themselves, deter
mined to lutte aud, IT possible, prevent the
new hauds from starting IN. Accordingly they
assembled in large numbers, and by their
threats intimldalcd the new hands IRON com-
meucing work Information of the fact was
sent to police headquarters, and squad OF po-
liccncn We're sent 10 the scene to preserve Or
der. Tie crowd increased in plumbers, and
commenced to use threatening words, When
thu police We're ordered to dlsperse them,
which resulted 10 the new set of hands joining
the strikers, and all left the ground together.
Considerable excitement was created 10 the
neighborhood among the coored hands.
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Police REPORT The following cases have
been reported at police headquarters since yes.
terday:
John Carter, colored, for disorderly conduct,
Wa, dismissed with reprlmand; SeXtus
Wright, colored, for dlsorderly conduct at the
Fayette-street depot. aud James Lucas, for
di.orderly conduct at Fishtown, were fined and
discharged; Thomas Thompson stranger,
for dsordcry conduct on the streets and at the
station house, was ordered TO leave the city
forthwith, which order he obeyed to the letter;
". j. Shincr, for selling gas burners without
license was fined aud discharged and Jenny
Sutton and Mary Francis Spriugsteel for dis
orderly conduct at Flshtowu, were fDed add
discharged.
Four dodgers ony applied for and were ac-
commodatod with sleeping quarters at the sta
ton house last night
GYps1Es. The gypsies who were lately en-
camped Gu Cameron Run are now near Mount
Olivet, short distance outside Of Washing
ton, on the Bladeusburg road. \ difficulty
between one OF the band canned Hanson and
his wife, during which neither one was hurt,
was the cause yesterday Of a report OF murder,
and of visit Of Che police TO their camp ground.
1t is said that when they left here last Sunday
they carried away with them a considerable
quantity of icwciry and money which they had
obtained from those whose fortunes they had
told.
The WEATHER. The cold snap still COZ
tinues and the gardeners, truckers, and tIul.
growers look as blue az the prevailing frosty
mornings. Mr.. Slater, who supplies this and
the w aonluStOu CITY Warkct Win tue earliest
fruits aud vegetables raised in this section, says
that all the early vegetables and most of the
fruit, including the peaches, have been killed,
aud reports from along the river are to the CT
feet that the tobacco plants have been destroy
cd and that the planters are cnqulrlng TOR seed
Tor another planting.
ENGLISH OPERA The National Theatre
in Washington was deosely packed last night
by listeners to the opera of The Tallsman.
Among the audience were few from this
CITY, some Of whom, who had waited until that
time to purchase tickets, had their whole even
ins enjoyment married by dimlnutlon IN their
Personal estate to the extent Of 81 80, which
sun was exactcd OF them Tor each Of the seats
they occupied.
PoToMAC BUoYs. The repairs to the buoys
III the Potomac river, which are usually made
directly after the resumption OF navigation IN
the spring, have not been commenced yet and
as consequence four vessels are reported
aground in the marine news in to-day Gazette.
Some Of the buoys were carried away by the
cc last winter, the position oil others chasgcd
by the same cause, and all that are visible re-
qulrc painting.
REpoREED DEATH 1t is reported here,
though no authoritative Information to tn at eff
i,ct has been received at St. Marys Church,
that Rev Bernard Toalc, formerly stationed