Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-04
Alexandria Affairs.
Reported for THE EVENING STAR.


CITY PUMPS.-The committee on streets Is about
TO report in favor OF removing the old pump on
Prince street, near the intersection or Royal
street A pump was established at that place in
1793 and IL was located west OF the Intersection
because the intersection was SO low and miry that
1t was thought fnconvenient TO put the pump so
close TO It, There We're then only seven public
pumps in town. By 1880 the pumps numbered
some hundred, but since the erection or the
water works they have been allowed to decay, an
not over twenty-five pumps are now kept In order
TELEPHONE REMovAL-The Alexandria Tele-
phone Exchange will remove next week from the
western Union Telegraph Office its present loca-
ton, TO the second story or Burke & Herbert'S
bank. on the corner OF King and Fairfax streets.
REPORTERS NoTEs-A teachers institute was
held here to-day, and Mr. NJ. A. Chancey, OF WASH
1ngton, lectured on phOneticS-lt is expected
that the new vessel at the upper ship yard viii be
launched early next month--Me5srs. Padgett &
Co are completing the sails, &C., for the schooner
Conlan, part OF whose equipage was burned at her
wharf here short time ago.-The new route 70
Pennington, mentioned last week, will be opened
next Wednesday by the ferry steamer Virginia
President Goss, OF the Potomac manufacturing
company, has arrived here from his visit TO Calf
forn1a. The Washington and Western railroad
viii receive next week some fifty freight cars
box and gondola-manufactured In Ohio for that
company. The Charlottesville and Rapfdan rail-
road company viii hold its annual meeting here
upon the 14th inst, and the Alexandria and Fred
erickSburg r. X. company will meet here On the
same DAY. Neither company Will require large
room for its meeting. 49,. The Alexandra water
company holds its annual meeting next Monday.
..The circuit court for Alexa ndria county begins
It's session next Wednesday,. The Alexandria
light infantry held court martial last night -.
The Patrick Henry society OF st Johns academy
met last night and discussed a question. -. V.
Dudley, colored, charged with nuisance is held at
the station house.
The Recent Outrage i'm MARYLAND.
CAPTURE OF WESLEY FISHER, THE ALLEGED PERPE-
TRAToR-HE is IN JAIL-THREATs OF LYNcHING.
special to the Baltimore american from Cum
berland, November g. says: Wesley Fisher the
colored man charged with outraging Mrs George
A. Won, on Sunday afternoon last, was captured
this morning I'm Sanders meadow, at the loot OF
McNamees Hill, about miles north OF Cumber-
land by two young men, C. II. Slaughter and An
drew johnson, They ran him down with pistol
and shot gun from his hiding place, near the city
the shoulder, the elbow, the hip and football flesh
wounds. The capture took place between and
O'Clock. Mr.. Jos Brant was also engaged in the
chase, ana when the two young men had tied the
negro they placed him In wagon belonging to
MIR. Brant and drove rapidly through the CITY to
the jail, where they delivered their prize to the
sheriff The people were not aware OF his can.
ture until he was lodged in jail. Sheriff Shuck
Immediately sent for physician, who examined
the wounds, none OF which are serious, though
the negro tainted while the painful operation OF
probing was carried on. The American CORE
scene, and as soon as Fisher was I'm condition to
b be nteavieWed your Correspondent questioned
that he stayed in the woods and fed upon chest
nuts and such other things as he could ind. He
gives the reason for his flight, that the people
were hunting him, and he would have been killed
II he gave himself up. In answer to questions
as to where he was Sunday and why he ran
from Mt. Wolf on Monday morning, he told the
following story: ION Sunday I went chestnut
hunting out the Bedford road with two white boys,
Grant Brant and Willie Stein, and stayed until
noon, when came back to Shriver's hill and
played with the boys, between Roeder's and my
home, until $50 O'Clock, which / went home TO
supper The next morning took a bag and went
70 the coal yard for coal, and as came home
was going up the steps on Shrivers hill, some one
told me 10 run, that Wolf was going to shoot me,
and. seeing him not far from me, dropped that
bag, Jumped q fence and ran home when nv
mother told me about the affair and told me 10
keep away from the house" He denies ali reports
OF his having been In the city, and fully expects
to prove his Innocence by an alibi should Mrs
Wolf identify him as her assailant The hearing
before the "a agistrate VIII take place on Thurs
day next. Fisher is about I'VE feet two inches
high, gives his weight as 40 pounds and his age
az Is. He has marks upon hts face, and his gen
eral appearance cor responds with the description
given by Mrs Wolf
ONLY THREE DAYS before the November eicc-
tions and yet Jay Hubbell's collectors stln haunt
the Departments Ike unwelcone phantoma