Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-15
LOCAL BREYITIEs


Dressed hogs are selling in Leesburg al IS
per l00lhs
Ice from 81 to inches thick has been
gathered in and around Lee5burg.
7 Mr.. G. r. Hill is quite i'll at his residence
on south Washington street
! The many friends of Mr.. Geo. II. Robin.
son will regret 10 learn that his condition is
still critical
=! house OF the upper end of Queen street
was robbed last night of several articles OF
j clothing.
( The Washington merchants never adver-
/ tlsed more literally than they have this
season, and. in consequence their business
has never been so large.
! DR.. George T. Klipstein entertained the
members of the medical fraternity at q
handsome and sumptuous supper, at his
residence, on Prince street, last night.
The street in front ofthe GAZETTE Office
today presented somewhat the appearance
Of the crater of Popocatepctl, after all erup.
| ton, while the boys were making excava.
| tons for curiositcs.
The interior Of the drug store of Messrs.
Summers & Allen on the corner of King
and Royal streets and has been refitted and
city.
The arrangements for the hop TO be given
! at McBurncys Hall tonight have all been
completed, and the way beauty and chival-
~ will "trip il OH the light fantastic toe''
Will be caution TO the votaries Of Terpsi-
! chore
The Washington papers say that Charles
A. Becker, an Alexandria merchant, who
came to that city and got on spree and
hired hack and drove around for 10 hours
and declined to pay the hack hire, has been
fined $40 or thirty days.
The local reporter was informed several
times to-day that he made mistake yester-
day in the notice of Auditor Brockett's age.
1t appears that tom orrow the Auditor Gel
ebrates the fist instead of the 4lst anniver-
sary of his entrance into this sublunary
sphere.
As an extra train on the w. & w. r. r.
last sunday morning was few miles below
('ulltord, the conductors car jumped the
track and was badly smashed. There were
! several persons on board, all of whom, how
ever, escaped with few bruises, Mr.. o. NJ.
Bussard, Of WOODBURY., being the most in
iured
Samuel Brown, the colored man who is
sick of the small pox at house near the ca
nal basin, is rapidly recovering The
spread of the disease is not anticipated, nee
essary precautions having been taken to pre-.
vent it. though the patient will doubtless do
all in his power to inoculate all he can, as
| such usually do.
! Some of the agents Of the secret service
of the internal revenue department have
been in this city during the past day ortwo
examining number Of tobacco and liquor
establishments, but found all conducted ac-
cording to law, and without any crooked
ness. Our people are all law-abiding, and
the crookcdncss is generally on the other
side.
The Mayor has instructed the police to
stop the boys from blowing horns, although
there used to be an order compelling men
to blow them at 10 o'clock until Christmas,
when they will be allowed to blow their
heads oft, if they feel so disposed and which
it is hoped many Of them will. We have
always been in favor ofalowing the BOYS,
and girls too, to have as much fun as they
want especially at 'Christmas tide" as
when they get old they can't" and we
foot won't be hurt much.