The Evening critic., 1882-06-05
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.

Five cars, loaded with cotton machinery
from the Lowell (Mass) Machine Works, and
destined TO the Odell Manufacturing Company
OF Concord, n. c., stopl ed In Alexandria on
Sunday. Railroad men say that the quantity
OF machinery going Southwark is simply enor
nous, and supplies very profitable traffic to
the different routes. Not a day goes by but
what large number Of cars loaded with ma
chinery-especially cotton machinery-passe
Alexandria, destined for points In tho Sunny
Land. The manufacturing boom started few
years ago at the South, and ever since then
there has been great need OF machinery, and
the demand has not only kept up, but is in
creasing at a wonderful rate every year.
A large number OF people attended the Re
form Club meeting yesterday afternoon The
Rev. Dr.. Treadway assisted In the services
The churches generally were pretty well
filled, but not so many strangers were to be
seen as on former Sundays. st. Johns Chapel,
in the West End, conducted by students OF
the Fairfax Theological Seminary, Is we'll at
tended on Sunday, especially at the afternoon
services. Messrs. Thompson Cole and George
Funston, the students who generally preach,
are both young men Of Intelligence and good
delivery, and doubtless. before many years
roll away, Will occupy leading pulpits in the
Episcopal Church.
Saturday night about 8 o'clock the good
people OF Alexandria were again disturbed by
the noise Of furious and blasphemous con-
hict between two well-filod inebriates. Since
the severe Law passed by the Reform Club for
the government OF the city on Sunday drunken
Saturday nights. Frank Walker and Alphonso
Arlington knew that # was impossible to get a
glass of soda-water on the Sabbath,
and go at an early hour on Saturday
rington is Alexandria's leading fowl
| fancier. He attended the recent cock-fght-
| ing tournament in Baltimore and came home
| completely wrecked financially, and this is
| supposed to have added to his fighting pro-
| cliyities. Walker and Arlington have before
| had difficulties with each other. Any way
| they had not been long together, near the
| Loudoun depot, before misunderstanding
| arose between them and a general fight came
| on. fortunately, Onicer Barney McCann was
| near, and, aided by several citizens, separated
the hostiies, not however, before each one was
considerably damaged and much blood
his face that will seriously affect his personal
| appearance. The warriors were taken TO the
| statfon-house and afterward let out on col
lateral TO appear at to.day's sitting Of the
Police Court. This is the most disgraceful
| fight that has occurred In Alexandria for a
| good while, the whole neighborhood being
| aroused by the foul oaths or the contending
parties william Brown, white, and Rush
Stewart, colored, also got Into nghi
in the southern section Of the city
Saturday night, during which pistols
were handled; They were not ar
Gatright, for breaking glasses, and Phil Tay
| lor, for ninging stones, were the only persons
| in the station-house this morning awaiting the
| arrival OF the Mayor.
The libel suit against Captain Conway, of tho
| schooner Robert +. King, Will be tried before
| Judge Hughes, OF the United States Circuit
| Court, on Tuesday.
| The festival for the benefit of Grace p. L
| Church commences at Armory Hall tonight.
The schooner Mechanic, Captain King, wa
unloading AT the wharves this mornings sh'
Terry Robinson.
There was large number OF sturgeon n
| fishown this morning, but no shad or her
ring, the season for the latter fish being over