Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-11-01
LOCAL BREVITIES.

All The Corporation officers were PAL,
their salaries Yesterday
To-day has been more like the first u
June than The first of NovcInbe!..
We are Just now having Indian summer
The most dcii2 htiul season of the year
AT - o'clock today the thermometer re-.
is!crcd Il degrees in the shade.
The ladiesmiie society the NJ. f. Churcl
meets tonight at the residence of Mr.. J. S
Fowler.
meeting Of the Board OF Directors O
me Washington ard Western r. R.. will b,
held IN New York 10 morrow morning.
onc hundred and sixty-lwo boats c;;rry,
Ing 1920 tons of coal, left Cumberland fol
The week ending Saturday.
The funeral of Mr.. w. G.. Hontz. whose
death was mentioned yesterday. took place
TINS monlng and was numerously attended.
Mrs: George II. Richards, who has been
qu''c III III her residence on Queen street is
now convalesccut
The stockholders ofthc Alexandria and
MARYLAND Ferry Company meet tonight in
the Sun Engine hall.
The Mayor has called special meeting
OF the City Council iorto-night to designate
voting place in the 2d ward.
The schooner Brunette, from the Rappa-
hammock river, is at Messrs. Agnew < Cos.
snip yard undergoing repairs.
The steamer Excelsior did not leave her
wharf in this city for. Norfolk last night till
Ii o'clock, owing to her late arrival here
yesterday evening, which was mentioned.
IN order to prevent fraud ut the approach
ing clectlon, large number Of democrats
nave been appointed TO hunt after and un-
earth all rascality.
oh Monday piece Of the heavy gilt COR
nee III The Corcoran Art Gallery, in Wash
ln@ton, fell and came near strikinga an Alex
andrlan who was present.
The Fairfax difficulty seems to have en-
tlrHly quoted, though there are Il few who
sui look wise and say that the duel will
come of.
DIR: }. +. Picrpoint, OF this city. has been
TO position in the Lvnchburg
Office of the Y. NJ r. w. Co., and left last
night Tor his new field of duty.
\ gentleman from Pittsylvania was in the
city yesterday, who said that the diphtheria
was so raging in his county that he had
moved his family to Charlottesville.
MIR. l.. A. Evans of the IT, S. Signal SER
wee, now on duty at Headquarters at Wash.
in@ton, left last night on leave of absence,
ana Will visit friends in Michigan.
1t IS said that Captain Boswell OF the tug
boat jackson, Of this port has been missing
Tor some time, and that no one knows Of
his whereabouts.
Mr.. {. III. Collins last week Skinned 70
North Carolina from his foundry in this CITY
Il gold embarrassing machine, and expects
to make and ship other machinery to the
same state SOON
\ certificate was filed in the health Office
OF Washington Monday of the death of EN-
ny -i'k'i'S, colorcd, 100 years old, birth place
Virginia. She died ut the Frecdman's hos
pital.
The schooner Elliott b. Church, the lar-
Sc:;i schooner on the American coast. arri.
vcd III this port to-day from Providence to
load coal III the wharvcs of The American
Coal Co.
Major +. Ii. Janney returned home YES
tcr'iay evening from England, where he has
been IN the interest of his car coupler, He
expects to visit England again during the
winter on the same business.
The appearance on our streets daily of
'!'mlnutirc carts drawn by equally diminu-
i've d"nkcys gives the city an oriental as
pect, and were one or two minarets tower
'h@ above the house-tops, the city would re-
mind one forcibly of its Egyptian namesake.
Mr.. Y. 3. Cochran, of Salem, rauouier
county, was in the city to-day. Mr. c. has
recently purchased the residence of Mrs. Min
en- on Alfred street, and expects TO move TO
this city with his family about the first of
Dcccmber.
Sir. b. G. Watkins sent 10 this Office this
hi"rl!h@ ;.wcet potatoc vine on which was
growing twelve large potatoes. Mr.. w. on
l''s farm, Strawberry Hill, on one acre of
land raised this year over so bushels of 30
latueS-and he does not consider this a very
Soou sweet potatoes year either
\ colored woman named Louisa Lewis
was struck on the hca,l with stone last
night and knocked down rs she came to the
door Of her house, on Columbus street near
Glhbon. She had appeared at her door in
answer to'a knock when the stone was
thrown.
At the Fifth avenue theatre, in New York
last Thursday, where Salvini was perform.
ing, Mrs. l.angtry, the famous English
beauty, occupied private box, and during
the performance dropped her programme.
Ex-Mayor CORTLAND II. Smith, formerly of
this city, and another Alexandran, were
also present, and sat Immediately beneath
her. Seeing the programme drop, Mr.. S.
recovered and returned it to her, bowling
gracefully as he did SO. Mrs. I.anetrv
leaned forward and received the programme
with one of her most bewitching smiles,
while the audience applauded vociierously.
Colds yield TO onions like magic, but DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup is still better and by
far more agreeable means of curing Cold or
Cough. You can buy bottle for 25 cents
at any drug store. and we arc sure it will do
the work everytime