Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-21
LOCAL BREVITIES

To-day is the shortest day in the year
The Old Dominion Building Association
on Tuesday night sold $3,00O-ull the mon
ev III The treasury--at 20 per cent
Marriage licenses were issued in Wash
l"gton Yesterday to c. NJ. Mackely and Vie
torla Fairfax, both Of Fairfax GO.
Col. Delaware kcmpcr Professor at
ltamrden, Sydney College, spent Yesterday
here with his brother X. Kemper, esq
Mr.. Arthur Dixon of Louisville XIV, is
here and will spend the holidays with his
parents
he MAYOR having given his permission.
thc boys Will doubtless take advantage. and
the air will resound with the mellituous
sounds Of the tin horn
\ young gentleman lost a &, noia a, fla,
post office on Tuesday night and Will he
pleased il he finder will leave it at this Of.
flee.
Tuesday night the Baptist pastor married
a lady on the same spot and under the same
root where her father stood twenty seven
years ago and took the same VOWS.
The Steam Fire Engine Hydraulion was
tested ut the river yesterday aud worked
admirably, throwing fine stream of water
nearly 25O feet
The alarm of fire yesterday evening about
half past live o'clock Was caused by the
burning ola chimney of house on Patrick
St, near King.
Mr. +. Pali shipped to-day ii case of his
home made boots and shoes TO South Caro-
lima. He now fills orders from more than
hall of the States in the Union
The advertisement of F.. j Pollard will be
found elsewhere. Everything to he found
in first class feed store can be had at Mr..
PoiIards and at reasonable prices.
The mild damp weather of to-day will
have the effect of reducing the prices of
poultry and those who have laid in large
supplies for Christmas are no little CON
cerned
Rev. L. l.. Poulson d. D., by request of
Golden Light Lodge Of Good Templars will
lecture on the subject "a calm view of
Temperance" in the NJ. F. Church tonight
ut 80.
The total number Of steam vessels plying
in the Third Steamboat District, including
Washington. Alexandria, and the Potomac
river, Is ool OF all descriptions, representing
81 800. & tonnage.
The sale OF the schooner George and Mar
tina of this port by Edward Bland, of Prince
William CO.. to Silas Denty, of Fairfax co.,
for q consideration of 1915 was registered at
the Custom House yesterday.
Mr. John r. Chapman of the Singer Man.
utacluring Company, formerly of this city,
left here yesterday to be married this even.
ing at o'clock to Miss Ella Arubuck,e, of
Cecil Co., Md, accompanied by Messrs. ].
w. Brown and VIM. Cowling.
,;,,; II, n
d handsomely bound little volume written
by Miss F. II. Mari, Of Warrenton. The
verses are bright and pretty and the Book
would be handsome Christmas gift for any
one.
James Sewell, a colored man, sent to the
Maryland penitentiary on September 1lth,
died yesterday at that place of consumption
He was brickmaker by trade, and was sick
when sent to the penitcntiary He was born
in Lecsburg, and was 81 years of age.
Government Inspectors were engaged in
Washington yesterday in investigating the
cause of the recent collision between the
steamers City of Alexandria and Matrano,
below this city. They adjourned without
making known what conclusion they
reached.
| The committee on Public Property of the
City CouncilnctT Tuesday night and consider
ed The claim of Mr. JAS Mills for damages
in the hay scales contract matter The con-
tract for erecting the scales was given to
Mr.. Mills but an injunction prevented him
/ from performing the work
Henry Arnold colored, who was shot by
John Summers on the canal few weeks
ago an account of which affair was publish
ed at the time of is occurrence, is GONZALES
cent. and is still here He is expected at
Cumberland at the commencement of the
january term of the Court, when the case
will come before the grand jury.
Mr.. John Wilson agent Of the Adams Ex-
press Company in this CITY, 10 accommodate
the citizens Of Alexandria, will keep his Of
! flee open OH Sunday next, and thus enable
al who are sending off holiday boxes, &C.,
10 do so up to the day before Christmas
! He homes thnunh Ia al shinnn,- mill ,,at